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Baird, Irene C. – 2001
The role of incarcerated women's writings as change agents for their communities was explored in a project during which 15 Anglo-American, African-American, and Latina women between the ages of 19 and 40 years voluntarily participates in three 10-week poetry reading and discussion sessions. The program was designed as a Freirian/humanities adult…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Blacks
Daniels, Doria – 2002
South African women in informal settlements lack access to education and employment opportunities, making them vulnerable to exploitation and poverty. A collaborative narrative inquiry was undertaken to compile the life histories of 16 women, identifying their participation in community building. The process combined popular education and feminist…
Descriptors: Adult Education, At Risk Persons, Biographies, Blacks
National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education. – 1995
A study examined the use of, and the need for, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act funding reserves for sex equity programs and programs for displaced homemakers, single parents, and single pregnant women. Of 34 local program operators interviewed, 17 received sex equity grants, and 22 received displaced homemaker,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Displaced Homemakers, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Battiste, Marie, Ed. – 2000
This book springs from a 1996 International Summer Institute, held at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, on the cultural restoration of oppressed Indigenous peoples. Essays draw on many perspectives and experiences to seek ways of healing and rebuilding nations, peoples, and communities by restoring Indigenous ecologies, consciousnesses,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Canada Natives, Colonialism
Daniell, Beth – 2003
Private and personal literacy practices of reading and writing, which have typically been regarded as less important than the more visible and public literacies used by men, are important in the lives of women because they aid the development and empowerment of the self. Qualitative interviews were conducted with six women of diverse socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Alcohol Abuse, Cooperative Learning, Discussion Groups
Lowe, Kevin; Tassone, Julie – 2001
A pilot program in New South Wales (Australia) aimed to engage Aboriginal students in the education process by making school more interesting and relevant to them specifically. The project used career education and Aboriginal perspectives to achieve these objectives. The development of aspirations within students was central, and it was hoped that…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Aspiration, Career Education, Community Involvement
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet, which was produced as a follow-up to the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, examines literacy in the world and its major regions. After a brief overview of the workshop from which the booklet emerged, the need to reconceptualize literacy as a tool for learning throughout life is emphasized. Discussed next are the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Economic Development
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet discusses the future directions of adult education in the field of population issues. Particular emphasis is on the continuing need to interpret the post-1994 Cairo conference paradigmatic shift, from a strictly demographic focus towards a new vision of development and gender rights. Section 1 discusses reproductive rights in the…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Cultural Context, Decision Making
Ruiz, Vicki L., Ed. – 2000
In this anthology, Chicana voices of the past and present illuminate the experiences of Mexican American women as they strive to integrate wage work, family life, and community engagement. Sections cover confrontations with the state through community action, court litigation, and union organizing; negotiating work, marriage, and children; stories…
Descriptors: Activism, Anthologies, Community Action, Consciousness Raising
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Aguilar, Marian A. – Social Work in Education, 1996
Introduces a framework for high school retention efforts based on the findings from a study of 84 young Mexican American women who were first in their families to attend college. The framework provides the means for bridging educational gaps by supporting the strengths of these young people and by reducing barriers to educational achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Cultural Differences, Dropout Prevention
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Harvey, C. B.; And Others – Guidance & Counselling, 1995
Empowering clients from multicultural communities is a major thrust of cross-cultural counseling. Discusses the issues of learned helplessness and proposes learned hopefulness as an outcome of counseling interventions. (Author)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Coping, Counseling Effectiveness
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Matthews, Lear; Mahoney, Annette – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2005
Immigrant students from the English-speaking Caribbean face various forms of psycho-educational and socio-cultural dislocation in their attempt to fit within the structures of their new schools and communities in the United States. These students risk academic failure and delinquency and the possibility of remaining on the periphery of American…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Immigrants, Teaching Methods, Latin Americans
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Frame, Kathleen – Journal of School Nursing, 2004
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), there has been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the last several years. School nursing interventions need to be developed, implemented, and evaluated to address complexities experienced by this population. The…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Preadolescents, Empowerment
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Tourigny, Marc; Hebert, Martine; Daigneault, Isabelle; Simoneau, Ann Claude – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2005
The effects of a group therapy program for teenage girls reporting child sexual abuse were evaluated by means of a pretest/post-test design with a control group. The psycho-educational intervention consisted of an average of 20 weekly two-hour meetings. Results of the repeated analyses of variance (ANOVA) revealed a significant improvement in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Empowerment, Behavior Problems, Intervention
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Shin, Sun-Kyung – Research on Social Work Practice, 2004
This study is to identify culturally relevant treatment methods and to assess the effects of family psychoeducational intervention for Korean Americans who had a family member with mental illness. 48 Korean Americans with children with mental illness were randomly assigned to either an experimental group program that provided culturally sensitive…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Intervention, Mental Disorders, Coping
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