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Bridging Cultures and Computing: Exploring the Relationship between Appalachian Problem Solving and Computational Thinking
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Emi Iwatani; Merijke Coenraad; Kyle M. Dunbar – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2025
Students in Appalachia have a heritage of problem-solving. We explore how computational thinking (CT) relates to and complements this heritage by analyzing 34 local ingenuity stories, and perspectives from 35 community members about the relevance of CT. We found the two problem-solving approaches are meaningfully different, but can be used in…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Computation, Thinking Skills, Area Studies
Self-Efficacy for Resolving Environmental Uncertainties: Implications for Entrepreneurial Educational and Support Programs
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Pushkarskaya, Helen; Usher, Ellen L. – Journal of Extension, 2010
Using a unique sample of rural Kentucky residents, we demonstrated that, in the domain of operational and competitive environmental uncertainties, self-efficacy beliefs are significantly higher among nascent entrepreneurs than among non-entrepreneurs. We employed the hierarchical logistic regression analysis to demonstrate that this result is…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Entrepreneurship
"We Don't Want to Talk about That": Overcoming Barriers to Rural Aging Research and Interventions on Sensitive Topics
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Zanjani, Faika; Rowles, Graham D. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
Geographical, economic, social and cultural barriers to accessing services in rural areas are widely reported. Less widely discussed are dilemmas posed by individual and community reluctance to address sensitive health issues. This article, focusing on the highly sensitive area of mental health, and employing a participatory action approach,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Intervention, Mental Health, Rural Areas
Moving Mountains: Reform, Resistance, and Resiliency in an Appalachian Kentucky High School. National Rural Education Association 1996 Dissertation of the Year Award.
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Porter, Maureen K. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996
A year-long ethnographic investigation examined how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform while resisting state priorities and policies mandated in the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Contrasts KERA objectives with cultural themes prominent in this poor…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
Developing Civic Identity and Kentucky Pride.
Carwin, Margaret – Civic Perspective, 1990
Describes a variety of writing activities and community service projects designed to develop middle school students' civic identity and pride in being citizens of the state of Kentucky. Includes teaching ideas and a project evaluation. (PRA)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Class Activities, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement
All over Town: Growing Up in Rural Kentucky, 1900 to Now.
Chawla, Louise – Small Town, 1994
An investigation of effects of community change on children's lives explored the proposition that, in both rural and urban Kentucky since the Second World War, children have lost shared multigenerational activities, freedom to roam, and open unstructured time. Data included oral histories from residents born 1895-1950, archival research, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Needs, Children