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Promoting Social Inclusion in Educational Settings: Challenges and Opportunities
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Juvonen, Jaana; Lessard, Leah M.; Rastogi, Ritika; Schacter, Hannah L.; Smith, Danielle Sayre – Educational Psychologist, 2019
The goal of this article is to provide a critical analysis of barriers to social inclusion and integration in schools and propose inclusive educational practices that help connect and unite diverse students. Diversity is defined broadly to refer to a range of differences (i.e., overall heterogeneity) across students. We review theoretical…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Barriers, Social Environment, Inclusion
Strategies to Address Weight-Based Victimization: Youths' Preferred Support Interventions from Classmates, Teachers, and Parents
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Puhl, Rebecca M.; Peterson, Jamie Lee; Luedicke, Joerg – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Weight-Based Victimization is a frequent experience for adolescents who are overweight or obese, and is associated with numerous psychosocial and physical consequences for those who are targets of victimization. Assessing targets' preferences for different types of support and intervention has been absent in the context of weight-based…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Intervention, Adolescents, Bullying
Addressing Size Stereotypes: A Weight Bias and Weight-Related Teasing Intervention among Adolescents
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Miyairi, Maya; Reel, Justine J.; Próspero, Moisés; Okang, Esther N. – Journal of Health Education Teaching, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate a weight-related teasing prevention program implemented for both female and male students in a school setting. Methods: Junior High School students (N = 143) in seventh grade were invited to participate in the program. One hundred eighteen participants completed pre- and posttest surveys to assess…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Stereotypes, Human Body, Self Esteem
Fat Bias and Weight-Related Teasing Prevention among Adolescents
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Miyairi, Maya – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to implement a weight-related teasing prevention program and evaluate the effectiveness of the program among adolescents. One hundred forty-three students in 7th-grade in health classes at the middle school were asked to participate in the study. The weight-related teasing prevention program was implemented as part of…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Obesity, Prevention, Program Effectiveness
Generation BULLIED 2.0: Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Our Most Vulnerable Students. Gender and Sexualities in Education. Volume 1
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Miller, sj, Ed.; Burns, Leslie David, Ed.; Johnson, Tara Star, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Bullying is a contemporary wildfire of a social problem that continues to burn, scar, and even kill U.S. schoolchildren on a daily basis. Not only do the targets of bullying suffer in their abilities to grow, learn and succeed; so do bystanders, and even the bullies themselves. "Generation BULLIED 2.0" details the nature of bullying as a…
Descriptors: Bullying, At Risk Students, Educational Environment, Stereotypes
Adolescent Substance Use: America's #1 Public Health Problem
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National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 2011
This report finds that adolescent smoking, drinking, misusing prescription drugs and using illegal drugs is, by any measure, a public health problem of epidemic proportion, presenting clear and present danger to millions of America's teenagers and severe and expensive long-range consequences for the entire population. This report is a wake-up call…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Cocaine, Narcotics, Public Health