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Johnston, Elizabeth A.; Lane, James F. – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2019
Many educational leaders are unfamiliar with learning, teaching, and conveying information through 21st century visual culture and digital products. Insights from individuals who developed skills in a visual environment and experienced technological disruptions throughout their working life might be useful. The six participants in this narrative…
Descriptors: Artists, Personal Narratives, Studio Art, Thinking Skills
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Iloh, Constance – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
The for-profit college sector is arguably the most controversial and least understood sector of higher education today. The past decade has ushered in a wealth of public concern and scrutiny as to whether for-profit colleges and universities are providing a quality education to underserved student populations. While their politicization has…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Colleges, Ethnography, Student Experience
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Gonzales, Roberto G. – American Sociological Review, 2011
This article examines the transition to adulthood among 1.5-generation undocumented Latino young adults. For them, the transition to adulthood involves exiting the legally protected status of K to 12 students and entering into adult roles that require legal status as the basis for participation. This collision among contexts makes for a turbulent…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Friendship, Young Adults, Immigrants
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Lincoln, Stefanie – Performance Improvement, 2009
This 2008 Award of Excellence study describes how the Coast Guard Training Center in Petaluma, California, used human performance technology principles to identify and improve performance problems among a student population of young enlisted members. The solution system centered around the creation of a program that set expectations and standards…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Performance Technology, Armed Forces, Military Personnel
SMILANSKY, M.; SMILANSKY, S. – 1965
MEANS OF EDUCATING CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN WERE EXAMINED. THE RESEARCH, EXPERIMENTATION, AND ADAPTATION WERE GUIDED BY SIX BASIC PROPOSITIONS. THEY WERE--THAT ABILITIES AND SKILLS WERE SOCIALLY DETERMINED, THAT THERE WAS A WIDE AND DEEP SOCIOECONOMIC AND CULTURAL GAP BETWEEN THE "ADVANTAGED" AND THE "DISADVANTAGED"…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Child Rearing, Disadvantaged, Early Experience