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Wood, A. – Early Child Development and Care, 1996
Examined parental satisfaction with and involvement in intervention services of Child Development Centre at City Hospital in Birmingham, England. Found general satisfaction, but also that parents want more of a role in the initial assessment meeting, welcome the chance to help decide upon service quality, and appreciate help with issues such as…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Community Services, Consultation Programs, Early Intervention
Mintz, Jerry – SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, 1997
A consultant discusses his experience in assisting teachers and students to develop a democratic approach to education at a new school for high-risk American Indian students in northern Michigan. Strategies included appointing students to the school board, holding weekly student meetings, and creating a judicial committee to review student…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Hamilton, Muriel E.; Roach, Mary A.; Riley, David A. – Child Care Information Exchange, 2003
Strengthening family involvement in early childhood programs became a fundamental component of the Wisconsin Early Childhood Excellence Initiative. The initiative's strategies for encouraging family involvement include: creating a welcoming atmosphere; actively involving parents, children, and other family members in the education process;…
Descriptors: Community Role, Community Services, Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement
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Eastlund, Joyce O. – Music Educators Journal, 1991
Discusses site-based management as a means of school reform. Emphasizes the advantages of such decentralization for music education. Compares the traditional approach with a reform alternative in terms of decisions affecting teaching, learning, school climate, and curriculum. Urges implementation of site-based management as a means of involving…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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White, Paula A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992
Over 100 interviews with teachers and administrators provide the base for this analysis of teacher empowerment in several highly decentralized school districts. Examined are (1) how teachers respond to opportunities for influence; (2) how such opportunities affect teaching; and (3) how opportunities affect teachers' work lives and sense of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Budgeting, Curriculum Development, Decentralization
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Van Alfen, Curtis – Rural Educator, 1994
If boards of education in rural areas are going to strengthen education, they need to achieve empowering leadership through written policies that create a clarity of vision, empower subordinates, and emphasize renewal. Empowering leadership allows linkages among stakeholders of education and encourages creative efforts toward improving the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Educational Change
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Beaman, Ronda – Innovative Higher Education, 1998
Argues that prevailing assessment methods in higher education confuse the adult learner, fail to place the instructor in a facilitative mode, and hamper attempts at learner empowerment. Descriptions of more appropriate evaluative methods are offered, including instructor, peer, and self-evaluation, accompanied by student responses to these…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Alternative Assessment, Andragogy
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Robertson, Donna Friedman – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1998
Describes a qualitative research project examining homelessness's effects on children's schooling, highlighting a South Carolina intervention program's success. Research disclosed an informal homelessness "caste system," the political unpopularity of providing homeless services, homeless kids' high rates of academic failure and problem…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Problems
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Hunsberger, Margaret; Bailey, Penelope; Hayden, K. Alix – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1998
Within a university course, a professor and two graduate students explored societal and individual implications of literacy in general and of information and scientific literacies: conceptualizations (or ideologies) of specialized literacies in society, injustices caused by a narrow view of literacy perpetuated by dominant groups, literacy as…
Descriptors: Competence, Critical Thinking, Criticism, Education Work Relationship
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Thomson, Malia; Caulfield, Rick – Early Childhood Education Journal, 1998
First of a two-part series, examines effects of teen pregnancy and parenthood on adolescents and their children, and describes exemplary program to keep teen parents in high school until graduation. Discusses how to address the issue of teenage pregnancy, how to effectively help teen parents, the importance of teaching teenagers personal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Community Role, Dropout Prevention
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Davidson, Lee – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2001
Participant observation and in-depth interviews explored how 10 New Zealand male secondary students, aged 17-19, made meaning from their outdoor educational experiences. Qualitative methodology was indispensable in revealing how learning through adventure not only improved self-concept (a conventional assessment), but also contributed to…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, High School Seniors
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Garcia-Ramirez, Manuel; Martinez, Manuel F.; Balcazar, Fabricio E.; Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda; Albar, Maria-Jesus; Dominguez, Eugenia; Santolaya, Francisco J. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2005
We analyzed the role that psychosocial empowerment and social support factors play in the employment status of immigrants who participate in job-readiness programs financed by the European Social Funds and the Welfare Services of Andalusia, a region in the south of Spain. The goal of these programs is to find new ways to improve immigrants'…
Descriptors: Employment Level, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Program Development
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Badham, Bill – Children & Society, 2004
Virtually every Government programme for children and every Government Department in the UK is expected to involve children and young people in its policy development and service delivery (Children and Young People's Unit, 2001). It is the new orthodoxy. Yet, hard questions are often avoided when reciting the mantra of participation. Why bother?…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Elmesky, Rowhea – School Science & Mathematics, 2005
Those who are most marginalized, both culturally and economically, in society are concentrated in the nation's largest urban centers and have the least opportunities to be successful in school science or to pursue higher education and career trajectories in science, mathematics, or engineering. This article shares the results of a study in which…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Urban Schools, Physics, Science Instruction
Ferguson, Janet; Brink, Beverly – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2004
Student teaching may require student teachers to address the demands of two masters that often have very different expectations and philosophies. They are caught in a bind of being expected to implement methods advocated in university coursework while also being expected to fit into the classroom to which they are assigned. This bind is further…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Educational Environment, Academic Standards
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