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Direct linkPorras-Hernandez, Laura Helena; Salinas-Amescua, Bertha – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
In this article, the authors propose that dispositional factors do not sufficiently explain nonparticipation in adult education programs. Many nations report low participation rates, but empirical studies have usually been conducted with enrolled adults. This study, however, included 279 poorly educated mestizas and Native women in two regions of…
Descriptors: Females, Self Efficacy, Adult Basic Education, Self Concept
Thein, Amanda Haertling; Guise, Megan; Sloan, DeAnn Long – English Education, 2012
English educators at all levels have endeavored to understand difference in their classrooms both in terms of the content that they teach and in terms of the social and cultural identities of students in their classrooms. However, although educators have come a long way in understanding identity as it is constituted by race and gender, much work…
Descriptors: Social Class, English Instruction, Literature, Case Studies
Download full textTour, Ekaterina – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2012
A significant body of literacy and language research over the last two decades has been informed by a sociocultural perspective and an associated qualitative design, which are often seen as valuable and appropriate for researching literacy. As an emergent researcher, whose understanding of language education was mostly informed by individualistic…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Language Research, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
Lechuga, Vicente M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2012
The influence of emotions in the workplace rarely has been examined within the context of higher education (Neumann, 2006; Smith and Witt, 1993). Through a qualitative approach, the purpose of this chapter is to offer a perspective of faculty work that examines the role that emotions play in the academic life of 15 underrepresented faculty members…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Motivation, Institutional Research, Disproportionate Representation
Thayer-Bacon, Barbara J. – Ethics and Education, 2012
Thayer-Bacon uses this opportunity to further explore Ranciere's ideas concerning equality as described in "The Ignorant Schoolmaster" and their connection to democracy, as he explains in "Hatred of Democracy". For Ranciere, intelligence and equality are synonymous terms, just as reason and will are synonymous terms. Ranciere recommends the only…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Social Theories, Political Attitudes, Epistemology
Tonyan, Holli A.; Mamikonian-Zarpas, Ani; Chien, Dorothy – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Research examining child-care providers' beliefs and behaviour has produced contradictory evidence perhaps because analyses commonly examine providers as a homogenous group. Among providers in the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, we used cluster analysis to identify groups based on profiles of beliefs. We found evidence for five…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Behavior, Child Caregivers, Individual Characteristics
Viewing as a Cultural Tool in the Construction of Meaning with Expository Texts for Young Bilinguals
Moses, Lindsey – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2013
This article provides a deeper understanding of how young bilinguals constructed meaning with expository texts in an inquiry-based setting over an academic year. An examination of classroom transcripts and analysis revealed how "Viewing" became the most frequently used literacy practice and a cultural tool in the construction of meaning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Sociocultural Patterns
García, Yeni Violeta – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2013
The future of this country depends on utilizing human intellectual resources from varying viewpoints to make informed decisions on issues from conservation biology to biotechnology, or even bioengineering. An increase in Latina/o students in the biological sciences would bring a variety of viewpoints, as well as personal and cultural experiences…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Science Careers, Hispanic American Students
Charmaraman, Linda – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
This case study explored how adolescents were empowered through afterschool media production activities and, in the process, re-imagined themselves as active and engaged citizens within their community. Through analyzing interviews, participant observations, and media artifacts of 14 participants (aged 15-19) over a period of 18 months, three main…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Adolescents, Social Change, Student Empowerment
Yu, Shulin; Lee, Icy – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
While much feedback research in L1 and L2 writing has been conducted in pre-university and university contexts, little attention has been paid to supervisors' comments at the graduate level. Specifically, the nature and role of supervisors' commentary on the writing of graduate-level academic genre is under-explored. Designed to fill such an…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Interviews, Writing Processes, Academic Discourse
Fitzpatrick, Tony – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2009
This article interconnects three debates to show what this might imply for the "redemocratisation" of UK society and for pedagogical reform. One debate concerns deliberative types of democratic reform, arguing in favour of a "creative agnosticism" towards the two philosophical frameworks which dominate this literature. This…
Descriptors: Democracy, Memory, Models, Foreign Countries
Andrade, Maureen Snow – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2014
American Indians (AIs) have lower higher education enrollment and completion rates than Whites and most minority groups. AI women, however, participate at higher rates than AI men, White women, and White men. Research has not examined what contributes to their higher education aspirations. This study explored the middle and high school experiences…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Females, Middle School Students, High School Students
Landry, Susan H.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Taylor, Heather B.; Swank, Paul R.; Williams, Jeffrey M.; Assel, Michael; Crawford, April; Huang, Weihua; Clancy-Menchetti, Jeanine; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Phillips, Beth M.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; de Viliers, Jill; de Viliers, Peter; Barnes, Marcia; Starkey, Prentice; Klein, Alice – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Despite reports of positive effects of high-quality child care, few experimental studies have examined the process of improving low-quality center-based care for toddler-age children. In this article, we report intervention effects on child care teachers' behaviors and children's social, social-emotional classroom activities (RECC).…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, At Risk Persons, Toddlers
Fahrutdinova, Rezida A.; Yarmakeev, Iskander E.; Fakhrutdinov, Rifat R. – English Language Teaching, 2014
The relevance of this study is determined by the needs of modern society for qualified specialists, which leads to the necessity of improving the system of higher education. This dictates the need for a high-quality preparation of the teacher of English who is able to act as an active subject of the professional activity and who has high levels of…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wexler, Lisa; Burke, Tracey Kathleen – Journal of American Indian Education, 2011
Scholars and university administrators have noted significant disparities in the rates at which Native students graduate from college in a timely manner relative to students from other racial/ethnic groups. It has been posited that this is because in order to succeed, Native students must negotiate the contradictory values of Western and Native…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Time to Degree, College Students
