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Kasun, G. Sue – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Transnational Mexican-origin youth comprise a large and increasing number of students in U.S. schools, yet their teachers have often misunderstood their backgrounds and the conditions related to their transnational movement over borders. With such a large number of immigrant/transnational youth in the U.S. of Mexican origin, it…
Descriptors: Mexican American Education, Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Family Relationship
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Tarlau, Rebecca – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: Over the past 30 years, the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has developed a series of pedagogical practices for public schools that support the movement's struggle for agrarian reform in the Brazilian countryside. The MST's educational initiatives can be viewed in terms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Laborers, Activism, Teaching Methods
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Chai, Ching Sing; Tan, Seng Chee – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background: This study was situated in Singapore, which aims to achieve engaged learning in P-12 schools with the use of educational technology. One of the foci of study among Singaporean educational researchers is a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment that emphasizes collaboration among learners for the coconstruction of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Teacher Characteristics, Participant Observation, Interaction Process Analysis
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Stratton, Alison – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: This article returns to and expands upon Cremin's and Garfinkel's ideas about education as work--deliberate, systematic, and sustained work--that changes one's consociates, whether planned or not. That is, education must be seen as occurring everywhere, to and by everyone, in many contexts other than in classrooms or schools.…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Partial Hearing, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis