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Danish, Joshua A. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
This article reports on a study in which activity theory was used to design, implement, and analyze a 10-week curriculum unit about how honeybees collect nectar with a particular focus on complex systems concepts. Students (n = 42) in a multi-year kindergarten and 1st-grade classroom participated in this study as part of their 10 regular classroom…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Science Curriculum, Entomology, Kindergarten
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Arriaza, Gilberto; Rocha, Christie – Issues in Teacher Education, 2016
Sharing school supplies appears, indeed, a simple, even an irrelevant routine activity, but upon closer examination one realizes that deeper and complex issues are at stake. This article aims at explaining how seemingly uneventful classroom activities contain the potential to building social capital in the classroom, which occurs when and if…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Competence, Trust (Psychology)
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Jain, Dimpal – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
While the majority of students at California community colleges are students of color, few complete their schooling and transfer. This study examines how women leaders of color perceive transfer at a diverse, transfer-intensive community college in southern California. Critical race theory is used to analyze how these raced and gendered…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Minority Groups, Student Attrition