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Bruneel, Steven; Vanassche, Eline – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
Mentoring is a favoured practice in many fields, including teacher education. This article challenges the uncritical acceptance of the beneficial effects of mentoring, by developing a novel conceptual model which allows to theorise and study mentoring as a discursive practice, focusing on the relations between all actors involved (i.e. teacher…
Descriptors: Mentors, Models, Interpersonal Relationship, Sociocultural Patterns
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Hitomi Kambara; Yu-Cheng Lin – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
There is an absence of cross-cultural qualitative research exploring sociocultural factors affecting reading motivation. To address the gap, the present study adopted the Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model of human development to investigate factors impacting reading motivation across American and Japanese fourth grade students. Additionally, we…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Sociocultural Patterns, Child Development, Foreign Countries
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Anne Kultti – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The overall interest in the present paper is equal early childhood education (ECE) in terms of educating multilingually. Instead of monoglossic bilingual education directed to some children, or monoglossic monolingual education directed to children despite language background, education for recognising and creating multilingual practices for all…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Early Childhood Education, Multilingualism, Sociocultural Patterns
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Eric Shyman; Samuel Rodriguez – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This content analysis of the literature explores issues associated with engaging in parent-school collaboration with Latino immigrant families. Sociocultural factors that contribute to the success of parent-school collaboration are identified, and elements that are necessary to include in parent-teacher collaboration such that they are culturally…
Descriptors: Barriers, Culturally Relevant Education, Parent School Relationship, Hispanic Americans
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José Carlos Vázquez-Parra; Isolda Margarita Castillo-Martínez; María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya; Juan Alberto Amézquita-Zamora; Marco Cruz-Sandoval – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The study aims to assess students' perceived mastery of reasoning-for-complexity competency and its sub-competencies in a sample of students in a Latin American university. The intention was to identify statistically significant differences between a population of men and women with similar sociocultural characteristics, assessing whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Private Colleges
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Taylor Rose-Dougherty; Mike P. Cook; James S. Chisholm – Teacher Educator, 2024
In this qualitative study, we analyze the role of emotion in teacher candidates' (TCs') sociocultural constructions of youth during student teaching. We explored the following questions: How do TCs reinforce and/or disrupt perspectives on teaching adolescents during discussions about classroom field incidents? How and with what effect do emotions…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Sociocultural Patterns, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
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Mohammed Nurul Islam; Azirah Hashim – International Education Studies, 2024
Over the decades, Bangladesh has experienced many language contact situations. Based on history, there are many instances of the presence of Urdu, Perso-Arabic, and Hindi (Sanskrit) words within the Bengali language. As a result, when Bangladeshi newspapers use English, there are common Bengali loanwords throughout the articles, derived from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, English, Newspapers
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James P. Lantolf – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This article provides a theoretical and empirical argument in support of explicit language instruction. It proposes on theoretical grounds that certain features of a language are sufficiently complex and subtle that learners are unlikely to be able to decipher their full conceptual meaning on the basis of exposure alone. It further proposes that…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Sociocultural Patterns
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Jon Magne Vestøl – Journal of Religious Education, 2024
As perspectives from the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky have made a substantial impact in the field of educational sciences, they have generated interest even in the field of religious education. To address some possible implications of Vygotskyan perspectives for religious education, this study focuses on Vygotsky's notion of symbolic…
Descriptors: World Views, Religious Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Educational Theories
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Maddie N. Zdeblick – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
The widespread myth that adults with intellectual disabilities lack agency still pervades learning and research spaces, justifying ableist teaching and research methods. Bringing critical, socio-cultural perspectives on disability together with Disability Justice principles, I present a joyful counternarrative, illustrating how a group of adults…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Education, Intellectual Disability, Personal Autonomy
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Karly J. Anderson; Kevin S. Spink; Sahya Bhargava – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To examine the influence of dynamic and trending descriptive norms on increasing physical activity and decreasing the sedentary behaviors of university students while on campus. Participants: One-hundred fifty-six university students from a Canadian university completed this study. Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to receive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Physical Activity Level, Behavior Standards
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Ampatzidis, Georgios; Ergazaki, Marida – Science & Education, 2023
Nature of science (NOS) is considered an important component of scientific literacy. Supporting students to develop a comprehensive NOS understanding is one of the most commonly described objectives within science education. Moreover, history of science can arguably provide a good context for NOS teaching and learning; it has been suggested that…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, History
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Potari, Despina; Jaworski, Barbara; Petropoulou, Georgia – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
In this paper, we draw on our recent research to inspect again some of the theoretical perspectives we have been using to analyze data and to characterize teaching-learning in university settings. We focus particularly, within a sociocultural perspective on Activity Theory and the construct the "Teaching Triad," seeking to embed the…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, College Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Activities
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Agosto, Denise E. – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the concept of "literacy" within the new literacy, new literacies and library and information science (LIS) discourses. It proposes widening the prevailing LIS conceptualization of adolescent literacy, which focuses largely on information literacy in academic settings, to a broader, information…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science, Adolescents, Sociocultural Patterns
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Shu-Sha Angie Guan; Jared Ashcroft; Bryant Horowitz; Eileen Ie; Yolanda Vasquez-Salgado; Carrie Saetermoe – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
Guided by social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent et al. in J Vocat Behav 45(1):79-122, 1994), we assessed sociocultural (e.g., home-school cultural value mismatch) and contextual barriers (e.g., institutional climate) in science education and career development at both a baccalaureate-granting institution (BGI) and community college (CC) among…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Goal Orientation, Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees
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