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Wood, Lynda C.; Ebenezer, Jazlin; Boone, Relena – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this article is to study the effects of an intellectually caring model of teaching and learning on alternative African American high school students' conceptual change and achievement in a chemistry unit on acids and bases. A mixed-methods approach using retrospective data was utilized. Data secured from the teacher were the…
Descriptors: African American Students, High School Students, Chemistry, Secondary School Science
Camangian, Patrick Roz – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
Breaking down the social, political, and cultural processes through which race, class, and gender worldviews are established, ideological literacies help students look closely at the intricate, contradictory meanings in texts. The purpose of developing ideological literacies in urban youth is so they become more socially conscious of the…
Descriptors: Ideology, Urban Youth, Communication Strategies, Self Concept
Jocson, Korina M. – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2012
An ethnographic study of youth creating media was conducted to examine new literacies at an urban high school in northern California. The school primarily served students from low-income, non-dominant racial and ethnic backgrounds. This article reports on a 9th-grade social studies multimedia project about migration and immigration--called…
Descriptors: High School Students, Urban Youth, Grade 9, Media Literacy
Gould, Laura Feagans; Dariotis, Jacinda K.; Mendelson, Tamar; Greenberg, Mark. T. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
This study examines gender, grade-level, and baseline depressive symptoms as potential moderators of a school-based mindfulness intervention's impact on the self-regulatory outcomes of urban youth. Ninety-seven participants from four urban public schools were randomly assigned to an intervention or wait-list control condition. Fourth and fifth…
Descriptors: Intervention, Depression (Psychology), Peer Relationship, Grade 5
Cummings, Karen L. – Art Education, 2012
Research conducted in nearly the last decade has drawn attention to the fact that adolescents often feel disconnected with schooling. Youth are described as bored, unmotivated, uninterested, not listening, and feeling averse to learning. In studies highlighting urban adolescents, feelings of disconnection, disaffection, and despair are noted.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Urban Youth, Art Education
Sanchez, Yadira M.; Lambert, Sharon F.; Ialongo, Nicholas S. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Considerable research has documented associations between adverse life events and internalizing symptoms in adolescents, but much of this research has focused on the number of events experienced, with less attention to the ecological context or timing of events. This study examined life events in three ecological domains relevant to adolescents…
Descriptors: Females, Family Life, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology)
Cheng, I-Hsuan – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
This paper starts with the real-life issues pertaining to the educational, economic and socio-cultural vulnerability of young Cambodians; and the latter in turn has called for greater integrated stance in vocational education. A multiple-case study of nine educational NGOs located in four cities was conducted, whereby what constitutes an…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Bavarian, Niloofar; Lewis, Kendra M.; DuBois, David L.; Acock, Alan; Vuchinich, Samuel; Silverthorn, Naida; Snyder, Frank J.; Day, Joseph; Ji, Peter; Flay, Brian R. – Journal of School Health, 2013
Background: School-based social-emotional and character development (SECD) programs can influence not only SECD but also academic-related outcomes. This study evaluated the impact of one SECD program, Positive Action (PA), on educational outcomes among low-income, urban youth. Methods: The longitudinal study used a matched-pair, cluster-randomized…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Values Education, Low Income Groups, Urban Youth
Kaminer, Debra; Hardy, Anneli; Heath, Katherine; Mosdell, Jill; Bawa, Umesh – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2013
Objective: Identifying the comparative contributions of different forms of violence exposure to trauma sequelae can help to prioritize interventions for polyvictimized youth living in contexts of limited mental health resources. This study aimed to establish gender patterns in the independent and comparative contributions of five types of violence…
Descriptors: Violence, Risk, Adolescents, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Vega, Desireé; Moore, James L., III; Miranda, Antoinette Halsell – School Community Journal, 2015
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of parental and programmatic support among 20 urban youth. Existing literature indicates that educators often place blame on parents for their perceived lack of involvement in their children's schooling. However, the participants identified their family members (e.g., parents, siblings) as providing…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Urban Youth, Attitude Measures, Parent Role
Thompson, Carol C. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2011
This article explores the use of audiences in preparation for public presentation by an urban youth organization in Camden, New Jersey (U.S.). Camden is an impoverished city with few opportunities for youth. The organization, a hybrid of youth development, technology, business, and college preparation, prepared youth for good jobs or college.…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, College Preparation, Audiences, Cognitive Processes
Udoh, Nsisong A.; Joseph, Eme U. – World Journal of Education, 2012
The study sought the opinions of Faculty of Education Students of University of Uyo on the behavioural problems of juvenile street hawkers in Uyo metropolis. Five research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. This cross-sectional survey employed multi-stage random sampling technique in selecting 200 regular undergraduate students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Problems, Delinquency, Undergraduate Students
Diamantis, Olga – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The "I Have a Dream" (IHAD) program is a philanthropic, community-based intervention committed to supporting pupils in impoverished and under-resourced school systems. The IHAD program presents disadvantaged youth with an equal opportunity to pursue higher education by providing scholastic and social-emotional supports to promote college…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Urban Youth, Youth Programs
Choudhury, Mohammed; Share, Jeff – Voices from the Middle, 2012
Using new literacies critically can be an excellent pedagogy for motivating and empowering students who feel alienated from their school and society. This article describes how one middle school teacher engaged his inner-city English language learners with critical media literacy as a way of making their learning more meaningful and motivating.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Media Literacy, Urban Youth, English (Second Language)
Vasudevan, Lalitha; Stageman, Daniel; Rodriguez, Kristine; Fernandez, Eric; Dattatreyan, E. Gabriel – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2010
A theater project situated within an Alternative to Incarceration Program (ATIP), the Insight Project provided a venue for youth to engage in storytelling and dramatic performance, and allowed for those stories to find diverse and interested audiences. For the young men and women involved, authoring occurred at multiple instances and in multiple…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Story Telling, Juvenile Justice, Youth Programs