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Blackburn, Mollie V. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This timely and important book focuses on the problems of heterosexism and homophobia in schools and explores how these forms of oppression impact LGBTQQ youth, as well as all young people. The author shows how concerned teachers can engage students in literacy practices both in and out of school to develop positive learning environments. The…
Descriptors: Activism, Homosexuality, Sexuality, Youth
Joseph, Angela Marie Banner – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study was a grounded theory investigation of the LatinoJustice PRLDEF LawBound participants. The research was conducted using the grounded theory method developed by Glaser and Strauss (1967) and Glaser (1978, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005) to discover an explanatory theory directly from the data. The discovery of the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Investigations, Social Behavior, Law Schools
Bourner, Tom – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2011
This article provides an account of self-managed action learning (SMAL), where it came from and how it has been implemented in practice. Self-managed action learning offers a way of realising action learning without the continuing presence of a set advisor in set meetings to facilitate the process. It enables participants to manage and facilitate…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Values, Self Management, Active Learning
Welton, Anjale – Democracy & Education, 2011
This response to ""Buscando la Libertad": Latino Youths in Search of Freedom in School" by Jason G. Irizarry demonstrates how youth participatory action research (YPAR) as an instrument of subverting oppressive school policies and structures is a form of critical policy analysis (CPA). As an evolving method, CPA acknowledges the absent voices in…
Descriptors: Freedom, Action Research, Policy Analysis, Educational Change
Pastore, Raymond S.; Carr-Chellman, Alison A.; Lohmann, Neal – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of implementing user design strategies within the corporate culture. Using a case study design approach, this article explores the change process within a "Fortune" 100 company in which users were given significant decision-making powers. The main focus is on the unique nature of user design in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Organizational Culture, Corporations, Organizational Change
Hughes-Decatur, Hilary – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
American consumerism has historically taught women and girls--and now men and boys--how to live in what I refer to here as bodily-not-enoughness: the idea of not being enough of something in one's body (not thin-enough, pretty-enough, feminine/masculine-enough, white-enough, middle-class-enough, straight-enough, and so on.). The bodily practices…
Descriptors: Education, Human Body, Self Concept, Social Influences
Messersmith, Jake G.; Patel, Pankaj C.; Lepak, David P. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
With a growing body of literature linking systems of high-performance work practices to organizational performance outcomes, recent research has pushed for examinations of the underlying mechanisms that enable this connection. In this study, based on a large sample of Welsh public-sector employees, we explored the role of several individual-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Employees, Employee Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
Harvey, Brendon – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore, drawing on the author's experience, the role of human resource development (HRD) in developing individuals, teams and communities. Design/methodology/approach: The paper adopts a critically reflective methodology rooted in the research practice of the author working alongside communities in the UK.…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Methods, Labor Force Development, Human Resources
Abernethy, Catherine; Cook, Katrina – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2011
Supervisee anxiety and resistance have long presented counselor supervisors with a dilemma in supporting the professional growth and client care of their supervisees. With a more contemporary and cultural perspective, relational-cultural theory (RCT) offers a relational approach for reframing supervisee anxiety and resistance of…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Professional Development, Empathy, Anxiety
Cacicio, Sarah; Le, Uyen Uyen – Thought & Action, 2014
Without a doubt, the movement toward corporatized, standardized, and even sanitized education models in K-12 education impacts the way students at the higher education level view teaching and learning. New York City public school teachers have been trained to focus entirely on measurable outcomes. Writing is taught as a well-structured paragraph…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Learner Engagement, Inquiry
Gamarel, Kristi E.; Walker, Ja'Nina J.; Rivera, Lillian; Golub, Sarit A. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2014
This article focuses on the function of youth organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities of color. LGBTQ young people (N = 29) participated in a series of focus groups, completed a brief demographic survey, and created individual community maps. The youth organization was described as providing LGBTQ youth…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Minority Groups
Horn, Brian R. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2014
Action research, particularly done by teachers, has had a contentious, decades-long history. As a form of social inquiry, action research has been designed to make it easier for members of social groups to create social change within their communities. Rather than conducting research that focuses on an outcome, action researchers focus on the…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Praxis, Urban Schools, Critical Theory
Woods, Philip; Simkins, Tim – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
The structure of the English school system has been the subject of almost continuous change since the late-1980s. The most recent was commenced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government, which was elected in May 2010. This policy set in train, very quickly, processes through which all schools have been encouraged, and in some cases…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, School Districts, Educational Finance
Kilderry, Anna – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
This paper examines teacher accountability and authority in early childhood policy. It reports on data from a study that investigated the influences affecting early childhood teacher decision-making at the preschool level in Victoria, Australia. Using a question raised by Ball "Where are the teachers in all this [policy]?" provided a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Accountability, Teacher Empowerment
Brandon, Paul R.; Smith, Nick L.; Ofir, Zenda; Noordeloos, Marco – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
In this Exemplars case, the fifth and final under the direction of the current coeditors, the authors present a reflective account of an ongoing, complex, multiyear, multinational monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system conducted for African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), an international development program. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Agriculture, Research and Development