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Lange, Matthew – Cambridge University Press, 2011
In "Educations in Ethnic Violence", Matthew Lange explores the effects education has on ethnic violence. Lange contradicts the widely-held belief that education promotes peace and tolerance. Rather, Lange finds that education commonly contributes to aggression, especially in environments with ethnic divisions, limited resources, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Politics of Education, Violence
Garrett-Rucks, Paula – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The aim of this study is to further the understanding of foreign language (FL) learners' development of intercultural competence in an instructed learning environment. In this study, second-semester U.S. French language learners enrolled in a Midwestern two-year technical school were directed to access explicit cultural instruction, authentic…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, French, Online Courses
Union, Craig D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Ethnocentrism is a condition that influences the development of prejudice and stereotypes of one's own ethnic group (the ingroup) towards foreigners (the outgroup) based on a foreigner's ethnic group or background. When left unmonitored in a K-12 environment, ethnocentrism can perpetuate prejudice and stereotypes against certain students in a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups, Ethnocentrism, Data Analysis
Campbell, Katy; Schwier, Richard A.; Kanuka, Heather – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this project was to initiate a program of research to explore how instructional designers around the world use design to make a social difference locally and globally. The central research question was, "Are there social and political purposes for design that are culturally based?" A growing body of research is concerned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Differences
Johnson, Stacey Margarita; Nelson, Barbara Mullins – Language Awareness, 2010
While many students in a foreign language classroom are successful at learning the prescribed curriculum, they may never move beyond the grammar and vocabulary to experience transformative learning. On the other hand, students who do not achieve proficiency may experience a perspective transformation as a result of studying a foreign language.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Second Language Learning, Transformative Learning
Garas, Dimitri; Godinho, Sally – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
This paper presents snapshots of a qualitative study that investigated how Year 8 boys in an ethnocentric community school configured their constructions of masculinity. Fifteen boys participated in focus group discussions that extended over a six-week period. For one focus group, the boys were invited to bring a "totem", which was an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Maintenance, Community Schools, Focus Groups
Skerrett, Allison – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2009
This article explores how racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity are addressed in secondary English curriculum policy in Massachusetts, U.S.A. Data are analyzed through theories of the sociology of knowledge and the myth of the United States melting pot. Analysis revealed that curriculum policy privileged Eurocentric literature and the English…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Educational Policy, Ethnic Diversity, Sociology
Van de Kleut, Geraldine – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2011
In the spring of 2008, the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat of the Ontario Ministry of Education in Canada released a DVD that was one in a series designed to train literacy teachers in what the Ministry referred to as "high-yield" comprehension strategies. Using the lens of Critical Race Theory, this article analyses the picture book…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Literacy, Teacher Education
Goh, Jonathan Wee Pin – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2009
With the global economy becoming more integrated, the issues of cross-cultural relevance and transferability of leadership theories and practices have become increasingly urgent. Drawing upon the concept of parallel leadership in schools proposed by Crowther, Kaagan, Ferguson, and Hann as an example, the purpose of this paper is to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Intercultural Communication, Global Approach
Souto-Manning, Mariana – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
In what ways can teachers incorporate young people's home and community literacy practices into classrooms when such practices vastly differ from the teachers' literacy experiences? How can teacher education curriculum and teaching influence teachers' pedagogical practices? How can children's roles be pedagogically reframed and become meaningful…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Teacher Education Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Young Children
Benjamin, Phyllis Joanna – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In this study, the researcher examined the levels of cultural awareness and knowledge among graduate students enrolled in a counseling program at Mississippi State University. A secondary purpose was to assess differences in the level of cultural awareness between Caucasian and African American graduate students enrolled in this counseling…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Graduate Students, Multicultural Education, Ethnocentrism
Garfinkle, Adam – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2011
The author wrote a piece called "What Our Children Should Learn about 9/11." In that piece, the author made just four simple points. These include: (1) children should know the facts; (2) once they had a grounding in the facts, the children should not abjure moral judgment; (3) children should learn to make both analytical and moral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Foreign Policy, Arabs
Okawa, Gail Y.; Fox, Thomas; Chang, Lucy J. Y.; Windsor, Shana R.; Chavez, Frank Bella, Jr.; Hayes, LaGuan – Writing Center Journal, 2010
Everyone involved in writing centers must recognize that the educational community of the 1990s will continue to grow more diverse culturally, linguistically, scholastically. Given this diversity, students, teachers, and tutors will become more, not less, interdependent. The ready, predictable answers and assumptions that existed once in a…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Peer Teaching, Tutoring
Santoro, Ninetta – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2009
This article draws on data from a small-scale qualitative study conducted in Australia that explored how pre-service teachers engaged with students from culturally diverse backgrounds during practicum and how they understood their own ethnic identities. The findings of the study suggest that pre-service teachers have simplistic understandings of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Ethnocentrism
Skerrett, Allison – English Education, 2009
This article explores how the contexts of secondary English teaching in Ontario, Canada, interacted with one teacher's identity to produce teaching perspectives and practices that were monocultural in nature and limited in their multicultural and antiracist emphases. In doing so, the article contributes to educational research that explores the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Student Diversity, Foreign Countries, English Teachers