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Mac Naughton, Glenda, Ed.; Davis, Karina, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
This book explores the prominence of "race" in the lives of young children and their early childhood educators. It critiques the often presumed racial innocence of young children and shows instead how young children actively engage with the politics of race as they form their own identities. It challenges early childhood educators to engage with…
Descriptors: Race, Popular Culture, Early Childhood Education, Fantasy
Prochner, Larry – University of British Columbia Press, 2009
In the early nineteenth century, governments began to develop specialized educational programs--kindergartens and infant or nursery schools--to give children a head start in life. These programs hinged on new visions of childhood that originated in England and Europe, but what happened when they were transported to the colonies? This book unwinds…
Descriptors: Nursery Schools, Early Childhood Education, Integrity, Foreign Countries
Joseph, Pamela Bolotin; Bravmann, Stephanie Luster; Windschitl, Mark A.; Mikel, Edward R.; Green, Nancy Stewart – 2000
This book is designed to foster awareness, examination, and deliberation about the curricula planned for and carried out in classrooms and schools. The framework of inquiry elucidates the concept of curriculum as culture; highlights patterns of curricular thinking that have influenced the development of the concept of cultures of curriculum; gives…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education
Switzky, Harvey N., Ed.; Greenspan, Stephen, Ed. – American Association on Mental Retardation, 2006
This book is a rare peek into the divergent--and at times contentious--points of view among world's leading researchers on what the condition of mental retardation is and how it should be defined, measured, and implemented in the 21st century. It is a candid and insightful collection of essays from experts on issues ranging from whether mental…
Descriptors: Researchers, Cognitive Development, Mental Retardation, Definitions
Hallinan, Maureen T., Ed. – Springer, 2011
Scholarly analysis in the sociology of education has burgeoned in recent decades. "Frontiers in Sociology of Education" aims to provide a roadmap for sociologists and other social scientists as they set bold new directions for future research on schools. In Part 1 of this forward-looking volume, the authors present cutting-edge research…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Social Scientists, Educational Research, Guidelines
van Oers, Bert, Ed.; Wardekker, Wim, Ed.; Elbers, Ed, Ed.; van der Veer, Rene, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
Learning is a changing phenomenon, depending on the advances in theory and research. This book presents a relatively new approach to learning, based on meaningful human activities in cultural practices and in collaboration with others. It draws extensively from the ideas of Lev Vygotsky and his recent followers. The book presents ideas that…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Play, Informal Education, Distance Education
Zhou, Minglang, Ed.; Hill, Ann Maxwell, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the People's Republic of China after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s. This book contains four parts. Part I, "Debating China's…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Consolidated Schools, Indigenous Populations, Compulsory Education
Banks, James A., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
This volume is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive international description and analysis of multicultural education around the world. It is organized around "key concepts" and uses "case studies" from various nations in different parts of the world to exemplify and illustrate the concepts. Case studies are from…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change
Facchinetti, Roberta, Ed.; Crystal, David, Ed.; Seidlhofer, Barbara, Ed. – Peter Lang Bern, 2010
All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud of and to be transmitted. The papers in this book explore aspects of this relationship between language and culture, considering issues related to the processes of internationalization and localization of the English language. The volume is divided into…
Descriptors: Group Membership, English, Jews, Foreign Countries
Bowers, C. A. – 1993
One of the major concerns in education reform is the recognition of problems within society that affects or has the potential to affect the achievement of students in school. This book attempts to put in focus what the priorities should be in thinking about the challenges facing public school and university education in the United States and other…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Ecology, Educational Change
Tosi, Arturo, Ed. – 2003
This book presents a collection of papers resulting from a gathering of a mixed group of translators and language researchers to investigate multilingual translation with a view to seeking consensus and identifying priorities for moving forward. There are 14 papers in 3 parts. Part 1, "Overviews of Languages and Cultures in Contact,"…
Descriptors: Computers, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, English
Roessler, Richard T.; Rubin, Stanford E. – PRO-ED, Inc., 2006
"Case Management and Rehabilitation Counseling" discusses procedures that are useful to rehabilitation professionals working in many settings. Specifically, this book reviews the finer points relating to diagnosing, arranging services, monitoring program outcomes, arranging for placement, planning for accommodations, ethical decision making,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Family Role, Counselor Role
Hooglund, Eric, Ed. – 1985
This book is the second in a series of works that seeks to examine the Arab-American experience. The original 1984 publication, "Taking Root, Bearing Fruit: The Arab-American Experience" featured surveys of 12 communities in all geographic regions of the United States. Such was the response to that report that its creators decided to…
Descriptors: Arabs, Community Study, Cultural Influences, Ethnic Groups
Waxman, Chaim I. – 1977
This study examines both the cultural and situational explanations of poverty. It also demonstrates the ideological implications of both, and finally it suggests a new perspective, the relational perspective. Chapter 1 examines the cultural perspective, according to which the lower class is seen as manifesting patterns of behavior and values which…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Low Income Groups, Policy Formation, Poverty
Harrison, Randall; Ekman, Paul – 1972
South Africa, the last urban, industrial, Western-culture society without television, called for television introduction on January 1, 1976. Thus, South Africa represented the last chance to explore certain research questions about the impact of television in modern societies. A study was made of: (1) factors in the South African context which…
Descriptors: Communications, Cultural Influences, Developed Nations, Research Needs
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