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Jacob, Evelyn – Educational Researcher, 1988
A major source of confusion in educational research comes when qualitative research is regarded as if it were one approach. Qualitative research has many varieties that can be identified and understood by using the notion of research traditions. Six approaches from the social and behavioral sciences are compared. (VM)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ethnography, Ethnology, Participant Observation
Sethole, Godfrey – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This paper highlights an attempt by two grade 8 teachers, Bulelwa and Kevin, to draw in the everyday in the teaching of mathematics. Though located in different South African contexts and settings, both teachers tend to enable their learners' access to mathematics by rendering the everyday inauthentic. I argue that inauthenticating the everyday is…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Students
Sutter, Alan – Urban Life and Culture, 1972
Describes the development of a career as a drug dealer of a black ghetto-raised youth, including the changing perspective in which he orients himself with reference to others, and the patterned sequence of social positions he came to occupy. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Black Community, Careers, Drug Abuse
Saad, James M. – National Council for the Social Studies Yearbook, 1972
Descriptors: Anthropology, Course Organization, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development
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Burger, Henry G. – American Educational Research Journal, 1972
Emphasizing immediacy of time and place of an experiment, operant behaviorism neglects the polymorphism of learning channels, social influence, exchange over time (diachrony) and over space (arbitrage), and institutions, and its proposed solutions disregard the complexities of culture. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Environmental Influences
Coulon, Marion – Literacy Work, 1972
Examines the beginnings of mass education; the Russians' contribution, Unesco's contribution, the work of ethnologists and economists in this field, and the impact of the Tehran Conference. Includes a short literacy glossary. (RB)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, African Culture, Developing Nations, Ethnology
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Berlin, Brent – Language in Society, 1972
Earlier draft of this paper prepared with the fellowship support of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a grant from the National Science Foundation, and distributed as Working Paper No. 39, Language-Behavior Research Laboratory (March 1971). (VM)
Descriptors: Botany, Classification, Cultural Enrichment, Diachronic Linguistics
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Cliff, Janet M. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1990
Reviews 163 sources on Navajo games, play, and toys. Includes an annotated bibliography of those materials. Examines relationships between games and religion, origin myths, and ceremonies. Discusses attitudes toward games, gambling, and cheating; and the dichotomy between children's and adults' games. Describes specific toys, games, and play…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Annotated Bibliographies, Ceremonies, Ethnology
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Hakulinen, Auli; Sorjonen, Marja-Leena – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1993
Topics addressed in this review include ethnology and traditional dialect study, philology, linguistic conversion analysis, and interaction within the social sciences. Finland's size affects these research activities and research on spoken interaction is shifting to group projects with a common focus. (Contains 68 references.) (JP)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Ethnology, Foreign Countries, Interaction
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Cameron, Susan Chavez; Wycoff, Susan Macias – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1998
Mental-health professionals are urged to question the role and usefulness of the term "race." The scientific basis of the concept is examined; current and historical uses of racial categories are reviewed. The interplay between geography and human biology is examined. Implications and recommendations for change are presented. (EMK)
Descriptors: Counseling, Ethnic Groups, Ethnology, Human Geography
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Turiel, Elliot – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2004
Although the constructs of individualism and collectivism appear to bring explanatory power to analyses of culture and psychology, they fail to adequately account for the complexities of social interactions and the multiplicity of people's social judgments. The research considered in the chapters in this volume offers evidence for the need to go…
Descriptors: Individualism, Constructivism (Learning), Phenomenology, Social Psychology
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Hogan, Monika I. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2006
In her well known keynote address at the Responsibilities for Literacies Conference, Mary Louise Pratt defined "contact zones" as "social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power." Pratt's view of a contact zone hints at the fact, but does not make explicit, that…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Ethics, Culture Conflict, Teacher Student Relationship
VanVleet, Susan – 1995
This guide provides teachers with background information and teaching activities to prepare students for a visit to the Spanish Quarter Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. It is designed to familiarize students with some of the concepts and words they will encounter in the open-air living history museum where interpreters in period clothing re-live…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Art Education, Colonial History (United States), Elementary Education
Roundtree, Helen, Comp.; Potter, Stephen, Comp.; Davidson, Tom, Comp. – 1996
This bibliography provides an introduction to the archaeology, ethnology, and history of Indians in the Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland areas. Some publications are available from the Museum of Natural History bookstore while others may be found in larger libraries or obtained through inter-library loan. Sections of the bibliography…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Studies, American Indians
Layng, Anthony – Council on Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1976
Makes suggestions as to what Afro-American studies can contribute to the teaching of anthropology. The most valuable contribution anthropology has to offer Afro-American studies is the cross-cultural perspective. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Black Culture, Black Education
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