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Expanding Museum Communities: International Perspectives on Access in Exhibition Design and Public Programs
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Bradford, Lorena; Diaz, Abigail; Schilling, Ruth – Journal of Museum Education, 2021
Embracing an inclusive mindset within museums is necessary to further accessibility and transform the role of museums in a changing society to more effectively foster diversity. A brief overview of the history of laws related to people with disabilities and the role of centralized museum associations sets accessibility as a concept within cultural…
Descriptors: Exhibits, Museums, Role, Social Change
Analyzing Teachers' Professional Interactions in a School as Social Capital: A Social Network Approach
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Penuel, William R.; Riel, Margaret; Krause, Ann E.; Frank, Kenneth A. – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Researchers have proposed a number of lenses for analyzing teacher professional communities in recent years. These lenses have been useful in describing key dynamics of professional communities; however, none provides a compelling approach to how to integrate data from the school as a whole with case study data on individual…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Social Networks, Social Capital, Teaching Methods
Classroom Structuration and the Development of Social Representations of the Curriculum
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Ivinson, Gabrielle; Duveen, Gerard – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
The study drew on Bernstein's theory and Moscovici's theory of Social Representations to investigate how children in classrooms with different types of structuration developed social representation of the curriculum. Comparable case studies were carried out in schools chosen to reflect three types of pedagogy according to Bernstein's typology.…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Environment, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
The Adolescent Society Revisited: Cultures, Crowds, Climates, and Status Structures in Seven Secondary Schools
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Garner, Roberta; Bootcheck, Judith; Lorr, Michael; Rauch, Kathryn – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
The authors used data from seven schools in a metropolitan region to explore continuity and change in adolescent cultures and status structures; they identified six major types of status structures and explained variation among them in terms of characteristics of communities and schools. A key feature of the study is comparison of school climates,…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Social Change, Social Structure, Community Characteristics
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION IN THE NORTH, EIGHT COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND POLICY MAKING.
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CRAIN, ROBERT L.; AND OTHERS – 1966
A PRELIMINARY, SYSTEMATIC PICTURE (CENSUS) WAS DEVELOPED OF THE STATUS OF SCHOOL INTEGRATION IN EIGHT NORTHERN CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE 1954 "BROWN" DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT. THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT WAS TO CORRECT THE DISTORTED VIEWS OF SCHOOL INTEGRATION STATUS, RESULTING PRIMARILY FROM NEWS MEDIA…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Census Figures, Civil Rights, Comparative Analysis
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION IN NEW ORLEANS, A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE FAILURE OF SOCIAL CONTROL.
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CRAIN, ROBERT L; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE ISSUE OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION WAS STUDIED AS IT OCCURED IN SEVEN SOUTHERN CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES, RESULTING FROM THE 1954 "BROWN" DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT. THESE CITIES WERE COLUMBUS, JACKSONVILLE, NEW ORLEANS, MONTGOMERY, ATLANTA, MIAMI, AND BATON ROUGE. CASE STUDY DATA WERE GATHERED THROUGH INTERVIEW RESPONSES AND…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Case Studies, Census Figures, City Government