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Topics: Sociocultural Patterns, Racial Characteristics, Political Influences, Metropolitan Areas, Ethnic...
As new technologies become less expensive, provide greater access to various forms of multimedia, and are integrated into all aspects of everyday life, online learning environments are becoming more prevalent. Online education, as experienced through course management systems, is being heralded as meeting the needs of students' lifestyles by managing time conflicts and access from remote locations, and helping people to juggle personal commitments (Harrison & Bergen, 2000). However,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Management Systems, Access...
This article discusses smallness from the point of view of the Sami, an indigenous people of the Arctic, and describes today's Sami education in Finland, the factors that have affected its formation and the challenges in strengthening it. The purpose of the article is to provide ideas to develop Sami education and encourage discovering methods that emanate from indigenous peoples' own cultural premises. This article is based on our previous studies and data that we further analyzed into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Educational Development,...
Home interviews were used to investigate the degree to which Mexican American parents have retained traditional Mexican family attitudes and childrearing practices. Respondents were 118 Mexican American and 148 Anglo American parents, residing in the same working-class neighborhoods in San Jose, California, who were married to persons of the same cultural background and had at least one young child. The typical respondent was a young mother who did not work outside the home and had four...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Anglo Americans, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Background, Cultural...
In this paper I examine similarities and differences between the required knowledge base of teachers of English as a second language (ESL) and French as a second language (FSL) for teaching in Kindergarten through Grade 12 programs in Canada. Drawing on knowledge base frameworks in language teacher education (Freeman and Johnson, 1998; Richards, 1998) I discuss how a variety of factors impact the knowledge for language teacher education programs. These factors include the linguistic and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Second...
The purpose of this paper is to study the effectiveness of oral presentation as an assessment tool in a Finance subject. Assessment data collected from a postgraduate Finance subject in an Australian university over a period of five years from 2005 to 2009 was analysed statistically to determine the relation between students' performance in oral presentation and other forms of assessments. The sample consists of assessment records of 412 students and 98 group presentations. From the study of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, English...
Scholars for decades now have argued for the importance of multiculturalism in the United States, as they become a more diverse society. Multicultural education has the potential to provide a curriculum that is inclusive, offering multiple perspectives, and concerned with equity. It is without question the responsibility of colleges and universities to make sure teachers are prepared to meet the needs of the students they will teach. This includes the need to provide cultural relevancy within a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, Theater Arts, Multicultural Education, Teacher...
This paper reports on the pairing of Spanish-speaking in-service teachers and Turkish-speaking pre-service teachers in a telecollaborative intercultural project in which English was used as a lingua franca. The authors of this paper were the course leaders. Participants' discourses were examined to understand how they communicated their cultures and whether they thought they had gained any cultural understanding from their interchanges. These data came from three sources: (1) The exchanges on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction,...
The imperative for Indigenous education in Australia is influenced by national political, social and economic discourses as Australian education systems continue to grapple with an agreed aspiration of full participation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Innovations within and policies guiding our education systems are often driven by agendas of reconciliation, equity, equality in participation and social justice. In this paper, we discuss key themes that emerged from a recent...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Phenomenology,...
Closing the achievement gap is a multi-faceted task. One important facet is using cultural proficiency--the ability of an educator from one cultural background to effectively teach, interact and connect with students of a different cultural background--as a tool. An examination of cultural proficiency was conducted at three comprehensive public high schools in the greater Los Angeles area using the responses from 195 teachers and 532 students to identify indicators of cultural proficiency based...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement Gap, Urban Schools, Cultural Awareness, Academic Achievement, Cultural...
The authors explore the ways current curricula continue to frustrate parental and student goals in the classroom, focusing on three separate ethnographic studies of subjects from African American, Appalachian, and Latino backgrounds. The researchers determine that, despite the idiographic nature of their individual studies, many marginalized populations demonstrate overlapping concerns that continue to rest outside the primary foci of educational reform. Results indicate the need for a critical...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Objectives, Ethnography, Educational Change, Student Attitudes, African...
Teacher self-disclosure (TSD) as a communication behavior can influence students' learning by increasing their engagement and class participation as well as helping them establish effective interpersonal relationships. Owning to its context-sensitive and culture-dependent nature, however, TSD topics, purposes, and considerations may vary cross-culturally. This study was an attempt to explore Iranian EFL teachers' perceptions of appropriateness of TSD as well as to investigate whether there was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language...
Hong Kong's universities have been attracting non-local students to diversify the overall student mix and enhance internationalism in higher education. Mainland Chinese students have become the largest non-local student source in this Western-style higher education sector. The diversity of student body together with the promotion of multicultural experience has created major concerns about provision of high quality learning and teaching. Studies show there have been potential peer interaction...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, English Departments,...
This reflective article is based on an ethnographic case study of five transnational teachers of English in Mexico. These teachers had acquired English as children of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. At the time of the study, they were living and teaching in their parents' place of origin in rural Mexico. The intent of the article is to examine how borderlands ways of knowing were reflected in their personal and professional lives. The transnational experiences of living in and between nation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Epistemology, Immigrants, Mexican Americans, Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Rural...
This article is inspired by the author's keynote address delivered at the Central New York Reading Council Conference in Syracuse, New York, on February 6, 2010. The author calls for teachers to --"go for broke?"--to give their all--to ensure that the children they serve achieve academic success in their literacy classrooms. By capitalizing on the cultural and linguistic strengths that children bring to school and employing culturally relevant and responsive pedagogies, the author...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Second...
Enormous variation exists among nations and regions in their inclusive education provisions. In addition to comparisons based on policy documents and figures, in-depth and contextually grounded comparative studies involving qualitative data based on stakeholder experiences are needed, especially between western and Asian regions or nations where socio-economic and cultural contexts vary greatly. This article examined and compared how the conceptualization of inclusive education and elements...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education,...
This discussion examines an academic intervention designed to enhance the motivation and classroom engagement of English Language Learners (ELLs) during literacy-based activities. Stemming from a sociocultural perspective of literacy (Au, 1993; Perez, 2004) within a funds of knowledge framework (González, Moll, & Amanti , 2005), our approach emphasizes personalized learning (Redding, 2013) by having the students design, develop, and implement classroom lessons based on their own interests....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Background, Family School Relationship, English (Second Language), Second...
This teacher inquiry project explored how I, a non-Spanish speaking teacher at the time, implemented critical, bilingual pedagogies to foster biliteracy development among my fifth-grade students. One, the project showed that students could further their biliteracy by incorporating their funds of knowledge through a family stories writing project. Two, many students were anxious about reading in Spanish, and dual poetry alleviated this due to its compactness and linguistic scaffolding. Finally,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Cultural...
Any teacher who has worked in a public high school knows the force oral participation holds in a classroom, for a curriculum, and with the students. Few things can make or break educational access, momentum and opportunity like classroom participation. When oral participation is neither present nor cultivated within a classroom, students and teachers lose opportunities to develop academically, linguistically (Fennema & Peterson, 1985; Swann, 1989), socially, emotionally, and/or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Immigrants, Teacher Responsibility, Adolescents, Student Participation, High School...
This study was inspired by the literary elements of "cuentos tipicos" (culturally-relevant stories). The book "Prietita y la llorona" ("Prietita and the Ghost Woman") written by Anzaldua (1995) is a good example of a "cuento" that provides information about medicinal herbs and also includes "consejos" (advice). The plot stems from a well-known Mexican story that is traditionally told orally and passed on through generations. Reading this book...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Family Literacy, Young Children, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Folk Culture,...
This package represents a program guide for preparing Spanish-speaking students to become bilingual secretaries or otherwise to put their bilingual skills to use in the office. The first part of the package reports on career possibilities and on the cultural background and education-related characteristics of the student population in question. The curriculum materials that follow are divided into the following areas: (1) office procedures, (2) typing, (3) English for specific purposes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Careers, Clerical Occupations, Cultural...
Quynh (pseudonym), a Vietnamese-American female, was an honor student in her K-12 education in Vietnam four decades ago. April 30, 1975, abruptly signaled the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Many military personnel from the former regime found themselves and their loved ones in danger of being persecuted by the victorious new government. Nearly a decade later, Quynh and her family were permitted to enter the United States as political asylees; Southern California became their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Military Personnel, War, Daughters,...
The comprehensive listening curriculum occupies an important position in elementary teaching stage for English major. How could we arrange the listening class better? Considering the characteristics of comprehensive listening curriculum for English major, teachers can help students improve speaking by listening, cultivating their thinking and expression abilities. By this way, teachers can make the business English curriculum exert its effects completely, realizing the goal of proper...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second...
In recent decades, the Bedouin population in Galilee, in Northern Israel, experienced significant multifaceted changes. Exposure to other cultures and other social components, with which this population had very limited interaction in the past, had affected its norms and behavior patterns and caused adaption of manners and values that had not been tolerated in the past. As school in Israel is compulsory and local high school served various segments of the society, all Arab minority children...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Arabs, Minority Groups, Qualitative Research, Mothers, Employed...
This article examines how pre-service teachers can work effectively with Mexican and Mexican American students. Using the foundation of funds of knowledge (González, Moll, & Amanti, 2005) and the critical race theory concept of community cultural wealth (Yosso, 2005), the article weaves together these ideas to discuss how they can be implemented in teacher education programs. Added to the conversation is the importance of historical context in better understanding current educational...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teachers, Mexican Americans, Race, Critical Theory, Teacher Education...
Achievement motivation is something that all members of the school community want to support in students, however few may recognize that it is influenced by culture. The very meaning of "achievement" is culturally variable, and the motives that students have for achieving may be quite different, depending upon their cultural background. The practices of schools tend to reflect the individualism of the dominant U.S. culture. Many students come from families that are more...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individualism, Achievement Need, Student Motivation, Cultural Differences, Bilingual...
This study captures the experiences of language background other than English (LBOTE) preservice teachers using a case study approach to explore identity development. Wenger's (2000) "modes of belonging" form the theoretical framework to develop an understanding of the factors contributing to teacher identity. This article draws on in-depth interviews of two participants. The discussion of the findings aims to contribute to a further understanding of the formation of LBOTE preservice...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Professional Identity, Self Concept,...
This paper aims to show how imagination is an important tool in the formation of aspiration and ethnic capital for young high school students and their parents in the city of Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Through semi-structured focus group interviews with parents, teachers and students, data from the demographic space of the school revealed that despite the limitations in economic capital there was social and cultural capital in migrant families, which provided reinforcement for the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Migrants, Cultural Capital, Social Capital,...
As presented by Lee and Majors (2003), "The use of call and response is a familiar structure [within communities of color] for sustaining talk, for communicating perspective, and for marking engagement" (p. 64). In this paper we delineate the need for a call-and-response pedagogy in engaging students of color in a responsive, critically multicultural manner while creating opportunities for the expression of their cultural wealth. Drawing from over three years of experience as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, High School Students, Classroom Communication, Poetry, Minority...
Cooperative learning has been introduced into International Accounting, a second year subject at a major Australian university. The purpose was to provide students with a satisfying experience of learning within a social context and to develop their interpersonal, professional and written communication skills. The main data were collected during the Spring Semester 2005. In the penultimate lecture, a questionnaire was distributed to each of the students present. Findings suggest that despite...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Cooperative Learning, Accounting, Social Environment,...
This study explored Ghanaian primary school teachers' values and challenges of integrating cultural games in teaching mathematics. Using an In-depth conversational interview, ten (10) certificated teachers' voices on the values and challenges of integrating games were examined. Thematic data analysis was applied to the qualitative data from the interviews. Results indicated that although cultural games count as instructional tools in four knowledge domains, actualizing their value in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, African Culture, Games, Mathematics Instruction, Primary...
Teachers who embrace culturally relevant practices support children's learning by infusing "cultural referents" into the curriculum to provide children with learning opportunities that are related to their experiences outside of the classroom. They strive to establish congruency between home, community, and school and to use knowledge of children's cultures when designing environments and experiences, thus helping children connect school to their own identities and lives...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Culturally Relevant Education, Focus Groups, Preschool Education, Preschool Children,...
Human development is a cultural process, and language serves as a cultural tool is closely related to virtually all the cognitive changes. The author addresses issues of language in education, and suggests that changing the medium of instruction should not be understood as purely a pedagogical decision. The connection between culture and language is examined for understanding why Hong Kong Chinese learners are stereotyped as passive learners. Through exploring personal experience with a student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Correlation, Stereotypes, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Cultural...
Reading skill has taken on an important role in most EFL teaching situations. While linguistic knowledge is only one aspect of this skill, background knowledge including culture can also play an important role (Alptekin, 2006; Johnson, 1981; Pritchard, 1990; Steffensen, Chitra, & Anderson, 1979). This study investigated the effect of cultural background or cultural schema on the performance of Iranian EFL students on local (bottom-up) and global (top-down) processes. Sixty-six female...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Schemata (Cognition), Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language...
Indigenous experiences, as found within traditional ways and cultural practices, are an acknowledgement of traditional methods for sharing, learning, and collective knowledge development and maintenance. The application of Cultural Safety Circles can help provide a collective space where definitions for cultural and educational exchange can take place and be identified. It is through this application that a discussion is presented on how the inherent issue of cultural safety, as it pertains to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Indigenous Populations, Safety, Cultural Background, Higher Education, Cultural...
While many digitization projects are currently underway, to help preserve Indigenous traditions, few explore the full potential of the development of digital media and networked technology through Indigenous cultures. This paper outlines the three phases necessary for a robust digital preservation, promotion and growth project: 1) Straightforward documentation of Indigenous traditions; 2) Translation of Indigenous traditions into emerging technology and contemporary cultural modes of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Indigenous Populations, Cultural Background, Preservation, Information Technology,...
Changing demographics in the U.S. require a focus on educating future teachers on how to engage children and families with diverse backgrounds. Teacher educators have been charged to address teachers' cultural competence and provide pedagogical instruction for working with diverse populations. We bolster this line of inquiry by sharing activities used in our university classrooms that support the development of teacher candidates' cultural competence vis-à-vis cultural humility. Acknowledging...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Cultural...
The paper analyzes studies on continuing education, explains the concept of "continuity of patriotic education and moral development by means of regional culture", determines the uniqueness of regional culture as the core of patriotic education and moral development, and characterizes the model of continuity of patriotic education and moral development. The practical value of the paper is that its results could be used to develop the cultural potential of Russian regions. The results...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Patriotism, Citizenship Education, Moral Development, Continuing Education, Regional...
This study focused on household funds of knowledge or "historically accumulated bodies of knowledge and skills essential for household functioning and well-being" (Gonzalez, Andrade, Civil, & Moll, 2001). A Funds of Knowledge approach provides both a methodological and theoretical lens for educators to understand both themselves and their students in more complex ways. Participants included five culturally, economically, and linguistically diverse students and their families. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Background, Elementary School Students, Language Arts, Working Class, Family...
This paper provides an overall analysis of how multi-lingual writer like Amitav Ghosh write about emotion in his literary text, and emphasize on how multilingual authors display emotion/affect through use of literary multilingualism (affective markers) combined with writer style. Through use of multiple strategies, they reduces the limitations of interpretation of their texts. Furthermore, this paper highlighted the centrally sociolinguistic and cognitive dimensions of the relationships between...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Language Styles, Multilingualism, Authors, Literary Devices, Affective Behavior,...
This paper is based on a participatory action research. The research is based on a process of resolving real-life moral dilemmas in the Moral Education classroom. It critically analyses the types of real-life moral dilemmas that a selected group of secondary students thought about. It also indicates the moral choices that they make based on their negotiation skills and cultural background. Participants in this study were twenty-two 16-17 year old adolescents from three different types of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Problems, Conflict Resolution, Secondary School Students,...
Over the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in doctoral enrolments of Asian international students in Australian universities. While policies have been developed to meet the needs of these students, there seems to be some confusion around the terms internationalisation, globalisation, bi-cultural, inter-cultural, multi-cultural, and trans-cultural within these policies. In this paper, we define these terms and advocate for a policy position which orients to a futurist definition of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Students, Universities, Foreign Countries, Asians,...
Moral Education (ME) in Malaysia has undergone numerous changes and face lifts but still there are complaints about the subject and the latest was how students themselves voiced their opinions that ME is of no use to them. However due to policy and the fact that the subject complements Islamic Studies confirms that the subject is going to be in existence. To date, the Moral Education syllabus has been revised once in Malaysia, in the year 2000, but it lacks attention to a student perceptive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Moral Development, Secondary Education,...
The Instituto Caro y Cuervo of Bogota, Colombia, named after two outstanding Colombian intellectuals, was established in 1942 primarily to complete the lexicographic work of Rufino Jose Cuervo. It has continued its work through several reorganizations, and in 1947 was charged with the study of the present state of the Spanish language in various regions of Colombia. Its current goals include continuation of the dictionary, study of all aspects of Spanish language in Colombia and Latin America,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Enrichment, Descriptive...
Culture is integral to the learning process. It is the organization and way of life within the community of students and teachers and directs the way they communicate, interact, and approach teaching and learning. Although founded in particular values and principles, the academy, like most organizations, is impacted day-to-day by its culture. Yet, the traditional higher education institution has not been designed to operate within a racially or ethnically diverse student population. The social,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Culturally Relevant Education, Learning Processes, Higher Education, Organizational...
This study investigates the comprehension of indirect request speech act used by Iranian people in daily communication. The study is an attempt to find out whether different cultural backgrounds and the gender of the speakers affect the comprehension of the indirect request of speech act. The sample includes thirty males and females in Gachsaran (a city in the province of Kohgiloye va Boyerahmad in Iran) and thirty participants (males and females) in Farokhshahr (a city in the province of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Acts, Cultural Influences,...
This qualitative research looks at the effects that language choices and cultural practices have on identity development in the education of minority students in the United States. It examines the educational journey of Irma, a Latina educator. Through the analysis of interviews with the participant, this paper intends to show the effects of language ideologies on her cultural identity and literacy development. The interviews with this Latina educator exemplify how language, cultural identity,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Qualitative Research, Minority Groups, Self Concept, Second Language Learning,...
The purpose of this study was to examine how teachers attempt to understand the various ethnic groups, cultural backgrounds, languages, customs, values, ceremonies and symbols of the children and families in the community in which they teach. Sixty practicing teachers in the Midwestern United States were interviewed to examine their understanding of diversity. Teachers report numerous methods; however, they demonstrate a lack of true understanding of diversity. Teachers reported a reliance on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ethnic Groups, Student Diversity, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Cultural...
This paper examines how a study abroad experiential learning course in diversity provided a cultural immersion experience for a group of social work students from a small private university in central Kentucky. The students participated in a three-week international education experience in Kenya and reported this experience helped them become more sensitive to cultural diversity and to better understand their cultural heritage and its influence on their worldview.
Topics: ERIC Archive, International Education, Private Colleges, Experiential Learning, Cultural Pluralism,...
In this article, the authors discuss a pedagogical approach that connects the cultural aspects of mathematics with its academic aspects in which they refer to as ethnomodeling. Ethnomodeling is the process of translation and elaboration of problems and questions taken from systems that are part of the daily life of the members of any given cultural group. Here, the authors offer an alternative goal for research, which is the acquisition of both emic and etic forms of knowledge for the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Mathematical Models, Mathematics, Mathematics...
