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Kavanagh, Sarah Schneider – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: As states and districts have begun adopting texts inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people, debates about how LGBTQ issues should be represented in the curricular canon have emerged. While existing research investigates curricular questions that are arising as a result of LGBTQ curricular…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Language Arts, Educational Practices, Secondary School Teachers
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Malewski, Erik; Sharma, Suniti; Phillion, JoAnn – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: The article examines how international field experiences promote cross-cultural awareness in U.S. American preservice teachers through experiential learning. The findings presented here are based on a 6-year study of a short-term study abroad program in Honduras that included an international field experience component and took…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Cultural Pluralism
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Auerbach, Susan; Collier, Shartriya – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: As accountability pressures have mounted toward ever-higher targets under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, low-achieving schools have sought new tools for raising achievement. The association between parent involvement and student achievement is well established, though the association is an indirect relationship mediated…
Descriptors: Accountability, Immigrants, Reading Skills, Family Literacy
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Hennessy, Sara; Mercer, Neil; Warwick, Paul – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: This article describes how we refined an innovative methodology for equitable collaboration between university researchers and classroom practitioners building and refining theory together. The work builds on other coinquiry models in which complementary professional expertise is respected and deliberately exploited in order to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Observation, Questionnaires