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Skinner, Robert – Journal of Peace Education, 2020
Critical peace education literature has focused attention on how programmes that promise to teach peace contribute to and contest existing power relations. However, using social theory to work out the relationship between peace education programmes and their context is only beginning. This paper uses a document review and interviews with experts…
Descriptors: Barriers, Peace, Teaching Methods, Power Structure
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Brubaker, Sarah Jane; Mancini, Christina – Journal of School Violence, 2017
Seeking to improve university accountability and compliance with federal mandates, states are considering new reforms including mandating reporting of campus sexual assault allegations. These new policies remain an empirical "black box." To address these gaps, the current exploratory study draws upon a recent survey that examines the…
Descriptors: Universities, Federal Legislation, Sexual Abuse, State Regulation
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Babushko, Svitlana – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
Today Ukraine is in the process of establishing an integral base for adult education and the system of employees' professional development. Hence, the research of the experience of the countries with a fixed, ramified, but integral system of normative and juridical documents in the above-mentioned fields can be of great use. Addressing to the USA…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Tourism, Employee Attitudes, Laws
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Cleaveland, Carol – Social Work, 2010
Using semistructured interviews and participant observation, this two-year pilot study of male Mexican migrants in Freehold, New Jersey, explored how day laborers perceive their struggles to support families despite escalating anti-immigrant legislation at virtually all levels of government. In particular, the author looks at efforts by Mexican…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Laborers, Immigration, Social Work
Letchinger, Robert S. – Personnel, 1986
How should employers respond to applicants and employees with AIDS-related conditions, and how do they resolve employment problems arising from those situations? This article provides some guidance for employers who are currently facing these questions. Discusses legal ramifications, employee attitudes, cost-related considerations, and health…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Discriminatory Legislation, Employee Attitudes, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Ford, Norma J. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to evaluate the diffusion of and user response to an information technology support system (ITSS) which was designed to facilitate inter-organisational coordination and collaboration in the professional development of officers employed by local authorities (LAs). Design/methodology/approach: An action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Focus Groups, Cooperation, Information Technology