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Leu, Grace Shih-en – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Recognizing the prevalence of low literacy achievements of secondary students with disabilities despite numerous mainstream reading interventions' attempts to alleviate the issue, this dissertation considers an alternative path to literacy. To begin, this study theorizes knowledge, literacy, and learning as mutually constituted person-world…
Descriptors: Literacy, Secondary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Dialogs (Language)
Mathis, Maurice – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Social reproduction theory posits that "schools are not institutions of equal opportunity but mechanisms for perpetuating social inequalities" (Collins, 2009, p. 33). The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore teacher perceptions of their pedagogical practices during virtual learning and the role that those…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Equal Education, Electronic Learning, Teacher Attitudes
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Kaplowitz, Michael D.; Kaplowitz, Donna Rich; Liu, Yuqing – Multicultural Education Review, 2023
Today's hyper-partisan world makes civil discourse across differences seem almost impossible for many adults, let alone young people. U.S. public schools are tasked with educating our young people with the goal that they each can be productive members of society. High-school students participating in an intergroup dialogue on race as part of their…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Student Diversity, Intergroup Relations, High School Students
Skerrett, Allison; Smagorinsky, Peter – Corwin, 2022
Educators often bemoan the so-called learning gap that followed the upheaval to schooling in 2020, but the real learning gap will occur if the watershed events and social shifts of the early 2020s are not integrated into school instruction and learning. For today's learning to be relevant to today's students, it must reflect their lives and the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Learning Activities
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Jarratt, Lindsay – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
The refugee has become part of the scholarly discourse of schooling, largely centring considerations of psychological trauma that refugee children may have experienced. However, the role that schools play in creating, replicating, or transforming a national discourse of refugees--and by extension, (inter)national identity and citizenship--at the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Trauma, Secondary School Students, School Role
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Sosa, Teresa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
Focusing on moments in the English classroom imbued with affective forces that produce racial differentiation is central to the support of classrooms addressing race and racism. This work focuses on an event in an English classroom where race was constructed in ways that disrupted not only silence but habitual ways of social differentiation.…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Bias, Racial Attitudes, Social Differences
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Dallacqua, Ashley K.; Sheahan, Annmarie; Davis, Alexandra N. – Journal of Moral Education, 2022
For researchers interested in how pedagogy within schools can be used as a catalyst for adolescent moral development, investigating practitioner-based studies of classroom practices that support the growth of prosocial behaviors is crucial. This paper delineates a qualitative study conducted in an ethnically diverse high school language arts…
Descriptors: Empathy, Prosocial Behavior, Teaching Methods, Cartoons
Kurtz, Holly; Lloyd, Sterling; Harwin, Alex; Guo, Beilei – Editorial Projects in Education, 2022
In 2021, the EdWeek Research Center fielded a survey to learn more about teachers' perspectives regarding instructional practices that can help students with learning differences to succeed. In the survey, researchers defined this population to include students with specific learning disabilities (such as dyslexia) and students with other…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, National Surveys, Equal Education
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Jaime-Diaz, Jesus; Méndez-Negrete, Josie – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2020
This article explores the ways in which high school teachers understand their students in relation to their own racialized social class backgrounds. It problematizes ethnic outsider inabilities to engage teaching philosophies and practices, which render teachers unable to create constructive dialogues with students that have been marginalized in…
Descriptors: Social Class, Altruism, High School Teachers, Case Studies
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Borck, C. Ray – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2020
Despite persistent class and race inequalities in educational attainment and achievement in the U.S., hegemonic cultural ideologies and urban education politics and policies continue to proceed from an insistence that education is the great equalizer. These ideologies do not take into account the ways that normative school culture and pedagogical…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment
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Harman, Ruth M.; Khote, Nihal – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2018
The authors explore the theoretical and pedagogical premises of their critical systemic functional linguistics approach, which they developed to challenge the deficit positioning of bilingual students in the Southeast of the United States. As multilingual educators from postcolonial Ireland and India, the theoretical framework has helped the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Immigration, Social Differences, Academic Discourse
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William Weber – History Teacher, 2017
This article will analyze where the Amherst Project stood within the evolution of educational thinking since the early twentieth century and then show in detail how its activities developed fromits inception in 1959 to publication of the last pamphlet in 1972. The Amherst Project began among a group of instructors from Amherst High School and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Pamphlets, History Instruction, Educational Change
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Hipolito-Delgado, Carlos P.; Zion, Shelley – Urban Education, 2017
Critical Civic Inquiry (CCI) is a transformative student voice initiative that engages students in critical conversations about educational equity and inquiry-based learning to increase student voice and promote civic action. A quasi-experimental study was conducted to assess if participation in CCI increased the psychological empowerment (as…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Social Differences, Equal Education, Student Attitudes
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Jennifer Clifton; Justin Sigoloff – English Journal, 2013
In this article, the authors contend that high school English classes are a critical place for teaching democratic ways with words, and they call on and extend the tools of intercultural inquiry for the purposes of teaching democratic deliberation. The authors describe their collaborative engagement with an inventive data-driven genre--the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Democratic Values, Language Arts, Teaching Methods
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Hossain, Tania; Pratt, Cornelius B. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2012
In much of the developing world, disparities between native- and nonnative-medium schools are fueled in part by government actions such as resource allocation and administrative oversight that determine institutional policies and practices that perpetuate and exacerbate educational divides, which, in turn, lead to further societal inequality. This…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education