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Porfilio, Brad J., Ed.; Viola, Michael J., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop. Contributors describe the social realities--globalization, migration, poverty, criminalization, and racism--youth are…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Critical Theory, Multicultural Education, Cultural Activities
Usman, Lantana M. – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2012
In Canadian public primary schools, newcomer West African refugees like other ethnic immigrant students are a visible minority group, often referred as Linguistic and Culturally Different (LCD) students. In the province of British Columbia, newcomer immigrant students are subjected to a battery of tests, as soon as they enroll in the primary…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Ethnography, Communication Disorders, Foreign Countries
Garrard, David J. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2009
The diversity of African Pentecostalism, its early colonial and missionary history and its current characteristics are described and analysed. Reference is made to methods of training and forms of leadership, and suggestions are made about the reasons for its growth and persistence. (Contains 19 notes.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Factors, Religion, African Culture
Mjelde, Liv; Daly, Richard – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
This work is based on the experience of the authors' involvement in the development of a Masters of Vocational Pedagogy program in Uganda and Southern Sudan between 2007 and 2011. This is also grounded in work with Vocational Education and Culture (VET) over many years. The terms VET and Culture are interdependent; both terms are highly contested…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Educational Development, Masters Programs
Zhang, Baoguo – College Student Journal, 2008
This essay mainly discusses the following issue: Do people from different cultures store English words in their minds in different ways; and what elements determine people's mental lexicon? The findings from my experiment showed that cultural factors only play a minor role on this stage. The leading dominants in this light are the linguistic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development
Gillespie, Diane; Melching, Molly – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2010
This case study analyzes the introduction of democracy and human rights into the educational program of Tostan, a nongovernmental organization working in Africa. The authors show how Tostan's original educational approach created a meaningful context for integrating democracy and human rights into its curriculum, a process that took place from…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Civil Rights, Democracy, Social Change
Rushton, J. Philippe; Templer, Donald I. – Intelligence, 2009
National differences in murder, rape, and serious assault were examined in 113 countries in relation to national IQ, income, skin color, birth rate, life expectancy, infant mortality, and HIV/AIDS. Data were collated from the 1993-1996 International Crime Statistics published by INTERPOL. Violent crime was found to be lower in countries with…
Descriptors: Crime, Income, Birth Rate, Infant Mortality
Obeng, Cecilia S. – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2008
This article examines dental health issues for African immigrant families of preschoolers living in the United States. The study was done within the framework of narrative inquiry and ethnographic impressionism. Through personal interviews and questionnaire completion, 125 parents of children ages 3 to 5 answered questions about ways in which…
Descriptors: Dental Health, Preschool Children, Immigrants, Clinics
Obasi, Ezemenari M.; Leong, Frederick T. L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
This article investigates the relationship between psychological distress, acculturation, and help-seeking attitudes among people of African descent (N = 130). Psychological distress was measured using the Global Severity Index from the Brief Symptom Inventory (L. R. Derogatis & N. Melisaratos, 1983), acculturation was measured using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Psychological Services, Help Seeking
Musmon, Margaret; Welsh, Kariamu; Heath, Freddie-Lee; Minton, Sandra; Laverty, Mary Ann; Maeshiba, Naoko; Weeks, Sandy; Cardinal, Marita K.; Howton, Amy; Tavacioglu, Leyla – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2008
Dance embraces the entire globe. Universities offer world dance classes to expose students to various styles and educators travel to different countries to experience how dance is viewed, performed, and taught in different cultures. In this article nine dance educators share their experiences of teaching and observing dance abroad. These accounts…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Dance, Dance Education, Teaching Methods
Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed.; Liljedahl, Peter, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2013
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Laval University in Québec City, Québec. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the Study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conference Papers, Mathematics Education, Ethics
Janssen, Diederik F. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2007
In this article the author discusses what he considers to be an ultrastructure of Michel Foucault's "pedagogisation" of sex, which is the expanding normative imagination of bodies and sexualities as and in curricula. Here the author proposes an inclusive reading of "curriculum" that departs from the specific scholastic…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Human Body, Curriculum, Teaching Methods
Takyi, Baffour K.; Gyimah, Stephen Obeng – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
Although previous work has attributed the instability of African marriages to the diffusion of Western norms and values in the region, fewer attempts have been made to empirically assess how Africa's internal institutional structures, such as extended kinship ties, impact marital outcomes. Guided by rational choice and exchange theories, we argue…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Foreign Countries, Marriage, Divorce
Kader, Themina – Art Education, 2006
There is plenty of literature, including exhibition catalogues, journal articles, and books written for those interested in learning and teaching about African art. Information on individual artists from the countries of Africa is also increasing. These sources attempt to highlight the artists' lives, education, working conditions and what they…
Descriptors: African Culture, Art History, Modern History, Artists
Hayward, Fred M. – Planning for Higher Education, 2008
The study presented in this article focuses on strategic planning in developing countries, drawing on the author's experiences in a dozen developing countries in Asia and Africa and focus groups in three of those countries: Afghanistan, Madagascar, and South Africa. It looks at the special challenges faced by planners in developing countries and…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries