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Raspa, Melissa; Bann, Carla M.; Gwaltney, Angela; Benke, Timothy A.; Fu, Cary; Glaze, Daniel G.; Haas, Richard; Heydemann, Peter; Jones, Mary; Kaufmann, Walter E.; Lieberman, David; Marsh, Eric; Peters, Sarika; Ryther, Robin; Standridge, Shannon; Skinner, Steven A.; Percy, Alan K.; Neul, Jeffrey L. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that primarily affects females. Recent work indicates the potential for disease modifying therapies. However, there remains a need to develop outcome measures for use in clinical trials. Using data from a natural history study (n = 1,075), we examined the factor structure, internal consistency,…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Psychometrics, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Disabilities
Flecha, Ramon, Ed.; Pulido, Cristina, Ed.; Villarejo, Beatriz, Ed.; Racionero, Sandra, Ed.; Redondo, Gisela, Ed.; Torras, Elisabeth, Ed. – European Commission, 2020
Students, teachers, families and other community members use digital technology as an educational tool in formal, non-formal and informal learning environments. While its use is widespread, increasing concern has emerged about its effects on children, particularly in relation to their empathy and attention capacity, as these dimensions are crucial…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Children, Empathy, Attention
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Epstein, Erwin H. – Comparative Education, 2018
It was not until the 1930s that comparative education, with the initiation of dedicated courses and programmes at universities in various countries, that the field became internationally recognised in its own right. And, it was not until the 1930s that the first internationally recognised journal in the field, the "International Education…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Educational History, Periodicals, Jews
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Lauricella, Sharon – Communication Education, 2019
Among other issues, social media has become a place to vent about deadlines, find new colleagues, identify research opportunities, and, yes, complain about students. Challenges due to social media use occur from sources both within and beyond the institution. In this piece, the author explores one threat of higher education's own making: when…
Descriptors: Social Media, College Students, Risk, Technology Uses in Education
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Kennedy, P. J.; Sinfield, Philip; Tweedlie, Lucy; Nixon, Carol; Martin, Aisling; Edwards, Katie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects approximately 1% of the general population. The prevalence of ASD, or symptom complexes compatible with ASD, amongst young people residing within Secure Children's Homes (SCH's) remains ill understood. There are critical implications for the resourcing and understanding of the management of young people…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Residential Care, Interpersonal Competence
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Lane, Justin D.; Ledford, Jennifer R. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2016
Sharing materials is a complex social behavior that may lead to long-term development of friendships and concomitant increases in related prosocial behaviors. Given the complexities of sharing behaviors, children with social delays or deficits may not recognize when, how, and with whom to share. Because children with social delays or deficits,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Behavior, Social Development, Interpersonal Competence
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Mizzi, Robert C. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2017
This paper examines the roots, types, and effects of microaggressions in the workplace and discusses implications for adult educators who work in a domestic and transnational context. In a domestic context, the literature describes microaggressions as being based on differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, and professional role,…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Antisocial Behavior, Aggression, Gender Bias
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Eyal, Ori; Berkovich, Izhak – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: In recent years, third sector-school partnerships have become more common and received increasing research attention. Yet, the ethical aspects of third sector-school partnerships have not been discussed in-depth. As a result, the field lacks a conceptual framework that makes possible in-depth understanding of the ethical characteristics…
Descriptors: Ethics, Partnerships in Education, Public Schools, Nongovernmental Organizations
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McDonald, Theodore W.; Stockton, James D.; Landrum, R. Eric – College Quarterly, 2018
An alarming occurrence in academia involves the discipline of faculty, under the guise of violating civility or collegiality codes, for engaging in what should be protected academic free speech. This often occurs when unprincipled and/or corporate-minded administrators seek to punish or dissuade faculty from challenging or questioning their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Discipline, Collegiality
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Carpenter, Sara – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2018
This paper examines experiences of labour market exploitation and precarity amongst migrating young adults in Canada. It analyses a specific case of hyper-exploitation and wage theft as experienced by a group of refugee young adults. Utilizing feminist materialist conceptions of knowledge and learning, this analysis seeks to move beyond an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Migrants, Migration
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Lundie, David – British Journal of Religious Education, 2018
The 'Does RE Work?' project, part of the AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme, ran from 2007 to 2011. Drawing on textual analysis, ethnographic case studies and practitioner enquiry, the study identified core confusions as to the purposes and entailments of Religious Education as practised across the jurisdictions of the UK. This paper…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Case Studies, Humanities, Foreign Countries
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Winter, Christine; Mills, China – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
Framed as being in response to terrorist attacks and concerns about religious bias in some English schools, 'British Values' (BV) curriculum policy forms part of the British Government's Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, 2015. This includes a Duty on teachers in England to actively promote British Values to deter students from radicalisation.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Social Values, Foreign Countries, Terrorism
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Halafoff, Anna; Lam, Kim; Bouma, Gary – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
Since the mid-2000s soft power approaches to counter and prevent violent extremism (C/PVE) have increasingly been implemented by civil society, state actors and UN agencies internationally. Education is a critical and previously undervalued component in PVE, as it has only recently begun to attract significant scholarly and policy attention. This…
Descriptors: World Views, Peace, Prevention, Violence
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Taylor, Elisabeth (Lily) – Learning: Research and Practice, 2018
Alienation and moral disengagement have been described in the literature as some of the key factors for making some people more vulnerable to violent extremism. In this paper, I explore how mindfulness training, especially when paired with art therapy strategies, has great potential for supporting targeted educational measures for building…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Art Therapy, Violence, Antisocial Behavior
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João M. Paraskeva – Qualitative Research Journal, 2018
Purpose: Keeping Spivak's essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in mind, the purpose of this paper is to examine the itinerant curriculum theory (ICT) as a subaltern momentum unveiling how ICT informs subaltern ways of being and thus, potentially, the research lens for qualitative approaches. In this context, the paper examines how curriculum…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Minority Groups, Educational Theories, Curriculum Development
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