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From Discrete Intervention to Engage Marginalised Students to Whole-School Initiative to Engage All Students
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Callingham, Maggie – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2017
An enduring educational dilemma is that young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds do not have their needs met in conventional schooling. As a result, many have left school by Year 11. To counter this trend, some schools in disadvantaged areas introduce targeted in-school interventions before Year 11 to meet the needs of their…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 11
Reflections on Ethical Dilemmas in Working with So-Called "Vulnerable" and "Hard-to-Reach" Groups: Experiences from the Foodways and Futures Project
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Gombert, Karolina; Douglas, Flora; McArdle, Karen; Carlisle, Sandra – Educational Action Research, 2016
This article reflects on ethical limitations and dilemmas encountered during fieldwork of the Foodways and Futures project (2013-2016). Foodways and Futures is a qualitative action research project aimed at exploring the food choices of former homeless young people (aged 16-25) in Aberdeenshire. In Scotland, where over 13,000 young people become…
Descriptors: Ethics, At Risk Persons, Qualitative Research, Action Research
Reversing the Dehumanization of Families of Color in Schools: Community-Based Research in a Race-Conscious Parent Engagement Program
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Yull, Denise; Wilson, Marguerite; Murray, Carla; Parham, Lawrence – School Community Journal, 2018
Parents' involvement in their children's education is widely understood as a key component of educational success. However, schools typically expect parents to engage with the school system in ways consistent with White, middle-class parenting and behavioral norms and in ways that are deferential to the school's agenda. In this article, we report…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation, Mentors
Supporting K-12 Online Learners: Developing a Mentorship Program
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Edwards, Clea – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Online education is unique in part for the relatively high degrees of autonomy afforded learners. Self-direction and self-regulation, along with support, are essential for students to succeed. The site of this action research project was a new, small online public charter school for middle and high school students, Foothills Academy Connected…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mixed Methods Research, Questionnaires, Ethnography
Evidence Molded by Contact with Staff Culture and Patient Milieu: An Analysis of the Social Process of Knowledge Utilization in Nursing Homes
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Øye, Christine; Mekki, Tone Elin; Skaar, Randi; Dahl, Hellen; Forland, Oddvar; Jacobsen, Frode F. – Vocations and Learning, 2015
Knowledge utilization is politically "hot" because it informs decisions on improving the quality of care in nursing homes (NHs). The difficulties encountered in implementing evidence-based knowledge into practice may be explained by contextual factors. Contextual factors are crucial to understanding the process of knowledge utilization;…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Knowledge Level, Evidence Based Practice, Context Effect
Understanding Change in Teachers' Ways of Being through Collaborative Action Research: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Analysis
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Feldman, Allan; Weiss, Tarin – Educational Action Research, 2010
Despite major efforts to change teachers' practice through professional development activities, much remains as it always was. Our claim is that this rarely happens because significant change in how one teaches can only come about as a result of some realization about oneself as a teacher, and the resulting changes in identity. In recent years we…
Descriptors: Action Research, Partnerships in Education, Context Effect, Educational Change
Rural Social Work Research: An Inventory.
Martinez-Brawley, Emilia E. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1982
Review of rural social work literature of the 1970's indicates research has primarly followed the naturalistic model defined by Taylor, rather than the positivist approach favored by Fischer. Discussed are: surveys and case studies; ethnographies; participatory/action research; historical research; positivistic research; hypothesis testing…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classification, Ethnography, Hypothesis Testing