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Teaching Values in Physical Education Classes: The Perception of Brazilian Teachers
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Freire, Elisabete dos Santos; Marques, Bruna Gabriela; Miranda, Maria Luiza de Jesus – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
The contribution of Physical Education (PE) and School Sport to learning of values has been identified by teachers and researchers. However, we know little about how that teaching takes place during classes. This study aimed to understand the perceptions of teachers on teaching values in their classes and to analyse the conception of values that…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Intervention
Different Children's Perspectives on Their Learning Environment
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Sandberg, Gunilla – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2017
This article reports and discusses findings from an ethnographic case study, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of how different children perceive their learning environment in the first grade of primary school, with regard to social as well as academic aspects. The theoretical framework is based on an interactional perspective, where…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Educational Environment, Ethnography, Inclusion
A Case for Multidimensional Bilingual Assessment
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Sanchez, Serafin V.; Rodriguez, Billie Jo; Soto-Huerta, Mary Esther; Villarreal, Felicia Castro; Guerra, Norma Susan; Flores, Belinda Bustos – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
Current assessment practices in the United States are not able to accurately capture the total linguistic, cognitive, and achievement abilities of bilingual learners. There are psychometric complexities involved when assessing and interpreting test results of bilingual students, which impact the validity of this practice. Further, the compromise…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Psychometrics, Difficulty Level, Language Tests
A Critical Hermeneutic Study: Third Grade Elementary African American Students' Views of the Nature of Science
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Walls, Leon – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Nature of Science is one of the most fundamental aspects of understanding science. How different cultures, races and ethnicities see and interpret science differently is critical. However, the NOS views specific to African American teachers and learners have gone largely unresearched. The views of a purposeful sample of African American third…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, African American Students, Scientific Principles, Laboratories
What "Hard Times" Means: Mandated Curricula, Class-Privileged Assumptions, and the Lives of Poor Children
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Dutro, Elizabeth – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
In this article, I present a qualitative analysis of third graders' experiences with a unit from their district-mandated commercial reading curriculum in which the children made strong connections between a fictional account of a Depression-era farm family's economic hardships and their own 21st century lives in a city with one of the highest…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection, Elementary School Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation
"Being Healthy": The Discursive Construction of Health in New Zealand Children's Responses to the National Education Monitoring Project
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Wright, Jan; Burrows, Lisette – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
In this paper we examine the discursive resources that year 4 and year 8 students draw on to construct meanings for health. Drawing on students' responses to tasks in the New Zealand National Monitoring Project (Crooks & Flockton, "Health & Physical Education", University of Otago Educational Assessment Research Unit, 1999) we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Grade 3, Grade 7