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Peer reviewedIsmael Fajardo; Ricardo Valdez; Ryan Landvoy – Grantee Submission, 2025
This mixed methods study evaluated the effectiveness and implementation quality of the "Virtual?STEM Role Model Connection," a technology enabled role model program designed to boost STEM motivation and academic achievement among underrepresented rural youth. Context and Participants.?From?2021?to?2024, the program linked middle and high…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Role Models, Technology Uses in Education, Student Motivation
Download full textClabough, Jeremiah – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2020
Social studies teachers have to design classroom instruction to prepare students to be future democratic citizens. This means that middle school students need learning opportunities to grapple with issues of racism in our country's past and present. In this article, I discuss a six-day research project implemented in a sixth-grade U.S. history…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Middle School Students, Grade 6, History Instruction
Direct linkArphattananon, Thithimadee – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2020
Multicultural education aims for social justice and a democratic society in that education should eradicate structural inequality and unequal power among majority and minority groups. These critical aims of multicultural education have been toned down when it comes to practice. In many parts of the world, multicultural education is often…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
McGinnis, Theresa A. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2009
In this article, I add to the critique of the myth of the American Dream by examining ethnographically the ways its dominant discourse is circulated to Khmer American middle school children of migratory agricultural workers. Drawing on social theories of discourse, I juxtapose the ideology embedded in the American Dream Discourse with the…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Agricultural Laborers, Democratic Values, Social Theories
Zwirn, Susan Goetz – Art Education, 2004
An important revival in art education seeks to provide adolescents with art projects that are culturally and politically relevant to their lives. Stimulated in part by both a postmodernist attitude and the attention to visual culture, such projects address content that is meaningful to students' families, their futures, and their society. These…
Descriptors: Artists, Art History, Painting (Visual Arts), Photography
Swerdlow, Linda Kantor – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2006
In 1994, students from Broad Meadows Middle School met Iqbal Masih, a 12-year-old Pakistani activist who had been sold into bonded labor at age 4 and escaped at age 10. They were moved to take action, and started a letter-writing campaign protesting child labor. When they heard of Iqbal's death later that year, they decided to build a school in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Laborers, Child Labor
