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“Best. Book. Ever.” Exploring Culture and Conflict through Reading Words in the Dust
WOW Stories, 2012 This vignette explores how the book "Words in the Dust" was used to help students explore alternate perspectives and experiences of teenage life and what it encompasses, specifically with characters in Afghanistan.
Eryn Willow
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Using Dual-Language Books to Preserve Language & Culture in Alaska Native Communities [PDF]
, 2016 “Children learn their language on their mother’s lap.” This conventional wisdom from a Cup’ik Elder describes the approach used by many Alaska Native peoples to promote native language acquisition.
Bartles, Jonathan, Ohle, Kathryn
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The electoral politics of immigration and crime
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes and voting behavior due to educational realignment.
Jeyhun Alizade
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Japanese & American Culture
WOW Stories, 2011 This vignette explores a classroom's cross-cultural study using global literature as a means to build intercultural awareness and understanding for the students by comparing and contrasting Japanese and American culture.
Meg Baker +2 more
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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Expanding Our World through Global Inquiries
WOW Stories, 2014 The teachers of Chinle Junior High use global literature to engage students in inquiry as a way of encouraging students to read and write. Through this.
Mary Ann Conrad
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Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.Women with gestational diabetes diagnosed by an elevated fasting ± one‐hour glucose concentration, compared with one‐hour alone, may have higher later diabetes risk, and their children greater perinatal complications and five‐year growth, supporting gestational diabetes subtyping for risk stratification.
Qiliang Liu +5 more
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Cross-Cultural Understanding through Children’s Literature
WOW Stories, 2011 This vignette investigates and notes the results of introducing multicultural picturebooks to the classroom and allowing students to read and critically engage with the text on their own, rather than having the content taught to them.
Melanie Bradley, Zeinab Mohamed
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institutional current effort to regulate and increase the quantity and quality of sustainability information reported by companies is undeniable. However, the growing complexity of sustainability reporting standards creates isolated compartments for each major dimension of sustainability, leaving aside their interconnectedness and combined
M. Marco‐Fondevila +3 more
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Multicultural Literature in the Secondary Science Classroom: Connections to Content and Culture
WOW Stories, 2012 In this vignette, a science teacher integrates global literature into the curriculum to allow students to not only access science content, but also connect in a deeper way to the experiences and perspectives of young people in other cultures.
Jennifer Hart Davis
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