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Jessaca Leinaweaver; Jeanine Anderson – Ethnography and Education, 2024
This article is based on a team ethnographic study in the province of Yauyos in the Peruvian Andes. It focuses on rural education and the inequalities surrounding it. Teachers and parents exchange mutual recriminations as they seek to explain why some children have greater difficulties than others and why urban schools achieve superior results as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Education, Equal Education
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Gabrielle Oliveira; Carolina Barbosa Lindquist; Estela Sato Shiratori; Leila Baptaglin – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to show the complexities of engagement between students - Venezuelan and Brazilian - and their teachers. This qualitative ethnographic study documents the everyday pedagogies and practices that take place in elementary schools with high levels of refugee and immigrant children. While Brazilian law ensures the basic right…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Spanish Speaking, Portuguese
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Thibault Asselborn; Wafa Johal; Bolat Tleubayev; Zhanel Zhexenova; Pierre Dillenbourg; Catherine McBride; Anara Sandygulova – npj Science of Learning, 2021
Do handwriting skills transfer when a child writes in two different scripts, such as the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets? Are our measures of handwriting skills intrinsically bound to one alphabet or will a child who faces handwriting difficulties in one script experience similar difficulties in the other script? To answer these questions, 190…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Handwriting, Writing Skills, Alphabets
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Leyva, Diana; Catalán Molina, Diego; Suárez, Casilda; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Parent-child reminiscing talk about positive and negative events provides children with unique opportunities to develop emotion competence. Very little work has involved families from low-income households and ethnically diverse backgrounds. We examined: 1) event valence (positive vs. negative) and ethnic differences in mother-child reminiscing…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Mothers, Children, Elementary School Students
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Oliveira, Gabrielle; Lima Becker, Mariana; Segel, Marisa – Multicultural Perspectives, 2021
The phrase "ready to learn" has been widely used and researched by scholars, policy makers, and education practitioners. School readiness, as a construct, has referred to the basic skills that children need to transition to elementary school. However, there is no consensus on which basic skills students should possess when entering…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Latin Americans, Elementary School Students, Immigrants