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Sohyun An – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2024
In this article, Sohyun An presents a lesson that she was invited to teach at an elementary school in Georgia for the celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. As a social studies teacher educator and mother of Asian American children attending the school, she has worked with some of the teachers to advance critical…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Historical Interpretation, Biographies, Photography
Goldschmidt, Lynne; Langa, Malose; Alexander, Daleen; Canham, Hugo – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Kohlberg's theory of moral development has maintained a dominant position in cognitive moral development literature over several decades. This universal influence has been particularly evident in its application to moral education literature and policy. A closer assessment of Kohlberg's theoretical conceptualization suggests the application of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Violence, Foreign Countries, Moral Development
Sung, Chit Cheung Matthew – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2019
This article reports on a case study of a Hong Kong undergraduate student's lived experiences of second language (L2) investments and identities across different contexts, including inside and outside the classroom on the university campus, in the professional workplace, and during study abroad. Findings indicate that the student's differential L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Context Effect
Hallqvist, Anders; Hyden, Lars-Christer – Studies in Continuing Education, 2013
In this article, we introduce a narrative approach to biographical learning; that is, an approach that considers autobiographical storytelling as a practice through which claims about life history are performed and negotiated. Using insights from narrative theory, we highlight evaluations in those narratives and suggest their crucial role in…
Descriptors: Biographies, Personal Narratives, Story Telling, Role
Michaels, Lisa R. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2012
A balanced literacy program provides students with opportunities to interact with texts from a variety of genres. The dawn of the New York State Common Core Learning Standards has paved a natural gateway for students and teachers to regularly engage in reading, discussing, and writing nonfiction. This shift in the standards has inspired educators…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Literary Genres, Nonfiction, Context Effect
Buhler-Niederberger, Doris; Konig, Alexandra – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
The biographies of individuals in today's societies are characterized by the need to exert effort and make decisions in planning one's life course. A "self-project" has to be worked out both retrospectively and prospectively; childhood becomes important as a resource and a laboratory for the self-project. This empirical study analyses how the…
Descriptors: Children, Biographies, Context Effect, Time Perspective
Taber, Nancy – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Using a life history approach, this article explores the ways in which women in the military who are also mothers learn to embody various masculinities and femininities as they negotiate workplace gender processes. Complex intersections of gendered communities of practice result in the participants' learning to variously understand, accept, shape…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Females, Mothers, Communities of Practice
Floyd, Alan; Dimmock, Clive – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
This study investigates the experiences of academics who became department heads in a post-1992 UK university and explores the influence that being in the position has on their planned future academic career. Drawing on life history interviews undertaken with 17 male and female heads of department, the paper constitutes an in-depth study of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Careers, Department Heads
Malcolm, Irene – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
There has been little exploration of emotional labor in researching the learning of adults, and emotional labor on the part of research contractors has scarcely featured in published debates. The article explores the role of emotion in this context from a critical feminist perspective, drawing on life history data from a study of the learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biographies, Critical Literacy, Feminism
Hong, Huang-Yao; Lin-Siegler, Xiaodong – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
How does learning about scientists' struggles during their scientific knowledge building affect students' science learning? Two hundred and seventy-one high school students were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: (a) the struggle-oriented background information (n = 90) condition, which presented students with stories about 3 scientists'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Physics
Ullucci, Kerri – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2011
This is a study of White teachers and their identity development. Using a qualitative approach steeped in the tenants of critical race theory and storytelling, this study investigated how White teachers learn about race, class and diversity in meaningful ways, with a close eye on the role their own personal histories played in their development.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Whites, Critical Theory, Race
Stuart, Mary; Lido, Catherine; Morgan, Jessica – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Learners' biographies affect their engagement with knowledge and shape how their learning is understood. This article uses an educational life history approach to investigate how students' social and cultural educational experiences affect their engagement with their university. Qualitative evidence is presented from interviews with students with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Biographies, Personal Narratives, Ethnic Groups
Aldridge, Jerry – Childhood Education, 2009
Certainly not as many who have heard the names of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky, have heard of Sabina Spielrein. While Spielrein had numerous face-to-face encounters, some personal and some professional, with all four men, and the accounting of her life and the interactions she had with them has been the content of…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Piagetian Theory, Biographies, Interpersonal Relationship
Greiner, Karen P. – Qualitative Report, 2010
This essay explores issues of marginality and representation in research, which emerged during life history interviews with Tammi, an "ordinary" woman living in Appalachia. I examine how my research practices, namely my thirst for drama and marginality, nearly silenced the preferred stories of the woman who shared her life with me. I…
Descriptors: Biographies, Females, Personal Narratives, Sampling
Billett, Stephen; Newton, Jennifer; Ockerby, Cherene M. – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2010
When individuals select a particular occupation, they, their families and the community invest significant resources in their preparing for, learning about, and effective participation in that occupation. Yet, given the high attrition rates during that preparation and high levels of early separation from occupations, selection of occupations is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing, Career Choice, Nursing Students