Time and time again it has been shown that Maori and Pacific Nations students generally do not prosper from a European educational system, so would alternatives be provided? ... New Zealanders, particularly at the compulsory schooling level are a very diverse people, including many students coming from Pacific nations backgrounds, along side Maori, NZ European and Asian students. ... Dickie traces the sources of these difficulties to being linked with the differences between NZ European and Pacific Nations cultures. ... As Penetito(2000) describes, the majority of New Zealanders could...

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Kepert (nd) and Roberts (nd) explain the socio-cultural differences for Aboriginal children of a culture that has never used numbers in the same way as Europeans to quantify, specify relationships, locate themselves or use shapes for designs. Bishop (1990) argues against the idea that mathematics is universal and therefore culture free. He sees that it has been an imposition of western culture through trade, administration and education. ... Firstly, mathematics is a cultural product, a symbolic technology, engaging in environmental activities, these activities have been seen to be universal i...

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The first time we spoke, I expressed interest in a few English teaching programs in Europe. ... I realize that traveling to a completely different country and emerging into a new culture may be a little more radical, but I am ready all the same. ... I honestly cannot wait to become apart of a new culture. ...

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I would like to see if students can embrace and improve their learning about culture and social studies through kinetics or is it just best to teach the student in a "typical classroom setting" with desk, books and a blackboard. ... Borland and Wright states by the 1960, Horace Bond, an African American educational researcher studied the relationship between the SES (socio-economic status) and the National Merit Scholarship, which he discovered was fixed and immutable just as the long established European social hierarchies (Heller, et. al 587). ... Jenkins, another can American ed...

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I would like to see if students can embrace and improve their learning about culture and social studies through kinetics or is it just best to teach the student in a "typical classroom setting" with desk, books and a blackboard. ... Borland and Wright states by the 1960, Horace Bond, an African American educational researcher studied the relationship between the SES (socio-economic status) and the National Merit Scholarship, which he discovered was fixed and immutable just as the long established European social hierarchies (Heller, et. al 587). ... Jenkins, another can American ed...

• Word Count: 1498
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most of the children at this school were of southern European decent and, he was told, they were studying to be auto mechanics or beauticians, therefore didn't really need to do well in these classes he was teaching. ... On the one hand, the students were accustomed to the classroom culture being one of ambiguity and unruliness, whereas the teacher was accustomed to an environment where students listened to and ultimately respected their teachers. ... Sociological Concept #2 Hegemonic Curriculum The hegemonic curriculum, as described in class, is the ways in which we participate in do...

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• Grade Level: High School

What can be ascertained is that the use of the term 'environmental education' began being used as early as the 1970s and for the purpose of this study has been defined as being: 'the process of recognising values and clarifying concepts in order to develop skills and attitudes necessary to understand and appreciate the inter-relatedness among man, his culture and his biophysical surroundings. ... The overlapping and divergent interests of EE and ESD Column Field A – Primarily EE B- Shared C- Primarily ESD Problems of interest and goals Environmental Natural resource Env...

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An entire generation grew up on Smiles and Masanao's key theme: every person has the duty to work hard to cultivate his or her talents for the benefit of Japan and the world.4 By the 1880s, a so-called "People's Rights Movement" enthusiastically challenged the divinity of the emperor and invoked natural rights, theories learned from the translated works of European philosophers. ... Emperor Meiji did not face an uphill battle for educational reform: a high respect for learning was embedded in Japanese culture. ... Teachers and textbooks must be supplied and a curriculum bas...

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He further states that "[the student] has four years of freedom to discover himself [These years] are civilization's only chance to get to him."" (336) Throughout the Enlightenment and most of modern European History students began university studies at much younger ages and have thrived from their early instruction. ... Moreover by starting at an earlier age much of the culture' to which American students become enslaved can be counteracted and undercut. ...

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Compulsory education and the subsequent growth of schooling in Europe led to the printing of many standardized texts for children. ... These trends seem to be the result of changes in the students population rather than teachers' profissional characteristics (patient, good listener to students, well-qualified and have good command of four language skills, etc), that are required in the classroom culture. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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His reasoning was of this, "I reasoned that Chinese philosophy as the root of education was responsible for our obvious shortcomings," he reasoned within himself that Confucianism discouraged independent thought and studies in number and reason in the material culture. ... His strong enthusiasm towards learning and teaching the ways of the West were only to get Japan on a at least competitive scale, because Fukuzawa knew that the closed system would not prevail, as the Europeans were continually aggravating Japan....

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" These ideas were gathered from his tour of eight European countries. ... German immigrants also opposed Mann's ideas as they feared that their children would forget German language and culture. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate