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Here We Are on Turtle Island: Indigenous Young Adults Navigating Places, Spaces and Terrain
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Hudson, Audrey – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
In this paper, I aim to investigate the migration of Indigenous youth from the reserve to the urban environment. I will investigate the implications of an arts-based programme for youth and how they utilized my programme as a resource for learning. The goals of this paper are to provide a nuance thinking of and theorizing land as related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Young Adults, Rural to Urban Migration
Spaces to Speak: Photovoice and the Reimagination of Girls' Education in India
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Shah, Payal – Comparative Education Review, 2015
Delving into the "black box" of schooling can help us better understand the paradoxical reality that schooling for girls can be simultaneously empowering and disempowering. Despite recent interest in developing innovative research methodologies within the field of comparative education, there has been less attention to and reflexivity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Females, Adolescents
Deaf Culture and Competing Discourses in a Residential School for the Deaf: "Can Do" versus "Can't Do"
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O'Brien, Catherine A.; Placier, Peggy – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
From an ethnographic case study of a state-funded residential school for the Deaf, the authors employed Critical Discourse Analysis to identify competing discourses in the talk of educators. These discourses are embedded in the historical oppression and labeling of deaf people as disabled and the development of Deaf culture as a counter-discourse.…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Residential Schools, Special Schools
Intertextuality and Narrative Practices of Young Deaf Students in Classroom Contexts: A Microethnographic Study
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Kim, Minjeong – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
This study explores how intertextuality influences the narrative practices of young deaf children in two classrooms. Specifically, the study examines how variations in what texts are made available to juxtapose and variations in how texts are juxtaposed influence the narratives young deaf children produce. A major premise underlying these two…
Descriptors: Deafness, Children, Personal Narratives, Classroom Environment
Encouraging Social Presence and a Sense of Community in a Virtual Residential School
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Robinson, Kathleen – Open Learning, 2009
This study describes the theoretical rationale underpinning the design and implementation of a career-related activity as an optional element of a virtual residential school. The activity comprised an interview with a practising chartered psychologist recorded as an MP3 audio file, which was subsequently supported by an asynchronous discussion…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Student Reaction, Residential Schools, Ethnography
Constructions of Educational Meaning in the Narratives of Four Deaf Women Teachers.
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Compton, Mary V. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1997
In this ethnographic study, narrative analysis was used to describe how four deaf women make sense of their lives as teachers. The women disclose their beliefs concerning teaching, their deafness, and their connection with the deaf community. The study notes the influence of the institutional cultures of both deaf and hearing communities and of…
Descriptors: Adults, Cultural Influences, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education