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Direct linkBayne, Sian; Connelly, Louise; Grover, Claire; Osborne, Nicola; Tobin, Richard; Beswick, Emily; Rouhani, Lilinaz – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
This paper considers the social value of anonymity in online university student communities, through the presentation of research which tracked the final year of life of the social media application Yik Yak. Yik Yak was an anonymous, geosocial mobile application launched in 2013 which, at its peak in 2014, was used by around two million students…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Students, Social Media, Computer Software
Doerr, Neriko Musha – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
Culture is not a predetermined, static, bounded unit. Both its boundaries and what is considered cultural difference are constructed through social processes. Ray McDermott and Herve Varenne (1995) argue that only certain differences are noticed, usually according to what is regarded as meaningful difference in one's own society. For example, in a…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Social Influences, Social Environment, Ethnography
Andrée, Maria – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2014
This paper is a commentary to a paper by Anne Solli, Frank Bach and Björn Åkerman on how students at a technical university learn to argue as biotechnologists. Solli and her colleagues report from an ethnographic study performed during the first semester of a 5-year program in biotechnology at a technical university in Sweden. Their study…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Ethnography, College Students, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Lefkowitz, Natalie; Hedgcock, John S. – Applied Language Learning, 2006
This study explores how social pressure and identity construction patterns interact with the oral performance of secondary and post-secondary learners of Spanish as a foreign language. Data derive from 268 questionnaires probing students' perceptions of Spanish, Spanish speakers, their peers, and their instructors. Ethnographic interviews…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Social Influences, Identification
Brand, Brenda R.; Glasson, George E.; Green, Andre' M. – School Science and Mathematics, 2006
The voices of African American students reveal sociocultural factors that influence their achievement in science and mathematics classes. Using a sociocultural theoretical framework (Mercer & Covey, 1980), this ethnographic study interpreted the perspectives of five African American students as they discussed their learning experiences in science…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Ethnography, African American Students, Social Influences
