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Shogren, Karrie A.; Garnier Villarreal, Mauricio; Lang, Kyle; Seo, Hyojeong – Exceptional Children, 2017
Secondary data analysis using the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 data set was conducted to examine the degree to which autonomy, psychological empowerment, and self-realization (3 of 4 essential characteristics of self-determination) play a mediating role in the relationship between school-based factors and postschool outcomes. The…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Disabilities, Longitudinal Studies, Special Education
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Huscroft-D'Angelo, Jacqueline; Trout, Alexandra L.; Lambert, Matthew C.; Thompson, Ronald – Education and Treatment of Children, 2017
Empowerment has been established as an important factor in resilience in adolescence. It has also been deemed critical for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders to achieve successful outcomes across academic, social, and behavioral domains, especially during a major transition. There is currently one measure used to evaluate empowerment in…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Youth
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Grounds, Patricia E.; Moore, Caroline – Research-publishing.net, 2017
In this qualitative study, we analyze postgraduate students' perceptions of strategic behaviors they developed during their online studies and their ability to extend this behavior to their own praxis. Findings suggest that strategic behavior centers around the development of four core skills: engaging in self-directed thinking; fostering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Skill Development
Stock, Dayna M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Encouraging young women to pursue careers in electoral politics is seen as one strategy for ameliorating the gender disparity that has characterized American political institutions for decades. This multi-method project focuses on outcomes obtained by participants in four "NEW Leadership(TM)" Training Institutes that claim to…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Females, Politics, Aspiration
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Obelleiro, Gonzalo – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2012
In recent years, scholars have turned to cosmopolitanism as a framework for thinking through issues of language and citizenship. In this article, I present Daisaku Ikeda's philosophy of cosmopolitan education and compare it with others' in the extant literature. I examine, from a philosophical perspective, its roots in the Mahayana tradition of…
Descriptors: Altruism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Philosophy
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Varga-Dobai, Kinga – Qualitative Report, 2012
Whether approached from a positivist perspective or a more comprehensive postpositivist theoretical and philosophical grounding, the relationship between researcher and participant entails the strong binary opposition of the I-Thou (Buber, 1971) or Self and Other (Bhabha, 2004) within which I or Self is associated with the researcher and Thou or…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Inquiry, Researchers, Participation
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Holmes, Joshua – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2012
The psychoanalytically informed work of a team of workers at a drop-in centre for families in a poor district of Lima is described. Interventions involve: accepting, connecting, playing and empowering. Clinical vignettes are used to illustrate the ways in which these interventions aim to help families. The acceptance of difficult feelings provides…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Parents, Children
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Stephenson, Kimberly – General Music Today, 2012
The best moments happen when students begin to realize how much power they have and use that power to create. Composing as they master different instrumental stages helps students make composition and performance a natural step in learning. A step-by-step process (rhythm notation, add pitches, copy to a five-line staff, check work, and play) keeps…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Activities, Musical Composition, Musical Instruments
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Yeo, Lay See; Tan, Kayce – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2012
This investigation examined the relationship between adolescent students' attributional style and their perceived academic self-efficacy using the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) (Seligman et al., 1984) and Multidimensional Scales of Perceived Self Efficacy (Bandura, 1989). Attributional style, defined as the way in which…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Psychological Characteristics, Self Efficacy, Gender Differences
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Nieto, Sonia; Irizarry, Jason – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2012
In this article, the authors examine some of the historical instructional approaches that have been used with Latino/a students, and they analyze the impact these have had on their educational experiences and outcomes. They also highlight some participatory action research projects and culturally responsive pedagogy as promising instructional…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teaching Methods, Empowerment, Educational Experience
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Jessup-Anger, Jody E.; Dowdy, Renee Piquette; Janz, Mary – Journal of College and Character, 2012
This article describes the development of the Dorothy Day Social Justice Community, a sophomore, social justice-focused living-learning community at Marquette University. The authors describe the administration of the community, discuss various elements of the community, and share assessment results. They also detail lessons learned from three…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Living Learning Centers, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation
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Kitade, Keiko – CALICO Journal, 2015
A growing number of studies examining second language (L2) teacher education from the perspective of sociocultural theory, in particular the activity theory framework (Engeström, 1999), show that transformations in teachers' cognition and practice can be fostered through negotiation of sociocultural and cognitive dissonance in their teaching…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Technology Uses in Education
Varady, Ashley – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
In San Francisco, a partnership between a K-8 school and a non-profit writing program helps students who are achieving below grade level find their voices and blossom into confident thinkers and writers. 826 Valencia is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Writing Skills, Empowerment, Imagination
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Wong, Mei-Yee – Frontiers of Education in China, 2015
This article explores the dynamics of power-sharing between teacher and students in learning and teaching situations, and describes the theoretical bases, implementation, and results of an empirical study in three elementary schools in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Findings from 58 class observations…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Environment, Educational Practices
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Rogers, John; Lubienski, Chris; Scott, Janelle; Welner, Kevin G. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: Purpose: This analysis considers the emergence, evidentiary basis, and potential of parent trigger policies. In particular, we focus on the policy, political and social circumstances in which parent trigger legislation emerged in California, the efficacy of the school improvement levers on which it draws, and the underlying assumptions…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Educational Change, Politics of Education, State Legislation
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