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Bárbara Brizuela; Susanne Strachota; Sophia Raymond; Sofía Savid; Maria Blanton – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2025
Questions regarding the construction of mathematical authority have implications for learning, specifically for students' views of themselves as mathematics learners and doers with valuable contributions. We consider the ideas proposed by eight first-grade students who had the most airtime during 12 lessons of a classroom teaching experiment. We…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1
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Shayan, Tahmina – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2022
Providing spaces for children's culture becomes an issue when it conflicts with or threatens to reverse the notion of 'legitimate' culture. Here, legitimate culture refers to the dominant values of the official curriculum and teachers' cultural values. This article, which stems from an ethnographically oriented pilot study, explores the experience…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Ideology, Cultural Differences, Art Education
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Leuschner, Hannes – Ethnography and Education, 2021
This article presents an ethnography of the entanglement of space, learning and teaching bodies and pedagogical authority in a primary school in Germany. We focus on the spatial placement of a boy diagnosed with 'special needs'. Inspired by Carol Taylor's analysis of a male teacher's authority at a college. we describe the boy's changeable seating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Males, Special Needs Students
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Cadavid-Múnera, Isabel Cristina – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
This article reports the findings of a qualitative interpretive research study that explored the social representations children have about the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language in elementary schools in Medellín, Colombia. Sixty children in first, third, and fifth grades of public and private schools participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grade 3, Grade 5
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Sirkko, Riikka; Kyrönlampi, Taina; Puroila, Anna-Maija – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Children's agency accords with the principles emphasised by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations in Convention on the rights of the child. UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva. Retrieved from, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx, 1989). This study focuses on children's…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Student Participation
Ann R. Flynn – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Paraeducators play an important role in the classroom supporting students and certificated teachers. However, literature on the actual roles of paraeducators has revealed that paraeducators are rarely included in the teaching team (Patterson, 2006). Paraeducators are frequently asked to perform difficult or unpleasant jobs and may not be…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Public Schools, School Districts, Kindergarten
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Zarra-Nezhad, Maryam; Viljaranta, Jaana; Sajaniemi, Nina; Aunola, Kaisa; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study focused on associations between children's socioemotional development (prosocial behaviour, internalizing and externalizing problems) and parenting styles (affection, behavioural control, and psychological control), and the moderating role of children's social withdrawal (as a temperamental characteristic) in these associations.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Parenting Styles, Social Development, Emotional Development
White, Kristen Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A Substantial body of research on "struggling" or "at-risk" readers has mostly focused on identifying children and developing and testing interventions aimed at remediating children's perceived deficiencies. Research has generally assumed that a reading (dis)ability is an intrinsic and hereditary condition that children embody.…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Disabilities, Power Structure, Grade 1
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West-Burns, Nicole; Murray, Karen – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2016
In classroom spaces on a daily basis, students are encouraged to express who they are as learners and demonstrate their own understanding of their learning. Students' ability to contribute to their own learning is an essential characteristic of an engaging classroom space and supports high academic achievement. The authors' work highlights one…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Power Structure, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Murata, Aki; Siker, Jody; Kang, Bona; Baldinger, Evra M.; Kim, Hee-Jeong; Scott, Mallika; Lanouette, Kathryn – Cognition and Instruction, 2017
This study investigated different math-talk facilitations, and conceptualized the teachers' talk moves for productive student mathematics discussions. Our findings suggest that students' strategy development is supported by talk moves coordinating a wide range of student strategies, representations and discussions that are at a process-level and…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Mathematics, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods
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Viljaranta, Jaana; Aunola, Kaisa; Mullola, Sari; Virkkala, Johanna; Hirvonen, Riikka; Pakarinen, Eija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Child Development, 2015
The present study followed 156 Finnish children (M[subscript age] = 7.25 years) during the first grade of primary school to examine to what extent parent- and teacher-rated temperament impacts children's math and reading skill development during the first grade, and the extent to which this impact would be mediated by teachers' interaction styles…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Personality Traits
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Collin, Ross – Journal of Literacy Research, 2012
Focusing on matters of power and difference, this article examines rhetorical theories of genre and James Gee's theory of Discourse. Although both theories offer productive ways of understanding literate practice, it is argued, they are limited in crucial respects. Genre theory offers few ways of understanding how and why some social actors have…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Theory, Individual Power, Power Structure, Literary Genres
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Ioannidou, Elena – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2015
The current paper examines teaching practices in three first-grade primary classrooms (age range from five years and nine months old to six years and nine months old) in Greek Cypriot public schools, exploring whether the wider changes in critical literacy education declared on a policy level are influencing classroom literacy practices. Greek…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Elementary Education, Grade 1
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Hultin, Eva; Westman, Maria – Education Inquiry, 2013
The theoretical framework of this article is based on critical literacy (Janks, 2010) and genre theories (Swales, 1990; Schleppegrell, 2004). The article's main purpose is to contribute to an understanding of the use and production of text genres as a power-embedded practice. In doing so, we analyse firstgrade children's texts in terms of genres…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Literacy Education, Childrens Literature, Literary Genres
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Silva, Janelle M. – Urban Education, 2012
This article uses data from a 9-month ethnography in California to illustrate how elementary teacher's decision to reenact Jane Elliott's "A Class Divided" experiment, in conjunction with an artist-centered multicultural curriculum, shifted classroom conversations to a more critical dialogue of social groups, power, and privilege. Data…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Educational Experiments, Ethnography, Power Structure
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