NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Glenn, Wendy; Ginsberg, Ricki; King-Watkins, Danielle – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2018
This phenomenological case study explores the persistence of high school readers labeled as struggling as they described their responses to recurring, consistent, externally originating challenges to positive reading identities growing from their experiences in a Young Adult Literature (YAL) course. Through application of Weinreich's identity…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Reading Difficulties, Case Studies, Phenomenology
Cercone, James Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This ethnographic case study investigates the literacy practices one teacher and his students engaged in during a full year digital video composing English elective. The research site is an English course offered at a diverse, first-ring suburban high school. The course, Mass Media and Video Productions, is a full year English elective open to…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Working Class, Class Activities, Learning Activities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Christenbury, Leila – English Education, 1983
Traces the development of the English elective curriculum from 1962 to the present. Discusses the reasons for its early popularity and for its current decline. (FL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Research