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Direct linkÓ Murchadha, Noel P. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Although traditional, unitary models of language standardisation have been prominent in minority languages, it is contended that this approach reproduces dominant language hierarchies and hegemonies, diminishes linguistic diversity and marginalises speakers who do not conform to prestige models. The polynomic model has been described as an…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Irish, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Variation
Download full textMhute, Isaac – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The paper assesses the contribution of standardisation towards language death taking Clement Doke's resolutions on the various Shona dialects as a case study. It is a qualitative analysis of views gathered from speakers of the language situated in various provinces of Zimbabwe, the country in which the language is spoken by around 75% of the…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, African Languages, Dialects, Case Studies
Petrone, Eleanor A. – Ethnography and Education, 2016
This qualitative study examines how a group of Latino/a high school students living in the Southeast used youth media as a forum to promote a selective pattern of acculturation. The study explores the ways in which the students' discourse emphasised the maintenance of the students' home culture and privileged "familismo," a cultural…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Cultural Maintenance, Family Structure
Al-Momani, Hassan Ali Abdullah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The main goal of this paper is to depict the struggle for cultural existence in "Rabbit Proof Fence." It also reflects the cultural conflict represented in the three aboriginal girls' characters which is due to their rejection and resistance for the colonialists' culture. Besides, the paper presents the cognitive analysis of the cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Culture Conflict, Resistance (Psychology), Foreign Culture
Laine, Marja – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2016
The definition of cultural sustainability in education is explored in this article by looking into conceptions of cultural sustainability collected through expert queries and focus group engagement. These conceptions are compared with the scientific and especially pedagogical discourse on the matter as well as Soini and Birkeland's theory of story…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Self Concept, Focus Groups, Cultural Maintenance
Milne, Ann – Middle Grades Review, 2016
We live in the world of the intensely market-driven lower case "i". Since the launch in 1998 of the "iMac", Apple Inc. has spawned a plethora of lower-case "i" devices and programmes. What do these mean? According to Steve Jobs (1998), the "i" signified "the marriage of the excitement of the internet,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Minority Group Students, Ethnicity, Indigenous Knowledge
O'Grady, William; Hattori, Ryoko – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2016
Intergenerational transmission, the ultimate goal of language revitalization efforts, can only be achieved by (re)establishing the conditions under which an imperiled language can be acquired by the community's children. This paper presents a tutorial survey of several key points relating to language acquisition and maintenance in children,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Hawaiians
Nelson-Barber, Sharon; Johnson, Zanette; Rechebei, Elizabeth – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Extreme variations in the earth's climate have radically changed the ecosystems, economics, cultural practices, language, and lifeways of the Chamorro and Carolinian peoples who live in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands in the Western North Pacific. It is essential that the upcoming generation gain science understandings that…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Communities of Practice, Environmental Education
Taira, Derek – History of Education Quarterly, 2018
This article explores the efforts of Native Hawaiian students to appropriate and take control of their schooling as part of a broad Indigenous story of empowerment during Hawai'i's territorial years (1900-1959). Histories of this era lack a visible Indigenous presence and contribute to the myth that Natives passively accepted the Americanization…
Descriptors: Hawaiians, Self Determination, Student Role, Indigenous Populations
Pennington, Robert; Flick, Allison; Smith-Wehr, Kendra – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2018
In the current study, we examined the effects of response prompting strategies (i.e., constant time delay, system of least prompts) and frames on sentence writing for three participants, ages 7 to 12, with moderate intellectual disability. We used a concurrent multiple probe across behaviors design to evaluate the efficacy of the intervention…
Descriptors: Prompting, Teaching Methods, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Time
Lou, Shi-Jer; Chou, Yung-Chieh; Shih, Ru-Chu; Chung, Chih-Chao – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
This study mainly aimed to explore the effects of project-based learning (PBL) integrated into science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities and to analyze the creativity displayed by junior high school students while performing these activities. With a quasi-experimental design, 60 ninth-grade students from a junior high…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Junior High School Students
Wass, Sam V.; Cook, Clare; Clackson, Kaili – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Previous research has suggested that early development may be an optimal period to implement cognitive training interventions, particularly those relating to attention control, a basic ability that is essential for the development of other cognitive skills. In the present study, we administered gaze-contingent training (95 min across 2 weeks)…
Descriptors: Infants, Metabolism, Physiology, Training
George, Christine Marie; Biswas, Shwapon; Jung, Danielle; Perin, Jamie; Parvin, Tahmina; Monira, Shirajum; Saif-Ur-Rahman, K. M.; Rashid, Mahamud-ur; Bhuyian, Sazzadul Islam; Thomas, Elizabeth D.; Dreibelbis, Robert; Begum, Farzana; Zohura, Fatema; Zhang, Xiaotong; Sack, David A.; Alam, Munirul; Sack, R. Bradley; Leontsini, Elli; Winch, Peter J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Inadequate hand hygiene is estimated to result in nearly 300,000 deaths annually, with the majority of deaths being among children younger than 5 years. In an effort to promote handwashing with soap and water treatment behaviors among highly susceptible household members of cholera patients, we recently developed the Cholera-Hospital-Based…
Descriptors: Hygiene, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Intervention
Shepley, Sally B.; Smith, Katie A.; Ayres, Kevin M.; Alexander, Jennifer L. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
Self-instruction for individuals with an intellectual disability can be viewed as a pivotal skill in that once learned this skill has collateral effects on future behaviors in various environments. This study used a multiple probe across participants design to evaluate video modeling to teach high school students with an intellectual disability to…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Modeling (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Intellectual Disability
McCarty, Teresa L. – Multilingual Matters, 2013
Comprehensive in scope and rich in detail, this book explores language planning, language education, and language policy for diverse Native American peoples across time, space, and place. Based on longterm collaborative and ethnographic work with Native American communities and schools, the book examines the imposition of colonial language…
Descriptors: Language Planning, American Indians, American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance
