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Coyne-Foresi, Melissa; Crooks, Claire V.; Chiodo, Debbie; Nowicki, Elizabeth A.; Dare, Lynn – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2019
In this mixed methods case study, we investigated the benefits of being a youth mentor to younger peers as part of the Fourth R: Uniting Our Nations Peer Mentoring Program for Indigenous youth. Data were collected from 11 youth mentors via interviews and returned to them for interpretation and meaning-making through a statement sorting and rating…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, Program Effectiveness, High School Students
Kutscher, Elisabeth L.; Tuckwiller, Elizabeth D. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2019
Students with disabilities contribute to the diversity of postsecondary campuses but face many unique challenges in completing their programs of study. The purpose of this systematic review was to develop an understanding of what is known about persistence in and graduation from higher education programs for students with disabilities, focusing…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Higher Education, College Students, Academic Persistence
TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2016
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) supports educators with disabilities including faculty, teacher candidates, and teachers in classrooms, schools, and institutions of higher education. Many educators with disabilities have learned resiliency, overcoming adversity to succeed academically. However, without appropriate support this is often…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Teachers, Professional Associations, Resilience (Psychology)
Council for Exceptional Children, 2016
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) supports educators with disabilities including faculty, teacher candidates, and teachers in classrooms, schools, and institutions of higher education. Many educators with disabilities have learned resiliency, overcoming adversity to succeed academically. However, without appropriate support this is often…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Teachers, Professional Associations, Resilience (Psychology)
Soni, Anita – Support for Learning, 2017
This article describes a small-scale study exploring the perspectives of five undergraduate students with dyslexia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in two universities in the UK. The interviews explored participants' perceptions of their dyslexia label and how it had affected their academic success. The aim of the research was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Undergraduate Students, Semi Structured Interviews
Al-Sharif, Sarah – Online Submission, 2018
"Self-Determination" concept is based on the simple assumption that human beings ought to be in a position to intrinsically influence their life outcomes. The concept as well avails people with the right to control positive life outcomes by managing the Decisions and Choices they make. Typically, the concept revolves around the approach…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Self Determination, Skill Development
Lyschel Shipp – English Journal, 2017
The author argues that, by revolutionizing the literary canon, we are revolutionizing the English classroom, and urges us to shift from focusing exclusively on required texts to equally acknowledging the urgent need for consciousness and activism from our students.
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Culturally Relevant Education, Learner Engagement, Popular Culture
Tanner, Kara Kunst – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study investigated the academic, community, and family experiences of adults who are profoundly deaf. The deaf adults were categorized as high-achieving by having attended college post-high school. The intent of this study is to give teachers, parents, and other deaf students, insight into the factors responsible for contributing…
Descriptors: Deafness, Adults, High Achievement, Qualitative Research
Daley, Samantha G.; Zeidan, Pamela – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
This qualitative study examined the role and determinants of motivational beliefs and self-perceptions among six academically successful undergraduates with learning disabilities at private 4-year colleges who serve as mentors for middle-school students with similar learning challenges. Drawing on the expectancy-value theory of achievement-related…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Self Concept, Beliefs
Lopez, Nancy; Stoner, Julia B. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2017
Promoting self-determination in students with disabilities is recognized as an integral component of education today. For most students with disabilities, self-determination should be addressed through instruction and in the Individualized Education Program (IEP). Yet, IEPs are rarely evaluated to determine if goals targeting self-determination…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Individualized Education Programs, High School Students, Disabilities
Ryan, Thomas G.; Griffiths, Sarah – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2015
The following review of literature illuminates self-advocacy from a North American transformational learning perspective via meaningful impacts, which arise for adults with developmental disabilities, as well as various communities and their members. For adults with developmental disabilities, increased leadership capabilities and the evolution of…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Adults, Developmental Disabilities, Literature Reviews
Martinez, Melissa A.; Chang, Aurora; Welton, Anjalé D. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
This qualitative study adopted Yosso's community cultural wealth (CCW) framework to examine how 16 assistant professors of color (APOC) drew upon various forms of capital (navigational, aspirational, social, resistant, linguistic, familial) to deal with racism and marginalization in academia. Findings revealed how APOC: dealt with students'…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Minority Group Teachers, Racial Bias, Guidelines
Sharpe, Hillary; Alderson, Kevin; Collins, Sandra – Qualitative Report, 2013
We explored the concept of living positively with chronic pain using a mixed-methods design that relied primarily on hermeneutic phenomenology. Ten women described their experiences of developing a positive identity while contending with chronic pain. Throughout their journeys, the women interviewed experienced a number of key themes including:…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Females, Adults, Chronic Illness
Alabdulwahab, Reem – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of international undergraduate students who are identified with learning disabilities and enrolled in universities in the United States. There is a dearth of studies investigating the unique needs and challenges of this population. This is the first study to explore the phenomenon of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Learning Disabilities
Caldwell, Joe – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
Life stories and perspectives of leaders in the self-advocacy movement were explored to enhance knowledge about disability identity formation. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 13 leaders in the self-advocacy movement. Five major themes emerged: (a) resistance-claiming personhood and voice; (b) connection with disability…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Self Concept, Leaders, Self Advocacy