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Travis, Raphael; Bowman, Scott W. – Journal of Youth Studies, 2012
Violence, risky sexual behaviors, and substance use are critical targets for improved health behavior. Prior research has linked levels of exposure to rap music with a range of undesirable health behaviors. Contemporary research has also found health-enhancing and other "positive" correlations with rap music exposure. The present study examined…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Music, Structural Equation Models, Health Behavior
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Beattie, Helen – Management in Education, 2012
This article recounts the story of how one state in the United States is systematically amplifying student voice through school transformation efforts across a network of secondary schools (Grades 9 through 12; ages 14 to 18). The author is the creator and director of a statewide initiative entitled "Youth and Adults Transforming Schools Together"…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Action Research, Student Participation, Educational Change
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Ye, Wangbei – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2012
View through a power perspective, this article critically evaluates tensions involved in China's school-based curriculum development (SBCD) in middle schools: the state's concern about control, accountability, and schools' eagerness to struggle for more decision-making power. This article examines how a Chinese school and its teachers go beyond…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Kasturiratne, Dulekha; Lean, Jonathan; Phippen, Andy – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how enterprise education was adapted from a UK higher education institution (HEI) setting into an international context through collaboration with two Sri Lankan universities. It demonstrates the value of enterprise education in different cultures, and presents learning from the challenges faced by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Blended Learning, Teaching Methods
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Bentley, Dana Frantz – Childhood Education, 2012
The daily trips outside can be challenging, and living in Manhattan makes them even more complex. It seems there is no such thing as a simple stroll, or a quick trip outside; and the winter weather makes such excursions that much more complex. Yet, it is always worth it. In the author's nine years of teaching, she has discovered that a "quick…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Municipalities, Teacher Student Relationship, Physical Activities
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Galvan, Hugh; Fyall, Glenn; Culpan, Ian – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2012
This paper reports and discusses the findings of a research project that investigated the recently conceptualized and implemented New Zealand Cricket, Level 3, high-performance coach education programme (CEP). A qualitative methodology was employed to gather data from six coaches involved in the CEP. In particular the researchers sought the…
Descriptors: Competence, Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Learning Theories
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Lee, Ai Noi – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2012
Parents can play a vital and active role in facilitating their children's science learning outside the formal classrooms. Parental involvement in their children's science learning process not only could enhance their children's learning motivation and interest in science, it could also help to strengthen the family bond when parents and children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Parent Materials, Curriculum Guides
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2018
Researchers have found that middle school students undergo developmental changes that require unique educational structures and support. As a result, experts have suggested a number of specific strategies for organizing middle schools in order to best meet students' needs. This Information Capsule summarizes middle school redesign initiatives that…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Educational Environment, Educational Change
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Bessman, Lisa; Carr, Rosylia; Grimes, Lee Edmondson – Georgia School Counselors Association Journal, 2013
Many children from the Latino community require support from school counselors to achieve greatness in academics. Barriers preventing accurate gifted and talented nominations for Latino ELL students presently exist in school systems. Existing barriers can be broken down for student success. This study explored current literature to examine issues…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Academically Gifted, School Counselors, Counselor Role
Berger, Ron – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Renaissance School is part of a network of Expeditionary Learning (EL) schools that was borne of a collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Outward Bound, USA. The EL model is centered on the Outward Bound ethic of having youth work together to achieve a task. EL schools take an approach to teaching and learning that…
Descriptors: Youth Opportunities, College School Cooperation, Models, Cooperative Learning
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Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Radford, Linda; Yazdanian, Shenin; Norris, Tracy – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2013
Students are bombarded daily with print, visual, and digital media. Whether it is on a billboard, listening to an iPod on the way to school, or text messaging a friend during class, youth culture is hardwired into these multiple forms of communication technologies. Nonetheless, the daily life and respective experiences of students are often still…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Moral Development, Social Justice, Social Action
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Lorenzini, Michelle – Journal of Political Science Education, 2013
In this article, I argue that student learning is enhanced when civic engagement is a component of international education initiatives. When only presented with knowledge about global challenges, students can become frustrated and overwhelmed unless they also understand how they might contribute to solutions. Political science programs are…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Global Education, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education
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Murray, Mary M.; Handyside, Lisa M.; Straka, Leslie A.; Arton-Titus, Tabatha V. – School Community Journal, 2013
Parent empowerment includes the ability to meet the needs of one's family while feeling in control. This phenomenological study seeks to understand the experience of 71 parents of children with disabilities who participated with pre-service teachers in a 16-week special education course between 2006 and 2010. Analysis of pre-course and post-course…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Parents, Special Education Teachers
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Diers, Judith – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
This article makes the case that there has been insufficient global attention to the health and development of children in the second decade of life. The author uses her vantage point of UNICEF to identify that institution's history of accomplishments for younger children and the opportunity to increase its work on adolescents, in collaboration…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Adolescent Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Aboudan, Rima – English Language Teaching, 2011
Students who get involved reap several academic benefits (Furtwengler: 1991). This paper concerns features of pedagogy that involve students, get them to participate, and capture and sustain their interest. Analysis of data from feedback by 80 students and 40 faculty members in the United Arab Emirates University highlighted four core components…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Participation, Student Empowerment
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