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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
This booklet, which was produced as a follow-up to the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, examines literacy and learning strategies. After a brief overview of the workshop from which the booklet emerged, the new convivial approaches to literacy that are being developed through experimentation in many developing countries are…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Burgess, David G. – 2001
Standards-based education is likely to remain prevalent in education far into the future. Effective leaders must protect and support teachers, who are the heart of every school. Chapter 1, "The First Key: Understanding Motivation," explores the importance of motivation in promoting change in schools. Teachers and staff can choose to…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership
Spatig, Linda; Parrott, Laurel; Carter, Carolyn; Kusimo, Patricia; Keyes, Marian – 1998
This paper chronicles the experiences of nine adolescent girls who participated in a 3-year science, mathematics, and technology program for Appalachian girls. The girls lived in two West Virginia communities (one rural, one urban). Most of the girls were poor; six were African American. Descriptions of the girls' neighborhoods and local…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aspiration, Blacks, Community Influence
Pruyn, Marc – 1999
Siempre Adelante, a support organization for Central American and Mexican immigrants and refugees in Los Angeles, provided adult Spanish literacy classes inspired by Freire's practice of critical pedagogy. A 13-month ethnographic study of intermediate Spanish literacy classes examined how "critical student agency" was fostered or…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Classroom Communication
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Carey, Linda K. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1997
Discusses a partnership between Northern Arizona University and a local school district that enables preservice teachers to practice innovative strategies for facilitating inclusion of students with disabilities into general classrooms. Strategies such as cooperative learning, collaborative teaming, peer tutoring, student empowerment, and creative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Disabilities, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Neugebauer, Bonnie; Duffy, Roslyn; Garbarino, James; Gonzalez-Mena, Janet – Child Care Information Exchange, 2001
Presents four articles about children's power struggles: (1) "The Personal Side of Power" (Bonnie Neugebauer); (2) "Learning To Harness Human Power" (Roslyn Duffy); (3) "Power Struggles: Early Experiences Matter" (James Garbarino); and (4) "Personal Power: Creating New Realities" (Janet Gonzalez-Mena). (DLH)
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitudes, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Training
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Gentry, Marcia; Rizza, Mary G.; Owen, Steven V. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2002
A study investigated the relationship between what teachers reported they do in their elementary (n=91) and middle school (n=64) classrooms and students' perceptions of classroom activities. Magnet school gifted students reported significantly more challenge than their gifted and other peers at the middle school level, whereas no such differences…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs
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Osterling, Jorge P. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
A family literacy program for Salvadoran refugees and other Latinos in Arlington (Virginia) is analyzed from a sociocultural perspective as exemplifying an educational project designed and implemented by grassroots organizations in an increasingly diverse, multicultural/multilingual community. The program addresses the educational needs of poor…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Action, Community Programs
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Dutton, Donald G.; Nicholls, Tonia L.; Spidel, Alicia – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2005
A review is made of female intimate abuse. It is concluded that females are as abusive as males in intimate relationships according to survey and epidemiological studies. This is especially so for younger "cohort" community samples followed longitudinally. Predictors of intimate violence with women appear to be similar to those of men; including…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Alcohol Abuse, Intimacy, Females
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Thwaite, Anne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
This paper will examine the discourse of one experienced teacher of Indigenous children in lessons observed as part of the Conductive Hearing Loss (CHL) project conducted by Edith Cowan University in Perth. In the classroom observed, all the children were Indigenous and the teacher was aware that some children were suffering from CHL. This…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Student Diversity
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Levine, David P. – History of Education Quarterly, 2004
This essay focuses on the formative years of the Citizenship Training Program as a Highlander project in the Charleston area. Informally known as Citizenship Schools, this adult education program began in 1958 under the sponsorship of Tennessee's Highlander Folk School, which handed over to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Literacy Education, Freedom, Adult Education
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth – 1996
In this collection of essays, a Native American feminist intellectual, poet, and literary scholar grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. The essays examine and criticize the enormous impact of America's media culture and ask questions about who is telling Native peoples' stories, where cultural authority lies, and…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Literature, American Indian Studies, American Indians
Miletta, Maureen McCann – 1996
In this book, an experienced elementary school teacher recounts how she and three other teachers of grades 4, 5, and 6 decided to relax the compartmentalization of learning into subject areas and shuffle subject matter into new patterns to offer students a voice in their education. The book describes how the teachers created a multiage…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Teaching, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Jaffe, Barbara – 1997
Much can be learned from California's Puente Project Model that would help students' success in classrooms as well as in college in general, and in their daily lives. Puente, which means "bridge" in Spanish, began in 1982 at Chabot College in northern California and is now in 38 colleges and 19 high schools statewide. Originally designed…
Descriptors: College Instruction, English Instruction, High Schools, Higher Education
Stern, Hilary – 1997
A teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) to adult migrant workers from Central America describes the evolution of her efforts to create a sense of community within the classroom and Latino center and to empower students to bring about social change in the long term. While students were pressuring the teacher to teach grammar, the teacher…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques
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