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Gillette, Maureen; Boyle-Baise, Marilynne – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1996
Investigates a variety of instructional strategies and teaching methods used in a graduate level multicultural education class. These included autobiographical analysis, role playing, and dialog journals, as well as, more traditional methods such as guest speakers and lectures. Discusses how the insights gained could be used in future research.…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Consciousness Raising, Course Content, Cultural Pluralism
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Emmanuel, Donna T. – International Journal of Music Education, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine the personal conceptualizations of pre-service music education students by focusing on how they talked about learning to teach music in the context of cultural diversity, and to probe the relationships among these conceptualizations prior to, during, and after an immersion internship experience in a…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Cultural Pluralism, Autobiographies
Schmidt, Patricia A. – 1997
This book is an autobiographical effort to understand life as a person and as a high school English teacher, and how those two lives have intertwined. The text examines how the author, trained in certain ways, thinks of herself as a professional person. In addition to the subject of the teaching of reading and writing, the author explores how her…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, English Instruction, English Teachers, Feminism
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Hauk, Shandy – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2005
This study examines the K-12 mathematical experiences of U.S. university students via an expressive writing assignment: a mathematical autobiography essay. The essays of 67 college students, out of over 300 enrolled in 16 sections of a college liberal arts mathematics course, were analyzed using constant-comparative methods. Two categories of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction, College Students, College Mathematics
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Wong, K. Scott – OAH Magazine of History, 1996
Maintains that personal and family history assignments in an Asian American history course allow for an effective balance between scholarly inquiry and personal discovery. Describes the experiences and reactions of several undergraduate classes that used this approach. Discusses the benefits and problems inherent in studying oral histories and…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Autobiographies, Cultural Images, Cultural Interrelationships
Adults Learning, 2004
It's that time of year again and "Adults Learning" has once more asked some of the outstanding authors who have contributed to the journal over the past 12 months to nominate their best and most valuable reads of 2004. The authors are: (1) Judith Summers; (2) Thomas Sticht; (3) Alison Wolf; (4) Tom Schuller; (5) Linden West; (6) Brian…
Descriptors: Authors, Adult Learning, Reading Materials, Periodicals
Madenwald, Abbie Morgan – 1992
This book relates the experiences of Abbie Morgan, who with her husband Ed, moved to the Alaskan village of Kulukak in 1931. Abbie accepted an assignment from the United States government to be the village teacher while her husband was appointed to provide health care for the village population and monitor the area's reindeer herd. The village of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education
Garrod, Andrew, Ed.; Larimore, Colleen, Ed. – 1997
This book presents 13 stories of Native American college students struggling for survival on several planes--intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual--and striving for success in their own terms in a cultural setting not their own. Although all the students attended Dartmouth College and graduated, the salient common theme of the stories is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians
Dominice, Pierre – 2000
This nine-chapter book, written in Europe by a French-speaking Swiss educator, explores the rationale for using educational biography approaches in adult education and presents examples that illustrate various uses of these life history activities. Chapter 1 provides an introduction and overview of educational biography, and Chapter 2 describes…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) science fiction in elementary school science education; (2) the portrayal of black characters in children's literature; (3) UFOs and their correlates as a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Autobiographies, Bibliotherapy
Denniston, Dorothy L. – 1977
This paper examines the scope and historical significance of biographies and autobiographies of ex-slaves. The document focuses primarily on accounts of black women published from 1820-1860, but also discusses several narratives from colonial times. Exploits of famous women slaves including Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth are analyzed along…
Descriptors: American Culture, Autobiographies, Biographies, Black Culture
Koerner, Mari E.; Hulsebosch, Patricia – 1995
This study followed six "culturally aware" elementary school teachers through student teaching and their first two years of teaching to look at how their life experiences as minority people affected their classroom practices. The study was a qualitative inquiry based on reciprocal and interactive relationships. The approach was…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Carlsen, G. Robert; Sherrill, Anne – 1988
Drawing on thousands of "reading autobiographies," in which generations of students wrote about their experiences with reading, this book investigates what makes young people want to read. Chapters include: (1) Growing with Books; (2) Learning To Read; (3) Literature and the Human Voice; (4) Reading Habits and Attitudes: When, Where, and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence, Librarians
Nupoll, Karin, Comp. – 1978
Books, periodicals, recordings, art works, government documents, and bibliographies, dating mostly from 1960, are included in this 1978 addendum to the 1973 edition of "La Raza: A Selective Bibliography of Library Resources". Similar in format to the earlier volume, the addendum contains 1,616 non-annotated entries organized into 31…
Descriptors: Art, Autobiographies, Bibliographies, Bilingualism
Waterhouse, P. J. – 2002
A combination of narrative, autobiographical, and arts-based research methods was used to explore experiential learning and professional practice in diverse teaching/learning and adult education settings. The research methodology drew upon concepts developed by the following individuals: Jerome Bruner and his constructivist approach that values…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Autobiographies
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