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Direct linkGouwens, Judith A.; Henderson, Robyn – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2021
This paper uses data from research projects that deliberately set out to tell positive stories about educators who were working with the children and families of migratory agricultural workers in the US. The aim underpinning these projects was to move beyond the deficit discourses and stories of blame that so often circulate, particularly in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Rural Areas, Agricultural Laborers, Teacher Attitudes
Games, Ivan Alex – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article presents the results of a three-year study of "Gamestar Mechanic" (www.gamestarmechanic.com), a flash-based multiplayer online role-playing game developed for the MacArthur Foundation's digital media learning initiative by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Gamelab in New York. The game's objective is to help children…
Descriptors: Design, Role Playing, Discourse Analysis, Thinking Skills
Download full textTindall, Lloyd W., Comp.; And Others – 1976
This document contains information on the vocational/career education programs which have been funded by the 1968 Vocational Amendments and Wisconsin's 17 vocational technical and adult education districts to provide services to special needs students. It is designed to assist teachers and administrators in the Vocational, Technical and Adult…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Metke, Lynn – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1978
An Alternative Career Education (ACE) teacher at Fox Valley Technical Institute describes their short-term program to help exoffenders and other unemployed people to find meaningful work. Students are taught how to apply for a job and formulate goals. A majority of those enrolled did secure employment and followup help is available if needed. An…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged, Job Search Methods
Butler, Veronica J. – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1978
A counselor and recruiter for the Madison Area Technical College describes their outreach career awareness project to correct the imbalance of minority, disadvantaged, and handicapped students in postsecondary education. Special recruitment efforts, counseling services, and followup activities will be provided, including various academic and…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged, Handicapped Students
de Usabel, Frances; Johnson, Debra Wilcox – 1986
The final product of the Wisconsin Special Users Needs Assessment project initiated in the summer of 1984, this report outlines how library systems have worked with hard-to-reach and underserved populations over the past 10 years. The document is divided into three parts. Based on a review of the systems' annual plans and evaluations for the past…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Ethnic Groups, Federal Aid
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Center for Studies in Vocational and Technical Education. – 1972
This study assesses the programs and services offered to persons with special needs in Wisconsin, focusing on their appropriateness and availability. Its overall purposes are: (1) to provide an overview of Wisconsin's Vocational and Technical Education programs in this area, including an evaluation of possible strengths and weaknesses, (2) to…
Descriptors: Career Development, Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Educational Innovation
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. for Management and Planning Services. – 1975
This program is stated to have been designed as a new state-administered categorical aid program, with the purpose of making available additional state educational resources to students who have or are likely to have low levels of achievement, especially in relation to social and economic factors. Chapters include an introduction which describes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Dougherty, Barbara B., Comp. – 1977
Designed to be a source of programming information, this document summarizes the educational efforts by Wisconsin's sixteen Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) districts to help meet consumer and homemaking education needs of disadvantaged groups. The project supported by each district is described in the following format: project…
Descriptors: Activities, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Ancillary Services
Bowman, David L. – 1968
The initial phase (1967-1968) of a longitudinal study designed to provide more teachers of the disadvantaged by (1) recruiting education students who have withdrawn from college for academic reasons but have greater scholastic potential than they have demonstrated and (2) modifying teacher education programs to train these individuals as teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Attitude Change, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged
