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Searle, Jean – 1993
Action research is a way to examine purposes and practices in teaching. One way of conducting action research is to engage in participant observation, which may be seen as a systematic attempt to discover the knowledge that a group of people has learned and is using to organize the group's behavior. Participant observation has a great deal of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Observation Techniques, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Bates, Percy, Ed.; Wilson, Ted, Ed. – 1989
This collection of essays focuses on how Ronald Edmond's work on effective schools and school improvement can affect the education of black children. The book represents a cooperative effort of the Charles D. Moody Research Institute, established as a vehicle for the program services of the National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE), and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Education, Black Students
Holmes Group, Inc., East Lansing, MI. – 1990
The professional development school is an effort to invent an institutional coalition that will bring together universities, schools of education, and public schools. This report urges the creation of a relatively small number of schools as professional development schools (PDS), designed to be the focus of professional preparation, school…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
Urban, Cynthia M. – 1986
Recent reports have revealed that inequalities exist between males and females, racial minorities and whites, and rich and poor in accessibility to and use of computers. This study reviews the research in the field of computer-based education to determine the extent of and reasons for these inequities. The annotated research articles are arranged…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Uses in Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Discrimination
Cammaert, Marie-France – 1987
As follow-up to a five-year Council for Cultural Cooperation project on migrants, a seminar and roundtable discussion on the theory and practice of intercultural education in Europe is presented. Seminar participants include educators and administrators from Belgium, West Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden as well as a representative from the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Center for Studies of the Person, San Diego, CA. – 1984
This guide provides procedures and supporting materials for a training workshop on sex equity targeted at local school administrators. The workshop is intended to promote administrator readiness to support sex equity, and to increase administrator commitment and skills to implement the spirit as well as the letter of Title IX and similar…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Center for Studies of the Person, San Diego, CA. – 1984
This guide provides procedures and supporting materials for a sex equity workshop, targeted at school counselors, that is intended to expand awareness of sexism and to increase sex-affirmative behavior in the educational environment. The guide describes the content, process, and sequential learning experiences for four sessions, plus an optional…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Center for Studies of the Person, San Diego, CA. – 1984
This guide provides procedures and supporting materials for a sex equity workshop, targeted at school support staff, that is intended to expand awareness of sexism and to increase sex-affirmative behavior in the educational environment. The guide describes the content, process, and sequential learning experiences for three basic sessions and two…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Change, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education

Anderson, S. E. – Journal of Negro Education, 1990
Contends that institutionalized Eurocentric curricula constantly reinforce racial and sexual inferiority complexes among people of color and women. Calls for the incorporation of world mathematical and scientific history and knowledge in the curriculum. Describes a radical pedagogy encouraging minority students to feel positive and self-assured…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Mathematics, Equal Education, Higher Education

Shah, Sneh – Gender and Education, 1989
Examines the current debate about "permeation" of race, gender, and culture issues in teacher education in the United Kingdom. Explores the comprehensiveness of any strategy for effective permeation in teacher education, ranging from the nature of academic and professional elements to institutional backup to ensure more than a tokenistic…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education

Hampton, Elaine; Gallegos, Charles – Science Scope, 1994
Contends that a large segment of our nation's population is underserved in mathematics and science education. Some teaching strategies suggested to increase mathematics and scientific literacy among all students include making wrongs right; vary learning and allow group work; overcome language barriers with math and science; and respect different…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Elementary Secondary Education

Epstein, Terrie L. – OAH Magazine of History, 1991
Suggests that educational researchers can strengthen history education by promoting educational equity and access to students not motivated by traditional approaches to teaching history. Discusses changes being considered for history education. Explains that some students may interpret primary sources or relate them to historical trends through…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Researchers

Warnock, Mary – Oxford Review of Education, 1991
Discusses changes in British attitudes toward education from emphasizing social engineering and an equal right to education to a cost-effective approach. Sets out educational goals of independence and the ability to do useful work and to enjoy life by participating in it. Discusses special needs students and the safety net for children from poor…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Economics, Educational Objectives
Jerald, Craig D. – Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2006
A 2003 survey of principals found that middle and high schools were more likely to increase social studies and science instruction than decrease it. This suggests that districts are not cutting social studies and sciences entirely but merely "deferring" those subjects until the secondary grades. This strategy provides more time for reading…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Thinking Skills, Reading Comprehension, Science Instruction
Grossman, Herbert – 1995
The goal of this text is to help educators recognize and reduce ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, contextual, and communicative disparities and inequalities in school. It is designed for preservice educators and attempts to help them understand the influence of diversity factors on the educational careers of their students. Chapter 1 describes the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism