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Noonan, James – Educational Action Research, 2015
Schools are increasingly seen as having a promising role to play in reducing adverse health and wellness outcomes among young people. This paper uses a collaborative action research approach to examine the effects of one school's efforts to change its students' eating habits by implementing a "junk-food free campus." By engaging school…
Descriptors: Action Research, Eating Habits, Behavior Change, Food
Livingstone, Anne-Marie; Celemencki, Jacqueline; Calixte, Melissa – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
The article discusses the implementation and results of a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project carried out with black high school students in 2009 and 2010 in Montreal, QC. The aim of the project was to involve black youth in studying the factors that either enhance or impede their success in school and thereby have them identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Action Research, High School Students