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Cross, Chrissy J. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2017
In the undergraduate biology laboratory, many freshmen are apathetic towards the content of the course. Curriculum based reader's theater (CRBT) is an instructional method that can increase interest the students in the content of the course while improving student communication, collaboration and understanding. This research is an examination of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, College Science, Science Laboratories
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Ramos, Diana Carolina; Sayer, Peter – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
The authors present three distinct cases of English-Spanish bilinguals on the U.S.-Mexico border to illustrate how legitimate and authentic language use functions as forms of symbolic capital (P. Bourdieu, 1991). Language practices in the occupational domain exemplify how varieties of English and Spanish come into contact, are negotiated, and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bilingualism, Professional Personnel, Geographic Location
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Lee, Elsa Ukanyezi – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This paper makes a twofold contribution. Firstly it presents a typology of eco-clubs that can be used to contextualise eco-club observations by researchers and can support management of eco-clubs by practitioners. Secondly it explains how participation in eco-clubs provides a space for a child to both enact and develop as a citizen, a place for…
Descriptors: Clubs, Ecology, Conservation (Environment), Citizen Participation
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Brockmann, Michaela; Laurie, Ian – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Successive governments have pledged to enhance the quality of apprenticeship in Britain so as to achieve "parity of esteem" with academic study. Yet, at the same time, the discourse of the academic-vocational divide has dominated the academic, policy-maker and practitioner debates. This paper draws on two recent studies designed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Self Concept
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Griffin, Meridith; Phoenix, Cassandra – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
How do older adults learn to tell a "new" story about, through, and with the body? We know that narratives are embodied, lived and central to the process of meaning-making--and as such, they do not lie in the waiting for telling, but are an active part of everyday interaction. Telling stories about ourselves to others is one way in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Physical Activities, Females
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Shamsuddin, Shomon – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2016
Information and guidance about college is critical for students to pursue postsecondary education. However, students attending urban schools often have less information and less access to information about college pathways than their peers at wealthy suburban schools. High school counselors are a primary source of college guidance but little is…
Descriptors: School Guidance, Urban Schools, Post High School Guidance, College Readiness
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Wang, Xiaomei – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2016
The religious domain has been identified as an important domain for language maintenance (Fishman 1972; Gal 1979). However, the effect of religion in language maintenance is not always positive (Spolsky 2003). This paper attempts to explore whether religion, Catholicism for this study, plays a significant role in the maintenance of Hakka in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Role of Religion, Catholics
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Qodariah, Lelly – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The rise of Indonesian women cannot be separated from the role of Aisyiyah organization since it was established in 1917. The examples are in education, social, religious, charity and society for more than four thousands of Aisyiyah Bustanul Afthal Kindergarten, big hospitals, health business such as mother children health, economic activities,…
Descriptors: Social Change, Females, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness
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Plante, Catherine; Moreau, Nicolas; Jaimes, Annie; Turbide, Carole – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
Recruitment is known to be a challenge for intervention programs targeting youths, including sports programs. Following the popularity of the "Alter-Action" program of the Montreal-based organization "DesÉquilibres", we wanted to understand the motivations and barriers to youths' recruitment in this voluntary sports community…
Descriptors: Youth, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Recruitment
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Silva, Janelle M. – Social Studies, 2016
This article examines how teachers can develop a sense of social activism in students through critical multiculturalism. Drawing upon data from a nine-month participant observation study of a first-grade public charter school classroom in central California, this article highlights how teachers can integrate critical multiculturalism within an…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Activism, Social Action, Cultural Awareness
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Mayeza, Emmanuel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
South African research on young children's constructions of social identities illuminates the significance of play in the construction of gender identities. However, what remains largely understudied are the children's construction of sexualities through play. The dominant discourse of "childhood innocence" obscures the variegated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Self Concept, Sexual Identity
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Gudiño Paredes, Sandra – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2018
This exploratory study aimed to describe the impact of the 'Science in Family project', as a transformative learning model for science teachers trying to improve student's attitudes toward STEM subjects. This study took place in a public elementary school in Monterrey, Mexico, which has been developing this project for more than thirteen years…
Descriptors: Models, Science Instruction, Transformative Learning, STEM Education
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Otting, Jennifer – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
In the last 20 years, there has been a growing preoccupation with fragile contexts. International development and diplomatic communities have focused on implementing Western-oriented education policies centered on democratisation efforts to transform fragile contexts. In order to understand what happens when education reform policies are enmeshed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizenship Education, Educational Change
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Crivits, Maarten; de Krom, Michiel P. M. M.; Block, Thomas; Dessein, Joost – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Farm education organized by farmers and directed towards students and groups of citizens is a relatively new practice often considered as one specific business strategy to diversify farmers' income. Although we endorse the importance of an economic rationale we argue that this conceptualization undermines a diversity of perspectives on educative…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Discourse Analysis, Networks, Foreign Countries
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McGlashan, Hayley; Fitzpatrick, Katie – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
The nature of sex/ualities, genders and schooling has changed considerably over the last 20 years, with global political, social and cultural shifts bringing the lives of queer youth to the fore. Trans youth are now more visible and various kinds of support groups in schools (such as diversity support groups, queer groups and gay-straight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity
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