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Dash, Paul – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2010
This article looks at the learning of African Caribbean pupils in art and design classrooms in the United Kingdom. It proceeds from the proposition that African Caribbean pupils, as the descendants of enslaved peoples whose cultural lineage has been blurred by the skewed relationship with the white majority group, are uniquely disadvantaged in the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Latin Americans
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Simmons, Lakisha L.; Simmons, Chris B.; Hayek, Mario; Parks, Rachida; Mbarika, Victor W. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2012
A significant body of literature focuses on learning mediated by technology (eLearning). We conceptually develop and empirically test a model of trust antecedents with online undergraduate students. Contributing to the student eLearning success literature, we posit that eLearning students require the support of technologies and trust in those…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Comparative Analysis, Trust (Psychology), Undergraduate Students
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Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Song, Lulu; Leavell, Ashley Smith; Kahana-Kalman, Ronit; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Developmental Science, 2012
We examined gestural and verbal interactions in 226 mother-infant pairs from Mexican, Dominican, and African American backgrounds when infants were 14 months and 2 years of age, and related these interactions to infants' emerging skills. At both ages, dyads were video-recorded as they shared a wordless number book, a wordless emotion book, and…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Mothers, Infants, Receptive Language
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Stewart, Miranda – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
This article draws on interactional pragmatics and a cross-cultural approach (UK, France, Spain) to investigate the negotiation of individual and group identities in two different speech events, parliamentary debates and editorial meetings. The cross-cultural examination of the use of linguistic resources for signalling "social role,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Pragmatics
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de Jong, Ester J.; Bearse, Carol I. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
Dual language (DL) programs aim to create additive bilingual learning environments where the dominant language and the minority language are given equal status at the program, curricular, and instructional level. While several studies have documented the effectiveness of DL programs and classroom-based practices, few have considered how the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Focus Groups
Palmer, Chris C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation examines how borrowed derivational morphemes such as "-age," "-ity," "-cion," and "-ment" became productive in the English language, particularly in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. It endeavors to expand our current understanding of morphological productivity as a historical phenomenon--to account for not only…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Linguistics, English, Poetry
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Cascante-Gomez, Fernando A. – Religious Education, 2009
This article summarizes recent efforts by Latin-American theologians concerned with developing a pluralist theology of liberation. The author highlights some of the most significant issues and themes of this emerging theological reflection among liberation theologians. Finally, he identifies some of the challenges a pluralist theology of…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Philosophy, Cultural Pluralism, Religious Factors
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2011
The article shows how mind-mapping software can be used to help premedical students learn, apply and relate terminology sharing Greek and Latin roots. Mind-mapping software use a center, branches, and sub-branches to show connections between Greek and Latin roots generated on the mind map. Instruction with the mind-mapping software goes through…
Descriptors: Greek, Latin, Morphemes, Phonology
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Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
The current study investigates the limited attainment of adult language acquisition in terms of an associative learning phenomenon whereby earlier learned cues attentionally block those that are experienced later. Short- and long-term blocking are demonstrated in experimental investigations of learned attention in the acquisition of temporal…
Descriptors: Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Associative Learning, Early Experience
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Kolstrein, Abraham Magendzo – Journal of Moral Education, 2011
My professional interest originally focused on curriculum planning and development, but for the last 30 years I have been researching, publishing and teaching in the field of human rights education. Suddenly, I became a human rights educator. Suddenly? No, nothing in our personal and professional life is the result of an abrupt occurrence. We are…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Curriculum Development, Civil Rights, Democracy
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Gonzalez, Roger Geertz – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2010
This study examines the ethnic identity of Cuban American and non-Hispanic White college students at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. Current Latino/a and White college student ethnic identity theories are limited regarding a variety of contextual considerations such as immigration, majority-minority demographics, student…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Cultural Traits, White Students, Latin Americans
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Poveda, David – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
In this article, I examine literacy artifacts placed by students in different locations of a state-run secondary school in the city of Madrid, Spain. The data were gathered as part of a two-year long multilevel ethnography focused on the social and academic trajectories of immigrant students in Spanish compulsory secondary education. The analysis…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Latin Americans, Anthropological Linguistics, Ethnography
Hanson, Mark – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book focuses on the questions of: why do some economically disadvantaged nations develop significantly faster than others, and what roles do their educational systems play? As case illustrations, in the early 1960s Mexico and South Korea were both equally underdeveloped agrarian societies. Since that time, the development strategies pursued…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Malcolm, Zaria T. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the ethnic identity experiences of Caribbean international students in the context of the over-generalized and homogenous aspects of their institutional discourse on international students. It also sought to consider their identification with their native backgrounds and the United States in view of their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Journals, Foreign Students
Lopez, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Second-generation Dominicans have been able to make remarkable gains in college completion rates over the last twenty years, and have higher rates of obtaining a bachelor's degree than native-born Blacks and Puerto Ricans who live within their same under-resourced communities (Hernandez and Stevens-Acevedo, 2004). Also, Dominicans are known to…
Descriptors: Blacks, African Americans, Higher Education, Sex Stereotypes
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