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Feinstein, Sheryl; Driving-Hawk, Christopher; Baartman, Jyl – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
The term resiliency is used to describe the "human capacity and ability to face, overcome, be strengthened by, and even be transformed by experiences of adversity." Native American culture provides a framework for fostering resiliency. The Lakota Sioux society identifies four core needs that foster resiliency and motivate individuals to reach…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, American Indians, Systems Approach, Adolescents
Ferfolja, Tania – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2008
This paper examines the way lesbian identities are silenced in schools particularly through anti-lesbian harassment. Based on research with 30 self-identified lesbian teachers working across high schools in New South Wales, Australia, the discussion illustrates how various responses to anti-lesbian harassment silence the recognition of such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Females, Social Bias
Lynn, Susan – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2007
According to a recent study, only 56 percent of high school students participate in physical education, and the percentage of schools requiring physical education has progressively dropped. The goal of providing daily physical education to all K-12 students in the United States presents challenges such as budgetary issues, less time for other…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, High School Students, Health Promotion
Scheel, Michael J.; Gonzalez, Jaime – Professional School Counseling, 2007
A theoretical model of academic motivation consisting of (a) academic self-efficacy, (b) purposefulness and intentionality, and (c) support through school counseling for autonomous learning was explored with 346 high school juniors. Regression analysis indicated academic self-efficacy and utilization of school counseling to be significant…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, School Counseling
Hamada, Yo – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2008
These two decades have seen a surge in interest in the study of motivation throughout the field of language acquisition. Several distinguished motivational theories have been established: self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985), goal-setting theories (Locke & Latham, 1990), attribution theory (Weiner, 1992), self-worth theory…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, High School Students, Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning
Dalley, Phyllis; Campbell, Mark David – Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 2006
This article explores the possibilities and impossibilities of establishing queer discursive spaces within a minority-language high school. Data examined here are from a three-year study of language and identity in a Francophone high school in Ontario, Canada. As two members of the larger research team, we draw on our close observations of teenage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, High School Students, Sexual Orientation
Walker, Karen – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2007
Research indicates that academic achievement from middle school to high school decreases while behavior problems, suspensions and expulsions increase early in ninth grade. Hertzog and Morgan found in their research in Georgia and Florida, that those high schools that just did building tours and meetings with school counselors for strictly…
Descriptors: High Schools, Transitional Programs, Developmental Studies Programs, School Orientation
Lippman, Laura; Atienza, Astrid; Rivers, Andrew; Keith, Julie – Child Trends, 2008
This report provides a developmental perspective on what competencies young people need to be ready for college, the workplace, and the transition to adulthood. National hand-wringing about the lack of preparedness of high school graduates for college and the workplace has catalyzed researchers, educators, and policymakers to define the skills and…
Descriptors: Readiness, College Preparation, Labor Force Development, High School Students
Krajewski, Bob – Principal Leadership, 2008
In this article, Fr. Carl Markelz and Harold Maldonado, two veteran inner-city principals, share how they have learned to use their time more efficiently. Fr. Markelz is the principal of Mount Carmel High School, a 900-student, all-male, parochial school in an area of Chicago, Illinois, that is experiencing regentrification. Maldonado is the…
Descriptors: Principals, Single Sex Schools, Males, Parochial Schools
Bacon, Pamela S.; Bagwell, David – Libraries Unlimited, 2005
Media specialists, particularly in large urban high schools, often cannot meet the individual instructional needs of every student. This book outlines an online unit that helps media specialists ensure that every student receives valuable--and consistent--information literacy instruction. The book contains a ten-step orientation course created by…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Orientation, Course Organization, Information Literacy
Guan, Jianmin; McBride, Ron; Xiang, Ping – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2007
Although empirical research in academic areas provides support for both a 3-factor as well as a 4-factor achievement goal model, both models were proposed and tested with a collegiate sample. Little is known about the generalizability of either model with high school level samples. This study was designed to examine whether the 3-factor model…
Descriptors: High Schools, Physical Education, Validity, Reliability
Quinn, Therese M. – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2007
This article focuses on the concept of leadership endorsed by an urban all-girls' public school and how heteronormative ideas about female success were resisted by a group of the school's gay students through gender performances and named sexualities. The author argues that queer students are gender projects that the school uses to define and…
Descriptors: Leadership, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Single Sex Schools
Nelson, R. Michael; DeBacker, Teresa K. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2007
Using M. L. Maehr's (1984) theory of personal investment, the authors investigated associations among perceived peer relationships and achievement motivation during science class. Middle school and high school students (N = 253) completed a self-report questionnaire assessing peer classroom climate, achievement-related beliefs and values of a best…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Self Efficacy, Achievement Need
Ommundsen, Yngvar; Kvalo, Silje Eikanger – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2007
We investigated the role of motivational climates, teacher autonomy support, perceived competence and autonomy on pupils' self-regulated motivation in physical education (PE) classes of Norwegian 10th-graders. Path analyses revealed that a mastery climate and teacher autonomy support both (a) positively influenced intrinsically regulated…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Student Motivation, Outcomes of Education
Gehlbach, Hunter – Journal of Educational Research, 2006
Do students tend to set similar types of goals throughout the school year, or do their goal orientations shift over time? If students become more oriented toward mastery or performance over the course of the year, do they improve in their academic achievement, have a more positive affect toward class, and develop the cognitive propensities that…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Social Studies, Grade 9