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Comparison of Eco-Directed and Health-Focused Brief Awareness-Raising Interventions for Enhancing Active Participation of Community Residents in Drug Take-Back Program
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Shuzhe Wu; Qinghua Liu; Qin Li; Jun Wang – Health Education Research, 2025
Drug take-back system provides a legal, safe and eco-friendly avenue to appropriately dispose of unwanted medicines, contributing to both environmental sustainability and reducing medication misuse. This study designed and implemented a brief educational intervention, which took <1 min on average, to enhance awareness of community residents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drug Education, Health Promotion, Drug Abuse
Migrant-Oriented Japanese Language Programs in Tokyo
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Seunghun J. Lee; Machi Niiya – Migration and Language Education, 2021
Language proficiency is identified as one of the most important factors for successful migrant integration. Japan has had a sizeable increase of migrants in the past few years, and these migrants needed to build their Japanese proficiency. Focusing on municipalities in the 23 Tokyo wards, we surveyed what types of Japanese as a Second Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Social Change through an Urban Sport for Development Initiative? Investigating Critical Pedagogy through the Voices of Young People
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Nols, Zeno; Haudenhuyse, Reinhard; Spaaij, Ramon; Theeboom, Marc – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
This article explores the pedagogy of an urban Sport for Development (SfD) initiative in Belgium through the voices of young people. We draw on the critical pedagogy of Paulo Freire, and use qualitative research methods (i.e. observations, informal conversations, in-depth interviews and sharing circles) over a three-year period, to analyse the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Athletics, Urban Programs
Arts Practice as Method, Urban Spaces and Intra-Active Faiths
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Hickey-Moody, A. C. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2017
This paper examines the research design for an arts-based interfaith research project that is intended to build relationships between children from different faiths and to increase research participants' understandings of faiths other than their own. The project is funded as an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship called "Early Start…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Intergroup Relations, Religion, Research Projects
The Relevance of Cultural Sensitivity in Early Intervention
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Gardiner, Emily; French, Carmel – Exceptionality Education International, 2011
This research utilized a blend of quantitative and qualitative research designs to explore the perceptions held by early interventionists regarding family-centred care, cultural diversity, and cultural sensitivity. The Executive Directors (N = 11) of early intervention programs in Nova Scotia completed the Cultural Diversity in Early Intervention…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Early Intervention, Urban Programs, Cultural Pluralism
A Survey of a Sample of Adult Illiterates in an Urban Area of Canada.
Fagan, William T, – Prospects, 1988
Using interviews provides insights into the lives of two groups of low-literate adults, in order to better understand the high attrition rate in adult literacy programs. Identifies ideology, conviction, and structural/environmental support as significant factors which are determiners of continued participation in such programs. Clarity in program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Research, Foreign Countries