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Green, Lisa; Roeper, Thomas – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2007
This article considers the comprehension of tense-aspect markers remote past BIN and habitual be by 3- to 5-year-old developing African American English (AAE)-speaking children and their Southwest Louisiana Vernacular English (SwLVE)-speaking peers. Overall both groups of children associated BIN with the distant past; however, the AAE-speaking…
Descriptors: North American English, Syntax, Semantics, Indigenous Knowledge
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Kliewer, Christopher; Biklen, Douglas – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: Culturally authoritative texts such as Text Revision of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual-IV [DSM-IV-TR](American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2004) describe literate impossibility for individuals with disability labels associated with severe developmental disabilities. Our qualitative research challenges the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Qualitative Research, Indigenous Knowledge, Citizenship
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Nakata, Martin – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2003
This paper critically examines some elements of the nation's policy on Indigenous education priorities (Department of Employment, Education and Training, 1989) and how they have framed our approaches to formal schooling issues over the past decade. I draw on some of the 'cultural' tensions in the policy position to illustrate the dilemma they…
Descriptors: Literacy, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Educational Policy
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Baker, David – Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1996
Discusses the nature of science, the concept of indigenous science, and its implications for science education. (JRH)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge
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Nsamenang, A. Bame – Higher Education Policy, 2005
Both local and global forces impact on educational and human development. This disrupts Africa's capacity to own, generate, and share knowledge. A disorganizing hybridism between African, Eastern and Western heritages exacerbates the difficulty. A social Darwinian perspective disparages but exploits Africanity. Furthermore, no extant theory…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Indigenous Knowledge
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Durie, Mason – Higher Education Policy, 2005
Faced with globalizing forces that promote universal approaches to knowledge and understanding, indigenous peoples have reacted by abandoning the old ways or alternately seeking to re-discover ancient wisdoms as foundations for pathways to the future. Increasingly, however, a third way has been to focus on the interface between indigenous…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Global Approach, Indigenous Populations, Sciences
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McGregor, Deborah – American Indian Quarterly, 2004
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) as a construct of broader society is a relatively recent phenomenon, and the field that supports the acquisition of environmental knowledge from Aboriginal people has rapidly grown over the last two decades. In part, TEK has emerged from the growing recognition that Indigenous people all over the world…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Environmental Education, Indigenous Populations, Sustainable Development
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Shahjahan, Riyad Ahmed – McGill Journal of Education, 2005
In this paper, I examine some of the past and current issues in anti-colonial discourse by briefly reviewing the ideas of thirteen anti-colonial scholars from different regions of the world. I relate these ideas to the discussion of knowledge production and indigenous knowledges. I also examine some critical areas that require more attention from…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Discourse Analysis, Scholarship, Religious Factors
Schneegans, Susan, Ed.; Candau, Anne, Ed. – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2007
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has put together this brochure on its contribution to Africa's Plan for Science and Technology to 2010 in the lead up to the forthcoming African Union Summit, in January 2007, and the meeting of African Ministers of Science and Technology November 23-24, 2006. The theme…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Foreign Countries, Space Sciences, Scientific Research
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Gair, Susan – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
The retention and completion rates of Indigenous students undertaking tertiary studies continue to be disappointing. The contribution of Eurocentric curricula to such an outcome has been proposed in the Australian and international literature. Remaining very conscious of my status as a white, female, social work educator teaching at a regional…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Social Work, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
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Lewis, Denise C. – Qualitative Report, 2007
This study addresses ways Khmer refugee elders utilize traditional herbal medicine with Western biomedicine in the treatment and prevention of illnesses. Methods include semi-structured and informal interviews with elders and family members, semi-structured interviews with local health care providers and Khmer physicians, and participant…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Physicians, Chronic Illness, Ideology
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Khamis, Anil; Sammons, Pamela – International Journal of Educational Development, 2007
This article continues the analyses of the impact of an innovative teacher education programme aimed at school improvement in a developing country context (A. Khamis, P. Sammons, 2004. The development of a cadre of teacher educators: some lessons from Pakistan. International Journal of Educational Development, 24(3), 255-268). Building on recent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Developing Nations
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Guo, Yan; Beckett, Gulbahar H. – Convergence, 2007
English has become the dominant global language of communication, business, aviation, entertainment, diplomacy and the internet. Governments as well as some scholars appear to be accepting such a spread of English uncritically. However, we argue that the increasing dominance of the English language is contributing to neocolonialism by empowering…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Indigenous Knowledge, International Relations, Foreign Countries
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Deyhle, Donna; McCarty, Teresa L. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2007
Over a 50-year professional career, Dr. Beatrice Medicine never failed to assert the importance of Indigenous language rights or to challenge racism in the academy, public schools, and society. She urged educational anthropologists to confront racism in our research with Indigenous peoples. She challenged linguicism and urged the teaching of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Educational Anthropology, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
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Maclure, Richard – Harvard Educational Review, 2006
Multilateral donors like the World Bank and bilateral agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the British Department for International Development exert a great deal of influence in international educational development--particularly in sub-Saharan Africa--both in the programs they fund and the types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Development, Educational Researchers
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