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Lovenduski, Joni – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1997
Offers a comparative case study that deals with the impact of party politics on the representation of women. Specifically examines political parties and their legislative agendas developed in Great Britain and West Germany during the 1980s. Demonstrates how a careful teacher can synthesize feminist and non-feminist approaches to material. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Females
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Okagaki, Lynn; Diamond, Karen E. – Young Children, 2000
Provides illustrations of the ways in which cultural differences in parents' beliefs and practices may affect children's adjustment to early childhood settings. Makes suggestions for working with young children who bridge two cultures as they make the transition between home and the early childhood classroom. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Caregiver Role, Child Rearing, Cultural Awareness
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Pye, David; Haywood, Chris; Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 1996
Highlights the impact of recent state and employment changes upon the young British working class in vocational training. Argues that the displacement of work by vocational training is creating new and contradictory formations of masculine identities. Focuses on a group of low-achieving, white, working-class males' responses to this new context.…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Education Work Relationship, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries
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Woodward, John – Education and Treatment of Children, 1993
This article critiques the "Research, Development, and Dissemination" model for development of innovations in special education and urges greater recognition of the cultural perspective for understanding resistance to change by teachers. Difficulties teachers have had in implementing Direct Instruction principles and their reactions to…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cultural Influences, Disabilities, Educational Change
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Barden, Jack; Davis, Carol – Tribal College, 1999
Describes the development of a teacher preparation program at Turtle Mountain Community College, which tries to balance pedagogy, subject matter, and culture in a holistic way. States that the program seeks to assess students in the program based on the outcomes they have achieved. Asserts that the hallmark of this embryonic program is…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Community Colleges, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences
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Villalpando, Octavio – New Directions for Student Services, 2004
Critical race theory requires the examination of institutional policies, programs, and practices that interfere with Latino students' rights and abilities to receive the best educational opportunities available within higher education. With attention to an ethic of caring and social justice, student services staff can work to undo the effects of…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Student Rights, Justice, Educational Opportunities
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Hallinan, Maureen T. – Sociology of Education, 2001
Discusses sociological contributions to understanding black and white inequality in education. Outlines political, cultural, and ideological perspectives on black-white inequality that guide empirical research about access to schooling, educational opportunities in schools, and outcomes of schooling. Relates these perspectives to educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Biological Influences, Blacks, Cultural Influences
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Sorensen, Birgitte Holm – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2005
This article focuses on the gap between the use of Information and Computing Technology (ICT) in schools and the use made of ICT in children's everyday life outside school. Particular emphasis is placed on the communities of practice that young people create through their use of digital technology. The article is based on data collected over five…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Nemoto, Tooru; Iwamoto, Mariko; Oh, Hyun Joo; Wong, Serena; Nguyen, Hongmai – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
This study investigates cognitive, cultural, and contextual factors that influence HIV-related risk behaviors among Asian women who engage in sex work at massage parlors in San Francisco. Focus groups and qualitative interviews were conducted for Vietnamese and Thai masseuses and massage parlor owners/managers. Economic pressure as well as…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Intervention, Females, Focus Groups
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Goldstein, Avery E.; Reiboldt, Wendy – Qualitative Report, 2004
This longitudinal, ethnographic research study was incepted to investigate service use among families living in poor urban communities. Themes that emerged during data collection focus on the variety of roles played by women, in the home, and in the neighborhood. We identified numerous strengths exhibited by women, that is, roles that help…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Females, Ethnography, Social Services
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Bethel, Joyous C. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2005
This paper will address the development and offering of two combined (BSW and MSW) courses in Grief and Bereavement. This is a description of the purposes, educational units, and assignments for both courses. In addition, there is discussion of the learning environment to include educational strategies to promote both didactic and experiential…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Grief, Student Evaluation, Experiential Learning
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Thwaite, Anne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
This paper will examine the discourse of one experienced teacher of Indigenous children in lessons observed as part of the Conductive Hearing Loss (CHL) project conducted by Edith Cowan University in Perth. In the classroom observed, all the children were Indigenous and the teacher was aware that some children were suffering from CHL. This…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Student Diversity
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Shedivy, Sandra L. – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2004
The major purpose of this study was to explore, in a phenomenological tradition, factors that lead some students to persist in foreign language study past the usual 2 years in high school. Factors that have been prevalent in the literature include language aptitude, motivation, grades, intellectual and cultural curiosity, language learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation
Baker, William; Boonkit, Kamonpan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
Presently, the importance of culture and context is becoming a significant feature of research in the field of learning strategies. To date, there has been little research into learning strategies utilized for reading and writing in Asian EAP (English for Academic Purposes) contexts, and in particular in the Thai context. With this in mind, this…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Thai, English for Academic Purposes
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Dillabough, Jo-Anne – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
In this article I explore the part played by liberal democratic ideology in the regulation of female work, in particular, the work of women teacher educators and contract researchers in British and Canadian teacher education departments. My goal is to examine the relationship between symbolic notions of female domesticity and service as they have…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Schools of Education, Women Faculty, Females
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