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Farone, Mark C; Hall, Elizabeth W.; Costello, James J. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 1998
A qualitative study of contemporary problems and issues encountered by college students with disabilities used a nominal group process to incorporate student perspectives into the assessment. Critical issues and suggested solutions were identified in six categories: physical/sensory access; service provision; information access; social inclusion;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accessibility (for Disabled), College Environment, College Students
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Pizarro, Marc – Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, 1997
A study examined the role of different arenas of identity in the formation of overall social identities by Chicana/o students. Surveys and interviews with over 150 Chicana/o high school and college students showed that those areas in which social difference and a lack of power became apparent crystallized their identities. (TD)
Descriptors: College Students, Ethnicity, High School Students, High Schools
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Matthews, Lear; Mahoney, Annette – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2005
Immigrant students from the English-speaking Caribbean face various forms of psycho-educational and socio-cultural dislocation in their attempt to fit within the structures of their new schools and communities in the United States. These students risk academic failure and delinquency and the possibility of remaining on the periphery of American…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Immigrants, Teaching Methods, Latin Americans
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Turner, Jennifer D.; Kim, Youb – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2005
Over the past decade, the concept of "community" has been at the center of reform in literacy education. Most literacy educators agree that community-oriented environments are critical for students' literacy learning, yet many have difficulty building these communities in multicultural and multilingual classrooms. In this article we draw upon the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Cultural Pluralism, Multilingualism
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Cisar, Sally Hood – Foreign Language Annals, 2005
This qualitative case study explores how collaborative teacher research serves as a professional development model for practicing teachers. The purpose of the study is to examine how participation in a collaborative teacher research group affected three French teachers' understandings of one state's foreign language standards, and to look at how…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Professional Development, Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers
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Bhattacharya, Gauri – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2005
This community-based, qualitative study explored social capital resources and their influences upon HIV risk behaviors in a sample of 17 heterosexual Asian Indian immigrant men residing in New York City. Our study defined social capital as the resources available to individuals and society through social relationships. At the family, peer, and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Social Capital
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Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy; Howling, Stephanie A.; Leavy, Patricia; Lovejoy, Meg – Qualitative Report, 2004
This study focuses on the impact of race, and its intersection with gender, in influencing and/or preventing the development of disordered body image. Specifically, Black samples are examined to see the role that racial identity plays in the process of developing such attitudes. Using qualitative data analysis methods rooted in grounded theory,…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Self Concept, Females, African Americans
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Lacorte, Manel; Canabal, Evelyn – Heritage Language Journal, 2005
The growing presence of Latino students in U.S. colleges and universities is evident in foreign language (FL) classrooms. Latino students with a high proficiency level in Spanish are usually placed in advanced language or content-based courses along with other non-Latino students. This paper examines university instructors' beliefs and practices…
Descriptors: Spanish, Advanced Students, Classroom Environment, Hispanic Americans
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Saitis, Christos; Menon, Maria Eliophotou – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2004
The paper examines the perceptions of future and current primary school teachers in Greece regarding the effectiveness of their school leaders. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through questionnaires completed by 126 future and 94 current teachers. According to the findings, future teachers were less positive than their current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Instructional Leadership, Principals
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Dawson, Kara; Heinecke, Walter – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2004
The conditions, processes and consequences of technology implementation were explored in order to develop a holistic view of technology use in a typical elementary school (ages 6-11 years). This qualitative case study employed a symbolic interactionist conceptual framework, an interpretivist research paradigm and analytic induction strategies.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Technology Integration, Logical Thinking, Educational Technology
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Mestry, Raj – South African Journal of Education, 2006
In the Schools Act No. 84 of 1996 school governing bodies are mandated to manage the funds of schools. The Act also provides guidelines for the school governing body and the principal on their roles and responsibilities in managing the finances of the school. However, some members of school governing bodies and principals either have little…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governing Boards, Educational Finance, Money Management
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Petrie, Jessica Taisey; Holloway, Susan D. – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2006
This qualitative study investigated mothers' views about their role in their children's education and their expectations of their child's preschool. A particular focus of the study was to contrast the views of mothers with differing degrees of parenting self-efficacy and to contrast the perceptions of working-class and middle-class mothers.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Parent Role
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Emerson, Lisa; MacKay, Bruce R. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2006
This investigation compares and analyses the experiences and subjective cognitive workload of students undertaking a lesson on an aspect of micro-level writing skills in a web-based and paperbased version. Both versions of the lesson were based on the principles of interactive learning, specifically on a modified version of Chou's (2003) model.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Pretests Posttests, Feedback (Response)
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Pinheiro, Marise; Campbell, Katy; Hirst, Sandra P.; Krupa, Eugene – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
In this study, the experiences of seven female health professionals learning online are examined and, in this context, the implications for online course designs and future research are discussed. The instruments of data collection include individual telephone interviews, journals written by the participants during online courses, and e-­mails…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Females, Allied Health Personnel, Interviews
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Schweber, Simone – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2006
This essay compares two curricular treatments of the Holocaust, one that resulted from a full-semester, 10th grade elective course taught at a public high school, the second constructed through a quarter-long, 8th grade unit taught at a charismatic, evangelical, fundamentalist Christian private school. In brief, the study examines the Holocaust's…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Elective Courses, Public Schools, Grade 8
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