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Webbert, Victoria Vazquez – Online Submission, 2007
In this theoretical dissertation my aim is to research the academic literature in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), compare it to the life experiences of past and/or present students, colleagues, children and myself to reflect and summarize my learning in the form of a conceptual framework that I have named, "Framework for…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Critical Theory, Second Language Learning, Prior Learning
Stewart, Julia Aguilar; Santiago, Karen A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2006
This article discusses the use of Esmeralda Santiago's autobiography "When I Was Puerto Rican" (1994b) as the foundation for an experiential learning project that brought two language communities: suburban college students studying intermediate Spanish and urban Puerto Rican students in an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) class. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Spanish, Urban Areas, Second Language Learning
Harris, Gail A., Ed.; Kirk, Winifred D., Ed. – 1993
This collection chronicles the development of the field of special education through the writings of Samuel A. Kirk and comments by contributing scholars in the introductions to each section. The selections of Kirk's work evidence his contributions to the many domains of special education. The testimony and comments by contributing scholars place…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Educational History
Horton, Myles; And Others – 1990
In 1932, Myles Horton founded the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. Horton created an adult education center dedicated to helping groups of primarily poor and uneducated people strive together to solve their social, economic, and political problems and conflicts by mining their own experiences and awareness. In this book, Horton…
Descriptors: Activism, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Autobiographies
Allen, Rodney F. – 1975
This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. The activity investigates the role of story telling as illustrative of human values and as an appropriate medium for environmental education. The author identifies a need for individuals to know who…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Autobiographies, Biographies, Environmental Education

Harner, Lorraine; Romer, Nancy – Liberal Education, 1992
The autobiographical stories of one college student about her childhood are used to help prospective teachers at Brooklyn College (New York) understand individual and child psychology in social context, particularly the roles of adults in the child's world. This may be useful to teachers in understanding their own relationships with students. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adults, Autobiographies, Child Psychology, Classroom Techniques

Ladson-Billings, Gloria – Journal of Teacher Education, 2000
Addresses the dearth of literature about preparing teachers to teach African American students, the attempts by scholars to fill this void, and the need for ongoing research in this area, highlighting: the uniqueness of the African American cultural experience; strategies for improving teacher preparation (e.g., autobiography, restructured field…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Black Culture, Black Students, Consciousness Raising
Coleman, Michael C. – 1993
This book synthesizes over 100 autobiographical accounts by American Indians recalling their schooling in government and missionary institutions. From 1850 to 1930, such schools were established or supported by the federal government to "civilize" Indian children through acculturation. Chapters cover: (1) the use of autobiographical…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Brisk, Maria Estela – 1998
The rationale for using critical autobiography projects in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction is discussed, and procedures for implementation are outlined. Writing a critical autobiography involves the student's presenting a personal narrative while exploring external factors influencing his life. Critical experiences in life provide…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
Fitch, Nancy Elizabeth – 1988
The concept of liberty has been in the forefront of the minds of African Americans ever since the beginning of slavery, and its importance continues to the present. To cope with the inability to achieve complete freedom, and with the oppressive state created by a lack of liberty, they developed ways to express their feelings about the elusiveness…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Black Culture, Black Education, Black History
African-American Inst., New York, NY. School Services Div. – 1976
An initiation ceremony which marks the passage from adolescence to adulthood in an African village is the topic of this learning module for elementary and secondary students. A reading is adapted from the autobiography of a Guinean youth who participated in the initiation experience with other boys in his village at the age of 12 years. A lesson…
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Culture, Area Studies, Autobiographies

Social Education, 1985
This selective listing of books for children in grades K-8 is organized by the following categories: American history, culture, and life; world history and culture; biographies and autobiographical accounts; folktales, myths and legends and storytelling; poetry and rhyme; contemporary interests and controversies; and understanding oneself and…
Descriptors: American Studies, Annotated Bibliographies, Autobiographies, Biographies
Meyer, Richard J. – 1993
Twenty-five undergraduate preservice teachers in the literacy block (a six credit hour block of reading and language arts methods courses) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln wrote their literacy autobiographies to fulfill one of the course requirements. These autobiographies help students' develop insights into their literacy past and present.…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Handwriting, Higher Education
Drake, Florence; Alford, Thomas Wildcat – 1979
Thomas Wildcat Alford, born of parents of the Absentee Shawnee tribe of Indians in 1860, relates the story of his life and of his tribe during the period from which the influence of the white race first began to be felt, up to when the so-called civilization of the white man superceded almost to annihilation the old tribal mode of life. The book…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American History, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education
Stanford, Barbara Dodds; Amin, Karima – 1978
An interracial team of teachers and regional consultants worked together revising this ten-year-old book on the teaching of black literature. The first section discusses black literature in terms of its discovery, tradition, and affective aspects; outlines goals and objectives for the course; presents a historical survey of black American writers;…
Descriptors: African Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Autobiographies, Biographies