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Harklau, Linda – American Journal of Education, 2016
Scholarship on Latinos' lagging US high school graduation and college enrollment rates has focused on systematic biases and inequities in schooling. This article argues for an additional complementary explanation for underachievement and school failure. Namely, it suggests that high school underachievement in Latino children of immigrants can be…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Immigrants, At Risk Students, Equal Education
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Capurso, Michele; Lo Bianco, Maria; Cortis, Elisabetta; Rossetti, Corrado – Child Care in Practice, 2016
This study aimed to create a book to explain juvenile arthritis to newly diagnosed children, starting with the narratives of currently ill children. The development of the book followed a socio-constructivist approach and occurred over several stages, including: design of a comic-based workbook; conducting a workshop with ill children to listen to…
Descriptors: Diseases, Children, Case Studies, Chronic Illness
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James, Nalita; Busher, Hugh; Suttill, Beth – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
This article examines the extent to which Access to Higher Education courses can be defined as communities of practice. Other studies have already revealed the importance of mutual engagement and supportive relationships between students and between students and tutors in facilitating learning. While previous studies carried out on Access to HE…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Tomlinson, Michelle M. – International Journal of Music Education, 2016
This case study employed multimodal methods and visual analysis to explore how a young multilingual student used music improvisation to form a speech rap. This student, recently arrived in Australia from Ethiopia, created piano music that was central to his music identity and that simultaneously, through dialogue with his mother, enhanced his…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Creative Activities, Music, Musical Composition
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Johnson, Christopher; Williams, Lindsey; Parisi, Joseph; Brunkan, Melissa – International Journal of Music Education, 2016
The purpose of the present investigation was to analyze the teaching characteristics and instructional patterns of an expert teacher, and then to examine whether those observed teaching aspects could transfer into a musical setting. A teacher of swimming was videotaped giving the first four swim lessons to a 2-year-old child. Recordings were…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Music, Teacher Characteristics, Expertise
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Wilson, Terri S. – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Although technically open to all, charter schools often emphasize distinctive missions that appeal to particular groups of students and families. These missions, especially ones focusing on ethnic, linguistic, and cultural differences, also contribute to segregation between schools. Such schools raise normative questions about the aims of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Case Studies, School Segregation
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Caruso, Emily; Schunko, Christoph; Corbera, Esteve; Ruiz Mallén, Isabel; Vogl, Christian R.; Martin, Gary; Arrázola, Susana; Bandeira, Fábio Pedro; Calvo Boyero, Diana; Camacho Benavides, Claudia; Cardoso, Thiago Mota; Chan-Dzul, Albert; Conde, Esther; del Campo García, Carlos; Huanca, Tomás; Sampaio, José Augusto Laranjeiras; Oliveros Lopez, Sara; Porter-Bolland, Luciana; Ruiz Betancourt, Olga – Journal of Research Practice, 2016
This article explores the relationship between institutional funding for research and community-based or co-enquiry research practice. It examines the implementation of co-enquiry research in the COMBIOSERVE project, which was funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for research and innovation, between the years 2012 and…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Research, Community Involvement, Inquiry
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Russo-Zimet, Gila – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The aim of this paper is to propose a research tool in the field of education--the "metaphorical collage." This tool facilitates the understanding of concepts and processes in education through the analysis of metaphors in collage works that include pictorial images and verbal images. We believe the "metaphorical collage" to be…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Figurative Language, Research Tools, Art Products
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Bozalek, Vivienne; Mitchell, Veronica; Dison, Arona; Alperstein, Melanie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
With regard to improving higher education feedback practices, there is an increasing interest in using the efficacy of dialogue rather than the more traditional unidirectional approaches. We build on this impetus by considering how the ethics of care can be used to analyse the dialogical aspects of feedback. By diffractively reading insights of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Ethics, Politics, Higher Education
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Njie, Baboucarr; Asimiran, Soaib – Qualitative Research in Education, 2016
The "understanding" in terms of interpretation of quality assurance is essential for the acceptance, theorizing and the practical application of the methods proposed by it. A great deal of research papers have often pointed to the lack of understanding, among others, as the reason behind the inadequate nature of implementing quality…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Lawler, James; Joseph, Anthony; Howell-Barber, H. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
The benefits of Big Data Analytics are cited frequently in the literature. However, the difficulties of implementing Big Data Analytics can limit the number of organizational projects. In this study, the authors evaluate business, procedural and technical factors in the implementation of Big Data Analytics, applying a methodology program. Focusing…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Health Services, Organizations (Groups), Health Insurance
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Silva, Wilson; AnderBois, Scott – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2016
In this paper, we propose a methodology for collecting naturally occurring data on evidentials and epistemic modals. We use Desano (Eastern Tukanoan) as a case study. This language has a complex evidential system with six evidential forms. The methodology in question consists of having Desano speakers to play a logic game, "Mastermind".…
Descriptors: Language Research, Documentation, Games, Logical Thinking
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Negassa, Tolera; Rogers, Alan; Warkineh, Turuwark Zalalam – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
This article explores whether looking at adult literacy teaching through the lens of Lave and Wenger's "community of practice" approach to learning provides useful additional insights into adults learning to read, especially the role of the adult literacy facilitator. Using some case studies of facilitators from the Ethiopian Integrated…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Literacy Education, Adult Literacy, Technological Literacy
Alexander, Monique – ProQuest LLC, 2016
As the teacher education preparation climate shifts to emphasize extended clinical field experiences as the heart of preservice teacher preparation, the research community has attempted to understand more about the pedagogies and personnel that will support learning in these areas. Supervisors of clinical field experiences are a staple in the…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Supervisors, Preservice Teacher Education, Field Experience Programs, Educational Practices
White, Tracy Foote – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study examines the mathematical questioning of undergraduate Calculus I instructors for the purpose of detailing the ways in which instructors are using their questions. The emphasis is on verbal questions because of their in-the-moment value and ability to get students engaged in discourse. Calculus I is of particular interest because of its…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Undergraduate Study, College Mathematics
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