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Direct linkMinkyung Choi; Jihae Cha – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
Stories of children moving in and out of refugee camps are not uncommon yet are often overshadowed by the dominant narratives of oppression, political failure, and war -- the stories "told of" rather than "told by" refugees. Dominant narratives on refugees largely shape perceptions about children and youth in displacement as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Adolescents, Females
Dahl, Kari Kragh Blume – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article explores and compares the way in which Danish and Kenyan student-teachers achieve a professional identity while training to be teachers, drawing on conceptually-related theoretical approaches of critical psychology, social theory of learning, professional literature and literature about narratives and life history. Findings from…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Education, Student Development, Foreign Countries
Download full textLamb, Pamela; Vanner, Catherine; Raissadat, Haleh; Nyariro, Milka; Sadati, S. M. Hani – Global Education Review, 2020
Many challenges exist to conducting participatory research and consultation with young people, especially with those considered vulnerable or at risk. Beyond respecting the safety and wellbeing of young research participants, researchers must be aware of barriers to youth engagement and be attuned to the many forms of youth resistance. As young…
Descriptors: Females, Participatory Research, At Risk Persons, Barriers
Quigley, Cassie F.; Beeman-Cadwallader, Nicole; Carter, Ingrid S. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
In this paper, the authors illustrate the impacts of their cross-cultural research in Africa, on their current work in science and STEM education. Through the examination of two research projects in cross-cultural settings in Africa, the authors explore the lasting impacts of this type of work. Specifically, through the use of Critical Personal…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Personal Narratives, STEM Education, Feminism
Trudell, Joel; Cheffy, Ian – International Review of Education, 2017
This article discusses the impact of literacy programmes on those who learned to read and write in their own African languages. It draws on adult learners' reflections on the significance of literacy and numeracy in their everyday lives as evidenced in interviews conducted in 2014 and 2015 in rural sites in five African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Literacy, African Languages, Native Language Instruction
Seiler, Gale; Kwamboka, Hildah – Research in Science Education, 2019
The authors draw on their own experiences as practitioners, one as a Biology and Agriculture teacher in Kenya, and the other as an educator in a summer science program serving African American youth in a city in the Midwestern United States. They document and analyze moments of language contestation and explore the use of the construct of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biology, Agricultural Education
Gilmore, Miranda; Miller, Marianne McInnes – Qualitative Report, 2013
In this study, we told the story of a Kenyan couple, B. and F., who has left Kenya and moved to Southern California. We followed a narrative inquiry framework, using Clandinin and Connelly's (2000) guidelines. We delineated core components of narrative inquiry research, as well as related the journey of B. and F., who have created dual lives in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Story Telling, Personal Narratives, Inquiry
Otienoh, Ruth – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2015
This paper is a narrative of my personal experiences of conducting action research in Kenyan primary schools. It highlights the opportunities, successes, challenges and dilemmas I encountered during the process: from the school hunting period, to the carrying out of the actual research in two schools, with four teachers. This study reveals that…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Takayanagi, Taeko – International Review of Education, 2016
This study investigates the activities of a village-based literacy centre in Kenya and explores the benefits of community development activities on women's well-being in Africa. Through the analysis of the stories of two Maasai women who had experienced adult literacy learning, the author discovered that: (1) the literacy instructor had inadequate…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Empowerment, Literacy Education, Informal Education
Chang, Lei; Lu, Hui Jing; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Skinner, Ann T.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Steinberg, Laurence; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Chen, Bin Bin; Tian, Qian; Bacchini, Dario; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Pastorelli, Concetta; Alampay, Liane Peña; Sorbring, Emma; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Oburu, Paul; Malone, Patrick S.; Di Giunta, Laura; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Tapanya, Sombat – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strategies in turn regulate development and behavior to optimize survival under prevailing safety…
Descriptors: Safety, Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Longitudinal Studies
Heikal, Azza Ahmed; Aziz, Heba Mohamed Abdel – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper is a close examination of postcolonial and postmodern 20th century discourse with reference to Obama's "Dreams from My Father" (1995). Barack Hussein Obama (1961-present) has a colonial experience and double cultural background which formulate his views of racial discrimination, make him accept racial differences and dream of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, African Americans, Presidents, Postmodernism
Williams, Judy; Grierson, Arlene – Studying Teacher Education, 2016
This collaborative self-study details the experiences of an Australian teacher educator and a Canadian teacher educator, who led teacher candidates on international practicum placements to the Cook Islands and Kenya respectively. Focusing on critical incidents, they collaboratively analyzed dilemmas that occurred when providing professional…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Critical Incidents Method, Teacher Education, Practicums
Taeko, Takayanagi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This paper aims to challenge limited notions of literacy and argues for the recognition of Maasai women's self-determined learning in order to bring about human development in Kenya. It also seeks to construct a complex picture of literacy, drawing on postcolonial feminist theory as a framework to ensure that the woman's voice is heard. Through…
Descriptors: Literacy, Foreign Countries, Consciousness Raising, Literacy Education
Gatua, Mary Wairimu – Adult Learning, 2014
The purpose of this study was to explore the educational and sociocultural experiences of Kenyan women pursing higher education in the United States and how they negotiated their multiple identities. Using a sociocultural theoretical framework and narrative inquiry methodology, seven Kenyan immigrant women pursuing or who recently pursued advanced…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Immigrants, Postsecondary Education, Adult Students
Milligan, Lizzi – Gender and Education, 2014
This paper reconsiders urban-rural and modern-traditional dichotomies by exploring the multiple and contested gendered issues that secondary school girls face in rural Kisii, Western Kenya. Findings are drawn from a qualitative case study and explore the ways that gendered norms interact with new ideas of gender equity in and out of the classroom.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Social Attitudes, Rural Areas
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