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Lobel, Thalma E.; Slone, Michelle; Ashuach, Yael; Revach, Iris – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
Investigated how men and women with high and low levels of education perceive male and female targets who participate or do not participate in household chores. It was found that both highly and less educated individuals perceive a male target who participates in household chores more favorably, this preference is more pronounced among more…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries

Oswald, Donald P.; Coutinho, Martha J.; Best, Al M.; Nguyen, Nu – Mental Retardation, 2001
A study of 4,151 school districts found a clear association among ethnicity, gender, and mental retardation. Sociodemographic variables were also strongly associated with the proportion of students identified. A logistical regression model that included sociodemographic predictors was significantly better than models with gender and race alone.…
Descriptors: Demography, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity
Dantas, Maria Luiza – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2003
This paper examines the co-constructed nature of classroom life, and what became constituted as one child's story of literacy learning in first grade. It takes an over-time look at how opportunities for literacy learning were constructed within multiple, intermingling contexts (classroom, school, district, and family). Derek's literacy learning…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Nasir, Na'ilah Suad – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2005
In this article, I explore the relation between the sociocultural and individual cognitive structuring as elementary school students, high school students, and adults play the strategic game of dominoes. I present data from a study in which players at each level were observed and video-recorded during domino tournament play. Findings reveal the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, High School Students, Cognitive Structures, Sociocultural Patterns
Bell, Beverley – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
Research into effective pedagogy was a major strand of the science education research programme at the University of Waikato for the 20 years of the 1980s and 1990s, being done in all five Learning in Science Projects and related theses. The research was closely connected to constructivist and sociocultural views of learning, current national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Projects, Science Education, National Curriculum
Cumming-Potvin, Wendy – McGill Journal of Education, 2004
This paper adopts a sociocultural perspective on learning (Vygotsky, 1978, 1986) to explore connections between the concept of voicing (Bakhtin 1981, 1986) and a Year four student's second language learning in Australia. Results are drawn from a qualitative study conducted in the Australian outback, through ethnographic research strategies, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Ethnography, Second Language Learning
Gauvain, Mary; Perez, Susan M. – Child Development, 2005
This longitudinal research used a sociocultural perspective to examine planning competence in the everyday experiences of European American and Latino children from 7 to 9 years of age. Data on children's participation in planning their activities outside of school, parental expectations about children's planning competence, and children's…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Elementary School Students, Parent Child Relationship, Hispanic Americans
Simpson, James – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2005
This paper is about the learning that happens in the synchronous text chat forum of on online group of English Language learners and tutors. It is a socioculturally oriented case study of an informal virtual community called "Webheads", who meet online in various places on the internet. Although dedicated to English Language learning, much other…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Literacy, English (Second Language), Computer Mediated Communication
Hennessy, Sara; Deaney, Rosemary; Ruthven, Kenneth – Curriculum Journal, 2005
This article draws on socio-cultural learning theory as a conceptual framework for analysing how teachers structure classroom activities and interactions during "Technology-integrated Instructional Conversations" (TICs). It reports on a collaborative programme of small-scale projects undertaken by 15 teacher-researchers using various forms of…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories, Learning Activities, Class Activities
Boreham, Nick; Morgan, Colin – Oxford Review of Education, 2004
The concept of organisational learning has been widely debated and frequently contested by educationalists, but the specific processes and actions which constitute this form of learning have received relatively little research attention. This paper reports a three-year empirical investigation into organisational learning in a large industrial…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Learning Theories, Adult Learning, Learning Processes
Grace, Andre P.; Hill, Robert J. – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2004
In this paper we provide a North American perspective as we explore the formation and comprehension of queer knowledge in adult education and in larger sociocultural contexts. We consider the need to position queer in adult education mindful of how queer is historically and currently positioned in culture and society. In doing so, we articulate…
Descriptors: North Americans, Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Homosexuality
Beck, Terence A. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2005
Deliberative discussions are grounded in particular conceptions of democracy and are intensely difficult to learn to lead. This study uses a sociocultural lens to examine the cases of two elementary school teachers as they worked to foster deliberation in their classrooms. Speech code theory is used to uncover conceptual tools the teachers used as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Democracy, Program Evaluation, Civics
Lim, Cher Ping; Barnes, Sally – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2005
Based on a collective case study of the use of an economics Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tutorial-based package, WinEcon, in 3 British schools, this article examines the activity structures that exist in ICT-mediated lessons situated within their broader sociocultural contexts. Activity theory and its highly developed ideas of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Course Objectives, Case Studies, Educational Technology

Landman, James H. – Social Education, 2005
We often hear that democracy is not a spectator sport. This is certainly true of trial by jury, a cornerstone of our democracy, which depends on the willingness of Americans from all walks of life to devote themselves to the difficult work of determining another person's guilt or innocence of a crime. But the work of those citizens selected to…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Mass Media Effects, Justice, Constitutional Law
A Longitudinal Study of Body Image and Strategies to Lose Weight and Increase Muscles among Children
McCabe, M. P.; Ricciardelli, L. A. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology: An International Lifespan Journal, 2005
A longitudinal study was used to examine age differences in the role of body mass index (BMI) and sociocultural pressures in predicting changes in body image and strategies to both lose weight and increase muscles among 443 children aged between 8 and 12 years (207 boys, 236 girls) over a 16-month period. The strongest predictors of body image and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, Body Composition, Self Concept