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Assarsson, Liselott; Sipos-Zackrisson, Katarina – 2001
This paper discusses classroom life in formal adult education, specifically rhetoric concerning the idea of the adult learners' own interest as a driving force for learning. Its two objectives are to describe social interaction as related to this andragogical ideal and the conditions for learning and to raise some methodological standpoints in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Andragogy

Pearson, Philip – Australian Art Education, 1995
Argues that definitions of culture are validated according to various social theories. Examines the contrasting views of culture provided by culture studies and structuation theory. Considers the implications of these contrasts for art educators. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Anthropology, Art Criticism, Art Education
Fernsten, Linda – Teacher Education and Practice, 2005
This article explores the concept of writer identity and its influences as constructed by a group of college writers. Using a poststructural and sociocultural perspective, it takes a stand regarding the politics of language and the teaching of writing, especially as they relate to students whose racial, ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Urban Areas, Politics of Education, Faculty Mobility
McCaughtry, Nate; Sofo, Seidu; Rovegno, Inez; Curtner-Smith, Matthew – European Physical Education Review, 2004
This study used cognitive developmental theory to analyze how teachers learn to teach sport education. Two groups of undergraduate pre-service teachers were studied, one group during their secondary methods and corresponding field-teaching courses, the other during an independent teaching course. Data were collected through ethnographic…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Skill Development, Teacher Educators
Banks, SusanRae – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2004
Educational reform presents a number of challenges for elders, tribal educational leaders, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) teachers and administrators, and families across the United States, including the pressing need to address parent or caregiver and community involvement in education. This study was conducted to (a) summarize major…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Community Involvement
Franquiz, Maria E.; Salazar, Maria del Carmen – High School Journal, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to present an argument for understanding the factors that support or constrain the development of Chicana/o students' academic identities and consequently, their academic resiliency in high school. The article draws on a larger study investigating ways that schooling structures and teacher mind-sets can sustain…
Descriptors: Mexican American Education, High School Students, Educational Needs, Teacher Student Relationship
Kluwin, Thomas N.; Morris, C. S.; Clifford, Jesteene – American Annals of the Deaf, 2004
A rapid ethnograhic study of 10 itinerant teachers in two school districts and 21 other professionals working with the itinerants was conducted. Rapid ethnography starts with the same assumptions about culture as conventional ethnography. However, it is not constrained by the assumption of cultural ignorance on the investigator's part. Thus, it…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Itinerant Teachers, Deafness, School Districts
Haig-Brown, Celia – 1995
This book is a critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre (NEC) in Vancouver, British Columbia. It presents an intimate view of the center, focusing on the people that work there--First Nations students, board members, teachers--and revealing their beliefs about First Nations control of education and how they put those beliefs into…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, American Indian Education
Wortham, Stanton – 1997
An ethnographic study examined the role of language, discrimination, and aspirations in the school success of Latino students in a small rural town. The town, located about 1,000 miles from Mexico and about 200 miles from any sizeable Latino community, contains about 200 Latinos. Almost all are Mexicans or Mexican Americans and have come to work…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Community Relations, Context Effect
Horvat, Erin McNamara – 1996
Our schools are environments of race and class and these school environments structure opportunity based on race and class. This paper explores how students' lives and their access to postsecondary education are framed and structured by the influences of race and class. The college choice decision process of three female Black students from a…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Achievement, Black Students, College Choice

Tella, Seppo – 1992
The linguistic purposes of this research were to focus on content, themes and topics, and to analyze the way the target language (English) was used in e-mail. Communicativeness and the roles of the communicator (writer-reader) became central, emphasizing the multidirectional character of e-mail communication. The basic tenet of communicativeness…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Developed Nations
Toohey, Kelleen; Day, Elaine – 1998
An ongoing four-year ethnographic study of two cohorts of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners enrolled in mainstream Canadian primary school classrooms is described. The two cohorts are: (1) a group of six children observed from the beginning of kindergarten through the end of grade 2, and (2) five children observed from early kindergarten…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students
Gladstein, Jill, Ed.; Silver, Rita Elaine, Ed. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1994
This collection of six papers consists of works in progress undertaken by students and faculty of the University of Pennsylvania's Language in Education Division of the Graduate School of Education. The papers are: (1) "Language Planning and Identity Planning: An Emergent Understanding" (Rebecca Freeman); (2) "Communicative…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Environment, Cultural Influences, Descriptive Linguistics
Lavadenz, Magaly C. – 1994
A small-scale ethnographic study investigated: (1) the instructional role of the paraprofessional/teacher aide in dealing with the educational needs of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students; (2) to what extent the paraprofessional is aware of those needs; (3) whether ethnic or linguistic differences between paraprofessionals yield distinctive…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Maybin, Janet, Ed. – 1994
Readings on language and literacy within their social context include: "The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages" (Bronislaw Malinowski); "Toward Ethnographies of Communication" (Dell Hymes); "Language as Social Semiotic" (M. A. K. Halliday); "Language and Ideology" (V. N. Volosinov); "Family…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Cultural Context, Ethnography, Family Influence