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Aeri Song; Jung Won Hur – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate the leadership development of Korean American youth who participated in a community-based participatory action research program designed to assist community members affected by COVID-19. Participants were drawn from a small town in the southeastern part of the U.S. Using a case study approach, multiple…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Adolescents, Leadership, Skill Development
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Wood, Lesley; Hendricks, Farah – Educational Action Research, 2017
Teenage pregnancy among school-going youth is a concern worldwide, but in socially-economically challenged environments it is a result of, and contributory factor to, a complex web of social injustice. In South Africa, most of the school-based prevention interventions to date have been adult-designed and imparted, with the voice of the target…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Adolescents, Pregnancy
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Noonan, James – Educational Action Research, 2015
Schools are increasingly seen as having a promising role to play in reducing adverse health and wellness outcomes among young people. This paper uses a collaborative action research approach to examine the effects of one school's efforts to change its students' eating habits by implementing a "junk-food free campus." By engaging school…
Descriptors: Action Research, Eating Habits, Behavior Change, Food