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Hutson, Samantha; Anderson, Melinda; Swafford, Melinda – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2015
This paper develops the argument that using the Double ABC-X model in family and consumer sciences (FCS) curricula is a way to educate nutrition and dietetics students regarding a family's perceptions of food insecurity. The Double ABC-X model incorporates ecological theory as a basis to explain family stress and the resulting adjustment and…
Descriptors: Models, Food, Consumer Science, Nutrition Instruction
Berge, Kjell Lars; Evensen, Lars Sigfred; Thygesen, Ragnar – Curriculum Journal, 2016
The model presented in this article aspires to represent a theoretically valid and coherent definition and description of writing, as a basis for teaching and assessing writing as a key competency in school. It represents a critique as well as an extension of previous alternatives in that it views writing as a culturally and individually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
McNeal, Ralph B., Jr. – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
Researchers focusing on parent involvement continue to concentrate their efforts on the relationship between involvement and student performance in isolation of the school context in which involvement occurs. This research outlines an ecology of involvement and how this social context affects parent involvement and student performance. Relying on…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Influences, Context Effect
Holmes, Kelly; McLaughlin, Carly; Middleton, Amanda – Communique, 2015
The sheer amount of time that school psychologists spend conducting assessments, coupled with the shift in the field toward incorporating a socially just lens into practice, elicits the question: What constitutes socially just academic assessments, and what are the related best practices? Considering the complexities related to applying a social…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Prevention
Glatz, Terese; Buchanan, Christy M. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Parental self-efficacy (PSE) describes parents' beliefs about being able to handle developmentally specific issues and being able to influence their child in a way that fosters the child's positive development and adjustment (Bandura, 1997). Parents of adolescents have been shown to feel less efficacious than parents of preadolescent children…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Adolescent Development, Parent Child Relationship
Määttä, Suvi; Ray, Carola; Roos, Gun; Roos, Eva – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016
This study explored parents' and preschool personnel's opinions on factors influencing 3-5-year-old children's sedentary behaviors by applying the socioecological model. Four focus group interviews with preschool personnel (N = 14) and six interviews with parents (N = 17) were conducted in autumn 2014. Two researchers independently analyzed the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Physical Activity Level, Ecological Factors, Social Influences
Peterson, John J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Today, as our society faces economic and environmental crises, educational institutions occupy a strategic position to assist in solving these predicaments, by carrying out research and offering teaching in sustainability literacy. However, only a small portion of the total number of colleges and universities in the United States has fully pledged…
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
Tonyan, Holli A. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
Eco(logical)-cultural Theory suggests that a daily routine results from individuals adapting cultural ideas to the constraints of a local context or ecology. Using Ecocultural Theory, this research examined family child care providers' descriptions of daily activities and overall approach to understand cultural models. The results highlighted a…
Descriptors: Child Care, Cultural Context, Models, Educational Practices
Dauter, Luke; Fuller, Bruce – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Higher rates of school switching by students contribute to achievement disparities and are typically theorized as driven by attributes of individual pupils or families. In contrast the neoclassical-economic account postulates that switching is necessary for competition among schools. We argue that both frames fail to capture social-referential and…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Social Environment, Ecological Factors, Peer Influence
Gavish, Bella; Sarah Shimoni – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2013
The study sought to determine which kind of models are suitable for the inclusion of students with disabilities in school and classroom settings, based on the views of general education teachers. Israeli general education teachers were asked to create a constraints free, "Best case scenario" model, for the implementation of inclusion.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Inclusion, Disabilities, Models
Boggs, George L. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
This forum response adds a conceptualization of harmony to Dopico and Vazquez' investigation of pedagogy that combines citizen science, environmental and cross-cultural research, and service-learning. Placing many appropriate and significant aspects of culturally situated science education in an authentically relational context beyond the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Environmental Education, Science Education, Ecological Factors
Pallant, Amy; Lee, Hee-Sun; Pryputniewicz, Sara – Science Teacher, 2012
Systems thinking suggests that one can best understand a complex system by studying the interrelationships of its component parts rather than looking at the individual parts in isolation. With ongoing concern about the effects of climate change, using innovative materials to help students understand how Earth's systems connect with each other is…
Descriptors: Climate, Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation, Electronic Learning
Lau, Jared Miki Jun Kong – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Based on Bronfenbrenner's (1979, 1992) ecological framework, the Counseling Training Environment Scale (CTES) was developed as a self-report measure that assesses the learning and training environment of counseling and related mental health training programs as perceived by current students. A two-phase mixed-methods design was used to create…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Measures (Individuals), Student Attitudes, Mixed Methods Research
Addington, James R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examines education and development in Appalachia using environmental education as the theoretical basis. Despite over 50 years of public attention to the educational and developmental disparities in the Central Appalachian region, these disparities still exist. Thus, the investigation into a new paradigm seems appropriate (Eller, 2008).…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Rural Education, Naturalistic Observation
Bowman, Sharon L.; Roysircar, Gargi – Counseling Psychologist, 2011
Trauma-related assistance in response to disasters or catastrophes is needed locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, and the authors argue that there is a necessity for counseling psychologists and counseling psychology programs to incorporate it into their prevention, training, and social justice repertoire. Counseling psychologists…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Counseling Psychology, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories