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Schwartz, Tammy; Dinnen, Hannah; Smith-Millman, Marissa K.; Dixon, Maressa; Flaspohler, Paul D. – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2017
Supporting students' mental health needs is critical in high-poverty urban school districts where many students are at risk for mental health problems. Although teacher-student relationships are at the core of student mental health promotion in the classroom, many teacher preparation programmes do not adequately prepare pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Preservice Teachers, Mental Health, Teacher Student Relationship
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Slaten, Christopher D.; Rivera, Roberto C.; Shemwell, Daniel; Elison, Zachary M. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2016
A growing body of research suggests educators need to focus on cultivating social and emotional competencies that youth will need to thrive in the new knowledge economy (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011). For marginalized urban youth, in particular, few have derived programs and interventions to assist with these…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Urban Youth
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Akiva, Thomas; Horner, Christy Galletta – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
Research suggests that adolescents can benefit from participating in youth programs; however, recruitment and retention are challenging for many programs, and youth living in low-income, urban areas can be the hardest to reach. We investigated motivation to attend a neighborhood-based program for urban adolescents. Participants completed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Youth Programs, Mixed Methods Research, Investigations
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Martos, A. J.; Valera, P.; Bockting, W. O.; Wilson, P. A. – Health Education Research, 2016
Young Black men who have sex with men (YBMSM) account for approximately 10% of the total HIV infection in the United States but represent <1% of the population. Few interventions exist that address their unique needs, and those that do adopt a narrow, risk-based framework for prevention. Qualitative data from the Brothers Connect Study were…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Males, African Americans, Homosexuality
Fitzpatrick, Katie – Peter Lang New York, 2013
"Critical Pedagogy, Physical Education and Urban Schooling" is a critical ethnography of health, physical education and the schooling experiences of urban youth. The subjects of health and physical education are compulsory in most schools internationally, but many contemporary practices in these subjects reinforce rather than challenge the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Critical Theory, Urban Education
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Eksner, H. Julia – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
This article explores how achievement motivation is framed by the larger context of the devaluation of educational capital that is currently underway in urban centers in Europe. The article elucidates the shared cultural meaning working-class German Turkish youths living in urban marginalized zones in Berlin, Germany create about the decreasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Need, Urban Areas, Urban Youth
Demuth, Traci – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This mixed-methods study researches the effects of the implementation of a STEM-garden curriculum as part of collaboration between a non-profit organization and two public schools. This study seeks to understand the processes and funding generated through this partnership between a private and public organization, as well as to evaluate how…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Gardening, Urban Youth, Elementary School Students
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Carvalho, Claudia Pato – Arts Education Policy Review, 2014
This article discusses how biographical materials may be used in youth arts education projects to develop new methodologies and approaches that can stimulate artistic and social intervention in contemporary urban communities, thus changing the field of arts education policy at the community level. Through their creation of Artistic Society…
Descriptors: Biographies, Art Education, Youth Programs, Urban Youth
West, Cassandra – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
In this article, the author talks about a summer program at the African American Adolescent Male Summer Literacy Institute which aims to improve literacy skills of black male teens. The African American Adolescent Male Summer Literacy Institute is now in its fourth year at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC). Alfred Tatum, director of the…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Literacy, African Americans, Adolescents
Duncan, Robert; Washburn, Isaac J.; Lewis, Kendra M.; Bavarian, Niloofar; DuBois, David L.; Acock, Alan C.; Vuchinich, Samuel; Flay, Brian R. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Behavioral trajectories during middle childhood are predictive of consequential outcomes later in life (e.g., substance abuse, violence). Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs are designed to promote trajectories that reflect both growth in positive behaviors and inhibited development of negative behaviors. The current study used growth…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification
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Kendra M. Lewis; Samuel Vuchinich; Peter Ji; David L. DuBois; Alan Acock; Niloofar Bavarian; Joseph Day; Naida Silverthorn; Brian R. Flay – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
This study evaluated effects of "Positive Action," a school-based social-emotional and character development intervention, on indicators of positive youth development (PYD) among a sample of low-income, ethnic minority youth attending 14 urban schools. The study used a matched-pair, cluster-randomized controlled design at the school…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Individual Development, Program Effectiveness, Values Education
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Kotin, Alison; Aguirre McGregor, Stella; Pellecchia, DeAnna; Schatz, Ingrid; Liu, Shaw Pong – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
In this essay, Alison Kotin, Stella Aguirre McGregor, DeAnna Pellecchia, Ingrid Schatz, and Shaw Pong Liu reflect on their experiences working with public high school students to create "Speak Out. Act Up. Move Forward.," a performative response to current and historical acts of civil disobedience. The authors--a group of instructors…
Descriptors: Art Education, High School Students, Public Schools, Civil Disobedience
Horton, Akesha Monique – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Hip-hop has exploded around the world among youth. It is not simply an American source of entertainment; it is a global cultural movement that provides a voice for youth worldwide who have not been able to express their "cultural world" through mainstream media. The emerging field of critical hip-hop pedagogy has produced little…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Music, Critical Theory, Global Approach
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Woodson, Ashley N. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
Critical race scholars have argued that curricular portrayals of the Civil Rights Movement are undermined by master narratives that legitimate the racial status quo. Although many scholars have critiqued Movement master narratives in social studies and society, few studies have examined Black students' interpretations of such representations and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Civil Rights, Criticism
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Kinsey, Sharon – New Directions for Youth Development, 2013
This article focuses on how 4-H youth participants are building social capital, or connections among individuals and community members, through their 4-H experiences. These experiences can be seen through the lens of such 4-H delivery modes as the traditional 4-H club, after-school programs, and school enrichment programs. In addition, other…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Social Capital, Delivery Systems, Program Development
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