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Language Teacher Identity: Confronting Ideologies of Language, Race, and Ethnicity
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Editor; Vander Tavares, Editor – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2024
"Language Teacher Identity" presents a groundbreaking critical examination of how ideologies of race, ethnicity, accent, and immigration status impact perceptions of plurilingual teachers. Bringing together contributions by an international panel of established and emerging scholars, this important work of scholarship addresses issues…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Characteristics
Frames for Learning Science: Analyzing Learner Positioning in a Technology-Enhanced Science Project
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Silseth, K.; Arnseth, H. C. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
In this article, we examine the relationship between how students are positioned in social encounters and how this influences learning in a technology-supported science project. We pursue this topic by focusing on the participation trajectory of one particular learner. The analysis shows that the student cannot be interpreted as one type of…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Science Instruction, Student Participation
Childhood as Social Investment, Rights and the Valuing of Education
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Kjorholt, Anne Trine – Children & Society, 2013
This paper discusses the impact of and close interplay between global discourses on children, notions of (a good) childhood at the national and local levels and childhoods as these are lived and experienced in particular social contexts. Two increasingly powerful global images of children are explored: Children as individual subjects with rights…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Social Influences, Civil Rights, Human Capital
Organizational Challenges for Schools in Rural Municipalities: Cross-National Comparisons in a Nordic Context
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Lind, Tommy; Stjernström, Olof – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
In this study, the spatial structure of primary schools and alternative organizational frameworks are studied in a number of rural municipalities in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The aim of the study is to investigate how the spatial structure of schools has changed between the years 2008 and 2013 in these municipalities, what…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Information Technology, Municipalities, Elementary Schools
The Relevance of Rhetoric to the Study of Power in Communication and Communicative Adequacy
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Elstad, Eyvind – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
The central focus in this article is that how language is used can constitute the basis for power relations. In the first place, power functions through linguistic expressions in relationships of superiority and subordination (commands, reprimands etc.). Secondly, language acts can appear as representations of discourse, i.e. linguistic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric
Double Histories in Multivocal Classrooms: Notes toward an Ecological Account of Writing
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Smidt, Jon – Written Communication, 2002
This article enters an ongoing discussion about the usefulness of different theories and different research designs in the analysis of classroom writing. Starting with questions about how students interpret the norms of writing and their own selves in school writing, it demonstrates the relevance of an ecological theory of writing,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Writing Skills