Focus on Curriculum

Dennis M. McInerney|Shawn Van Etten

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05 September 2000

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Contents

There are many teaching and curriculum programs that attempt to make education relevant to the wider sociocultural environment of learners. Volume 5 focuses on research on curriculum and teaching from a sociocultural perspective. Authors will discuss exemplary examples of research on curriculum initiatives, teaching resources, and teaching approaches that reflect a concern for sociocultural issues broadly defined, while also mapping out implications, future issues, and future research agendas. There will be chapters on reading mathematics, science, language, social science, history, music, health education, religious and moral education, information technology, vocational education, and multicultural studies. The text will be relevant to educators across all levels of education.

Introduction; Dennis M. McInerney and Shawn Van Etten

Part I. Early Childhood and School Curriculum.
Chapter 1. Teaching Through Play and Respecting the Motivation of Preschoolers; Robert D. Strom and Paris S. Strom
Chapter 2. Changing the Lens: Sociocultural Curriculum and Research in Early Childhood in New Zealand; Margaret Carr
Chapter 3. Reading Instruction in Sociocultural Context: Impact on Reading Comprehension and Engagement; Allan Wigfield and Susan Lutz
Chapter 4. Effects of a Multicultural Literacy Curriculum in a Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Fifth-Grade Classroom; Jessica C. Zacher
Chapter 5. Teaching Well: Science Teachers’ Investigation and Use of Student Sociocultural Background; Steven Ramirez Fong and Marcelle A. Siegel
Chapter 6. Educational Technology and Sociocultural Influences: Context Does Matter; Ellen B. Mandinach and Margaret Honey
Chapter 7. Mindful Classrooms: A Synthesis of Research on Multiple Intelligences Theory in Cross-Cultural Contexts; Wilma Vialle
Chapter 8. Inside Culture and Curriculum: Religious and Sex Differences Among Arabic Students’ Perceptions of Personal Development, Health, and Physical Education; Dennis M. McInerney, Martin Dowson, and Alexander Seeshing Yeung Part II. Postschool Curriculum.
Chapter 9. The Interaction of Type of Religious Education and Sociocultural Contexts: Implications for Motivation and Learning; Martin Dowson
Chapter 10. Language Proficiency and School Achievement Among Students From Migrant Families in Australia; Rosemary Suliman
Chapter 11. Amazing Space: Reading Life in the Literature Classroom; William McGinley, Jennifer A. Whitcomb, and Sarah M. Zerwin
Chapter 12. Understanding Student Diversity and the Factors That Influence Academic Success: A Preliminary Study; Lorelle L. Burton, David Dowling, Marilyn Doorman, and Lyn Brodie
Chapter 13. Rethinking Resistance in Multicultural Teacher Education: Reflection and Miseducation; Katherine Richardson Bruna
Chapter 14. Pasifika Australia: Culturally Responsive Curriculum and Teaching; Mike Horsley and Richard Walker
Chapter 15. Creating Community and Becoming a Member of an Urban Teacher Education Program; Michelle Kelly and William Buxton
Chapter 16. Curriculum and Pedagogical Development for Building a Community of Learners Among Older Chinese Adults in Using ICT; Chi-hung Ng
Index
About the Authors