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Intercultural Reflection through the "Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters": Students' Accounts of Their Images of Alterity
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Méndez García, María del Carmen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
The Council of Europe's "Autobiography of Intercultural Encounter" (AIE) is a tool to develop intercultural competence (IC) in education by encouraging users to reflect upon and learn from momentous intercultural encounters they have experienced face to face. Its parallel resource, the "Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes, Cultural Awareness, Autobiographies
Paving the Way through Mainstream Education: The Interplay of Families, Schools and Disabled Students
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Buchner, Tobias; Smyth, Fiona; Biewer, Gottfried; Shevlin, Michael; Ferreira, Miguel A. V.; Martín, Mario Toboso; Díaz, Susana Rodríguez; Šiška, Jan; Latimier, Camille; Kánová, Šárka – Research Papers in Education, 2015
There has been much debate around the role of parents in supporting their disabled children in mainstream schools. Several authors have pointed to parents' advocacy and their engagement with professionals. Parents often perceived mainstream settings as fostering better social and academic learning for their offspring. However, while parents'…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Disabilities
Turning Difficulties into Possibilities: Engaging Roma Families and Students in School through Dialogic Learning
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Flecha, Ramón; Soler, Marta – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2013
Schools and communities may have a key role in reversing the cycle of inequality that the Roma suffer in Europe. Aiming at reducing existing inequalities, dialogic learning aims to ensure high levels of academic learning for all children, by involving the whole community through egalitarian dialogue. Less well known are the implications of this…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Family School Relationship, Equal Education, Social Bias
The Doctorate of the Bologna Process Third Cycle: Mapping the Dimensions and Impact of the European Higher Education Area
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Carter, Susan; Fazey, John; Gonzalez Geraldo, Jose Luis; Trevitt, Chris – Journal of Research in International Education, 2010
The European Union Bologna Process is a significant agent for internationalization of education. Acknowledging fiscal and political drivers, this article shows that Bologna inclusion of the doctoral degree offers potential for enhanced doctoral experience. Interest in transferability of doctoral education across national borders, standardization…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs
Narrative Strategies: A Case Study of Developing Storytelling Skills by a Learner of Spanish.
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Liskin-Gasparro, Judith E. – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Analyzes the narrative, descriptive, and evaluative structures of one person's two stories, drawn from oral proficiency interviews, about the same event told at the intermediate high and advanced levels on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) scale. The discourse analysis revealed that the second story builds upon the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis
Sharing Words: Theory and Practice of Dialogic Learning. Critical Perspectives Series.
Flecha, Ramon – 2000
This book narrates the story of a literacy circle that was created by adults who were attending basic literacy and new reader classes. The introduction provides in-depth discussions of each of the seven principles of dialogic learning, which are as follows: egalitarian dialogue; cultural intelligence; transformation; instrumental dimension;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Aging (Individuals), Beginning Reading