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Black-Chen, Marsha – International Research and Review, 2013
Over the last two decades there has been a dramatic increase in continuing education enrollment among non-traditional-aged females both in Jamaica and overseas. This article explores the academic experiences of Jamaican women returning to college, placing emphasis on support services within the higher education institutions attended and on these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Nontraditional Students, Womens Education
Albilehi, Reema; Han, Ju Young; Desmidt, Heather – CATESOL Journal, 2013
To better prepare themselves for authentic teaching situations, pre- and in-service teachers should become familiarized with the application of curriculum-development theory in their training programs. The authors will detail how they have become more prepared to face the challenges of course development by outlining their own experience designing…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Teacher Education Programs, English for Special Purposes
Wallis, Stephen – English in Australia, 2013
Although Garth Boomer spoke of "thresholds of explicitness" (1988, p. 169) beyond which teachers would not venture in the openness of their curriculum design or indeed the nature of the system in which they operate, Stephen Wallis writes in this article that he does believe in student-centred learning and encouraging students to be…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Public School Teachers
Brantlinger, Andrew – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
Proponents of critical mathematics (CM) argue that it has the potential to be more equitable and socially empowering than other approaches to mathematics education. In this article, the author presents results from a practitioner research study of his own teaching of CM to low-income students of color in a U.S. context. The results pertain to the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Remedial Mathematics, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods
Ryu, Minjung – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2013
In reform-based science curricula, students' discursive participation is highly encouraged as a means of science learning as well as a goal of science education. However, Asian immigrant students are perceived to be quiet and passive in classroom discursive situations, and this reticence implies that they may face challenges in discourse-rich…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Educational Change, Science Curriculum, Secondary School Science
Stromquist, Nelly P. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
This chapter considers Theme 4 of the "Hamburg Declaration": Adult learning, gender equality and equity, and the empowerment of women. It has a fourfold purpose. It begins with a review of the balance of progress to date in conceptualizing gender. Second, it examines the objectives of CONFINTEA V and VI from a gender perspective. Third,…
Descriptors: Females, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Empowerment
Gale, Fran; Bolzan, Natalie – Journal of Youth Studies, 2013
Understandings of resilience which primarily focus on the individual are of limited applicability unless we recognise the historical, economic and political factors in which social life occurs. To explore the social foundations of resilience is to chart the ongoing influence of these factors. An appreciation of this context is pivotal to any…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Risk, Indigenous Populations
Chamratrithirong, Aphichat; Miller, Brenda A.; Byrnes, Hilary F.; Rhucharoenpornpanich, Orratai; Cupp, Pamela K.; Rosati, Michael J.; Fongkaew, Warunee; Atwood, Katharine A.; Todd, Michael – Journal of Adolescence, 2013
This study examines the intergenerational transmission of family religion as measured by parent's and adolescent's beliefs and practices in Buddhism, and its relation to delinquent behaviors among early adolescents in Thailand. The data set is from the Thai Family Matters Project 2007, a representative sample of 420 pairs of parents and teens in…
Descriptors: Prevention, Adolescents, Empowerment, Foreign Countries
Straubhaar, Rolf – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
As nonprofit adult literacy programs are often the only options for low-income Latin American immigrants in North America, problems accompanying these programs affect the ability of immigrants to benefit from them. North American nonprofit adult literacy programs often struggle due to the difficulties inherent in using volunteer instructors (often…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Hispanic Americans, Low Income, Literacy Education
Mengwasser, Eva; Walton, Mat – Pastoral Care in Education, 2013
School health promotion aims to empower children to gain control over and improve their health. In contrast to many health promotion activities in schools focussed on predefined health issues, giving children a voice to define their own health needs is in itself an empowering process. Utilising a photography methodology, this research aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Child Health, Childhood Attitudes
Atkins, Liz – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
This paper discusses practical and methodological issues arising from a case study exploring the hopes, aspirations and learning identities of three groups of students undertaking low-level broad vocational programmes in two English general further education colleges. Working within a social justice theoretical framework the paper outlines the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Disadvantaged, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries
Fried, Suellen – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2013
Bullying needs to be understood and positioned as a form of child abuse -- peer abuse. For too many people, bullying is a benign term. This article will include information collected from a wide-range of researchers and discussions with over 50,000 students that I have facilitated during the past twenty years. The content will focus on new…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Suicide
Furuto, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Shifting demographics show America rapidly diversifying, yet research indicates that an alarming number of diverse students continue to struggle to meet learning outcomes of collegiate mathematics curriculum. Consequently, recruitment and retention of diverse students in STEM majors is a pervasive issue. Using a sociocultural perspective, this…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Mathematics, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Shek, Yen Ling – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Cultural resource centers have been an ongoing and integral component to creating a more welcoming campus climate for Students of Color since its establishment in the 1960s. While the racial dynamics may have changed, many of the challenges Students of Color faced on predominantly White campuses have not. Interestingly, cultural resource centers…
Descriptors: Cultural Centers, Resource Centers, Higher Education, Organizational Theories
Ngwaru, J. Marriote – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
The majority of people in Southern and Eastern Africa (SEA) including Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda live in rural areas on less than two dollars a day. The countries however share education values based on the conviction that education will transform society and as a result have embraced the Millennium Development (MDG) and Education for All (EFA)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Poverty, Role of Education