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Seiler, Gale; Kwamboka, Hildah – Research in Science Education, 2019
The authors draw on their own experiences as practitioners, one as a Biology and Agriculture teacher in Kenya, and the other as an educator in a summer science program serving African American youth in a city in the Midwestern United States. They document and analyze moments of language contestation and explore the use of the construct of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biology, Agricultural Education
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Watkins, Audrey P. – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2008
This work addresses the politics of speech and language communication with respect to Africans in the Diaspora in Jamaica and in the United States of America. Language hegemony is an expression of the power and control sustained by means of institutions such as schools. Depending on their linguistic choices or situational language use, post…
Descriptors: Social Justice, African Culture, Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Schneider, Edgar W., Ed. – 1996
Essays on varieties of English in the United States include: "Research Trends in the Study of American English" (Edgar W. Schneider); "Piney Woods Southern" (Lee Pederson); "Foundations of American English" (William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.); "The Comparability of Linguistic Atlas Records: The Case of LANCS an…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), College Students