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Cammarota, Julio – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2016
This article focuses on a youth participatory action research (YPAR) program called the Social Justice Education Project (SJEP) that fostered young people of color's critical consciousness. Their critical consciousness emerged through praxis (reflection/action) while focusing on preserving ethnic studies in Tucson, Arizona. Because the SJEP home…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Praxis, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Khan, Ruhi; Grijalva, Rebecca; Enriquez-Gates, Alejandra – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
Professional development is essential in supporting teachers as change agents to foster international educational reform. Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College acknowledged its role in supporting visiting teachers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in utilizing action research as an opportunity for professional development.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Change Agents, Educational Change
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Dyer, Becky – Journal of Dance Education, 2014
This article reflects on the best teaching practices explored and developed by members of a teachers' community and action research project in Arizona. The project is an ongoing collaborative inquiry and curriculum development endeavor that involves seven dance educators who are currently teaching or have previously taught in secondary dance…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Social Development, Teaching Methods, Action Research
Edwards, Clea – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Online education is unique in part for the relatively high degrees of autonomy afforded learners. Self-direction and self-regulation, along with support, are essential for students to succeed. The site of this action research project was a new, small online public charter school for middle and high school students, Foothills Academy Connected…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mixed Methods Research, Questionnaires, Ethnography
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Cammarota, Julio – Multicultural Perspectives, 2011
In this article, the author argues that true knowledge of democracy requires learning about the values of diversity and dissent. The American brand of democratic ideology has inspired numerous movements for inclusion through the securing of rights and opportunities for marginalized populations. Multicultural education is a recent historical…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Multicultural Education, Dissent
Fowler, Henry H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Collapsing the Fear of Mathematics: A Study of the Effects of Navajo Culture on Navajo Student Performance in Mathematics by Henry H Fowler Abstract American schools are in a state of "mediocrity" because of the low expectations in math (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983; No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; Duncan,…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Action Research, Navajo (Nation), Mathematics Achievement
Sims, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The federal mandates set forth by the Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) require an increase in inclusive education for students with special education needs in the least restrictive environment. This type of environment can be in a 'co-taught' classroom. Co-teaching is defined as an…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Interpersonal Communication, Action Research, Federal Legislation