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Sutherland, LeeAnn M. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2005
This qualitative study highlights the interconnectedness of literature, literacy practices, identity, and social positioning within a framework of a common enactment of multicultural education: adding literature by and about people of color to the language arts curriculum. The study provides a window on the meaning-making of six 16-year-old Black…
Descriptors: African American Students, Multicultural Education, Females, High School Students
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Chin, Peter; Bell, Karin Steiner; Munby, Hugh; Hutchinson, Nancy L – American Educational Research Journal, 2004
In this study, detailed observations and interviews from a high school student's semester-long cooperative (co-op) placement in a dental practice are used to exemplify Hung's theoretical approach to understanding situated learning. Using Hung's theory of epistemological appropriation in an analysis of the co-op supervisor's regulatory behaviors…
Descriptors: High School Students, Cooperative Learning, Epistemology, Clinics
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Hargrove, Byron K.; Inman, Arpana G.; Crane, Randy L. – Journal of Career Development, 2005
The purpose of the current study was to examine how perceptions of family interaction patterns as defined along three dimensions of family environment (quality of family relationships, family goal-orientations, and degree of organization and control within the family system) predict vocational identity and career planning attitudes among male and…
Descriptors: Family Attitudes, Family Relationship, Family Environment, High School Students
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Brown, Ben – Journal of School Violence, 2005
This paper provides an analysis of data on school security measures which were obtained from a survey administered to a sample of 230 high school students. The majority of students indicated that the school police officers and security officers help keep the schools safe and that the drug-sniffing dogs help reduce drugs in the schools, but there…
Descriptors: School Security, Police, Security Personnel, Gender Differences
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Gajus-Lankamer, Ewa – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2004
The gymnasium is a new type of school, in the Polish system since 1999. The environmental content at this stage of education is taught mainly in the form of the so-called interdisciplinary educational track. The method of implementing the environmental education track, the involvement of subject teaching in education for the environment and the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, High Schools
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Lunsford, Karen J. – Written Communication, 2002
Although Toulmin models of argumentation are pervasive in composition textbooks, research on the model's use in writing classrooms has been scarce--typically limited to evaluating how students' essays align with the model's elements (claim, data, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal, backing) construed as objective standards. That approach discounts…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse
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Gallagher, Kathleen; Lortie, Philip – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2005
In this article, the authors attempt to explore some of the ways in which youth subjectivities are constituted in the neoliberal order, the ways in which their behaviours are criminalized, and the harrowing manner in which schools, as one site, are complicit in a larger cultural disinvestment in youth. The authors accomplish this through an…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Drama, Art Education, Political Attitudes
Shields, Regis Anne; Ireland, Nicole; City, Elizabeth; Derderian, Julie; Miles, Karen Hawley – Education Resource Strategies, 2008
This report is one of nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools that served as the foundation for the Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools." These nine schools were dubbed "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High Schools, Small Schools, Public Schools
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Shapland, Ceci – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2006
Adolescence is a time for dreaming for youth to imagine and set a course for the future. High school students naturally spend time imagining the future if and where to continue their education, to find a job or pursue a career, to move away from home, or to start a family. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) includes a process…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Transitional Programs, Disabilities
Merenbloom, Elliot Y.; Kalina, Barbara A. – Corwin Press, 2006
Today's schools are responding to the pressing need for positive student-teacher relationships that promote successful learning and prevent dropouts and violence. To meet this challenge, many secondary schools are reorganizing around smaller schools or "houses" and structuring longer blocks of learning time. Authors Elliot Y. Merenbloom and…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, School Schedules, Dropouts, Middle Schools
Tolhuizen, James H. – Online Submission, 2006
The difficulties and the advantages of giving oral critiques of student speeches are discussed. The advantages of using oral critiques are such that many speech teachers will want to include them. It is argued in this paper that the difficulties associated with oral critiques can be overcome by using communication messages that are intended to…
Descriptors: Speeches, Student Evaluation, Public Speaking, Communication Skills
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Conrod, Patricia J.; Stewart, Sherry H.; Comeau, Nancy; Maclean, A. Michael – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2006
Sensation seeking, anxiety sensitivity, and hopelessness are personality risk factors for alcohol use disorders, each associated with specific risky drinking motives in adolescents. We developed a set of interventions and manuals that were designed to intervene at the level of personality risk and associated maladaptive coping strategies,…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Personality Traits
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Seidel, Tina – Learning Environments Research, 2006
This study explored the role of student characteristics in studying micro teaching-learning environments. The overarching hypothesis is that teachers teach differently to micro environments in their classrooms. This study is the first of a series exploring the following four questions: (1) What student profiles are identified at the beginning of a…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Profiles, Interaction
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Horn, Stacey S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
This study investigated how social group status and group bias are related to adolescents' reasoning about social acceptance. Ninth and eleventh-grade students (N = 379) were asked to make judgments about the inclusion of individuals in school activities based on their peer crowd membership. The results of the study revealed that both…
Descriptors: School Activities, Reference Groups, Social Status, Adolescents
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Nichols, Joe D.; White, Janet J.; Price, Margret – Multicultural Perspectives, 2006
This study was designed to examine the epistemological beliefs about the nature of knowledge, views of intelligence and motivational perceptions. Two samples were drawn from two large urban high schools in the Southwest portion of the United States with large Hispanic/Latino student populations while a third was drawn from a majority Anglo student…
Descriptors: Intelligence, High School Students, Comparative Analysis, Social Environment
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