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Direct linkGallagher, Kathleen; Valve, Lindsay; Rodricks, Dirk J. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2023
This article explores the unexpected discovery of a significant divergence between the strong feelings of safety and belonging reported in a school and neighborhood safety survey, and the discursive, contradictory, and complex narratives about safety revealed by students' storytelling through theater and narratives shared with researchers in a…
Descriptors: School Safety, Neighborhoods, Foreign Countries, School Surveys
Wiltse, Lynne; Johnston, Ingrid; Yang, Kylie – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2014
In this paper we highlight findings from a teacher inquiry group study designed to explore possibilities for teaching contemporary Canadian literature to promote issues of social justice in secondary classrooms. Drawing on Boler and Zembylas's notion of a "pedagogy of discomfort," our paper will focus on the experiences of two teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Literature, Social Justice
Download full textGunn, Thelma M.; Chorney, David W.; Poulsen, John C. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2009
Since 1999, the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) has provided funding to provincial school authorities for projects designed to improve student learning and performance. Conducted in three-year cycles, this unique approach has successfully helped to initiate approximately 1,600 grassroots projects led by school districts, teachers,…
Descriptors: High Schools, At Risk Students, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedPerron, Jacques; Vondracek, Fred W.; Skorikov, Vladimir B.; Tremblay, Chantal; Corbiere, Marc – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1998
Ethnic identity and vocational maturity were assessed in four cohorts of 466 majority and 175 minority high school students in Quebec. Results show minorities increased in ethnic identity over time and matured significantly earlier than majority students, but fell somewhat behind in vocational maturity by the 11th grade. (SK)
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Peer reviewedMinichiello, Diane – Canadian Journal of Education, 2001
Studied the adjustment experiences of 23 Chinese-speaking foreign-born high school students in Vancouver, Canada. Findings suggest that the large number of these minority students enables them to reproduce their home community rather than adjusting and adapting to Canadian culture. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Chinese, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMarkstrom-Adams, Carol – Family Relations, 1991
Asked 47 non-Mormon, religious minority high school students and 36 Mormon, religious majority high school students to identify barriers in dating Mormons (if they were non-Mormons) or in dating non-Mormons (if they were Mormon). More barriers in dating were identified by Mormons than by non-Mormons. Mormon adolescents expressed greater reluctance…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dating (Social), Foreign Countries, High School Students
Peer reviewedGade, Eldon; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1988
Examined relation of Holland's personality typologies and satisfaction with education, testing Native-American high school students in Manitoba, Canada. Showed that students with a Social or Investigative personality type code scored significantly higher on educational satisfaction (Teacher Approval and Education Acceptance scales of the Survey of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Canada Natives, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBrown, Douglas; Kelly, Jennifer – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2001
Draws on narratives of African-Canadian high school students about the relevancy of the social studies curriculum. Reports that students indicated that the curriculum distorts and excludes their histories, contributions, and lived experiences. Indicates the nuanced insights into curriculum, power, and knowledge to be gained from critical analysis…
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Culture, Black Students, Cultural Background
Gregory, Vicki Lovelady; Stauffer, Marilyn H. Karrenbrock; Keene, Thomas W., Jr. – 1999
Designed as a research aid for educators and students in high school or college, this guide gathers and organizes information about Internet and World Wide Web sources that deal with multicultural issues that are likely to be of interest to an English-speaking audience in the United States and Canada. The first chapter constitutes a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedHeller, Monica – Linguistics and Education, 1996
Exploits Bourdieu's notion of legitimate language to analyze the social origins and consequences of language practices in a French-language minority high school. Findings reveal the contradictions between the socioeconomic values of social mobility attached to monolingual standard French and the political values of authenticity and solidarity…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Records Branch. – 1991
The Grade 12 Diploma Examinations Program of the Alberta (Canada) schools has three main purposes: to certify the level of individual student achievement in selected grade-12 courses; to ensure that province-wide standards of achievement are maintained; and to report individual and group results. Eight grade-12 courses have diploma examinations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ethnic Groups, Exit Examinations, Females
Brown, Robert S. – 1994
The Toronto Board of Education's "Change Your Future" program started in spring 1991, targeting at-risk students belonging to racial minorities. The interventions took the form of group meetings and individual counseling by the "Change Your Future" counselor. The program took place in the Toronto Board over 2 school years…
Descriptors: Administrators, Black Students, Counseling, Dropout Rate
Kelly, Deirdre, Ed.; Gaskell, Jane, Ed. – 1996
A new, prevailing wisdom is guiding the thinking of policy makers and policy shapers throughout North America; its watchwords are "global competitiveness" and "economic restructuring." The preoccupation with viewing schooling and its role in society through the single lens of global economic competitiveness closes off other…
Descriptors: Alienation, Critical Theory, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Research
Kruidenier, Bastian G.; Clement, Richard – 1986
A Canadian study of student orientation (integrative, instrumental, or other) and its relationship to second language learning motivation and sociocultural factors in the learning environment is discussed. The study compared the orientations and stated reasons for studying a second language of over 800 grade 11 students with data on three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Environment
Fowler, William; And Others – 1994
This Canadian study examined the later development (in high school and college) of two groups of children who had received an early enrichment intervention, comparing them with a limited control group and with each other. Experimental subjects were grouped into those (N=40) from families with some college and those (N=14) from families with high…
Descriptors: Black Students, Early Intervention, Enrichment Activities, Ethnic Groups
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