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M. Christhu Doss – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Women missionaries who came to India with a superior Protestant religious imaginary were keen on critiquing Hindu cultural practices that created divergences and transfigurations. They blatantly proclaimed that the deep-rooted custom of women's "seclusion" was a stumbling block to education, evangelisation and modernisation. This study…
Descriptors: Females, Christianity, Feminism, Religious Cultural Groups
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Corntassel, Jeff; Hardbarger, Tiffanie – International Review of Education, 2019
Indigenous youth today are in a precarious position. The elders who guided their grandparents and parents often suffered from direct racism and dislocation from cultural practices, land, medicine, language, knowledge and traditional lifeways. Family and community kinship networks that provided emotional, spiritual and physical support have been…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Family Relationship, Networks
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Jones, Verity; Mitra, Saptarshi; Gupta, Nobina – London Review of Education, 2022
In 2019 India was ranked seventh most affected nation by climate change, yet 65 per cent of the Indian population had not heard of climate change. India's revised National Education Policy mentions climate change and environmental issues as part of its work towards reaching the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. However, to date,…
Descriptors: Climate, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods
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Antony, N. J.; Tripathi, Shruti – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: Literature suggests that less attention has been paid on teacher's and head of the school's outlook on when to introduce life skills education, which are the most important to be focused and developed first, and their opinion on effort already made to develop life skills among the students. Hence, the present study aims to focus on the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Administrator Attitudes, Public Schools, Private Schools
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Dar, Wahid Ahmad; Jan, Kounsar – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2022
COVID-19 taught us the importance of personalized ICT use in the higher education context. In this scenario, the importance of researching student's ICT behaviour is becoming ever more crucial. This study investigates the influence of student alienation (SAL), socio-economic status, residential background, type of course, and gender on students'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Behavior, Alienation, Information Technology
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Bindu, C. N. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
It is a widely accepted fact that ICT integration in education offers a wider opportunity for both teachers and students to fulfill the increasing demand of the contemporary world. The current paper explores the awareness of, and attitude towards, using ICT in teaching by the Indian teachers in UAE based on their gender and age. The data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Questionnaires
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Van Dusen, Ben; Nissen, Jayson – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Many science, technology, engineering, and math degrees require passing an introductory physics course. Physics courses often have high failure rates that disproportionately harm students who are historically and continually marginalized by racism, sexism, and classism. We examined the associations between learning assistant (LA) supported courses…
Descriptors: Correlation, Introductory Courses, Physics, Science Instruction
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Roberts, Jennifer S. – Whiteness and Education, 2021
This paper explores the profound connection between race, gender, and culture in post-apartheid education at a public Afrikaans dual-language school in South Africa. Illustrating how the residues and remnants of apartheid legacies propagate arcane constructions of whiteness through interwoven racial and gendered stereotypes, this research maps the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Systems, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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Taber, Nancy; Mojab, Shahrzad; VanderVliet, Cathy; Haghgou, Shirin; Paterson, Kate – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2017
This article is based on our Memoir Pedagogy Reading Circles research. Using an interpretative sociological case study methodology, we facilitated two groups that read and discussed women's memoirs as living texts of society, culture, and history; we read the self and the social through the personal narratives of violence, survival, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Personal Narratives, Females
Shepard, Marlena – ProQuest LLC, 2012
To determine if Navajo language classes made a difference in students' lives, thirty Navajo language and culture students were selected to be interviewed. The students selected were those who were in the language and culture programs in the elementary, middle and high school. The focus was to find out the students' perspectives on Navajo…
Descriptors: Navajo, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Dixon, L. Quentin – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2011
This article describes the phonological awareness and English writing skills among a sample of 297 Singaporean kindergarten children, stratified by ethnicity (Chinese, Malay, and Indian), and examines the relationship between oral language and writing skills in this multilingual population. Overall, Singaporean kindergartners, nearly all of whom…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Phonics, Oral Language, Vocabulary
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Madhumathi, P.; Ghosh, Arijit – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper reports findings from the study that assessed the first year Indian ESL students' awareness of reading strategy use. It also investigated the relationship that exists between reading strategy use and the reading comprehension achievements of the Indian ESL students. The study utilized two instruments such as SORS and RCT which is the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Strategies, Statistical Analysis, Gender Differences
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Rivera, Hector H.; Tharp, Roland G. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
This study provides an empirical description of the dimensions of community values, beliefs, and opinions through a survey conducted in the Pueblo Indian community of Zuni in New Mexico. The sample was composed of 200 randomly chosen community members ranging from 21 to 103 years old. A principal component factor analysis was conducted, as well as…
Descriptors: Opinions, American Indians, Factor Analysis, Statistical Analysis
Gray, Ruth A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
The Bibliography of Research Studies in Education covering the school year September 1934 through August 1935 is the ninth in the series. It lists 2,971 studies reported by 145 institutions, a number of which had not reported before. It contains a total of 384 doctors' dissertations, 2,368 masters' thesis, and 219 studies reported as faculty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Research, Research Reports
Gray, Ruth A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
The Bibliography of Research Studies in Education for the school year September 1937 through August 1938 lists 3,890 theses and studies reported by 159 institutions, several of which had not reported previously. The list, which is the twelfth in the series, includes 519 doctors' dissertations, 3,146 masters' theses, and 225 studies reported as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Research, Surveys
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