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Blanchet-Cohen, Natasha; Reilly, Rosemary C. – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This paper examines the potential of culturally-responsive environmental education to engage immigrant early adolescents. Our study suggests that environmental involvement can become a means and an end for children to bridge their school and home in agential ways. Drawing from a multi-phase study involving focus groups with children, parents, and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Environmental Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods
Skinner, Kim R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This year-long ethnographic study examined teacher and student discourse when interpreting text in a children's philosophy club. Specifically, the study investigated how the opportunities for learning a new discussion form, philosophical conversation, were acted, talked, and written into being as students and their teacher interacted with each…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Clubs, Philosophy, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Calarco, Jessica McCrory – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Despite popular beliefs about social mobility in American society, research consistently shows that inequalities are reproduced across generations. And yet, while social reproduction hinges on the transmission of advantages from parents to children, scholars take for granted children's role in this process. We do not know whether children…
Descriptors: Social Class, Longitudinal Studies, Ethnography, Working Class
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Dyson, Ben P.; Linehan, Nicole Rhodes; Hastie, Peter A. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to describe and interpret the instructional ecology of Cooperative Learning in elementary physical education classes. Data collection included a modified version of the task structure system (Siedentop, 1994), interviews, field notes, and a teacher's journal. T-tests of the quantitative data revealed that instruction…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Cooperative Learning, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
Gismondi, Brian C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Traditional parent-teacher conferences and student-led conferences are tools schools employ to convey student progress with parents. The student-led conference offers a valuable means for increasing student responsibility which allows students to take ownership in schooling, which in turn helped improve parent involvement and student motivation.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Participant Observation, Parent Teacher Conferences, Parent Participation
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James, J. Joy; Bixler, Robert D. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2008
The authors conducted an ethnography investigating children's lived experiences in a 3-day residential environmental education (EE) program with 20 gifted 4th- and 5th-grade students. The authors also conducted participant observation and a series of interviews before, during, and after the trip. After the authors conducted the interviews and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Participant Observation, Ethnography, Learning Experience