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Vasilopoulos, Gene; Romero, Gloria; Farzi, Reza; Shekarian, Mariana; Fleming, Douglas – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2019
This study examines the practicality and relevance of positive peace (Galtung, 1964) in English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher training. It focuses on a collaborative three-month study abroad program, funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, for EFL teachers from rural communities in western China to participate in an intensive professional…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Study Abroad, Power Structure
Bissessar, Charmaine – Education Sciences, 2018
With the exponential advancement of technology, global sharing, industrialization and economic development, national and global cultures are becoming more collective. More importantly, this fundamental paradigm shift is affecting national and global educational leadership cultures. Therefore, the power/distance index (PDI); individualism versus…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Cultural Influences, Women Administrators, Females
Liang, Feng – Online Submission, 2018
This study reviews 17 studies since the year of 2000 on the perceptions and practices of immigrant parents who reside in the United States or Canada with respect to their children's heritage language maintenance (HLM). The findings suggest that parental perceptions may change due to practical considerations and vary with different degrees of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Native Language, Immigrants
Zandvliet, David – Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2019
In this paper I share my understandings of an elective outdoor environmental education course, a significant component of which was a field school. I helped develop this course at the Canadian university where I work as an academic, with the field school conducted on the island of Kaua'i in Hawaii. The paper describes the university field school…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Outdoor Education, Elective Courses, College Faculty
Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Huston, Lori; Loon, Roxanne – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
Drawing on our analysis of focus group and narrative data, together with a review of initial educator/teacher education programs designed for northern Indigenous educators/teachers, we propose culturally appropriate programs that address the unique needs of northern Ontario Indigenous educators and teachers. The professional trajectories and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Sammel, Alison; McMartin, Dena; Arbuthnott, Katherine – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2018
Despite the essentiality of freshwater to all life on the planet, the populous has inadequate understandings of water. Formal education plays a key role in shaping how individuals and communities make sense of water, its accessibility, management, consumption, and hazards. This article seeks to bring attention to the infuence of cultural framings…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Water, Water Quality
McGray, Robert – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
As the realities of austerity agendas exert pressure on adult education around the globe, this paper attempts to map the developing, albeit small, field of anti-austerity adult education in Canada. In doing so, I attempt to trace the connections between anti-austerity education and existing fields of adult education. I argue that the cases we see…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Politics of Education, Budgeting
Karsgaard, Carrie – Global Education Review, 2019
Literature classrooms hold great potential to educate students for critical global citizenship through serious engagement with marginalized stories that test or subvert mainstream knowledges and structures, including the familiar humanitarian framework that dominates Western thinking about the Global South. Unfortunately, much existing literary…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Social Values, Western Civilization
A Case for Integration of the North American Rural Social Work Education Model for Philippine Praxis
Kutschera, P. C.; Tesoro, Elena C.; Legamia, Benigno P., Jr.; Talamera-Sandico, Mary Grace – Online Submission, 2019
Rural social work education and practice in North America underwent a revival in recent decades and remains a valid praxis and pedagogic model for the 21st Century. The paper posits through rigorous literature review and analysis there are numerous elements central to North American (U.S. and Canadian) and Commonwealth of Nations (U.K., Australia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Praxis, Rural Areas
Hamm, Lyle; Peck, Carla L.; Sears, Alan – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2018
Canada is a country with a long history of substantial ethnocultural diversity. Questions about the reasonable accommodation of immigrant groups, the preservation of official language minority rights, and the fostering of Aboriginal rights permeate political and social discourse in Canada. Effective citizenship requires people who understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Diversity, Student Attitudes, Immigrants
Chung, Stan – Intercultural Education, 2016
In Canada, 2015 will be remembered for the publication of the "Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report" which related to all Canadians the impacts of the Indian residential school system. The Commission invokes the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and uses the term reconciliation as a national strategy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Consciousness Raising, Multicultural Education
Robinson, Daniel B.; Barrett, Joe; Robinson, Ingrid – in education, 2016
This paper presents results from a recently completed inquiry that investigated culturally relevant physical education for Aboriginal students. Employing a decolonizing research methodology (storywork), we engaged seven Mi'kmaw Elders and three Mi'kmaw community physical activity/education leaders in conversations about culturally relevant…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Culturally Relevant Education, Physical Education, Canada Natives
Gee, Stephanie; Zebehazy, Kim T. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2020
Introduction: This study explored the role of the cultural liaison on educational teams that support families from culturally and linguistically diverse (hereafter, diverse) backgrounds who have a child with visual impairment. Methods: Focus groups were conducted with teachers of students with visual impairments, cultural liaisons, and classroom…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Language Usage, Visual Impairments, Cultural Awareness
Lo, Jesse Ho-Yin; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang; Cameron, Catherine Ann – Journal of Moral Education, 2020
This article examines relationships between children and youths' judgments and their justifications of truth telling and verbal deception, in situational and cultural contexts. Han Chinese, Euro-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians, seven- to 17-years of age were presented competitive scenarios in which protagonists told either lies to protect, or…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cultural Context, Ethics, Sociocultural Patterns
Mäkinen, Leena; Gabbatore, Ilaria; Loukusa, Soile; Kunnari, Sari; Schneider, Phyllis – Early Education and Development, 2020
Narratives have been extensively studied in recent decades, but studies investigating differences and similarities in the narrative features from a cross-cultural or cross-linguistic point of view are limited. This study investigated the narrative language of typically developing monolingual four- and eight-year-old Finnish, Italian and Canadian…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Narration, Child Development, English