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Sharma, Ajay – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2008
This paper presents a case study of science teaching in an eighth grade school classroom in India. It comes out of a larger ethnographic study done in 2005 that looked at how science was taught and learned in a rural government run middle school in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India. Subscribing to a sociocultural perspective, the paper presents…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Ethnography, Grade 8, Teaching Methods
Multi-Point E-Conferencing with Initial Teacher Training Students in England: Pitfalls and Potential
Pratt, Nick – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This article reports on attempts to initiate multi-point e-conferencing between English teacher education students on school placements, their host teachers and their university tutors. A sociocultural perspective is adopted in analysing the project, using the metaphor of a "professional knowledge landscape" [Clandinin, D. J., &…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Cooperating Teachers, Teacher Educators
Romanik, Dale – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2010
This Information Capsule is the third in a series of papers addressing factors contributing to low academic achievement. The two previous papers addressed issues relevant to class size reduction and teacher quality/preparation. The premise of this Information Capsule is that there is no single smoking gun relative to improving school performance.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gap, Low Achievement
Mangez, Eric – European Journal of Education, 2010
This article examines the relationship between knowledge and policy in French-speaking Belgium. It starts by describing Belgium as a consociational democracy, i.e. a society that is largely organised around integrated pillars of society (Catholic, secular), each of which provides a wide range of services (educational, training, health, health…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Democracy, Educational Change, Statistical Analysis
Kameniar, Barbara Maria; Imtoual, Alia; Bradley, Debra – Educational Policy, 2010
In this article, Grint's model of leadership is used to shape discussions of how "problems" are responded to in the context of a preschool in an Australian regional town. Authority styles are described as command, management, or leadership. These authority styles result in approaching problems as "crises," "tame…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Differences, Foreign Countries, Problems
Otten, Matthias – Intercultural Education, 2009
Structure and agency of cultural diversity in (international) higher education have to be addressed with a critical perspective on international mobility and practices of international academic teaching. In order to overcome naive assumptions about intercultural developments on the individual and the organizational level, sociological analysis…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cultural Pluralism, Organizational Development, Models
Feryok, Anne – Language Teaching Research, 2009
This article uses activity theory to consider how teacher learning and development occurs. It aims to show that imitation and orienting activity, both of which make use of the analysis of actions into means and goals, can help explain how a group of Malaysian mathematics and science teachers learned to use the language-teaching practice of tasks…
Descriptors: Imitation, Science Teachers, Microteaching, Instructional Effectiveness
Hadwin, Allyson Fiona; Wozney, Lori; Pontin, Oonagh – Instructional Science: An International Journal of Learning and Cognition, 2005
This study informs the design and development of pedagogical agents that can flexibly support self-regulation by calibrating guidance to specific phases and facets of self-regulated learning (SRL) as individuals encounter challenges and develop more sophisticated understandings of the task and content. From a socio-cultural perspective of…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Independent Study, Sociocultural Patterns, Teacher Student Relationship
Levinson, Meira – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2007
This paper, drawn from a book in progress, summarizes evidence of a "civic achievement gap" between non-white, poor, and/or immigrant youth, on the one hand, and white, wealthier, and/or native-born youth, on the other. Young people (and adults) in the former group demonstrate consistently lower levels of civic and political knowledge, skills,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Sociocultural Patterns, Student Attitudes, Civics
Ogoye-Ndegwa, Charles; Mengich, William Saisi; Abidha, Ombech – International Education Journal, 2007
Homework is assigned on the assumption that parents or other elder members have the capacity to assist the pupils and that home environment is conducive for the pupil to do homework. A cross-sectional survey using structured and semi-structured interviews was conducted among pupils and parents in Kengeleni division in Mombasa district to explore…
Descriptors: Homework, Low Income, Parent Participation, Illiteracy
Peter, Lizette – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2007
This article contributes to our knowledge of endangered language revitalization by offering a case study of a Cherokee Nation (CN) preschool immersion program named Tsalagi Ageyui, "Our Beloved Cherokee." A naturalistic inquiry into the micro- and macrosociocultural dimensions of reversing Cherokee language shift reveals that, of all CN language…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Immersion Programs, American Indian Languages, Preschool Education
Zhao, Shouhui; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
As Chinese characters ("hanzi") have three aspects--as a technical writing system, an aesthetic visual art (Chinese calligraphy), and a highly-charged cultural symbolic system--changing them is a complex process. In the 1950s when language planning campaigns were launched to modernise Chinese through "hanzi" standardisation,…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Language Planning, Handwriting, Written Language
Pramling, Niklas; Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
In a significant work, "Metaphor in educational discourse", Cameron has suggested that we study metaphor as "prosaics" (i.e. as a feature of mundane talk). In this paper, by means of some brief examples, we point to instances of such talk in the setting of preschool. We also discuss opportunities for learning that such talk could offer children,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Thinking Skills
de Brigard, Raul; Helmer, Olaf – 1970
Projections about social trends in the U. S., from 1970-2000, made by a panel of 34 experts, are reported in this study. Each respondent was required to respond to a set of questions three times; after the first two times, each respondent was given a summary of answers given by his panel. The resulting concensus was used to make the predictions in…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Values, Sociocultural Patterns

Maslow, Abraham H. – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1991
Presents previously unpublished paper written by Abraham Maslow in April 1968 in which Maslow speculates on the issue that society had become pathologically individualistic and needed to develop better means of facilitating close relationships among people. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Friendship, Intimacy, Prosocial Behavior, Sociocultural Patterns