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Ellington, Lucien – Social Studies, 1998
Questions the multiculturalists' vision that an ethnic group's self-esteem and subsequent academic achievement can improve through the study of its culture. Cites the paucity of studies supporting the effectiveness of interventions to improve inter-ethnic group attitudes. Maintains that some multiculturalists are more interested in superficial…
Descriptors: Alienation, Criticism, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism
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McWilliam, Erica – Interchange, 1996
Explores the relation between gender and pedagogy, examining the importance of gendered bodies in the construction of the great teacher as a cultural phenomenon. The paper discusses the gendering of the slippage between great and abusive pedagogy, investigating whether male diction must become malediction when women instigate powerful pedagogical…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women
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Bernal, Ernesto M.; Valencia, Richard R. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2000
Reviews major issues germane to the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) case. Discusses the second wave of Texas standards-based reform that would institutionalize retention for students failing a state-mandated achievement test, proposed federal legislation limiting use of high stakes tests, and psychometric and policy lessons learned from…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Black Students, Court Litigation, Criticism
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Townsend, Barbara K.; Twombly, Susan B. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1998
Addresses current literature on organizational change and leadership in the community college through a feminist perspective. Notes the ability of community colleges to serve as agents of change in improving women's conditions. Contains 31 references. (YKH)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Community Colleges, Educational Environment
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Mora, Jill Kerper; Wink, Joan; Wink, Dawn – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
Describes dual language instruction models, and presents a paradigm for examining congruence among theoretical models, teacher beliefs, and actual classroom practices to determine program effectiveness. Examples illustrate implementation pitfalls. Analysis of Proposition 227 finds it to be a decontextualized procedural model; it has an incoherent…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Criticism, Educational Principles, Educational Theories
Porter, Robert; Yellow Bird, Michael – Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, 2000
The development of a new Indigenous Nations Studies program at the University of Kansas is described. Success depended on a critical mass of Indigenous and non-Indigenous faculty and students that had a sense of political and social justice and understood the need for institutional change. The biggest challenge was countering the entrenched…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, College Programs, Criticism, Educational Objectives
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Henderson, Deborah – Australian Journal of Education, 2005
This article explores some of the debates about the nature and purpose of education in the social sciences in the Australian curricula. It examines recent attempts in studies of society and environment and history curricula to prepare students for global citizenship and responds to neo-conservative critiques that our "politically…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2005
In the shadow of a Manhattan housing project, Public School 33 is coming back to life. A new principal has brought a wave of optimism, test scores are way up, and middle-class families who used to avoid the school are enrolling their children. In Brooklyn, teenagers who might have dropped out of school are getting diplomas through a special…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Tests, Criticism
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O'Flahavan, John; Wallis, Judy – Voices from the Middle, 2005
In this article, the authors discuss how Louise Rosenblatt's work influenced many teachers' teaching and learning practices. Rosenblatt was known for helping readers find their rightful place in the act of reading. Louise argued in the 1930s (and steadfastly maintained until her recent death) that the act of reading was a dynamic transaction…
Descriptors: Democracy, Literature Appreciation, Reader Response, Context Effect
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Oates, Tim – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
This article analyses the increasingly diverse and sophisticated critique of "outcomes approaches" in vocational qualifications; critique which has now moved well beyond the early claims of reductivism and behaviourism. Avoiding a naive position on extraction of points of consensus, this article attempts to extract key issues which have…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Outcome Based Education
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Stevens, Lisa Patel – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
This paper explores the political, social, and cultural contexts of current early literacy federal policies in the United States. Building upon existing critiques of the policy and its epistemological stances, this paper first analyses the planning and discussion surrounding the introduction of the policy to state leaders and also how it is first…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Educational Policy, Cultural Context, Epistemology
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Waxman, Barbara – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2005
Literary texts are cultural artifacts revealing a society's values and attitudes; reading literature about elders and old age can change readers' ageist attitudes. Beginning with these assumptions, I discuss ways of teaching cross-cultural aging in undergraduate literature courses, using Chilean texts paired with American texts. Students learn how…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Foreign Countries, English Instruction, Teaching Methods
Sharma, Manoj – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2005
The purpose of this study was to conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of the health education profession and discipline in India. Materials from CINAHL, ERIC, MEDLINE, and Internet were collected to conduct the open coding of the SWOT analysis. Strengths of health education in India include an elaborate…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Physicians, Quality Control, Marketing
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Steyn, G. M.; Kamper, G. D. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
In pursuit of quality, the learning process should be continuously improved by changing, among other things, the learning material and the way learning is facilitated. A concern for academics, teaching experience in the B.Ed. module: Personnel Management, a module offered by means of distance education at the University of South Africa, is to…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Personnel Management
Benton, Michael – 1993
The institutional view of literature in the National Curriculum of Great Britain shows a dramatic belittlement in its revised version. It lacks a coherent literary or pedagogical rationale and substitutes a functional one in which over-simplification purports to be clarification. The institution is primarily concerned to define English literary…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adolescent Literature, British National Curriculum, Childrens Literature
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