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Donley, Kevin – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
A translanguaging lens in educational research focuses on social, cultural, and power dynamics of language and multilingualism in practice. It also represents a potentially transformative pedagogical practice that centers the languaging practice, power, and agency of multilingual learners to transgress classroom language borders. However,…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Borbon, Jonathan O. – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2022
Purpose: To determine the sociocultural characteristics and unravel the ethnomathematics in "Panaeaba" or oyster farming of the fourteen "Manugtaeaba" (oyster farmer) purposively chosen as informants and paired the mathematical concepts and principles found in "Panaeaba" to K12 Mathematics. Method: This focused…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education, Agricultural Occupations, Mathematical Concepts
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Gentilucci, James L.; Denti, Lou; Guaglianone, Curtis L. – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2013
This study utilizes Symbolic Interactionism to explore perspectives of neophyte principals. Findings explain how these perspectives are modified through complex interactions throughout the school year, and they also suggest preparation programs can help new principals most effectively by teaching "soft" skills such as active listening…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrator Education
Naveh, Nissan – Online Submission, 2010
This article presents a method for teaching the theory of symbolic interactionism in a high-school course--Introduction to Sociology. The role-playing game used as a method for teaching the theory is grounded on a philosophy of education whose principles call for meaningful and relevant learning, based on experiential activity and investigation of…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Foreign Countries, Sociology, Educational Philosophy
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Wrigley, Terry – Management in Education, 2011
This short paper points to some paradigm issues in the field of school development (leadership, effectiveness, improvement) and their relationship to social justice. It contextualises the dominant School Effectiveness and School Improvement models within neo-liberal marketisation, paying attention to their transformation through a "marriage of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Action, School Effectiveness, Educational Change
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Ray, Juliet M. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
While there is evidence that the dual language model has the potential to raise the academic achievement of English language learners (ELLs), the policies mandated through the No Child Left Behind Act do not support maintenance of the student's heritage language which is an integral part of the model. Using symbolic interactionism as a framework,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
Saleem, Mohammed M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This exploratory study of the implementation of computer technology in an American Islamic private school leveraged the case study methodology and ethnographic methods informed by symbolic interactionism and the framework of the Muslim Diaspora. The study focused on describing the implementation of computer technology and identifying the…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Muslims, Public Schools, Islam
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Tynan, Belinda; O'Neill, Marnie – Distance Education, 2007
This article reports a study of parents' management of the education of primary school-aged children in their care in remote and rural locations of Western Australia. It presents a theory of the ways in which these parents, in the role of home tutors, "manage" the schooling of their children in a distance education regime in isolated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Equipment, Tutors, Mothers
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Branson, Christopher M. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to report on research that explores the use of structured self-reflection to nurture moral consciousness as a means of enhancing the moral leadership capacity of existing school principals. Design/methodology/approach: Given that this research focuses on each participant's subjective reality, the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Moral Values, Epistemology, Leadership
Moon, Tonya R.; Brighton, Catherine M.; Jarvis, Jane M.; Hall, Catherine J. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2007
A driving force in standards-based educational reform was the 1983 release of "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform" (National Commission of Excellence in Education [NCEE], 1983). The report called for "an end to the minimum competency testing movement and the beginning of a high-stakes testing movement that would raise the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes