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Valeriya Minakova – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Changing orientations to language, informed by poststructuralism and postcolonialism, challenge modernist representations of languages as bounded entities, tied to particular territories and identities (Canagarajah, 2019; Makoni and Pennycook, 2007). Viewing language as a hybrid and fluid practice, these developments question the theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
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Nakita Stephens; Caroline Nilson; Roz Walker; Rhonda Marriott – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objectives: Among Aboriginal children, the year between birth and 1 year of age has the highest mortality rate compared with any other age. Prompt administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) leads to better outcomes and a lower likelihood of ongoing sequalae. Current education on infant CPR is not provided to parents except in certain…
Descriptors: Infants, Indigenous Populations, First Aid, Parents
Keith Wayne Trahan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Schools serve both to connect and separate people within society. Therefore, the landscape of school reform presents an opportunity to explicate the opposing forces of connectedness and competition that are entrenched in twenty-first century society. It can serve as a laboratory in which to study foundational social issues. This study is an…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Social Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Alienation
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de Forest, Jennifer – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2008
In this article Jennifer de Forest details the 1958 Harlem school boycott and the resulting court case, "In the Matter of Charlene Skipwith." de Forest demonstrates how the Harlem Parents' Committee mobilized dissent in Harlem and led a boycott that effectively used the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in "Brown II," which…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Court Litigation, Courts, Community Control