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Denise Jones; Zaida Pearson; Deanna C. E. Sinex; Jeremiah Nash; Aiwen Chen; Dennis F. Jones – Afterschool Matters, 2024
The current study explores the efforts of one summer youth employment program to provide students with meaningful work experiences and the participants' perceptions of the meaningfulness of their work and its effect on their future orientation. Most of the students in the study were under the age of 18. The Youth Enrichment Services (YES) Summer…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged, Student Empowerment
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Moutinho, Ricardo; Carlos Paes de Almeida Filho, José – Multicultural Education Review, 2015
In an increasingly multi-territorialized and interdependent world, people are getting more in touch with each other than ever before through many mass media services. This provides the possibility to overcome geographical boarders in order to build new relationships that foster mutual interests in economical and socio-cultural aspects from…
Descriptors: Language Role, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Helms, Ronald G.; Ankenbauer, Mary – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2009
If the young people are to become effective participants in a democratic society, then social studies must be an essential part of the curriculum in the early childhood/elementary years. In a world that demands independent and cooperative problem solving to address complex social, economic, ethical, and personal concerns, the social studies are as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Social Studies, Spanish Culture