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Teachers as Language-Policy Actors: Contending with the Erasure of Lesser-Used Languages in Schools
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Brown, Kara – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2010
On the basis of an ethnographic study of the Voro-language revitalization in Estonia, this article explores the way teachers function as policy actors in the broader context of the school. As policy actors, the language teachers' appropriation of regional-language policy helps simultaneously to reproduce and challenge existing ideologies in the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ethnography, Ideology, Foreign Countries
Language and Class in Minority Education.
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Collins, James – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Examines the effects of linguistic and cultural diversity on the educational achievement of working class and minority students by reappraising the deficit/difference controversy of the 1960s and 1970s and examines how class and politics shape both cultural-linguistic and school-based assumptions about language and literacy. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Unpackaging Cultural Effects on Classroom Learning: Native Hawaiian Peer Assistance and Child-Generated Activity.
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Weisner, Thomas S.; And Others – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Presents the results of observation and interview studies of sibling caretaking and peer assistance in Native Hawaiian contexts, and compares these activities in natal and school activity settings. Classrooms should be accommodated to selected features of natal culture activity settings. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Cultural Context
The Value of Conformity: Learning to Stay in School.
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Delgado-Gaitan, Concha – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Examines 12 Chicano high school students and their families in La Victoria, Colorado, to determine the social conditions that help some students to stay in school and compel others to leave. Discusses the degree of congruency between the values of school held by the school, the family, and the students. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Context, Dropout Characteristics, Ethnicity
Achievement outside the Classroom: The Role of Nonacademic Activities in the Lives of High School Students.
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Murtaugh, Michael – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Examination of 30 mildly handicapped and 30 average high school students revealed that regular education students were more likely than special education students to be seriously involved in activities outside of schools. Sex differences were noted. Nonacademic activities provide an alternative path to achievement and self-esteem for low academic…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescents, Art Activities, Career Choice
Teaching International Business: A View from Anthropology.
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Sherry, John F., Jr. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Discusses the current interest of anthropological research in international business activity. Discusses ways in which an anthropological perspective might be used to enhance the teaching of international business. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Business Education, Capitalism, Course Content
Understanding Complexity: A Gift of Qualitative Inquiry.
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Peshkin, Alan – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
By not specifying what they will attend to, and by virtue of the relatively extended amount of time they devote to exploring their phenomena, qualitative inquirers have practically no limit to what they can uncover. This is illustrated through data on the role of ethnicity in an ethnically diverse high school. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Ethnicity
Methods, Early Literacy, and Home-School Compatibilities: A Response to Sledge et al.
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Goldenberg, Claude N. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1988
Defends the author's "Low-Income Hispanic Parents' Contributions to Their First-Grade Children's Word Recognition Skills" (1987) against criticisms advanced by Sledge, Blot, and Delisle (1988). (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy, Family School Relationship