'An empirical research based study conducted over 11 years in educational situations ranging from infant schools to postgraduate education emphasizes formative assessment as a discursive social practice, involving dialectical, sometimes conflicting processes.' ... The author states that at the earliest moments of making judgments about what is good learning can influence later outcomes based on self-perception and social standing. ... Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 25, 376-93. doi: 10.1525/aeq.1994.25.3.04x0151u This journal article was part of a special issue on the successes...

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His premises (from his 1987 book, Cultural Literacy ) are: • In an anthropological perspective, the basic goal of education is acculturation, the transmission to our children of the specific information shared by the adults of the group or polis. • literate culture has become the common currency for social and economic exchange in our democracy, and is the only available ticket to full citizenship.... ... Ultimately our aim should be to attain universal literacy at a very high level, to achieve not only greater economic prosperity but also greater social justice and more effect...

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As a future teacher, I will be dealing with all sorts of children from various of backgrounds, and thus will need to be equipped with a strong knowledge of sociology and anthropology. ... The help with homework as well as the social skills they learn at the club come from the adults "including me "and so it is important for me to understand sociology in order to convey accurate information to them about life. There are many programs at the club that I help with that encourage social skills, interacting with one another, and dealing with people in various situations. ... Understand...

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Thus, "pedagogists", as Laurie Grobman (1999) maintains, " have turned to the resistance model, which proposes that we encourage students' appropriation of academic discourse to enable them to critique it" (432).1 By allowing students to bring their own stories, experiences, ideas, and critiques into the classroom, this provides the students with opportunities to work together, to learn from one another, and respect one another's differences-social and cultural. ... According to Mary Louise Pratt, "contact zone" is "social spaces where cultures mee...

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