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Hsu, Wan-Chen; Chiang, Chia-Hsun; Chuang, Hsueh-Hua – Educational Gerontology, 2015
This study investigated the relationships of teacher efficacy, perceived organizational control, and the teacher-student age gap with teachers' retirement attitudes. Stratified random sampling was adopted to collect survey responses. A total of 498 valid surveys from 33 elementary schools were collected. Correlational analyses revealed significant…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
Within a learning family, every member is a lifelong learner. A family literacy and learning approach is more likely to break the intergenerational cycle of low education and inadequate literacy skills, particularly among disadvantaged families and communities. The selection of case studies presented in this compilation show that for an…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Teaching Methods, Lifelong Learning, Family Literacy
Urbina, Martin Guevara; Wright, Claudia Rodriguez – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2015
While the black and white racial experience has been delineated over the years, the ethnic realities of Latinos have received minimal attention. Therefore, with Latinos projected as the upcoming U.S. population majority, the central goal of this book is to document the Latino experience in the world of academia, focusing primarily, but not…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Hispanic American Students, Racial Bias
Public Agenda, 2015
Although over 80 percent of the 1.5 million students who enter community colleges each year indicate they intend to attain a bachelor's degree or higher, less than 40 percent earn any form of college credential within six years. This discussion starter is designed to help both higher education professionals and the average citizen work through how…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Marc Nachowitz – English Journal, 2015
Sara's story reports the effects of an experimental intervention applying knowledge-building principles for learning, as well as the unanticipated improvement of literacy skills of students with IEPs. According to the author, if you believe that knowledge is socially and collaboratively constructed, as the author does, then an overwhelming…
Descriptors: Experimental Teaching, Individualized Education Programs, Literacy, Epistemology
Grant-Williams, April Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
African American students have been underrepresented in higher education since the 1960s. The study of this disparity has caused many researchers to consider the social and institutional correlating relationships that could contribute to the declining retention rates for African American students in higher education. The purpose of the grounded…
Descriptors: African American Students, Educational Attitudes, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
Messiou, Kyriaki – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
One of the key challenges facing schools today is that of reducing marginalisation amongst pupils in educational contexts. This timely book provides guidance and illustrative examples of the ways in which primary and secondary schools can include all of their students in the academic and social experiences they provide. Developed around a…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Models, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
Salcedo, Rebekah Hoppel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Postsecondary financial aid (including scholarship awards) in the United States are as complicated and diverse in their function as they are in their long-term implications and outcomes. Through an examination of third party scholarships and the students who receive them, this study seeks to understand the dynamic intersection between a…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Scholarships, Student Financial Aid
Harper, Jennifer; O'Brien, Kathryn – Stenhouse Publishers, 2012
Teachers know that their students love to explore and learn. But, how do we make this possible with thirty students, with different needs, learning styles, and backgrounds, all in one small room with one teacher in the class? Designed to help teachers reflect on their current teaching practice, "Student-Driven Learning" suggests small shifts,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Opportunities, Experiential Learning, Teachers
Ranson, Stewart – Critical Studies in Education, 2012
The collective action predicaments of the time require citizens to participate in remaking the governance of civil society so that they can become engaged and cooperate together. Can citizens become makers of civil society? This article draws upon Hannah Arendt's "On Revolution" to provide a theory of remaking in which citizens come together to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Social Action, Governance, Social Theories
Love, Kurt – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2012
Although no one unified anarchist theory exists, educational approaches can be taken to support the full liberation of the self and the construction of an interconnected community that strives to rid itself of eco-sociocultural oppressions. An anarchist pedagogical approach could be one that is rooted in a love/rage unit of analysis occurring…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Power, Personal Autonomy
Do Village Girls Gain Empowering Capabilities through Schooling and What Functionings Do They Value?
Seeberg, Vilma; Luo, Shujuan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2012
This paper explores the relationship between girls' schooling and empowerment in western China in the first decade of the 21st century. This paper adopted a capability-empowerment framework based on Sen's capability approach into which were integrated concepts by Bourdieu, Appadurai, Nussbaum, Kabeer, and Unterhalter, to help to understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Children, Young Adults
Valenti, Karla – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2012
Empowering children to make a difference is not only an important way of fostering positive interactions among people, but it promotes children's growth as bright, competent, and independent individuals. One of the most effective ways of empowering children is by teaching them how to engage their multiple intelligences and imaginations to better…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Student Empowerment, Story Telling
Husband, Terry, Jr. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
Early childhood classrooms in the US continue to become increasingly diverse as we journey through the twenty first century. Yet and still, many early childhood educators have been slow to respond to these shifts in diversity on the basis of both developmental and political concerns. In this guess editorial, I argue for the integration of…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Race, Early Childhood Education, Racial Attitudes
Jones, Brett D.; Sahbaz, Sumeyra; Schram, Asta B.; Chittum, Jessica R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
We investigated students' perceptions related to psychological constructs in their science classes and the influence of these perceptions on their science identification and science career goals. Participants included 575 middle school students from two countries (334 students in the U.S. and 241 students in Iceland). Students completed a…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes