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Epilogue: Learners Who Are d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing with Southeast Asian Backgrounds
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Qiuying Wang; Joanna E. Cannon – American Annals of the Deaf, 2024
This special issue expands our understanding of literacy and language development of individuals who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing (d/DHH), with a focus on those with a Southeast Asian background. These studies highlight the different research methodologies that can be utilized when researching a low-incidence population in a particular region…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Language Acquisition, Literacy Education
Challenging Claims of Cultural Deprivation as a Career-Long Goal
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Moll, Luis – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2020
This paper presents an overview of some of Michael Cole's work, starting with his pioneering research in Liberia with the Kpelle (and later, with Sylvia Scribner, studies of literacy with the Vai, 1981), which was formative of his version of a cultural-historical psychology, his translation and interpretations of the work of L. S. Vygotsky and…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Disadvantaged Environment, Foreign Countries, Educational Anthropology
School-Based Professional Development in a Developing Context: Lessons Learnt from a Case Study in Zambia
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Haßler, Björn; Hennessy, Sara; Cross, Andrew; Chileshe, Eness; Machiko, Brian – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper reports on the development and outcomes of the second phase of OER4Schools, a school-based professional development programme supporting interactive forms of subject teaching in conjunction with Open Educational Resources (OER) and technology in Zambian primary schools. We worked with partners to identify the needs of school-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Elementary Education, Continuing Education
Comprehension as Social and Intellectual Practice: Rebuilding Curriculum in Low Socioeconomic and Cultural Minority Schools
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Luke, Allan; Woods, Annette; Dooley, Karen – Theory Into Practice, 2011
This article reframes the concept of comprehension as a social and intellectual practice. It reviews current approaches to reading instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse, indigenous and low socioeconomic students (SES), noting an emphasis on comprehension as autonomous skills. The four resources model (Freebody & Luke, 1990) is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Multiple Effects of Education in Rural Areas: Action Research for Development Strategies in Croatia
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Persuric, Anita Silvana Ilak; Gautier, Patrick – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
The strategy of development in rural areas of Croatia includes several factors. Among them is education. The education system in Croatia has a number of institutional, infrastructural and regional characteristics that are a frame of research for this article. Rural areas confront additional factors such as population migrations, poor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Disadvantaged Environment, Access to Education
The Children's Education Project: Tham Hin Refugee Camp, Thailand
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Olesen, Mavis L. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
In 1997, twelve Karen Burmese teachers brought a Vision Paper to the Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand. The teachers had recently written this Paper after much consultation with their Mergui-Tavoy villagers, students, leaders, and school dropouts. Over the following five years teams developed a project outlining 10 steps to educational reform,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning, Educational Change