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Direct linkAhmed, Kathryn Struthers – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2019
The divide between university and classroom is a longstanding issue in teacher education. The disconnect between sociocultural theory often endorsed by universities and more behaviorist practices frequently enacted in classrooms is particularly acute in elementary literacy instruction--and is often exacerbated in high-poverty schools that tend to…
Descriptors: School Districts, Literacy Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Poverty
Download full textBuntin, L. Ann – 1967
Forty-two teachers and supervisors, selected by the Texas Education Agency, participated in a 2-week workshop designed to provide an intensive study of the disadvantaged and to increase the effectiveness of teachers of culturally disadvantaged youth, primarily in the area of occupational training. Scholars in the fields of sociology and psychology…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Minority Groups, Poverty
Schwartz, Tammy A. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
This study addresses urban Appalachian girls and identities as constructed within and outside of the written discourses of the institution known as school. Drawing on poststructuralist (Weedon, 1997) and sociocultural (Gee, 1996) perspectives of language, identities and discourses (Gee, 1996), and on the feminist philosopher Griffiths (1995), it…
Descriptors: Females, Urban Areas, Self Concept, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewedBrezina, Timothy – Teaching Sociology, 1996
Describes a simple in-class exercise that reveals some flaws in capitalist, individualistic-oriented ideology by following specific assumptions to their logical conclusion. Poses the question, if drive and ambition are sole determinants of success could society accommodate a population where everyone possessed those qualities? (MJP)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Consciousness Raising, Critical Thinking, Economically Disadvantaged
Steiner, Stanley F., Ed.; Krank, H. Mark, Ed.; McLaren, Peter, Ed.; Bahruth, Robert E., Ed. – 2000
This book contains 15 chapters, each by different authors, commenting and expanding on the educational philosophy and work of Paulo Freire. The following are included: "Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility" (Peter McLaren); "Studying the Media: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" (Noam Chomsky); "Scientism as a Form…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Andragogy, Communication (Thought Transfer)
