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Sanchez, Patricia; Ek, Lucila D. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2008
This article draws from a larger study based in South Texas that examines the professional and personal narratives of 63 Latina/o preservice educators preparing to teach in bilingual classrooms. Using qualitative methods, we collected data where participants' voices and opinions regarding U.S. immigration issues were documented during classroom…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Bilingual Education, Politics
Vargas, Deborah R. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2007
The year 1972 was part of a dynamic period of Chicano politics and cultural production in South Texas. A few years earlier, in the Crystal City Revolts, Tejanos had moved to gain control of city and school board positions, events that resulted in the creation of the Raza Unida Party in 1970. Nineteen seventy-two also marked the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Music, Mexican Americans, United States History, Singing
Linn, Genie Bingham – Teacher Education and Practice, 2007
Based on the theoretical framework of reflective practice and teacher education, this article shares portions of a personal experience research project designed to gain understanding of teacher learning through nonfictional narrative story. Excerpts comprise the stories of learning-based journeys shared by five East Texas teachers that focus on a…
Descriptors: Teachers, Reflective Teaching, Personal Narratives, Story Telling
Castillo, Victor Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With the study rise of the Hispanic population in the United States over the last 25-years there has been a languished progression of this populations' educational attainment. The purpose of this qualitative study was to tap into the "black-box" of ten academically successful Latino students from San Antonio by capturing the life history…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Self Concept, Educational Attainment
Browning, Larry D.; Sornes, Jan-Oddvar – Qualitative Inquiry, 2008
Two team members from a four-person research project chronicle the power relations of their experiences during a 6-year study of information and communication technologies (ICTs), showing that employing bargaining techniques and framing the corporate support as a grant rather than as a contract can help one resist and even "manage…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Ethnography, School Business Relationship, Information Technology
Box, Belinda J. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The increasing number of English language learners in schools has motivated educators to seek more effective language and instructional programs to serve them. While the norm in American schools favors an English-only environment, there is a growing interest and support for the dual language approach to bilingual education. This qualitative study…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Bilingual Education, Leadership Qualities, Program Implementation
Wellman, Nelda – Teacher Education and Practice, 2007
This study examined the impact of the high-stakes testing on caring practices from the perspectives of teachers in Grades 3 and 5. These teachers, located in an East Texas school district with high percentages of low socioeconomic students, were identified as caring practitioners by their respective principals. Through the qualitative method of…
Descriptors: Testing, High Stakes Tests, Grade 3, Grade 5
Alanis, Iliana – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2007
Recently the author was working with a group of elementary bilingual teachers along a remote section of the Texas/Mexico border. She had been asked to facilitate the development of their social studies curriculum for their new dual-language program. She realized that although these teachers had experience working with culturally and linguistically…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Biographies, Historical Interpretation, Democracy
Griffith, Bryant; Prezas, Raul; Labercane, George – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2006
This article focuses on the narratives and experiences of young Hispanics in south Texas. These youths matured during Americas high period of civic engagement. Their involvement in the development of social clubs defined and reinforced their culture. Growing up Hispanic meant belonging to a large, supportive, Hispanic family. The clubs defined…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Hispanic American Culture, Personal Narratives, Hispanic Americans
Rios, Lorna – 1996
This book is a personal account of 8 years of teaching in Texas jails and prisons. It recounts numerous anecdotes of life in prison and the experience of teaching prisoners, most of whom had very low literacy skills. It describes the prison culture and what inmates must do to survive in it. The book details the methods that have worked in reaching…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, High School Equivalency Programs
Anderson, Brandi, Ed. – Loblolly Magazine, 1987
Written and published by the students at Gary High School, Gary, Texas, "Loblolly Magazine" is published twice a year. Issues are frequently devoted to a distant theme. The theme of this issue, "East Texas Storytellers," attempts to capture some of the local color and regional history of eastern Texas. The first article,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Folk Culture, Legends, Local History
Heaton, Moss, Ed. – Loblolly Magazine, 1985
Written and published by the students at Gary High School this volume has three articles dealing with East Texas life. The first "Arthur Smith" (David Hancock and others) is an account of growing up in Marian County, Texas is described by the local Baptist minister. The pastor begins with the year of his birth and gives detailed…
Descriptors: Childrens Games, Ethnography, Folk Culture, Local History
Hardwig, Jay – Teacher Magazine, 2003
Many teachers celebrate the last day of school, but the author has always found it a bittersweet time. Teaching in a self-contained classroom with not more than five students, ranging in age from 15 to 20, at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and had them most of the day, is emotionally consuming, for good or ill. While he had…
Descriptors: Self Contained Classrooms, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Disabilities
Mudge, Suzanne D.; Grinnan, Cullen T.; Priesmeyer, H. Richard – Online Submission, 2006
Current educational research suggests that emotions can either enhance or inhibit the ability to learn, with social and cultural influences causing changes in behavior and altering biological processes. In this exploratory study researchers utilized a qualitative design to seek insight into student emotions associated with school attitude and…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Experience, Educational Research, School Attitudes
Mims, Michelle, Ed.; And Others – Loblolly, 1988
Produced by Gary High School (Texas) students, this issue presents three articles on individuals who share stories about their lives in Texas. In the first article, "Henry Earls, 100 + and Still Going Strong" (Darin Baker; Joe Ritter; Michelle Mims), Earls, a resident of Timpson (Texas), describes his work in a sawmill as a youth, his…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Interviews, Journalism Education