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Morton, Brenda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore the perceptions of former and current foster youth on the barriers, supports, helps, and strategies they encountered during their K-12 education, and to learn how these contributed to their ability to enroll in post-secondary education. The study included in-depth interviews of 11…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Youth, Postsecondary Education, Barriers
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Markantoni, Marianna; van Hoven, Bettina – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
Over the past 20 years, rural areas in Western societies have transformed from a production to a consumption space. Much research on rural diversification and revitalization has focused on farmers and their wives. However, it is useful to examine side activities run by non-farm women which have slowly emerged in the last few years. In view of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Entrepreneurship, Rural Population
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Dor, Asnat; Rucker-Naidu, T. Brooke – Issues in Educational Research, 2012
The purpose of this study is a qualitative comparison of Israeli and U.S. teachers' views and attitudes toward parents' involvement in school. Fifty-six elementary school and secondary school teachers in Israel and in the state of Maryland, USA were asked to define parents' involvement, their feelings towards it, and its challenges and strengths.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Comparative Analysis
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London, Manuel; Sobel-Lojeski, Karen A.; Reilly, Richard R. – Human Resource Development Review, 2012
This article presents a conceptual model of leadership in generative groups. Generative groups have diverse team members who are expected to develop innovative solutions to complex, unstructured problems. The challenge for leaders of generative groups is to balance (a) establishing shared goals with recognizing members' vested interests, (b)…
Descriptors: Leadership, Models, Goal Orientation, Empowerment
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Camilleri, Stephen; Caruana, Amanda; Falzon, Ruth; Muscat, Maud – Pastoral Care in Education, 2012
This paper intends to explore emotional literacy (EL) in relation to Personal and Social Development (PSD) as implemented in the Maltese Islands. Self-empowerment, emotional literacy, and self-expression contribute to a good quality of life of self and others. These are addressed in Maltese schools during timetabled statutory PSD sessions. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Development, Empowerment
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Koops, Lisa Huisman – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
With the intent of facilitating musical development of children enrolled in early childhood music courses, the purpose of this research was to describe the ongoing use of an online social networking site by parents of preschool children. Six families attended a 45-min early childhood music class each week for 10 weeks and responded to assignments…
Descriptors: Music Education, Empowerment, Parents, Preschool Children
Principal Leadership, 2012
This article features the Preuss School UCSD which is considered as unique in a number of ways, among them are its unusual name and requirements for admission. The school was named in recognition of a substantial bequest from the Preuss Family Foundation that was earmarked to establish a charter school on the campus of the University of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Enrollment, Middle Schools, Laboratory Schools
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Warren, Scott J.; Dondlinger, Mary Jo; McLeod, Julie; Bigenho, Chris – Computers & Education, 2012
As higher education institutions seek to improve undergraduate education, initiatives are underway to target instructional methods, re-examine curricula, and apply innovative technologies to better engage students with content. This article discusses the findings of an exploratory study focused on a course redesign that game elements, PBL methods,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Empowerment, Undergraduate Study, Problem Based Learning
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Lam, Ching Man; Kwong, Wai Man – Family Relations, 2012
In an action research project designed to develop a new paradigm for parent education in alignment with the "strengths perspective," a social constructionist epistemology, and the empowerment discourse, it was found that parents joining two parent groups actually valued and sought expert knowledge. Seeking to empower these parents by adopting a…
Descriptors: Expectation, Action Research, Parent Education, Epistemology
Johnson, Katie – American School & University, 2012
The nation watched in shock recently as four middle school boys barraged 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein with jabs about her weight, attacks on her family, and chuckled as they made violent and graphic threats. Klein remained quiet, taking the abuse and failing to respond to the students. This incident might have gone unnoticed and unreported,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Civil Rights, Bullying, Video Technology
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Wharton, C. Yvette; Goodwin, Lorna J.; Cameron, Andrea J. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
Understanding the student learning experience is essential if Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are to provide an education for the 21st century. This study investigated students' perspectives on their learning experiences and offered undergraduates a chance to influence the way academics think about learning and teaching. Participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Colleges, Student Attitudes
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Masika, Rachel; Wisker, Gina; Dabbagh, Lanja; Akreyi, Kawther Jameel; Golmohamad, Hediyeh; Bendixen, Lone; Crawford, Kirstin – Gender and Education, 2014
In October 2010, an interdisciplinary group of female academics from a university in the Kurdistan region of Iraq initiated a collaborative research project with a UK university to investigate opportunities and challenges for female academics' research leadership in universities in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The project aimed to develop female…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Action Research
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Gray, Claire; Swain, Julie; Rodway-Dyer, Sue – Tertiary Education and Management, 2014
This paper draws on research conducted across an English higher education partnership to investigate the ways in which student voice was engaged in further education colleges offering university awards through partnership arrangements. Such collaborations are characterised by the marginal presence of higher education students in an environment…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Student Participation
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Morley, Louise – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Drawing on data gathered from British Council seminars in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Dubai on "Absent Talent: Women in Research and Academic Leadership" (2012-2013), this paper discusses academic women's experiences and explanations for women's under-representation as knowledge leaders and producers in the global academy. Participants from…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Women Faculty, Instructional Leadership, Females
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Whitsel, Christopher Michael; Lapham, Kate – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
Within the development studies framework, empowerment involves increasing individual agency vis-à-vis the formal and informal opportunity structure. The Open Society Foundation's Early Childhood Programme developed the Getting Ready for School programme specifically for parents of preschool-age children to use at home in the year before school to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Parent Role, Parents
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