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Taylor, Julie Lounds; Hodapp, Robert M.; Burke, Meghan M.; Waitz-Kudla, Sydney N.; Rabideau, Carol – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
This study presents findings from a pilot randomized controlled trial, testing a 12-week intervention to train parents of youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to advocate for adult disability services--the Volunteer Advocacy Program-Transition (VAP-T). Participants included 41 parents of youth with ASD within 2 years of high school exit,…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Intervention, Parent Education, Autism
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Deggs, David; Miller, Michael T. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Communities continue to establish, promote, and monitor the educational outcomes of their citizenry through both explicit and implied norms. Community attributes influence the pursuit of education and level of education completed by individual citizens. The influencers within communities can be attributed to common constructs of communities…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Student Needs, Community Characteristics, Educational Attainment
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Majgaard, Klaus – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
Something happens when management programmes move "into" the workplace of their participants. According to recent observations, such commissioned programmes are characterized by a more dedicated participation and transfer than open courses. This article interprets the mechanisms that can account for the observed pattern. One…
Descriptors: Management Development, Participation, Transfer of Training, Empowerment
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Kerr, Karen – Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
This study considers the benefits of coteaching in the context of the outdoors. It explores the use of coteaching in a professional development program and investigates all the cited outcome categories for teachers: cognitive, affective, coteaching, and professional development. Coteaching pairs coplanned, cotaught, and coevaluated "Shared…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Outdoor Education, Science Education, Environmental Education
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Tobias, Adele – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2019
Persistent school non-attendance (PSNA) is a widely acknowledged problem. Family coaches work intensively with families where a child or young person (CYP) has persistently poor or no school attendance and there is unemployment or anti-social behaviour. Their work extends across different systems, which gives them a unique, multi-factored…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Family Environment, Intervention, Attendance Patterns
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Weinberger, Yehudith, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2018
As with most dynamic activities that are based on social and cultural contexts and rely on interactions, education is a complex and often ambiguous endeavor. Despite this complexity, scholars and educators are often required to find ways of defining and explaining what "good" teaching is and to incorporate these conclusions into teacher…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Empowerment
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MacPhee, Mary – Canadian Journal of Education, 2021
Despite 40 years of research indicating that parent involvement is important for student achievement, schools have done little to engage parents across Canada. This study and model recommend strategies to enhance the probability of educational involvement for parents who do not speak the school language. The mixed methods research with surveys (N…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, French, Language Usage
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Fisher, Roy; Fisher, Pamela – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2018
This paper focusses on peer education and specifically on young women peer educators working within the charity Home-Start in the north of England. This work is undertaken in a social context where educational achievement is increasingly measured by certification and occupational hierarchies have been 'professionalised' whilst notions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Females, Informal Education
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
This study is the first volume of Cedefop research on empowering adults through upskilling and reskilling pathways. It estimates the magnitude of the low-skilled adult population according to a broader conceptualisation which goes beyond educational attainment levels, and considers digital skills, literacy and numeracy, as well as skill loss and…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Job Skills, Adults, Foreign Countries
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Choitz, Vickie; Good, Larry; Freeman, Mary – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
This article describes how public, nonprofit, and private partners in Detroit are working to improve and expand adult foundational skills development opportunities and connect them to workforce training as the city begins to make an economic comeback. It outlines the adult foundational skills challenge in Detroit, chronicles the work of a strategy…
Descriptors: Job Training, Adult Basic Education, Economic Development, Evidence Based Practice
Trout, Alexandra L.; Lambert, Matthew C.; Thompson, Ronald; Duppong Hurley, Kristin; Tyler, Patrick – Grantee Submission, 2019
Although newly passed federal regulations mandate the provision of family-based aftercare supports for adolescents served in therapeutic residential care, very little research has been conducted to determine best practice. This efficacy and replication study compares the outcomes of youths and caregivers randomly assigned to On the Way Home (OTWH;…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Empowerment, Self Efficacy, Adolescents
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Bourke, Alan; Vanderveken, James; Ecker, Emily; Bell, Hayley; Richie, Kimberly – Canadian Journal of Education, 2020
This article examines interview data with faculty teaching in a college-community partnership program for low-income adult students in an urban setting. The purpose of the study was to explore faculty understandings of the diverse learning needs of their students and the perceptions they have of the efficacy of their teaching practices regarding…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Low Income, Adult Students, School Community Programs
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Browne, Liz; Millar, Deborah Kellsey – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
Perceived as fostering democracy in educational institutions, approaches which encourage student voice are being promoted as supporting greater social equalities and strengthening students' commitment to their learning. Using student voice as a theme, research funded by Jisc set out to hear learner views and explore their digital preferences when…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Technological Literacy, Student Attitudes, Adult Education
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Baumgartner, Lisa M.; Sandoval, Carolyn L. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2018
Our research explored the experiences of educators who teach in a gender-responsive program for women in a jail. We interrogated how educators fostered empowerment in their classes, what their motivations were for teaching in the program, and the tensions that existed for them when using emancipatory teaching practices in jail. Findings indicate…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Correctional Education, Adult Education, Correctional Institutions
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Formosa, Marvin; Galea, Roberta – Educational Gerontology, 2020
One area that remained off the research radar is that interface between senior centers and learning programs, and hence, their potential to act as community-based learning hubs. Countering such a state of affairs, this article reports on an action research study to investigate the extent that a transformative learning program in a senior center…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Older Adults, Age Differences, Foreign Countries
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