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Direct linkTurcatti, Domiziana – Intercultural Education, 2018
This study focuses on life histories collected from Moroccan Dutch youth in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and describes their experiences in diverse programs of the Dutch secondary education system. The study questions whether the present Dutch educational system facilitates the 'gaining of place' for the youth within Dutch society or whether it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Late Adolescents, Young Adults
Salerno, Joan – Media and Methods, 1980
Annotates biographies about 12 heroic people, including Helen Keller, Indira Gandhi, Stevie Wonder, Hubert Humphrey, and Jesse Owens. (TJ)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Biographies, Role Models, Secondary Education
Download full textAbbey, Cherie D., Ed. – Biography Today, 2002
This volume on "Scientists and Inventors" was created to appeal to young readers in a format they can enjoy reading and can readily understand. Each volume contains alphabetically arranged sketches of outstanding people. Each entry provides at least one picture of the individual profiled, and bold-faced rubrics lead the reader to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Biographies, Individual Characteristics, Intermediate Grades
Engels, Dennis W.; And Others – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1979
Vocational exploration can be facilitated through reading and identifying with persons in novels and biographies. Faculty and librarians listed works for students seeking a fuller sense of how it feels to work in a particular vocation. Recommendations were collated into an annotated bibliography. Limitations and responses are discussed.…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bibliotherapy, Biographies, High School Students
Lynch, Douglas J. – Southern Social Studies Quarterly, 1989
Examines how U.S. junior high school and high school students view success. Includes classroom activities that help set realistic models for success and how people achieve it. Suggests several books that provide examples of success attributions. (LS)
Descriptors: Achievement, Biographies, Class Activities, Learning Activities
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Social Studies. – 1978
This tribute to the life and times of a black American, Paul Robeson, chronicles Robeson's success as a scholar, athlete, well-known theater and film actor, singer, and model of black political activism. The document begins by tracing Robeson's family roots; childhood, high school, and college years; and the anti-black climate present in America…
Descriptors: Awards, Biographies, Black Achievement, Black History
Peer reviewedPapaleo, Ralph J. – Social Studies, 1996
Recommends using time bonding (finding a role model and researching the process and story behind that individual's accomplishments) as a means to interest students in history. Outlines the instructions covering the objectives of the writing assignments. Students researched a variety of biographies including Jackie Robinson and Lyndon Johnson. (MJP)
Descriptors: Biographies, History, History Instruction, Instructional Improvement
Caywood, Carolyn – School Library Journal, 1993
Discusses the need to provide appropriate materials in school libraries that offer support to gay and lesbian teens. Topics addressed include the presentation of role models, in fiction as well as in biographies; religious diversity; confidentiality of circulation records; and censorship issues. (LRW)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biographies, Censorship, Confidential Records
Peer reviewedBradley, Rosa M.; Biermann, Carol A. – American Biology Teacher, 1999
Describes the contributions of women who have served as role models in the fields of ecology and conservation. Women discussed include Ellen Richards, Maria Merian, Jane Colden, Mary Chase, Emma Braun, Ann Morgan, Rachel Carson, Eugenie Clark, Sylvia Earle, Wangari Maathai, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas, and Ruth Patrick. Contains 26 references.…
Descriptors: Activism, Biographies, Biology, Conservation (Environment)
National Black Child Development Inst., Inc., Washington, DC. – 1991
The third in a series of four resource guides containing annotated citations of books, records, and audiovisual materials for African-American children and adolescents is presented. The materials offer positive images of black youth, and realistic depictions of black culture, heritage, and life experiences that are relevant to black children and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, African Culture, Audiodisks
