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Garcia-Penalvo, Francicso Jose – IGI Global, 2013
Our differences in language, cultures, and history around the world play a vital role in the way we learn. As technology-based education continues to be used worldwide, there is an ever growing interest in how multiculturalism comes into effect. Multiculturalism in Technology-Based Education: Case Studies on ICT-Supported Approaches explores the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Educational Technology, Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods
Rong, Xue Lan, Ed.; Endo, Russell, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Asian American Education--Asian American Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages presents groundbreaking research that critically challenges the invisibility, stereotyping, and common misunderstandings of Asian Americans by disrupting "customary" discourse and disputing "familiar" knowledge. The chapters in this anthology…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Asian American Students, Grade 10, Mathematics Achievement
Lin, Angel M. Y., Ed.; Martin, Peter W., Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2005
This volume brings together scholars from around the world to juxtapose the voices of classroom participants alongside the voices of ruling elites with the aim of critically linking language policy issues with classroom practice in a range of contexts. The volume is suitable for postgraduate students, researchers and educators in a range of areas.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Rural Schools, Language Planning
Chrispeels, Janet H., Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2004
"Learning to Lead Together: The Promise and Challenge of Sharing Leadership" examines the dilemmas for school leaders and administrators, and the benefits for schools and students, when principals work with teachers (and their communities) to share leadership. Most schools function within existing hierarchical structures that contradict…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Restructuring, Middle Schools, Teacher Participation
Carey, Richard Adams; Kleinfeld, Judith, Ed. – 1988
This study is a "teaching case." It is a description of events written to help education students understand the complex, ambiguous situations which arise in rural teaching. The limitations of scientific rules and principles for teacher training are especially obvious in rural Alaska schools--where teachers who are typically Caucasian…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Case Studies, Community Involvement, Cross Cultural Studies
Kleinfeld, Judith, Ed. – 1988
This study is a "teaching case." It is a description of events written to help education students understand the complex, ambiguous situations that arise in rural teaching. The limitations of scientific rules and principles for teacher training are especially obvious in rural Alaska schools--where teachers who are typically Caucasian…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Alcoholism, Case Studies, Community Involvement
Finley, Paris – 1988
This case study describes an experienced high school teacher's difficulties in an Alaskan town with severe tensions between Caucasian and Eskimo students and between community members and teachers. This "teaching case" helps preservice teachers understand the complex, ambiguous situations which arise in rural teaching. The limitations of…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Case Studies, Community Problems, Critical Thinking
Harrison, Barbara; And Others – 1985
A University of Alaska staff member, two local teachers, and two community members used on-site visits, observations, questionnaires, and interviews to assess development of the Manokotak school from its inception in 1947 to 1984 as perceived by community members, school staff, and students. Rural and cross-cultural, the Alaskan school served 117…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Attitudes, American Indian Education, Bilingual Education Programs