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Direct linkCavanagh, Michael; King, Alexis – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of primary pre-service teachers engaged in a peer-group mentoring program during a professional experience placement. Pre-service teachers completed weekly questionnaires and an interview about their experiences. Questionnaire and interview responses were coded and analysed according to three…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Mentors, Preservice Teachers, Standards
Magill, Kevin Russel; Smith, Victoria Davis; Blevins, Brooke; LeCompte, Karon N. – Democracy & Education, 2020
Research literature suggests students need to engage in "actual" civic experiences; however, in most cases, teachers feel unwilling or unable to facilitate experiences beyond the formal classroom setting. In this project, we sought to understand the relationship between social studies teachers' civic ideology, pedagogical approaches, and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Student Participation, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
Ritchie, Genevieve – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
In the wake of the most recent refugee crisis the private sponsorship programme re-emerged in Canada as a just and novel solution to precarious migration. The private sponsorship programme expands the role of civil society in humanitarian resettlement, while simultaneously depicting the programme as a grassroots movement of engaged and active…
Descriptors: Refugees, Land Settlement, Neoliberalism, Government Role
VanderDussen Toukan, Elena – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
If service-learning is to fulfill its potential to contribute to meaningful social change, scholars and practitioners must consider how service might foster a dynamic relationship between knowledge, the learner and the community. This paper challenges modernist conceptions of knowledge as a 'commodity' that can be delivered and consumed, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Service Learning, Correlation
Mitchell, Jermaine B.; Paschal, Angelia M.; Parmelee, Patricia A.; Murphy, Pilar Z. – American Journal of Health Education, 2018
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in Americans. Rural African American (AA) adults are disproportionately affected by CVD--a disease whose risk can be mitigated by a healthy diet and regular physical activity. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Living in Victory Everyday…
Descriptors: Risk, Intervention, African Americans, Heart Disorders
Moore, Kristin A.; Lantos, Hannah; Murphy, Kelly; Redd, Zakia; Beckwith, Sam – Child Trends, 2018
Growing evidence suggests that Positive Youth Development (PYD), a holistic approach to developing assets and competencies, can help prepare young people for success in adulthood, including success in the workplace. At its core, PYD focuses on creating a supportive, developmentally appropriate learning setting by emphasizing positive…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Adolescent Development, Labor Force Development, Job Training
Affordances, Complexities, and Challenges of Intercultural Citizenship for Foreign Language Teachers
Porto, Melina – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
This article explores the intercultural and citizenship dimensions of foreign language teaching and discusses, in particular, the implications for foreign language teaching and teacher education. The work (1) extends the fundamental concepts that were developed by Byram and Wagner (2018) in this journal--that foreign language education has…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Education
Secor-Turner, Molly; Randall, Brandy A.; Christensen, Katie; Jacobson, Amy; Loyola Meléndez, Migdalia – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2017
Although comprehensive sexuality education programmes have the potential to improve the sexual health and well-being of young people, many socially conservative rural states in the USA have laws and policies restricting school-based comprehensive sexuality education and supporting abstinence-only education. This paper describes the process of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Sexuality, Sex Education, School Community Relationship
Tampien, Jordan – Journal of Extension, 2016
Lack of adequate access to capital is a major barrier for rural entrepreneurs. Washington State University Extension and the Association of Washington Cities partnered to explore and test an innovative local investment approach that provides access to capital and engages the community in the success of individual businesses. The approach offers…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Financial Support, Barriers, Entrepreneurship
Kisker, Carrie B.; Newell, Mallory Angeli; Weintraub, Dayna S. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2016
This chapter describes the individual and institutional factors leading to greater civic outcomes among students at four The Democracy Commitment (TDC) colleges in California.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Descriptions, Individual Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics
Download full textJakopovic, Paula; Gomez-Johnson, Kelly – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2021
The current pool of highly qualified secondary mathematics teachers is woefully inadequate to address the needs of schools across the United States and other countries internationally. In STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) areas, providing quality instruction in a changing world requires continuous change and innovation as…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Communities of Practice, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Norris, Katherine E. L.; Martin, Gerardina L. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
Higher education institutions are in a great position to create authentic programming to support local underfunded or underperforming public school districts. This article gives an overview of an education outreach collaborative between a 4-year public university, local schools, and a community institution and highlights lessons learned from the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, School Community Relationship, Mentors, High School Students
Marriott, Lisa K.; Link, Aaron Raz; Anitori, Roberto; Blackwell, Ernest; Blas, Andrea; Brock, Jennifer; Burke, Tracey; Burrows, Julia A.; Cabrera, Alexis P.; Helsham, Derek; Liban, Lorna B.; Mackiewicz, Marilyn R.; Maruyama, Mika; Milligan-Myhre, Kathryn C. A.; Pangelinan, Perry J. C.; Hattori-Uchima, Margaret; Reed, Russell; Simon, Benjamin E.; Solomon, Beylul; Trinidad, Alma M. O.; Wyatt, Letisha R.; Covarrubia, Alonso Delgado; Zell, Adrienne; Adrienne, Thomas E.; Morris, Cynthia; Crespo, Carlos J. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
Research experience provides critical training for new biomedical research scientists. Students from underrepresented populations studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are increasingly recruited into research pathways to diversify STEM fields. However, support structures outside of research settings designed to help…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Medical Research, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education
Abraham, Stephanie; Kedley, Kate; Fall, Madjiguene; Krishnamurthy, Sharada; Tulino, Daniel – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
We, as multilingual teacher-scholars, had lingering questions about what community programs were doing, operating outside of school contexts, to maintain the bilingualism of racialized, Latinx children in Philadelphia and to resist the monolingual ideologies circulating in US society. To answer those questions, we partnered with a bilingual,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Writing Instruction, Hispanic American Students, Workshops
Brodie, Jacqueline; Osowska, Renata – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
Universities globally are aspiring to grow through investing in the delivery of online learning programmes. However, the attrition rate for online learning is high. It has been noted that those students with a sense of belonging to their course experience increased enjoyment and reduced anxiety and are therefore less likely to withdraw. Yet too…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Entrepreneurship
