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Taking It with You: Teacher Education and the Baggage of Cultural Dialogue
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Frkovich, Ann – Frontiers of Education in China, 2015
This case study contributes to counterpoints made to world culture theory and underscores that at the micro, classroom-level, rural Chinese teachers in a reform-oriented professional development course, and reform-oriented U.S. teacher trainers, understand educational reform, and the realities of education in these two cultures, very differently.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Cultural Influences, Teacher Education
The Amish Child as an E.S.L. Culturally Different Learner in the Rural Public School Classroom.
Newcomb, Thomas L. – 1989
While the Amish are an established cultural group in the United States, Amish children are relatively ignored as a cultural and language minority group in public schools. Little information is available to the educator wishing to understand these children. Teacher education programs do not prepare teachers to deal with the language and experience…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Amish, Children, Classroom Techniques
Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1934-1936. Bulletin, 1937, No. 2. Volume I. Chapter V: Review of Conditions and Developments in Education in Rural and Other Sparsely Settled Areas
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Cook, Katherine M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
This chapter reviews the educational situation in rural and other sparsely settled areas as well as the major developments in education since 1928 when the Office of Education reviewed trends in rural education for the biennium 1927-28, following a series of similar reviews. It is prepared in conformity to the changed policy of the Office of…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Educational Development, Educational Environment
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year Ended June 30, 1913. Volume I
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and an introductory survey of issues. Data and discussion are provided on higher education; medical education; dental education; secondary education; city school systems; kindergarten; rural education; agricultural education; agricultural education; commercial education; vocational…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Medical Education, Dental Schools, Secondary Education
Language Association Bulletin, 1989-1990.
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Language Association Bulletin, 1990
This document consists of the five issues of the "Language Association Bulletin" prepared for the 1989-1990 publishing year. The issues contain articles on a variety of subjects related to second language instruction, educational planning, and language planning. Topics include: articulation of foreign language education in New York…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Cultural Context, Cultural Education
The National Crisis in Education: An Appeal to the People. Report of the Proceedings of the National Citizens Conference on Education Called by the United States Commissioner of Education and Held at the Washington Hotel, Washington, D. C.. May 19, 20, 21, 1920. Bulletin, 1920, No. 29
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Bawden, William, Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
This publication presents the papers presented at the Proceedings of the National Citizens Conference on Education held at the Washington Hotel, Washington last May 19-21, 1920. The purpose of the conference is to capitalize for the new era the interest in education that is springing up in all parts of the country, and to organize it for effective…
Descriptors: Health Education, Agricultural Production, Foreign Countries, Civil Engineering