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Making Space: Complicating a Canonical Text through Critical, Multimodal Work in a Secondary Language Arts Classroom
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Dallacqua, Ashley K.; Sheahan, Annmarie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
The authors document research completed in 10th-grade language arts classes where a canonical play was read alongside a graphic novel in the hopes of shifting student understandings of power and privilege in literature. Using teacher action research as a methodological framework for this qualitative study, a teacher and researcher engaged in…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Language Arts, Grade 10, High School Students
Taking, Begging, or Waiting for the Floor: Students' Social Backgrounds, Entitlement and Agency in Classroom Discourse
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Orner, Aviv; Netz, Hadar – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This paper presents an ethnographic study analyzing the influence of students' social backgrounds on students' entitlement and agency in relation to floor rights. Classroom interactions were video-recorded, and interviews were conducted in a socially diverse fifth-grade in Israel. Descriptive statistics and micro-analyses of participation patterns…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Grade 5
Unsung Voices of Technology in School Education-Findings Using the Constructivist Grounded Theory Approach
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Deepa, V.; Sujatha, R.; Mohan, Jitendra – Smart Learning Environments, 2022
Technology adoption for school education further gained momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the challenges and strategies of children belonging to the less privileged (we use 'privileged' in the article to identify those enjoying a standard of living or rights as majority of people in the society) families are different from those of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Grounded Theory, Technology Integration, Living Standards
Truth, Masculinity and the Anti-Elitist Backlash against the University in the Age of Trump
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Read, Barbara – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
The global rise of 'neo-populism', culminating in the election of the populist Republican candidate Donald Trump to the US presidency, has been accompanied by a notable backlash and resistance to what has been categorised as governing/dominating 'elites', including HE academic institutions. Populist critiques centre on a perceived climate of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Criticism, Political Attitudes, Newspapers
Understanding Resistance: Reflections on Race and Privilege through Service-Learning
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Espino, Michelle M.; Lee, Jenny J. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2011
Service-learning has been hailed as an effective means to bridge classroom learning with practical application in the local context. Numerous studies have demonstrated the educational value of service-learning, particularly the potential to build awareness and appreciation for diversity. Students' resistance to even acknowledging issues of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Race, Service Learning, Racial Bias
A Study of the Rapid Growth of "O" and "A" Levels of Education in Pakistan
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Ishfaq, Umbreen – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2009
The major purpose of this study was to investigate the views of students, parents and teachers regarding the rapid growth of ordinary "O" and advanced "A" level education systems and its implications for Pakistan. The main objective of study was to identify the importance of and social acceptance of "O" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes