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Direct linkSmagorinsky, Peter – Journal of Literacy Research, 2018
This article emphasizes the importance of understanding local contexts to provide appropriate education for teachers about literacy instruction. The author reviews general problems that follow from extrapolating from unrepresentative research samples and the errors and deficit conceptions that follow from assuming that all cognition takes place…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Local Issues, Books, Seminars
Farrell, Glen; Johnstone, Sally; Lopez del Puerto, Patricio – 1996
This paper describes the current policies and initiatives regarding the application of technology in Canada, Mexico and the United States. It also analyzes the need for policy development regarding technological networks, equipment, and educational content. The report also includes recommendations regarding specific initiatives for tri-national…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation
Peer reviewedSwales,John M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1990
Discusses a proposed "context adaptive" model for English-as-a-Second-Language program evaluation and suggests that the boundaries are set too narrowly within this model between phenomena and contexts and that the model of the Reading English for Science and Technology program in Guadalajara (Mexico) suffers from this constriction.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries, Models
Peer reviewedSmith, Elizabeth A. – Inquiry, 2000
Asserts that with the growth of the Internet, e-mail, synchronous chat, and videoconferencing, students in rural (and urban) areas have virtually endless access to culture and language from their school or home. Describes the utilization of technology as a means of cultural exchange between Southwest Virginia Community College and the University…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Download full textZoreda, Margaret Lee; Zoreda-Lozano, Juan Jose – 1998
This paper argues that current "postmodern" conditions demand a rethinking of higher education, especially in countries like Mexico. This would involve the rapprochement of science, technology, and the humanities, based on the belief that the chasm separating them, apart from being artificial, is no longer socially viable. Through a…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Zamora, Mario D., Ed.; And Others – 1981
New ground has been broken in what is labeled as "anthropological diplomacy"--a study of the theory and practice of peace promotion and/or conflict resolution between/among micro-units (e.g., tribes) or macro-units (e.g., nation-states) based on sound knowledge of a society's fundamental cultural premises. There are six papers. The first…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Conflict Resolution, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness
