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A Sociocultural Investigation of the Efficacy of Outdoor Education to Improve Learner Engagement
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White, Robert – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2012
A sociocultural investigation with Year 8 secondary-school students experiencing marginalization and displaying signs of social and emotional difficulties in engaging fully with school life who participated in a mediated outdoor education programme was undertaken for this study. The findings indicate that there was a very statistically significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Learner Engagement, Grade 7
Adolescents' Perceptions of Kinship Support and Family Management Practices: Association with Adolescent Adjustment in African American Families.
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Taylor, Ronald D. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined relationships among kinship support, family management, and adolescence in 135 African American adolescents, ages 14 to 19. Found that kin social support was positively related to self-reliance and grades, family organization, and parental involvement in schooling, and negatively associated with problem behavior. Poor kin relations were…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Blacks
The Parent-Adolescent Relationship at Puberty: Hispanic Ethnicity and Parent Alcoholism as Moderators.
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Molina, Brooke S. G.; Chassin, Laurie – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined the effect of puberty on the parent-adolescent relationship in association with ethnicity, parental psychopathology, and chronological age. Found that puberty effects on parent support and parent-adolescent conflict differ for Hispanic and non-Hispanic white boys. Parent alcoholism did not moderate the effect of puberty, and puberty…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences