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Shah, Payal – Comparative Education Review, 2015
Delving into the "black box" of schooling can help us better understand the paradoxical reality that schooling for girls can be simultaneously empowering and disempowering. Despite recent interest in developing innovative research methodologies within the field of comparative education, there has been less attention to and reflexivity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Females, Adolescents
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Lifshitz-Vahav, Hefziba – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2015
The main goal of this article is to discuss a new concept, the "Compensation Age Theory (CAT)", for individuals with intellectual disability (ID). The CAT is a holistic framework comprised of four dimensions: (a) the state of the art of the CAT; (b) the theoretical resources which are at the core of the CAT; (c) a series of empirical…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Self Actualization, Theories, Holistic Approach
Nieto, Sonia – Educational Leadership, 2015
For those who believe in the promise of public education, here's an antidote to the many negative messages that educators have been receiving. In doing research for her new book, "Why Teachers Teach Now" (Teachers College Press, 2014), Sonia Nieto contacted teacher educators from across the United States and asked each to nominate a…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Resilience (Psychology), Coping, Teaching Conditions
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Jarrett, Olga S.; Stenhouse, Vera – Urban Education, 2011
This article presents findings of 6 years of implementing a Problem Solution Project, an assignment influenced by service learning, problem-based learning, critical theory, and critical pedagogy whereby teachers help children tackle real problems. Projects of 135 teachers in an urban certification/master's program were summarized by cohort year…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Curriculum Development, Student Empowerment, Urban Schools
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Wilson, David Sloan; Marshall, Danielle; Iserhott, Hindi – American Journal of Play, 2011
Creating play environments for children usually requires groups of adults working together. An extensive scientific literature describes how groups function to achieve shared goals in general terms, and groups attempting to empower play may find this literature useful. Design principles for managing natural resources, identified by Elinor Ostrom…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Play, National Organizations, Children
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Wallace, J. Craig; Johnson, Paul D.; Mathe, Kimberly; Paul, Jeff – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
The authors proposed and tested a model in which data were collected from managers (n = 539) at 116 corporate-owned quick service restaurants to assess the structural and psychological empowerment process as moderated by shared-felt accountability on indices of performance from a managerial perspective. The authors found that empowering leadership…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Psychology, Accountability, Empowerment
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Owen, Hazel – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2013
Eddie Reisch is currently working as a policy advisor for Te Reo Maori Operational Policy within the Student Achievement group with the Ministry of Education in New Zealand, where he has implemented and led a range of e-learning initiatives and developments, particularly the Virtual Learning Network (VLN). He is regarded as one of the leading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Expertise, Blended Learning
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Duenkel, Nicky – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2013
This paper encourages shifts in praxis to promote the thoughtful inclusion of creativity into higher education assignments in order to broaden and deepen student experience, and offer greater integration between required assignments and the complexity of students' lives. Obstacles to integrating creativity into academia are also briefly explored.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Creative Activities, Student Surveys, College Faculty
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Nyamekye, Farhaana – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2013
Findings from a 1.5 year study of black adolescent mathematics students attending an African-centered school in the US are used to highlight the benefits of separate schooling for this population of students. Critical race theory is used to frame a dialogue surrounding the ways in which this type of school environment and embedded racialized…
Descriptors: African Americans, Adolescents, Mathematics Instruction, Afrocentrism
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Alex, Jiju P. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2013
Purpose: This article analyses how an initiative on farm mechanisation by a local government in Kerala in South India evolved into a formal organisation that provides sustainable livelihood options to women and small and marginal farmers and revived the rice production system. Design/methodology/approach: The study followed the case analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Agricultural Engineering, Sustainability
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Downes, Paul – European Journal of Education, 2013
There are significant "lacunae" in the otherwise highly progressive documents on early school leaving prevention from the European Commission and Council in 2011, as part of the EU2020 headline target of 10% early school leavers across the EU. These documents offer no explicit account or analysis of the voices of children and young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropout Prevention, Systems Approach, Accountability
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Vaughn, Margaret – New Educator, 2013
Effective teachers have been described as possessing a vision for their teaching. However, the current high-stakes accountability climate has provided challenges for teachers attempting to align their instruction with their vision for teaching. The goal of this study was to explore 3 in-service teachers' visions and perceived obstacles they faced…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Accountability, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Empowerment
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Patall, Erika A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Psychological research and theory have traditionally suggested that opportunities for choosing will lead to motivation and performance benefits. However, evidence on choice effects has not been ubiquitously positive, and recent investigations have revealed factors that diminish or reverse the effects of choosing. This investigation sought to…
Descriptors: Interest Research, Student Empowerment, Reading Comprehension, College Students
Habeeb, Scott – Principal Leadership, 2013
Across the country, high schools have found that their ninth-grade students have the highest rates of truancy, discipline referrals, failures, and retentions. A school's worst data points are usually found among freshmen. For this reason, proactive schools seek strategies for transitioning freshmen into high school. An effective freshman…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Grade 9, Student Behavior, Student Adjustment
Northwest Evaluation Association, 2013
Since 2000 the population in McKinney, Texas, has almost tripled. Remarkably, the school system has kept apace, opening a new school building almost every year. As the population of this Dallas-Fort Worth area bedroom community has diversified in recent decades, so has the student body of McKinney Independent School District (ISD). Despite the…
Descriptors: School Districts, High Achievement, Public Schools, Equal Education
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