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How Culture Can Influence a Monolingual Teacher's Literacy Experiences and Practices When Building Background Knowledge with English Language Learners
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Liliana Ruiz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study aimed to explore the role culture plays in influencing teachers' educational practices and literacy instruction with English language learners (ELLs). It sought to discover how monolingual teachers' experiences, successes, and barriers influence literacy instruction with ELLs in an elementary school in the midwestern…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, English Language Learners
Making the Familiar Strange: A Narrative about Spanish Children's Experiences of Physical (In)Activity to Reconsider the Ability of Physical Education to Produce Healthy Citizens
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González-Calvo, Gustavo; García-Monge, Alfonso; Gerdin, Göran; Pringle, Richard – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
There is now a wealth of research on obesity both from biomedical and socially critical perspectives. However, less research has focused on the lived experiences of young children and particularly those who are perceived as 'sedentary'. This paper critically examines the issue of obesity as related to children's experiences of physical…
Descriptors: Obesity, Physical Activity Level, Life Style, Child Health
Cultural Taboos in Mediating Science in a Namibian Bilingual Primary School
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Joanne Hardman; Beata Set – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2023
Background: The need to meet the demands of education in the 21st century has seen Namibia move, after democracy in 1990, from a segregationist educational system to an inclusive one in a bid to develop students' capacities to think critically, particularly in science. Research indicates that cultural taboos can impact on how science knowledge is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Cultural Influences, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Teachers' Perceptions of Bilingualism: Toward a More Equitable Approach
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Jenna L. Canillas – Thresholds in Education, 2021
This study reviews orientations toward educating multilingual students with a focus on recent policies and initiatives in California. It includes data and findings from a study investigating the linguistic and cultural resources that English learners bring to school as funds of identity. The research site was a public elementary school in an urban…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Bilingual Students, Educational Policy, Linguistics
The Experience of Middle-Income Countries Participating in PISA 2000. PISA
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Lockheed, Marlaine E. – OECD Publishing, 2015
This report provides a systematic review and empirical evidence related to the experiences of middle-income countries and economies participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2000 to 2015. PISA is a triennial survey that aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
Children Speak about Interethnic and Interracial Friendships in the Classroom: Lessons for Teachers
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Pica-Smith, Cinzia – Multicultural Education, 2009
In this article, the author discusses her research on children's perspectives of interracial and interethnic friendships in a multiethnic school and highlights children's voices on these intergroup friendships. Schools are important spaces in which social and cultural competencies necessary to the formation of intergroup friendships may be…
Descriptors: Friendship, Children, Student Diversity, Student Attitudes