Sentences with phrase «studying cultural expectations»

For 30 years I have been studying cultural expectations for what makes a good teacher, beginning with field work in a Tibetan refugee school and an ethnographic study of Japanese and American public schools conducted some years later.

Not exact matches

But this quite obvious connection between eating disorders and cultural expectations surrounding femininity is woefully neglected in much treatment, said lead researcher Dr Su Holmes, a reader in UEA's School of Art, Media and American Studies.

For starters, a Center for American Progress study titled America's Leaky Pipeline for Teachers of Color reports that minority teachers have higher expectations of minority students, provide culturally relevant teaching, develop trusting relationships with students, confront issues of racism through teaching, and become advocates and cultural brokers.

Cultural influences, location and income all play a role in parent's expectations of their child's academic success, according to a new study from ASG and Monash University.

As used in our study, cultural mismatch theory refers specifically to incompatibilities in the ways that language is used and expectations are communicated at home versus in the school environment.

A 2010 study on a pilot system in Chicago found, for instance, that when using the high end of the scale, principals often inflated their ratings compared to other observers, in part because of cultural expectations.

Our comparative, multivocal ethnographic study of teachers in five U.S. cities in a number of early childhood settings suggests that immigrant teachers often experience difficulty applying their cultural knowledge to the education and care of young children of immigrants because they face a dilemma between their pedagogical training and their cultural knowledge; between the expectations of their fellow teachers and of parents; and between the goals of being culturally responsive to children, families, and their community and being perceived as professional by their fellow teachers and their superiors.

Contributions of the study include an intergenerational approach using multilevel analyses, which explicitly examine the association between intensive grandparental childcare and cross-national differences in the demographic and socio - economic characteristics of children, parents, and grandparents and in labor market structures, formal childcare provision, and cultural expectations regarding paid work among mothers with young children.

Taken together, these two studies highlight the ways in which American and Egyptian cultures differ in terms of the normative expectations related to who should take priority in family relationships following marriage, and we believe these patterns likely reflect different cultural values related to gender, family interdependence, and the role of the extended family.