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1	Getting Used to Home: The Social and Educational Experiences of Puerto Rican Transnational Youth Soto-Santiago, Sandra L. January 2014 (has links) This dissertation research showcases six ethnographic case studies that focus on the experiences of Puerto Rican transnational youths and their families upon returning from the US to Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a remarkable setting to study transnationalism because of its particular historical and sociopolitical relationship with the US, which grants Puerto Ricans citizenship and thus ease of movement, while retaining a strong attachment to the Island. It can be argued that Puerto Ricans define transnationalism, being simultaneously insiders and outsiders to the US national scene. The youths involved in these dynamics learn to navigate different educational and social settings on the Island and the US. Factors like language and the educational contexts are highly influential in the students' lives and their educational outcomes. The study was conducted over a period of seven months in two public schools in Puerto Rico. The data were collected through interviews, classroom observations, and home visits with return migrant students, their parents, and their teachers and school staff. The combination of these data collection methods and the variety of participants, provided a nuanced portrayal of the nature of their transnationalism and the social and educational experiences of the families in and out of the school context. Migration Public education Puerto Rican youth Schooling experiences Transnationalism and education Language, Reading & Culture Emotional attachment
2	Educational and socio-cultural challenges of immigrant students in a South African school Adebanji, Charles Adedayo 17 May 2011 (has links) This research set out to explore the educational and socio-cultural experiences of DRC immigrant students in South African schools. Utilising a qualitative case study approach, the study attempted to provide a glimpse of the lived experiences of DRC immigrant students inside South African schools by exploring the following aspects: (1) academic performance, (2) schooling experiences, (3) linguistic disposition, (4) acculturation experiences and (5) how the students constructed their identities within South African society. The theoretical framework applied to this study was threefold in nature, namely Cultural Ecological Theory, Culture-Centred Theory and Critical Race Theory. The Major findings emanating from this study were: First, Cultural Ecological Theory could not explain the low academic performance of DRC immigrant students. Second, DRC immigrant students experienced acts of prejudice, isolation, linguistic adjustment incapability and xenophobic attacks. Third, acts of racism were prevalent at the school because teachers who taught them brought in African languages to explain lessons in class to indigenous students at their expense. Fourth, they were confronted by disrespectful modes of behaviour emanating from indigenous students to teachers. Fifth, the opportunity they had at the school, in terms of having access to education without being able to pay tuition fees, likely became their source of low academic achievement. The school had rapid turnover of teachers because the school governing body could not afford to pay additional teachers. Sixth, the students were exposed to uncommon modes of behaviour originating from indigenous students, in terms of gambling and smoking at the school. Seventh, they were exposed to display of weapons by indigenous students. Eight, the incorporation of culture into their academic work at school seemed to enhance their focus on learning. Ninth, they could not commence acculturation and identity negotiation in mainstream culture. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted Identity Discrimination Racism Socio-cultural experiences Schooling experiences Immigrant Acculturative stress Academic performance Acculturation Educational experience UCTD
3	An examination of female students' schooling experiences in an era of educational reforms in Ghana a case study in the Accra - Tema school district / Ocran, Kweku Siripi. January 2010 (has links) Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-197).
4	An Examination of Female Students’ Schooling Experiences in an Era of Educational Reforms in Ghana: A case study in the Accra - Tema School District Ocran, Kweku Siripi 28 April 2010 (has links) No description available. Education Gender Education Reforms in Ghana Girls Schooling Experiences Gender Equity Education Policy Contradictions Critical Feminist Policy Analysis
5	The Schooling Experiences Of Fulani Muslim Girls In The Fouta Djallon Region Of Guinea: Forces Influencing Their Retention In A Rural Secondary School Of Dalaba Balde, Aissatou MBambe 18 December 2004 (has links) No description available. Fulani Muslim Girls and women of Guinea Forces behind Muslim girls' education school policies
6	Speaking his Mind: Counterstories on Race, Schooling,and the Alienation of African-American Males Jones-Parks, Adonica Aria 30 November 2011 (has links) No description available. Education Educational Leadership School Administration Secondary Education Teacher Education Teaching Critical Race Theory Black Males School Dropping Out Black Education Post Civil War Counterstorytelling Black Male Schooling Experiences African-American Males
7	Juxtaposing Sonare and Videre Midst Curricular Spaces: Negotiating Muslim, Female Identities in the Discursive Spaces of Schooling and Visual Media Cultures Watt, Diane P. 09 May 2011 (has links) Muslims have the starring role in the mass media’s curriculum on otherness, which circulates in-between local and global contexts to powerfully constitute subjectivities. This study inquires into what it is like to be a female, Muslim student in Ontario, in this post 9/11 discursive context. Seven young Muslim women share stories of their high schooling experiences and their sense of identity in interviews and focus group sessions. They also respond to images of Muslim females in the print media, offering perspectives on the intersections of visual media discourses with their lived experience. This interdisciplinary project draws from cultural studies, postcolonial feminist theory, and post-reconceptualist curriculum theorizing. Working with auto/ethno/graphy, my own subjectivity is also brought into the study to trouble researcher-as-knower and acknowledge that personal histories are implicated in larger social, cultural, and historical processes. Using bricolage, I compose a hybrid text with multiple layers of meaning by juxtapositing theory, image, and narrative, leaving spaces for the reader’s own biography to become entangled with what is emerging in the text. Issues raised include veiling obsession, Islamophobia, absences in the school curriculum, and mass media as curriculum. Muslim females navigate a complex discursive terrain and their identity negotiations are varied. These include creating Muslim spaces in their schools, wearing hijab to assert their Muslim identity, and downplaying their religious identity at school. I argue for the need to engage students and teacher candidates in complicated conversations on difference via auto/ethno/graphy, pedagogies of tension, and epistemologies of doubt. Educators and researchers might also consider the possibilities of linking visual media literacy with social justice issues. border epistemologies bricolage autoethnography cultural studies curriculum theory epistemologies of doubt feminist postcolonial theory high schooling experiences post 9/11 mass media as educator media literacy and social justice issues Muslim female student identities visual media literacy media representations of Muslim women decolonizing methodology experimental ethnography intercultural education in-between sonare and videre currere hybrid consciousness deconstructive pedagogies complicating readings of self and other entanglement in veiling discourses disrupting Orientalism photographs, culture, and memory relational theories of learning feminist poststructural critique personal narratives
8	Juxtaposing Sonare and Videre Midst Curricular Spaces: Negotiating Muslim, Female Identities in the Discursive Spaces of Schooling and Visual Media Cultures Watt, Diane P. 09 May 2011 (has links) Muslims have the starring role in the mass media’s curriculum on otherness, which circulates in-between local and global contexts to powerfully constitute subjectivities. This study inquires into what it is like to be a female, Muslim student in Ontario, in this post 9/11 discursive context. Seven young Muslim women share stories of their high schooling experiences and their sense of identity in interviews and focus group sessions. They also respond to images of Muslim females in the print media, offering perspectives on the intersections of visual media discourses with their lived experience. This interdisciplinary project draws from cultural studies, postcolonial feminist theory, and post-reconceptualist curriculum theorizing. Working with auto/ethno/graphy, my own subjectivity is also brought into the study to trouble researcher-as-knower and acknowledge that personal histories are implicated in larger social, cultural, and historical processes. Using bricolage, I compose a hybrid text with multiple layers of meaning by juxtapositing theory, image, and narrative, leaving spaces for the reader’s own biography to become entangled with what is emerging in the text. Issues raised include veiling obsession, Islamophobia, absences in the school curriculum, and mass media as curriculum. Muslim females navigate a complex discursive terrain and their identity negotiations are varied. These include creating Muslim spaces in their schools, wearing hijab to assert their Muslim identity, and downplaying their religious identity at school. I argue for the need to engage students and teacher candidates in complicated conversations on difference via auto/ethno/graphy, pedagogies of tension, and epistemologies of doubt. Educators and researchers might also consider the possibilities of linking visual media literacy with social justice issues. border epistemologies bricolage autoethnography cultural studies curriculum theory epistemologies of doubt feminist postcolonial theory high schooling experiences post 9/11 mass media as educator media literacy and social justice issues Muslim female student identities visual media literacy media representations of Muslim women decolonizing methodology experimental ethnography intercultural education in-between sonare and videre currere hybrid consciousness deconstructive pedagogies complicating readings of self and other entanglement in veiling discourses disrupting Orientalism photographs, culture, and memory relational theories of learning feminist poststructural critique personal narratives
9	Juxtaposing Sonare and Videre Midst Curricular Spaces: Negotiating Muslim, Female Identities in the Discursive Spaces of Schooling and Visual Media Cultures Watt, Diane P. 09 May 2011 (has links) Muslims have the starring role in the mass media’s curriculum on otherness, which circulates in-between local and global contexts to powerfully constitute subjectivities. This study inquires into what it is like to be a female, Muslim student in Ontario, in this post 9/11 discursive context. Seven young Muslim women share stories of their high schooling experiences and their sense of identity in interviews and focus group sessions. They also respond to images of Muslim females in the print media, offering perspectives on the intersections of visual media discourses with their lived experience. This interdisciplinary project draws from cultural studies, postcolonial feminist theory, and post-reconceptualist curriculum theorizing. Working with auto/ethno/graphy, my own subjectivity is also brought into the study to trouble researcher-as-knower and acknowledge that personal histories are implicated in larger social, cultural, and historical processes. Using bricolage, I compose a hybrid text with multiple layers of meaning by juxtapositing theory, image, and narrative, leaving spaces for the reader’s own biography to become entangled with what is emerging in the text. Issues raised include veiling obsession, Islamophobia, absences in the school curriculum, and mass media as curriculum. Muslim females navigate a complex discursive terrain and their identity negotiations are varied. These include creating Muslim spaces in their schools, wearing hijab to assert their Muslim identity, and downplaying their religious identity at school. I argue for the need to engage students and teacher candidates in complicated conversations on difference via auto/ethno/graphy, pedagogies of tension, and epistemologies of doubt. Educators and researchers might also consider the possibilities of linking visual media literacy with social justice issues. border epistemologies bricolage autoethnography cultural studies curriculum theory epistemologies of doubt feminist postcolonial theory high schooling experiences post 9/11 mass media as educator media literacy and social justice issues Muslim female student identities visual media literacy media representations of Muslim women decolonizing methodology experimental ethnography intercultural education in-between sonare and videre currere hybrid consciousness deconstructive pedagogies complicating readings of self and other entanglement in veiling discourses disrupting Orientalism photographs, culture, and memory relational theories of learning feminist poststructural critique personal narratives
10	Juxtaposing Sonare and Videre Midst Curricular Spaces: Negotiating Muslim, Female Identities in the Discursive Spaces of Schooling and Visual Media Cultures Watt, Diane P. January 2011 (has links) Muslims have the starring role in the mass media’s curriculum on otherness, which circulates in-between local and global contexts to powerfully constitute subjectivities. This study inquires into what it is like to be a female, Muslim student in Ontario, in this post 9/11 discursive context. Seven young Muslim women share stories of their high schooling experiences and their sense of identity in interviews and focus group sessions. They also respond to images of Muslim females in the print media, offering perspectives on the intersections of visual media discourses with their lived experience. This interdisciplinary project draws from cultural studies, postcolonial feminist theory, and post-reconceptualist curriculum theorizing. Working with auto/ethno/graphy, my own subjectivity is also brought into the study to trouble researcher-as-knower and acknowledge that personal histories are implicated in larger social, cultural, and historical processes. Using bricolage, I compose a hybrid text with multiple layers of meaning by juxtapositing theory, image, and narrative, leaving spaces for the reader’s own biography to become entangled with what is emerging in the text. Issues raised include veiling obsession, Islamophobia, absences in the school curriculum, and mass media as curriculum. Muslim females navigate a complex discursive terrain and their identity negotiations are varied. These include creating Muslim spaces in their schools, wearing hijab to assert their Muslim identity, and downplaying their religious identity at school. I argue for the need to engage students and teacher candidates in complicated conversations on difference via auto/ethno/graphy, pedagogies of tension, and epistemologies of doubt. Educators and researchers might also consider the possibilities of linking visual media literacy with social justice issues. border epistemologies bricolage autoethnography cultural studies curriculum theory epistemologies of doubt feminist postcolonial theory high schooling experiences post 9/11 mass media as educator media literacy and social justice issues Muslim female student identities visual media literacy media representations of Muslim women decolonizing methodology experimental ethnography intercultural education in-between sonare and videre currere hybrid consciousness deconstructive pedagogies complicating readings of self and other entanglement in veiling discourses disrupting Orientalism photographs, culture, and memory relational theories of learning feminist poststructural critique personal narratives

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