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Direct linkPerin, Dolores, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2019
This handbook presents a wide range of research on adults who have low literacy skills. It looks at the cognitive, affective, and motivational factors underlying adult literacy; adult literacy in different countries; and the educational approaches being taken to help improve adults' literacy skills. It includes not only adults enrolled in adult…
Descriptors: Guides, Adult Literacy, Reading Difficulties, Literacy Education
Johnson, David, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2010
The chapters in this volume give an account of the process of modernisation and educational reform in Russia, variously considering the cultural and political dilemmas provoked by democratisation, the structural and policy challenges associated with the reform of higher and vocational education, and the deep divisions exposed as socio-cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Politics of Education, Social Change
van Oers, Bert, Ed.; Wardekker, Wim, Ed.; Elbers, Ed, Ed.; van der Veer, Rene, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
Learning is a changing phenomenon, depending on the advances in theory and research. This book presents a relatively new approach to learning, based on meaningful human activities in cultural practices and in collaboration with others. It draws extensively from the ideas of Lev Vygotsky and his recent followers. The book presents ideas that…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Play, Informal Education, Distance Education
Sarason, Seymour Bernard – 1996
This book of essays addresses changes in the U.S. social scene by examining the roots of change in history. The present is pregnant with many futures and citizens cannot afford to live from an intellectually simple, ahistorical stance. The book contains 12 chapters, including: (1) "Introduction: The Past in the Present"; (2) "The Coalescing of…
Descriptors: Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Download full textAlvarez, Celia; And Others – 1984
A collection of papers resulting from a research project on the role of language in the life of a Puerto Rican community in New York City focuses on the discourse of English and Spanish speakers, especially conversational interaction, speech events, and narratives. The papers include: "Toward a Social Theory of Language Variability"…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, English, Language Role
Hesselbein, Frances, Ed.; Goldsmith, Marshall, Ed.; Beckhard, Richard, Ed.; Schubert, Richard F., Ed. – 1998
This book is a collection of 25 essays that explore what communities will look like in the future. They include: "Introduction: Civilizing the City" (Peter F. Drucker); (1) "The Paradox and Promise of Community" (Margaret J. Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers); (2) "Economic Community and Social Investment" (Lester C. Thurow); (3) "The…
Descriptors: Communications, Community, Community Change, Community Development
Wolfe, Susan J. – 1978
Studies in the development of sexist language can provide insights into diachronic change in word meanings. Since semantic features are intimately related to the cultural and social matrices they represent, semantic change can be predicted on the basis of cultural constants as well as cultural changes. Prehistoric cultures can be reconstructed by…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology, Females
Paulston, Rolland G., Ed. – 1996
This volume of essays enables readers to see utility in the practice of social mapping as it opens traditional cartographic representation to multiple perspectives and the play of difference. This book argues that social mapping is useful in constructing more comprehensive and reasonably accurate representations of social and cultural phenomena.…
Descriptors: Cartography, Comparative Education, Critical Theory, Cross Cultural Studies
Appell, G. N., Ed. – 1985
Many developing nations are engaged in efforts to transform the traditional agricultural sectors of their economies into modern forms that are more closely linked to the national economy and the export market. Almost universally, the traditional rights to land of the indigenous populations are ignored. The 12 essays in this book examine the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Developing Nations, Developmental Programs, Economic Development
Ferdman, Bernardo M., Ed.; And Others – 1994
The collection of essays on literacy and culture includes: "Literacy Across Languages and Cultures" (Bernardo M. Ferdman, Rose-Marie Weber); "Practice-Engagement Theory: A Sociocultural Approach to Literacy Across Languages and Cultures" (Stephen Reder); "Literacy Acquisition Among Second-Language Learners" (Arnulfo…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism
