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Greenfield, Emily A.; Davis, Rebecca T.; Fedor, James P. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2012
Despite a growing emphasis on international offerings within social work education, researchers have conducted few outcomes studies regarding the implications of these courses for students' professional development. This study addressed this gap by analyzing data from a survey of 122 social work students at Rutgers, the State University of New…
Descriptors: Social Work, Study Abroad, Counselor Training, Campuses
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Sawyer, Cheryl; Judd, Rebecca G. – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2012
Child abuse is a tragedy that harms children psychologically, emotionally, and physically while disrupting healthy development. Many abused children live in terror of the accused perpetrator, court proceedings, and complications associated with abandonment from family and friends. Aligned with relational and creative counseling practice, a…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Safety, Empowerment, Counselors
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Rodger, Sylvia; O'Keefe, Amy; Cook, Madonna; Jones, Judy – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
Background: This qualitative study describes parents' and service providers' experiences in using the Family Goal Setting Tool (FGST). This article looks specifically at the tool's perceived clinical utility during annual, collaborative goal setting. Methods: Participants included eight parents and ten service providers involved in a Family and…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Early Intervention, Focus Groups, Goal Orientation
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Katzman, John – Education Next, 2012
This article shares the author's vision for a more responsive education system. States can create a more agile, more American, system of governance that eliminates impediments to improvement, empowers schools to innovate, and uses data to help families find the right schools for their children. The author presents four proposals that would move…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Governance, Educational Innovation, Innovation
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Swartz, Ann L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
This article is intended as a clear and practical introduction to use of a scientific perspective on embodied learning. It looks to embodied cognition and embodied cognitive science to explore education for self-care. The author presents a neurobiologic understanding of embodied learning to bridge adult education to the science-driven world of…
Descriptors: Patient Education, Nurses, Patients, Cognitive Psychology
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Lee, Pei-Lun – Multicultural Perspectives, 2012
Major troubling contours of neoliberalism and high-stakes education have common features. Consequently, the author discusses how multicultural education can serve as praxis for collective empowerment in a globalized context. The author asserts that equitable representation and localized multicultural knowledge production are the foundation of a…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Global Approach
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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter; King, Patricia M.; Taylor, Kari B.; Wakefield, Kerri M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
Annual interviews with 228 students at 6 diverse campuses in the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education reveal 123 students' developmental growth away from authority dependence between the beginning of the first and second years of college. In the first year of college, 86% of participants relied solely on external authorities to define…
Descriptors: College Students, Liberal Arts, Psychological Needs, Social Influences
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Darlington, Helen – School Science Review, 2012
Both "pupil voice" and "staff voice" can be powerful tools in developing various aspects of a school, but only if there is a strong dialogue between the two. This project used a number of different approaches--questionnaires, lesson observations and planning discussions--to investigate pupils' views of what inspires them to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Students, Influences, Student Empowerment
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Walter-Brice, Alison; Cox, Rachel; Priest, Helena; Thompson, Fiona – Disability & Society, 2012
In 2001 the UK Government launched its strategy "Valuing People". The strategy, underpinned by the Human Rights Act 1998 (Ministry of Justice 1998), the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Home Office 1995) and social inclusion claimed to outline ways for services to work, to meet the needs of individuals with learning disabilities . In…
Descriptors: Females, Disability Discrimination, Mental Retardation, Family Violence
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Ward, Teresa; Commander, Nannette Evans – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2012
There is an impressive amount of quantitative evidence documenting positive student outcomes of learning communities in terms of retention and academic performance (Hotchkiss, Moore, & Pitts, 2006; Tinto, 2000; Zhao & Kuh, 2004). While this quantitative information significantly contributes to our knowledge about learning communities, it…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Evidence, Focus Groups, Academic Achievement
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Xu, Yuejin; Patmor, George – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2012
Teacher leadership is about empowering teachers to take a more active role in school improvement. Current pathways to teacher leadership, namely the Teacher Leader Master (TLM) degree program and teacher-led professional development, mainly target in-service teachers. Less attention has been paid to teacher leadership training in current teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Change, Leadership Training, Teacher Leadership
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Moreillon, Judi; Cahill, Maria; McKee, Rebecca – School Library Research, 2012
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) released new guidelines for school library programs in the summer of 2009. Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs (AASL 2009a), hereafter referred to as EL, spells out the five roles that school librarians must practice to empower library users. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Role, Library Associations
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Harding, Mary – Journal of Dance Education, 2012
Technique classes are often viewed as a purely physical part of dance training, one in which the student voice is silenced. This article demonstrates the principles, teaching strategies, and assessment tools that endeavor to change the power dynamic and allow students to own their learning in technique class and rehearsal. Assessment in this dance…
Descriptors: Criteria, Teaching Methods, Dance Education, Coaching (Performance)
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Scott, John Trevitt; Armstrong, Ann Cheryl – Power and Education, 2016
This article is set in the context of multicultural 21st-century Australia, whose diversity is marked by religious plurality as well as varied ethnic groupings. The article reports on a study of professional learning in three Australian faith-based schools (Christian, Jewish and Muslim) that investigated the role such schools might play in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Groups, Religious Cultural Groups, Religious Education
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Tian, Wenwen; Singhasiri, Wareesiri – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
Although PhD supervision has been recognised as an educative process and a complex pedagogy for decades, there is little research into on-site pedagogic processes. Informed by social constructionism and a Foucauldian approach, this qualitative case study explores how learning opportunities were created by analysing both a supervisor's verbal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Supervision
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