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Gilmartin, Ann; Slevin, Eamonn – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
A phenomenological methodology was used to explore the lived experiences of belonging to a self-advocacy group for people with intellectual disabilities. Thirteen persons with intellectual disabilities who attend three self-advocacy day centre based groups in a city in the west of Ireland were the sample identified for the study. Changes affected…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Mental Retardation, Group Membership, Empowerment
Smyth, John – Education Canada, 2010
The diminished educational opportunities and subsequent life chances of many marginalized young people have been dramatic, even to the point of being catastrophic. But they are not hapless victims, nor are they passive recipients of deficit categories like "at riskness", placed upon them by the media, politicians, agencies, and some…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Young Adults, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities
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Gitlin, Andrew – Education and Society, 2011
The article examines some of the major accomplishments of the Academic Educational Left in the USA, and considers the epistemological limits of their move from objective forms of science to subjective forms, with a focus on voice. The author suggests, as an innovative research paradigm an epistemological approach that operates from the borderlands…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Critical Theory, Race, Politics of Education
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Mick, Carola – European Educational Research Journal, 2011
This article presents first results of an ethnographic research project in a Luxembourgish primary school that accompanied the development of a school project by children from the fifth grade. Analysing the data children themselves collected with Kodak Zi8 cameras in order to document their project activities, it investigates their possibilities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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James, Chris; Brammer, Steve; Connolly, Michael; Fertig, Mike; James, Jane; Jones, Jeff – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
This article reports research into the nature and functioning of school governing bodies in different socio-economic and performance contexts. The research analysed 5000 responses from a national questionnaire-based survey and undertook 30 case studies of school governing. The research confirmed that school governing in England is a complex and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Boards of Education, Governance, Difficulty Level
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Levin, Darren S.; Rotheram-Fuller, Erin – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2011
The study reported here evaluated a self-determination intervention using the empowered curriculum for students with visual impairments. The perceptions of students, family members, and teachers of the usefulness of the chosen curriculum were also evaluated. Despite design limitations, the qualitative data suggest that the students enjoyed the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Visual Impairments, Intervention, Self Determination
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Harjunen, Elina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011
In this paper student comments are examined to identify a typology of demands for granting their consent to a teacher's pedagogical authority. The data for this study (136 written responses and 66 interviews) have been collected from students in a Finnish comprehensive school and examined by means of a theory-bounded content analysis. The results…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Power Structure, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Torres, Carlos Alberto – International Review of Education, 2011
This article begins with a discussion of the implications of CONFINTEA VI having been organised in Brazil--the author uses the term "Brazilian effect"--and the role of social movements challenging neoliberalism. Next, drawing from the experience of Latin America, this paper analyses the counter-hegemonic practice of the new social…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Social Action, Political Attitudes, Economic Development
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Chavez, A. F. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2011
College teaching across cultural norms and epistemologies has received little research attention, yet it is increasingly important to faculty work and student learning as enrollments continue to diversify. This article provides a review and critique of theory and research on teaching and learning across cultures in college. The author applies…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Learning, Educational Theories, Educational Research
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Bransford, Cassandra L. – Social Work, 2011
The focus of this article is on illustrating how the differences between the paternalistic and empowerment approaches embedded within social work have unnecessarily evolved into competing approaches to practice. Tracing the historical evolution of both paternalistic and empowerment approaches, the article posits that social work is more amenable…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Holistic Approach, Empowerment, Counseling Techniques
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Ross, Laurie; Buglione, Suzanne; Safford-Farquharson, Jennifer – Child & Youth Services, 2011
This article presents a community's efforts to address the professional development needs of frontline youth workers. A coalition designed a 13-week Youth Worker Training Institute to increase youth workers' knowledge, skills, self-efficacy, and professional networks. After the Institute, participants reported feeling more skillful, connected to…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Self Efficacy, Reflection, Peer Relationship
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Kim, Namsook – Journal of International Students, 2016
Drawn on the sociocultural paradigm, I examined teacher-student communication with emphasis on teacher's talk and its role on international students' learning English as a Second Language in an English for Academic Purposes classroom in a global campus in the U.S. Developmental data analyses of class observations, teacher and student interviews,…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, College Faculty, Teacher Educators, Critical Theory
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Bradley, Janice – Journal of Staff Development, 2014
Implementing teacher evaluation systems across the United States has created both challenges and opportunities to improving teacher quality. Lessons learned at the state level illustrate a wide range of challenges with system implementation, including value-added growth scores, implementation timetables, and human capital demands (McGuinn, 2012),…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Development
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Seeberg, Vilma – Comparative Education Review, 2014
This study proposes an elaboration of the human development capability approach by theorizing empowerment capabilities as an essential aspect of the education of excluded village girls. Seeking to explain Chinese village girls' demand for schooling, the article identifies intangible and instrumental capabilities that have often been overlooked and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Empowerment, Females, Student Development
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Kim, Minsung; Ryu, Jae-Myong – Journal of Geography, 2014
This study introduces the Listening to Others' Voices (LOV) project, an empowering strategy in geography education. This research aims to create a dataset detailing the perspectives of negatively stereotyped countries with respect to how their countries are portrayed in geography textbooks and to investigate the pedagogical effects of the LOV…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Stereotypes, Textbook Bias
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