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O'Flynn, Gabrielle; McKnight, Anthony; Probst, Yasmine; Tillott, Sarah; Stanley, Rebecca M. – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
The purpose of this paper, is to invite health educators to see children as Country--to listen to, learn from and see the child spirit often not observed in academia. We do this by asking, 'What can we as academics and adults learn from Australian Aboriginal children's talk about culture?' To do this, we examine photos taken by Aboriginal children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Children
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Chung, Simmee – LEARNing Landscapes, 2018
This research with three Indigenous youth and their families is an intergenerational narrative inquiry around experiences of belonging and identity making. Pulling forward teachings from Indigenous Elder Francis Whiskeyjack, a metaphor of "education as ceremony" is juxtaposed with the ceremonies of "schooling" (Greene, 2001).…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Youth, Personal Narratives, Identification (Psychology)
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Li Sun, Editor; Cheng-Yao Lin, Editor – IGI Global, 2025
Many educators face the challenge of engaging students in science and mathematics, often struggling to bridge the gap between theoretical concepts taught in classrooms and their real-world applications. This disconnect can lead to disinterest and disengagement among students, hindering their learning outcomes. "Cases on Informal Learning for…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving
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Watson, Vaughn W. M.; Knight-Manuel, Michelle G. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background / Context: This conceptual essay contributes to recent education research on immigrant youth from West African countries that examines the interplay of popularized narratives of immigrant youth and young adults, and their Diasporic literacy practices. Specifically, we examine embodied Diaspora literacies as affirming and extending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Youth, Young Adults
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Mampane, M. R. – Perspectives in Education, 2017
This study seeks to describe the socio-educational afterschool intervention programme run by a drop-in centre to fight poverty, strengthen and build resilience in families and school microsystems. Indigenous psychology is used as a theoretical lens to understand the school, family and community response to contextual challenges and how resilience…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), After School Programs, After School Education, Intervention
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Hedges, Helen; Fleer, Marilyn; Fleer-Stout, Freya; Hanh, Le Thi Bich – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2016
Collaborative and reciprocal teacher-parent partnerships have been established in prior research as vital in empowering ethnic-minority children to be competent learners who value their home background, culture, and language and also learn the language used by teachers as the medium of education. Such collaborative relationships may be challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Minority Group Students, Cultural Influences