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Complex Instruction: managing professional development and school culture
Complex Instruction (CI) is a comprehensive programme relating to curriculum development and instructional methodology, using multiple ability tasks and status interventions as key concepts. In 2006, at the end of a teacher training course, a group of primary school teachers decided to develop and experiment with original CI teaching units in their classrooms in Bologna and the surrounding prov…
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- Volume 21, Issue 3 June 2010 , pages 219 - 227
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Cooperative learning for educational reform in Armenia
Armenia is in the midst of major educational reforms in which teacher professional development is a key component. Much of the energy devoted to developing education in Armenia is targeted towards enhancing student-centred teaching, especially cooperative learning. This has become a significant challenge for many schools and teachers as they cope with understanding, learning and adapting these …
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- Volume 21, Issue 3 June 2010 , pages 229 - 242
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Cooperative learning as method and model in second-language teacher education
This paper describes the integration of cooperative learning (CL) activities into a graduate teacher education course, Collaborative Teaching in English as a Second Language (ESL). Because teachers and researchers have both identified discipline status and relationship issues as challenges to collaboration, this course focused on relational dynamics such as respect, trust, reciprocity, and appr…
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- Volume 21, Issue 3 June 2010 , pages 243 - 255
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Cooperative learning - a double-edged sword: a cooperative learning model for…
Although very little research has been done on cooperative learning (CL) in New Zealand, international research is positive about the educational benefits of working in culturally diverse groups. This paper presents the findings of a research project examining New Zealand experiences with CL in multicultural groups. Data were collected via surveys and focus groups with domestic and internationa…
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- Volume 21, Issue 3 June 2010 , pages 257 - 268
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Theoretical framework for Cooperative Participatory Action Research (CPAR) in…
This paper describes a long-term research seminar, developed in 2001 by Hertz-Lazarowitz at the University of Haifa (UH). The goal of the seminar was to involve students in a meaningful, experiential and cooperative-interactive learning environment, based on topics relevant to their development as individuals coming from diverse collectives to the university campus, and to prepare them for life…
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- Volume 21, Issue 3 June 2010 , pages 269 - 279
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A dynamic conception of humanity, intercultural relation and cooperative lear…
The main focus of this paper relates to the conceptualizations of human identity and intercultural relations needed for cooperative learning (CL) to occur. At one extreme, some have argued that the relation between different cultures should be conceptualized in terms of incommensurability. At the other extreme, a standardization and unification along with the trend of globalization is supported…
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- Volume 21, Issue 3 June 2010 , pages 281 - 290
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Cultural diversity in compulsory education: an overview of the context of Mad…
This paper examines educational practices in Spain and in particular Madrid. With this contextual frame as the starting point the following issues are discussed: the 'official' conceptualization of cultural diversity, educational policies and resolutions related to cultural diversity, and school programs and resources facilitated by educational authorities to address diversity. The analysis was…
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- Volume 21, Issue 4 August 2010 , pages 299 - 315
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Interculturality and intercultural education in Portugal: recent developments
The Portuguese approach to cultural diversity anchors on the principle of Interculturality; within the framework of mutual respect, it embraces the value and richness of diversity and dialogue. This intercultural approach is embedded in the paradigm of an equal value of all cultures and cultural miscegenation, moving thus far beyond a multicultural coexistence framework. This intercultural appr…
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- Volume 21, Issue 4 August 2010 , pages 317 - 327
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Intercultural development in the Romanian school system
The present paper aims to briefly describe the manner in which intercultural education is perceived in the Romanian school system, as well as the solutions that are being proposed (mainly in the form of activities) for reconsidering and strengthening interculturality as a dimension of education. We report on the results of semi-structured questionnaires, a survey, and several case studies.
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- Volume 21, Issue 4 August 2010 , pages 329 - 339
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The effects of the 'Welcome Schools' Program in Madrid, Spain: an ethnographi…
The aim of this paper is to share the conclusions of a recent ethnographic study carried out in Madrid from 2005 to 2008 to analyze the effects of a program implemented by the Community of Madrid, Spain, to address diversity in schools. The Program was given an English name - 'Welcome Schools' - and was aimed at preparing children recently arrived from outside Spain for entry into the regular s…
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- Volume 21, Issue 4 August 2010 , pages 341 - 350
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Heuristic reasoning and beliefs on immigration: an approach to an intercultur…
People use mental shortcuts to simplify the amount of information they receive from the environment. Heuristic reasoning can be included among these mental shortcuts. In general, heuristics is useful for making fast decisions and judgements, but in certain cases, it may lead to systematic errors because some relevant aspects presented in the given information are ignored. Heuristic reasoning is…
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- Volume 21, Issue 4 August 2010 , pages 351 - 364
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Language learner/native speaker interactions: exploring adaptability in inter…
Diversity and intercultural awareness initiatives are increasingly common at institutions of higher education in the USA. Although students recognize and appreciate the diversity of their surroundings, studies show that intercultural interactions at the social level are lacking. This study focuses on how English language learners, multilingual students, and monolingual students of English perce…
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- Volume 21, Issue 4 August 2010 , pages 365 - 377
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Tuning frequencies of multicultural education objectives to distinct society …
Through a qualitative approach of narrative inquiry, this paper examines how Queacutebec's distinct society identity interacted with objectives of a Multicultural Education course in Montreal. The authors, one of whom was a teaching assistant in the course and the other a student in the course, interviewed seven students and the professor. The reasonable accommodation debates on how best to int…
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- Volume 21, Issue 4 August 2010 , pages 379 - 394
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“I Feel Like It’s a Heavier Burden. . .”: The Gendered Contours of Hete…
One of the explicit goals of the 1996 welfare reform in the United States was to create conditions that would encourage marriage as a means of reducing poverty and welfare dependency. With the exception of a few notable studies that examine reliance on abusive partners and former partners, relatively little scholarly attention has been given to the contours of partnering after welfare reform.…
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- Vol. 24 no. 5, October 2010.pp. 565-590
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Caring About Food: Doing Gender in the Foodie Kitchen
This article draws on interviews with foodiespeople with a passion for eating and learning about foodto explore questions of gender and foodie culture. The analysis suggests that while this culture is by no means gender-neutral, foodies are enacting gender in ways that warrant closer inspection. This article puts forward new empirical findings about gender and food and employs the concept o…
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- Vol. 24 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 591-615
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Normative Discrimination and the Motherhood Penalty
This research proposes and tests a new theoretical mechanism to account for a portion of the motherhood penalty in wages and related labor market outcomes. At least a portion of this penalty is attributable to discrimination based on the assumption that mothers are less competent and committed than other types of workers. But what happens when mothers definitively prove their competence and com…
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- Vol. 24 no. 5, September 2010,pp. 616-646
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Gender, Care Work, and the Complexity of Family Membership in Japan
This research investigates sociological ambivalence in negotiating care work in Japanese families. Women and their aging parents experience ambivalence based on conflicting norms of filial obligation, gender ideology, and cultural beliefs about the parentchild bond. Analysis of in-depth interview data showed ambivalence was based on (1) conflict between norms and cultural beliefs and (2) inter…
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- Vol. 24 no. 5, September 2010.pp. 647-671
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“I Feel as if I Am the One Who Is Disabled”: The Emotional Impact of Chan…
Despite the 1970s middle-class feminist dream that women could have it allfamilies characterized by equitable distributions of household labor and interesting careersthe decades since have told a different story. In the U.S. context of a neoliberal labor market and privatized systems of family care, mothers still struggle to negotiate the conflicting demands of family and employment, particul…
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- Vol. 24 no. 5, October 2010 .pp. 672-696
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Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa
This article, which forms the introduction to a collection of studies, focuses on processes of state construction and deconstruction in contemporary Africa. Its objective is to better understand how local, national and transnational actors forge and remake the state through processes of negotiation, contestation and bricolage. Following a critique of the predominant state failure literature and…
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- Volume 41, Issue 4, July 2010, pages 539–562
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Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo–…
This article proposes an explanation for the emergence of non-state governance in situations of apparent state collapse, based on an ethnographic study of the armed rebellion in Butembo (eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). The model of explanation is inspired by Charles Tilly's description of state making as organized crime, in which armed rebels and private economic agents enter an agreemen…
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- Volume 41, Issue 4, July 2010, pages 563–587
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