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Simpson, Paul L.; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Summarizes the responses of 311 Australian and 250 Nepalese university students to the Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Discovers a moderate inverse relationship between depressive symptoms and life satisfaction among the Australian students. Discusses possible reasons for this. (MJP)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Cultural Influences, Cultural Traits

Perez-Stable, Maria – Social Studies, 1997
Argues that the inclusion of ethnic folktales into a social studies unit can reinforce stereotypical assumptions unless it is balanced with accurate and insightful social and cultural instruction. Summarizes and discusses a number of Latino folktales and how they could be used as springboards for appropriate instruction. (MJP)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Education

Miller, Sandra E.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1988
Ethnographic methods were used to assess three learning-disabled and three normal tenth and eleventh grade boys at a school with an unusually low dropout rate. Institutional, classroom, and interpersonal factors behind the schools' student retention ability are described. (TJH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Dropouts, Ethnography

Dillon, Deborah R. – American Educational Research Journal, 1989
Field notes and interview data were triangulated with secondary data in this ethnographic study to generate a description of social organization. A partial theory of the teacher's actions in working with a predominantly Black group of 17 low-income rural high school students was devised. Teacher effectiveness in this situation is described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Ethnography
Volk, Dinah – Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students, 1994
Describes language use in parent-child interactions in the homes of three Puerto Rican kindergartners. Micro-ethnographic techniques were used to gather contextual data and audio tape recordings of adult-child interactions in the classroom and homes. It is suggested that teachers must identify the skills parents possess that are relevant to their…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Context Effect

Hamovitch, Bram – Urban Education, 1993
This ethnography of eight lower-track classrooms in two schools gives insight into the operation of the tracking system, although it implicitly accepts tracking and does not face the injustice children experience as a result of lower-track placement. Broader structural reasons underlying the tracking system are not examined. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Book Reviews

Page, Reba – Urban Education, 1993
Hamovitch's review misinterprets key aspects of the book and of cultural and curricular analyses in general. The book links the curricular dilemma in balancing individualized and standardized knowledge to the wider culture. It is not a defense of tracking, but rather a curricular and cultural examination. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Book Reviews

Alpert, Bracha – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1991
Subtle forms of resistance found during ethnographic observation of 2 suburban high school English classes with 65 students are not found in a third class of 31 suburban high school students. The dialectical attitude of resistance and compliance is influenced by teaching approach and style of classroom interaction. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Research, Compliance (Psychology), Conflict

Woods, Edward G. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1993
Proposes an approach to teaching British Studies in an English Language program for foreign students at the University of Lancaster in England. Teachers use ethnographic methods to get students to become "outsiders" in their own culture as a means of teaching them how to assimilate the target culture. Course material is appended.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education

Burnett, Joanne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
An ethnographic study documented the attitudes, activities, behaviors, and beliefs of teacher and students in a college French class in a weekly computer-equipped language laboratory class. Despite the teacher's enthusiasm, his beliefs, linguistic difficulties, and technical problems made it difficult to sustain lessons in the target language.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction

Henning, Elizabeth – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2000
Ethnographic study describes the professional development of seven unlicensed or nonqualified teachers involved in a community teacher education project in two informal settlement community schools near Johannesburg, South Africa. Data from observations and interviews highlight the teachers' initiative in pursuing their own professional…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Community Involvement, Developing Nations
Tilleczek, Kate C. – Journal of Youth Studies, 2004
Most adolescent deaths are caused by injury sustained in traffic crashes, and driver education does not necessarily reduce the problem. This multi-method, ethnographic study describes the logic and regulation of youth driving culture in a northern Ontario community. This included 40 hours of participant observation and a survey of 88 novice…
Descriptors: Prevention, Injuries, Traffic Safety, Ethnography
Kennedy, Bob – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the quality profession's fascination with various models to depict complex interactive systems. Building on these and the outcome of a four-year action research programme, it provides a model which has potential for use by other professions. It has been tailored here to suit training and learning systems.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Models, Ethnography, Training
Gentry, Quinn M.; Elifson, Kirk; Sterk, Claire – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine how various living conditions impact the context within which low-income African American women engage in a diverse range of high-risk behavior that increases their risk for HIV infection. The study, based on 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork, analyzed the living conditions of 45 African American women at…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), African Americans, Feminism, Intervention
Jackson, Jane – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2005
If intercultural awareness is a key area in which sojourners are expected to make progress while abroad, then appropriate methods of assessment should be used to measure the gains they have made. While much attention has focused on the preparation, format, and content of study abroad programs, relatively little has been published about modes of…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad