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Direct linkSerpil Su; Gülden Basit; Nesime Demirören; Kübra Nur Köse Alabay – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2025
Nurses who try to reduce inequalities in health care by defending individuals they care for should be able to perceive ethical situations sensitively as patient advocates. This study aimed to examine the effects of ethics education provided to nursing students on ethical sensitivity and patient advocacy. The study adopted a pre-test, post-test,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Health Care, Nursing Students, Nursing Education
Download full textThomas R. Wagner; Jared S. Vornhagen; Grant Zentmeyer; Maria Vassanelli – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Attitude change on the death penalty is a highly relevant issue to both legal and public policy actors. The current study adopted a novel approach to student attitude change with exposure to first-person narratives through community engaged learning. Senior capstone students (n = 28) completed projects on the death penalty. Students submitted four…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives, College Seniors
Meghan Burke; Chak Li; Kelly Fulton; Waifong Catherine Cheung – Journal of Early Intervention, 2025
While there are opportunities for families to fulfill leadership roles in early intervention, families often report feeling disempowered and unprepared to become leaders. To this end, in this pilot study, we evaluated the effectiveness and feasibility of an 8-hour leadership program for 20 parents of children who are receiving, or recently…
Descriptors: Family Role, Leadership Training, Children, Disabilities
Joelle Champalet; Hyunah Keum; Scott Gabriel Knowles; Seulgi Lee; Hyeonbin Park – Science & Education, 2025
Disasters reveal injustice in society; disasters create new injustices. These two intertwined ideas were the inspiration for an action research project, the first Disaster Haggyo, held across multiple locations in South Korea in the summer of 2022. The Disaster Haggyo--"haggyo" translates to "school" in Korean--was also an…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Science Education, Activism, Advocacy
Janeth Aleman-Tovar; Meghan M. Burke; Edwin Monárrez; Nicole Espinosa Zaldivar – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Families of autistic youth often support their children's transition from adolescence to adulthood. During this time, families learn to navigate the complex shift from school-based to adult disability services. For Latinx (vs non-Latinx White) families of autistic youth, transition is especially difficult because of the systemic barriers (e.g.…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Hispanic Americans, Family (Sociological Unit), Autism Spectrum Disorders
Alenka Vidrih; Tina Grošelj – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2025
Self-advocacy is an essential skill for effective and successful integration into the wider social environment and is important for psychological and physiological well-being. The Performative Drama Model Ars Vitae was trialled to improve students' assertiveness and performance in real life. A 12-year-old boy with learning disabilities and…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Social Emotional Learning, Well Being, Multiple Disabilities
Julia E. Snider; Shari L. Hopkins; Jayden Schepflin; Amy J. Andersen; Alexis A. Oosting; Jennifer DeWaard – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2025
Often, teacher candidates learn "about" individuals with disabilities instead of "from" their lived experiences. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of participation in the Disability Advocate Presenter Series (DAPS), a semester-long series of three presentations led by disabled advocates, on teacher candidates'…
Descriptors: Expertise, Advocacy, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Christie L. Goodman, Editor – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2025
The "IDRA Newsletter" serves as a vehicle for communication with educators, school board members, decision-makers, parents, and the general public concerning the educational needs of all children across the United States. The focus of this issue is "Legacies Shaping Public Education." Contents include: (1) Valuable from the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Bilingual Education, Youth Programs, At Risk Students
Heather J. Nuske; Tristram Smith; Lynne Levato; Briana Bronstein; Nicole Sparapani; Consuelo Garcia; Fernanda Castellon; Hyon Soo Lee; Sarah F. Vejnoska; Samantha Hochheimer; Amber R. Fitzgerald; Jenny C. Chiappe; Amanda Dimachkie Nunnally; Jennica Li; Wendy Shih; Ashlee Brown; Michelle Cullen; Lisa M. Hund; Aubyn C. Stahmer; Suzannah Iadarola; David S. Mandell; Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick; Sheryl Kataoka; Connie Kasari – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
New school transitions can be challenging for students on the autism spectrum. No published, evidence-based interventions exist to support families and teachers of students transitioning to elementary and secondary school during this critical period. Using Community Partnered Participatory Research, we developed "Building Better Bridges…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Student Promotion, Transitional Programs, Educational Planning
Jodie Kocur – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2025
While much support exists for autistic individuals from infancy through secondary education, better support is needed for autistic students' transition to higher education. Autistic high school students are less likely than nonautistic students to pursue postsecondary education and report experiencing various difficulties in college, such as…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Transitional Programs, High School Students
Ted Thornhill; Nicole Torres; Christina Van Wingerden – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2025
Internships and practicums are a required component of nearly all degree programs in human services and its subfields--and most are unpaid. These unpaid positions often have a disproportionate impact for BIPOC and first-generation students, especially women--many of whom are economically disadvantaged and must work to support themselves and…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Females, Womens Education, First Generation College Students
Sudha Ghimire – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2025
In the past three decades, a variety of policies and programs have been created and implemented globally to promote Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR). However, millions of adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are unable to fully exercise their SRHR, becoming victim to early marriage, teenage pregnancy, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Pregnancy, Birth
Adefunke Dadematthews; Melissa M. Pangelinan; Anne E. Bowen; Stacey L. Simon; Jessica L. Chandrasekhar; Jill L. Kaar – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Advocates 4 ALL Youth (ALLY) is a universal, 6-week mental health literacy program, implemented in schools during the school day by community volunteers. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of the ALLY program on youth who endorsed negative affect (i.e., self-reported symptoms of both depression and anxiety). Using a randomized…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, School Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Literacy Education
Jessica R. Goodkind; Julia Meredith Hess; Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman; Kimberly Huyser; David T. Lardier; Alexis J. Handal; Community-University Immigrant Wellbeing Project Research Team – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
The goal of the "Immigrant Wellbeing Project" (IWP) study is to test a transdisciplinary ecological approach to reducing Latinx immigrants' mental health disparities by adapting and integrating a multilevel community-based advocacy, learning, and social support intervention into existing efforts at four community partner organizations…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Well Being, Hispanic Americans, Mental Health
