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Mahmoud O. Jalambo; Nazmi A. Al-Masri; Refaat R. Alareer – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
This study reflects on an intensive fiction-writing training course conducted at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) in Palestine. The trainees were divided into two language-specific groups. The immediate outcome of this training course was 87 short stories. The study assessed the participants' satisfaction levels regarding the quality and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Social Values, Case Studies
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Zhang, Chenyi; Morrison, Johnetta W. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2010
Based on the occurrence of modernization and globalization in Chinese society over the last few decades, the content of 145 stories, published in the most popular Chinese children's story magazine from the 1980s to the present, were examined for the representation of cultural values. The presence of Chinese, Western and social-moral values in…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Global Approach, Moral Values, Cultural Influences
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Barajas, Katarina Eriksson – Ethnography and Education, 2008
The Swedish educational system states that work in schools should depict and mediate equality. One way of achieving this is through fiction, which according to the syllabus provides students with knowledge about the living conditions of women and men during different epochs and places. The present paper examines gender in a Swedish school,…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Clubs, Grade 4, Gender Issues
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McMurtry, Angus – McGill Journal of Education, 2008
The following fictional account of a seminar on complexity science and its relevance for education makes use of several real events. The first is an actual seminar that took place during the spring of 2005, in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. The second is the collective creation of the Complexity and Education…
Descriptors: Seminars, Foreign Countries, Fiction, Internet
Shim, Jenna Min – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In this dissertation I investigated how teachers interpreted intercultural differences and tensions embodied in fictional short stories and films. Participants in the study were 14 English teachers from China, South Korea, and the United States. My key research questions were: How are cultural differences understood and articulated by teachers…
Descriptors: Race, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries