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Osborn, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This Critical Discourse Analysis examined the classroom discourse of six secondary social studies teachers during lessons dedicated to the study of Africa and the Middle East. The study focused on the phenomenon of otherness and the ways in which teachers contribute to or challenge the depiction of various African and Middle Eastern populations as…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, Secondary School Teachers
Wisser, Katherine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Bibliographic classification is culturally bound. This research examines the classification systems created for social libraries in the first half of the nineteenth century in the United States. Social libraries are defined as institutions that have voluntary membership and are dependent on membership fees. Seventeen classified catalogs were…
Descriptors: Classification, United States History, Cultural Differences, Libraries
Limwudhikraijirath, Aree – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study was a case study which had three overlapping purposes. The first purpose was to use Douglas's typology to explain the educational culture of the Faculty of Management Sciences (FMS) at Prince of Songkla University (PSU) Hatyai, Songkhla, Thailand. The second purpose was to describe the students' and instructor's preferences about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Case Studies, Student Attitudes