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Leal, Maria Christina Diniz – Language Awareness, 1998
Reports a two-phase project aimed at developing critical language awareness through the teaching of Portuguese. During the first phase, 13-year-olds in a Brazilian state school evaluated their Portuguese lessons, and identified features they felt needed altering to develop critical awareness of language and social reality. Changes were proposed…
Descriptors: Action Research, Citizenship, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries

Cline, Zulmara; Necochea, Juan – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
In response to their children being turned away from the bilingual school, a group of Latino parents organized to pressure the Lompoc (California) Unified School District to guarantee educational equity. A systemic analysis of components leading to parental activism focuses on leadership, knowledge as power, cultural conflicts, anti-immigrant…
Descriptors: Activism, Bilingual Education, Culture Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education
Thwaite, Anne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
This paper will examine the discourse of one experienced teacher of Indigenous children in lessons observed as part of the Conductive Hearing Loss (CHL) project conducted by Edith Cowan University in Perth. In the classroom observed, all the children were Indigenous and the teacher was aware that some children were suffering from CHL. This…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Student Diversity
Dillabough, Jo-Anne – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
In this article I explore the part played by liberal democratic ideology in the regulation of female work, in particular, the work of women teacher educators and contract researchers in British and Canadian teacher education departments. My goal is to examine the relationship between symbolic notions of female domesticity and service as they have…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Schools of Education, Women Faculty, Females
Ricci, Carlo – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2004
This essay is the author's battle cry for help in revitalizing democracy. It deals with the institutions in which the future citizens are being educated. It deals with the undemocratic way in which schools are run. Given the time and space, the author would like to narrow the focus of his battle even further and argue for a revitalization of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Boards of Education, Testing
North Dakota University System, 2007
This resource guide describes the North Dakota University System and provides information about the programs and costs of higher education in the North Dakota system. An introduction describes the institutions in the system: two doctoral universities, one master's degree-granting university, three universities that offer bachelor's degrees and…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Power Structure, Organizational Culture, Instructional Leadership
White, Carmen M. – History of Education Quarterly, 2006
This article provides a conflict analysis of colonial schooling in Fiji, tracing how imported schooling was incorporated into indigenous structures of status differentiation. It begins with a discussion of the chieftaincy system as the socio-political institution in place in this South Pacific archipelago when European explorers and missionaries…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Status, Reputation
Ruppert, Sandra S. – 1996
In the context of the increasing transfer of power from the federal government to state governments, this report analyzes existing data and offers critical information about state legislative higher education policy and insights into the values and attitudes legislators hold about higher education. The report's conclusions are based on a study…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, College Role, Educational Finance
Delpit, Lisa – 1995
This collection of nine essays suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color actually stem from a power structure in which the worldviews of those with privilege are taken as the only reality, while the worldviews and culture of those less powerful are dismissed as inconsequential or deficient. Part 1 discusses controversies…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Black Education, Cultural Differences
Bruce, Nigel – Hong Kong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1995
This paper explores the value, in English-as-a-Second-Language medium tertiary education, of extending the notion of student autonomy beyond the context of language learning to the whole curriculum, arguing that autonomy needs to be seen in a broader, more socio-political perspective and that for students to enjoy autonomy requires a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies, English for Academic Purposes
Allen, Dwight W. – 1992
This book advances a program for national educational reform by arguing that the nation already has a national curriculum by default, which is based on advance placement examinations, textbook publishers, and college admissions requirements that must be replaced by national goals that preserve local control through national coordination of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Bennett, Adrian T. – 1987
A 2-year ethnographic study of the intake process involving preschool-age Hispanic children at a school for the deaf formed the basis for this paper, which focuses on strategies that Hispanic hearing-impaired children develop in response to the sociocultural world of the classroom. The struggle for "ownership" of the child, which begins when the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Allen, Charlie Joe – 1986
Using techniques of the reputational method to study community power structure, this report identifies components of power structure in a Tennessee school district, demonstrates that proven methodologies can facilitate educational leaders' reform efforts, and serves as a pilot study for further investigation. Researchers investigated the district…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Leaders, Community Study, Decision Making
Carter, Holly M. – 1982
The importance of a mentor relationship in academia, especially for minorities and women, is discussed. After briefly considering the nature of the mentor relationship, the structure and function of success in academia are assessed, and variations of the mentor relationship that may be viable for minority and women faculty are suggested. Two views…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Career Ladders, Employed Women, Employment Level
Willower, Donald J. – 1987
Sociologist Willard Waller, writing more than 50 years ago, framed many of the key ideas found in contemporary literature on school organization. This paper is both an appreciation and criticism of Waller's seminal case studies of social interaction in schools. The paper is divided into four sections. The first two explore Waller's thought and its…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Educational Environment, Educational Sociology