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Florence, Namulundah – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Teachers, as often as students, articulate frustrations over each other's choices and expectations. A teacher's demand for respect may appear an imposition and abuse of authority to students accustomed to speaking out against perceived injustices. All teachers experience some tentativeness, especially in an unfamiliar environment. Since classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Immigrants
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Strait, John B. – Journal of Geography, 2010
Music is not often utilized in teaching geography, despite the fact that many scholars orient their research around analyzing both the historical and spatial dimensions of musical expression. This article reports on the use of a teaching module that utilizes blues culture as a lens to understand the geographical history of the United States. The…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Music, African American Culture
Glasgow, Jacqueline N., Ed.; Rice, Linda J., Ed. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2007
In today's interconnected and global society, socially responsive learning is an integral part of educational excellence. This book encourages socially responsive learning by showing the reader how to use traditional African folk tales and quality children's books, young adult novels, classic literature, and film media about Africa as the mode for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classics (Literature), Novels, Oral Tradition
Maher, Jan; Selwyn, Doug – 1991
This workbook is designed for use with third, fourth, or fifth grade elementary school students and focuses on African American history and culture. Of the workbook's 14 lessons, Lesson 1 asks students to consider what they already know about Africa. Lesson 2 focuses on the geography of Africa. Lesson 3 presents current scientific theory about the…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Ancient History, Black Achievement