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Malcolm, Ian G. – 1996
A study investigated the role of the Aboriginal Student Enclave, one of five campuses of Edith Cowan University (Australia) as a discourse community. The relatively small but cohesive university subcommunity is designed to provide additional support for Aboriginal students enrolled in standard programs and an environment in which the students are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Environment, College Students, Discourse Analysis
Villar, Luis M.; And Others – 1994
This study describes characteristics of reflective practical teaching, interprets the value of intellectualizing teaching by teachers, and summarizes a successful teaching/learning research process in the context of a large urban school in Spain. Data were gathered through review of curriculum documents and observations, interviews, and written…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum, Educational Change
Aschbacher, Pamela; Herman, Joan – 1991
To understand how assessment, particularly alternative assessment, and practice interactions may differ among schools with different implementation contexts and different school cultures, this project is studying over time a set of schools representing different state and local policy contexts and including different student populations. Research…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Case Studies, Educational Assessment
Parscal, Jeannie N. – 1991
This case study, one of four, is part of a larger study, "Ethnographic Case Studies of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) of At-Risk Students in Middle School Classrooms." The study provides relevant case literature regarding CRP for the enhancement of preservice teacher education and describes the characteristics of a multicultural…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Cultural Awareness
Clift, Renee T., Ed.; Evertson, Carolyn M., Ed. – 1992
The focus of this monograph is on the distinctions between questions addressed in research on teaching and issues of concern in teacher education and on the interplay of curricular, contextual, and pedagogical issues in both public schools and university settings. The publication is organized into seven chapters: (1) "Action Research and the Work…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Research
Troyna, Barry; Hatcher, Richard – 1992
This study of how race emerges for young children as a plausible explanatory framework for incidents in their everyday lives is based on a school term of observation in each of 3 British urban elementary schools, with over 150 hours of interviews with students, ages 10 and 11 years, in their last 2 years of primary (elementary) schooling. All…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Case Studies, Child Behavior
O'Callaghan, J. Brien – 1993
As dropout rates, drug addiction, and other problems continue to increase among youth, there arises a need for more effective approaches in dealing with problematic students. This book offers therapists and other helping professionals some practice-based solutions for fostering the healthy development of children and presents a model of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Davidson, Gayle V.; Ritchie, Scott D. – 1994
How attitudes of parents, teachers, and students toward computers affect the integration and use of computer technology in schools was studied at an elementary school in Texas. Whether these attitudes changed with the introduction of computer technology and the implications of involving parents in the planning of curriculum and activities was also…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Attitude Change, Case Studies, Community Support
Trueba, Henry T.; And Others – 1990
During the last century, groups of Hmong people moved from southern China into Indochina, and, as war refugees, about 90,000 have come to the United States in recent years. This book examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong (roughly 426 individuals in 90 households) who have settled…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Alienation
Rencken, Robert H. – 1989
This book provides a framework for understanding the dimensions (scope, taxonomy, philosophy) and dynamics (individual, familial, and societal) of child sexual abuse. The major focus is on integrated intervention strategies for any professional who must work with incomplete information. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the problem of child sexual…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Case Studies
Skinner, Elizabeth Fisk; Richardson, Richard C., Jr. – 1988
Comparative case studies of 10 public universities (Brooklyn College, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Florida State University, Florida International University, Memphis State University, Temple University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of New Mexico, University of Texas at El Paso, and Wayne State University)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, American Indians, Blacks
Taylor, Beverly Loy – 1978
This guide, one of four, is a product of the Project on Social Architecture in Education, initiated to find out what it takes to develop a program and a working social system for a new school. The project began with interviews with school planners and consultants, then moved to the study of six new innovative public schools for a two-and-a-half…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Conflict Resolution, Consultants
Fairfax, Sally K. – 1977
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is based largely on assumptions about bureaucratic ineptitude as the cause of environmental degradation and citizen involvement as the cure. These assumptions and the procedural requirements of the NEPA process have severly undercut the limited contributions which citizen involvement can make to…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility
Ferster, C. B. – 1968
The report describes a 3-year project which utilized the techniques of experimental psychology and the principles of operant conditioning to gain in the understanding and treatment of autistic and schizophrenic children. Included are discussions of the autistic child, the project itself, arbitrary and natural reinforcement, the setting and…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Case Studies, Clinical Diagnosis
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Kanpol, Barry – Urban Education, 1988
Reviews research on teacher work tasks and individual and collective teacher resistance. Based on a case study of four teachers at an urban, unionized, middle school; distinguishes between institutional political resistance and cultural political resistance. (FMW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Power
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