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Montgomery, Judy K.; Sanger, Dixie; Moore-Brown, Barbara J.; Smith, Leslie; Scheffler, Marilyn – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2003
This study focused on increasing the awareness of educational leaders about the relationship between students with communication disorders and violence. A review of selected research on adolescent females with language problems residing in a correctional facility served to support a survey study and extend discussions about the need for…
Descriptors: Females, Prevention, Intervention, Communication Disorders
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Ramanathan, Vaidehi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
At a time when connections between English and globalisation seem stronger than ever, and at a time when the "dominant" status of English "vis-a-vis" other languages is very prominent, it seems imperative for the LPP scholarship to make room for grounded explorations regarding English and its relationship to vernacular…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Goto, Stanford T. – 1995
Asian Americans have been viewed as a model, high-achieving minority, but recently some researchers have questioned the "myth" of universal Asian-American success. A study examined the validity of current explanations of Asian-American success in school. With a group of high-achieving Chinese-American high school freshmen in Northern…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Classroom Research
Byram, Michael, Ed. – 1994
A collection of papers concerning cultural studies within college and university second language programs, particularly for foreign students, includes program descriptions from a variety of countries and discussions of cultural education and cultural conflict. Themes include the nature of cultural teaching, cultural education as a discipline,…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Cultural Context, Cultural Education, Culture Conflict
Kinney, David A. – 1995
Students' experiences of daily classroom activities and the larger school context were studied at the Robert W. Coleman Elementary School, Baltimore (Maryland). Coleman is an inner-city school serving about 500 African American children in prekindergarten through grade 5. The school is organized into three campuses--primary, "Coleman"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Cultural Awareness, Educational Environment
Devlieger, Patrick; Trach, John S. – 1996
This monograph reports on an ethnographic study of the transition from school to work of 12 individuals with mental retardation. Throughout the book, examples from the lives of these individuals are used to illustrate findings and principles. The first chapter describes the methods of data collection and analysis, which focused on the relation…
Descriptors: Biographies, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship, Ethnography
Valdes, Guadalupe – 1996
As part of a larger ethnographic study, this book focuses on Mexican American family life, parental attitudes toward school, and efforts to increase student achievement by changing families. Exploration of the daily life of the 10 immigrant families sheds light on what educators have interpreted as the disinterest of newly arrived immigrants in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Ibarra, Robert A. – 1996
The cultural and gender factors affecting the experience of Latino/Latina graduate students in the United States are examined. An introductory section offers background information on Latino participation in higher education, drawing on some recent literature, and on the Council of Graduate Schools' Latino Project, a qualitative ethnographic study…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Applicants, Cultural Differences
Bergsland, Knut, Comp. – 1994
This comprehensive dictionary draws on ethnographic and linguistic work of the Aleut language and culture dating to 1745. An introductory section explains the dictionary's format, offers a brief historical survey, and contains notes on Aleut phonology and orthography, dialectal differences and developments, Eskimo-Aleut phonological…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries
Slaughter, Helen B. – 1997
This study explored the functions of literacy in the Hawaiian language that may be realized in an indigenous language immersion program when the indigenous language is a second language with severely restricted use in the wider community. It also examined the connections between Hawaiian language use, the local culture in Hawaii, and development…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Hawaiian
Bigler, Ellen – 1996
To analyze some of the processes through which student voices and lived experiences can be either excluded or included, a study focused on elements of the classroom environment already addressed in previous analyses, examining "texts and talk" in two middle school English classrooms. The study analyzed how the classroom environments that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Cultural Differences
Butler-Kisber, Lynn – 1993
Student participation during and subsequent to an ethnographic study of peer collaboration in a primary classroom is explored through a long-term investigation. The original study was designed to study patterns of collaboration using a variety of techniques including interviews with the children, first seen in a split grade one and grade two…
Descriptors: Action Research, Behavior Patterns, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Education
Davies, Alan – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1993
"Edinburgh Working Papers" is intended to show a yearly cross-section of current work in Edinburgh's Department of Applied Linguistics and to elicit reactions and criticism. Articles in this volume include the following: "MSC Common Room Conversations: Topics and Terms" (Joan Cutting); "Speculation and Empiricism in Applied Linguistics" (Alan…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Case Studies, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Stanfield, John H., II, Ed.; Dennis, Rutledge M., Ed. – 1993
The contributions in this volume examine the array of methods used in quantitative, qualitative, and comparative and historical research to show how research sensitive to ethnic issues can best be conducted. Rethinking and revising traditional methodologies and applying new ones can portray racial and ethnic issues as they really exist. The…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
Saravia-Shore, Marietta, Ed.; Arvizu, Steven F., Ed. – 1992
This book, which presents ethnographic studies of multiethnic classrooms and schools in their community context, was designed to illuminate the benefits of an anthropological approach that recognizes the centrality of culture in education. Papers are grouped under three headings: (1) Cross-Culturally Compatible Schooling; (2) Community Contexts;…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Black Students, Chinese Americans
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