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Geopolitical Configuration of Identities and Learning: Othering through the Institutionalized Categorization of "English Language Learners"
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Takeuchi, Miwa Aoki – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
This study critically examines how the geopolitical configuration of identities, through the medium of the institutionalized label of "English language learners," can shape and constrain localized experiences for learners. An ethnographic video study was conducted in the context of a mathematics unit ("the transforming recess…
Descriptors: Classification, Self Concept, Ethnography, Video Technology
"Developing a Perspective", "Inter-Connecting", and "Bringing It Together": Who Chooses to Use a Labelling Feature in Online Conversations in a Graduate Course?
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Bures, Eva Mary; Schmid, Richard F.; Abrami, Philip C. – Educational Media International, 2009
This study explores a labelling feature that allows students to tag parts of their online messages. Data comes from four sequentially offered sessions of a graduate education course. Students engaged in two to three online activities in groups of three or four. Students (n = 53) contributed from 0 to 56 labels (M = 12.42, SD = 13.50) and 18 to 114…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Graduate Students, Education Courses
Learning Disabled or Hearing Impaired: A Folly of Forced Categories.
Clarke, B. R.; Kendall, D. C. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1980
The Canadian article explores some of the implications of assigning handicapped children to two commonly used categories: learning disabilities and hearing impairments. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classification, Definitions, Foreign Countries
Sheep or Goats? Learning Disabilities and Educational Services for Children with Special Needs: A Canadian Perspective
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Kendall, David – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1977
Presented at the First National Conference on Learning Disabilities in Ottawa, Canada in October, 1977, the article discusses learning disabilities and their appropriate special educational services in Canada, focusing on the processes of categorization and labeling. (DLS)
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Why Change Our Service Delivery in Special Education?
Skakun, Vivian – 1988
This paper challenges the theoretical knowledge base upon which the Canadian separate special education delivery system has been developed. Arguments for integration of special needs children into the mainstream of education are presented from a social-ethical, educational-psychological, and legal-legislative perspective. Examination of the…
Descriptors: Classification, Cultural Differences, Delivery Systems, Disabilities