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Popkewitz, Thomas S. – 1998
This book presents information from a study of Teach for America, an alternative teacher education program that recruits and trains people with degrees in fields other than education to work in urban and rural schools with chronic teacher shortages, poverty, and minority students. The book is an effort to understand how different discourses of…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Higher Education
Barnhardt, Carol – 1994
The thesis identifies factors that have contributed to the academic success of Alaska Native teacher education students who graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) between 1989 and 1993. It contains a brief history of schooling for Alaska Native peoples; a description of the programs, student services, and academic coursework at…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, College Graduates
Collin, Kaija – 2000
As part of a larger research project on workplace learning, a study examined learning at work as it is experienced among product planners in Finland. The study focused on three questions: (1) What kind of experience do employees interpret as learning? (2) What kind of meanings do employees give their action and learning individually and together?…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Cognitive Style, Competence
Weinberg, Jessica P., Ed.; O'Bryan, Erin L., Ed.; Moll, Laura A., Ed.; Haugan, Jason D., Ed. – 2000
The five papers included in this volume approach the study of American Indian languages from a diverse array of methodological and theoretical approaches to linguistics. Two papers focus on approaches that come from the applied linguistics tradition, emphasizing ethnolinguistics and discourse analysis: Sonya Bird's paper "A Cross Cultural…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Computational Linguistics
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Barkhuizen, Gary P.; Gough, David – TESOL Quarterly, 1996
Focuses on the changing role and status of English within new language-in-education policies in South Africa. The article presents a model providing a descriptive framework for analyzing and evaluating decisions made relating to language-in-education planning. The article concludes by identifying issues related to the process of…
Descriptors: African Languages, Apartheid, Bantu Languages, Change Strategies
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Christensen, Lois – Southern Social Studies Journal, 1996
Presents a series of lesson plans to be incorporated into an interdisciplinary unit on Japan. Uses the five themes of geography as a framework for a broader exploration of the culture and history of Japan. Specifically addresses women and their role in Japanese society, and other cultural ideas. (MJP)
Descriptors: Asian History, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnography
Hidalgo, Nitza M. – Equity and Choice, 1994
Profiles a Puerto Rican family who participated in a cross-cultural ethnographic study of family influence on children's school achievement. This low-income, single-parent household reflects broader Puerto Rican cultural values, including the influence of the extended family, in its support for school achievement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
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Harry, Beth – Exceptional Children, 1992
An ethnographic study of 12 low-income Puerto Rican parents of children with learning disabilities or mild mental retardation found that different cultural meanings of disability and normalcy led parents to reject the notion of disability and focus on the impact of family identity, language confusion, and detrimental educational practices on…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Educational Practices
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Moll, Luis C.; Amanti, Cathy; Neff, Deborah; Gonzalez, Norma – Theory into Practice, 1992
Discusses a collaborative project between education and anthropology which qualitatively studies the establishment of strategic connections between households and classrooms in Arizona's Mexican communities. Teacher-researchers visit households, assume the role of learners, establish connections with parents, and develop instructional activities…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Educational Research
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Hubbard, Lea; Datnow, Amanda – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2005
Single-sex public schools are seen as a vehicle for improving the educational experiences of low-income and minority students. Our two-year ethnographic study of low-income and minority students who attended experimental single-sex academies in California indicates that improving achievement involves more than separating students by gender. Using…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Public Schools, Low Income Groups, Economically Disadvantaged
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Knight, Michelle G.; Norton, Nadjwa E. L.; Bentley, Courtney C.; Dixon, Iris R. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2004
This article examines the diversity of practices utilized by working-class and poor black and Latina/o families to support their children's college-going processes. We employ the work of feminists, scholars of color, and critical ethnographers to critique the power undergirding the monolithic model establishing one entry point of parental…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Parent School Relationship, Family Involvement, Ethnography
Temps d'Educacio, 1995
Each of the two issues of this Catalan-language journal offers book reviews and articles on general topics in education. Issues contain Spanish-, English- and French-language abstracts of included articles with keyword references. Number 13 (1st. semester 1995) examines environmental and multicultural education; number 14 (2nd. semester 1995)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Anthropology, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Wortham, Stanton; And Others – 1997
In an ethnographic study, teachers investigated a cultural difference between Anglos and Hispanics involving organization of space and activities at home, and applied the findings to high school classroom organization. The research was undertaken in a small community where a significant proportion of Hispanic students have…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Classroom Environment, Cultural Context, Cultural Traits
Moore, John H., Ed. – 1993
This book presents 12 papers that proceed from the idea that Native American history in the United States and Canada is best understood not as an Indian-European cultural conflict but as an economic conflict between communal and capitalist modes of production. Three chapters are of particular educational interest. "Political Economy in…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Dietrich, Lisa C. – 1998
"Westhills" is a multiethnic coastal community in San Diego County, California, in which Mexican Americans comprise approximately 22 percent of the population. This book reports ethnographic research on a group of working-class Chicana adolescents in one Westhills barrio and their problems, school experiences, immersion in two…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Schools, Dropouts
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