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Direct linkConnolly, Brid; Hussey, Peter – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2013
The purpose of this article is to explore the role of adult education for critical democracy, in order to address the social suffering that these authors have encountered in their work as critical adult community educators. Brid Connolly and Peter Hussey explored this through dialogue, as a process of education and research. Dialogue is the moment…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Practices, Community Education, Social Control
A Review of Research on School Bullying among African American Youth: An Ecological Systems Analysis
Patton, Desmond Upton; Hong, Jun Sung; Williams, Abigail B.; Allen-Meares, Paula – Educational Psychology Review, 2013
School bullying and peer victimization are social problems that affect African American youth across various environmental contexts. Regrettably, many of the empirical research on bullying and peer victimization among African American youth has examined individual and direct level influences in silos rather than a constellation of factors…
Descriptors: Violence, Youth, Bullying, Systems Analysis
Broomhead, Karen E. – Support for Learning, 2013
This study explored the perceptions of parents and teachers regarding the differential treatment or stigma experienced by pupils with challenging behaviour--more specifically, those with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD), as well as children with visible special educational needs (Down's syndrome and/or profound and multiple…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Parents, Students, Semi Structured Interviews
Post, Stephen G.; Pomeroy, John; Keirns, Carla C.; Cover, Virginia Isaacs; Dorn, Michael Leverett; Boroson, Louis; Boroson, Florence; Coulehan, Anne; Coulehan, Jack; Covell, Kim; Kubasek, Kim; Luchsinger, Elizabeth; Nichols, Shana; Parles, James; Schreiber, Linda; Tetenbaum, Samara P.; Walsh, Rose Ann – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
The increased prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), with associated societal and clinical impacts, calls for a broad community-based dialogue on treatment related ethical and social issues. The Stony Brook Guidelines, based on a community dialogue process with affected individuals, families and professionals, identify and discuss the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Ethics, Autism, Intimacy
Harste, Jerome C.; Albers, Peggy – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
This qualitative study investigates how 90 teachers explored critical curriculum through their reading, analysis and creation of counter advertisements. Located in visual discourse analysis, we designed a study to investigate the question "To what extent can teachers engaged in a critical literacy curriculum talk back to messages of consumerism,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Consumer Economics, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Haithcox-Dennis, Melissa; DeWeese, Amanda; Goodman, Jessica – American Journal of Health Education, 2013
Background: Coalitions are often the strategy of choice when needs are great, resources are few, and individual efforts have proven unsuccessful in addressing serious health issues. Despite the widespread use of coalitions and extensive research, no definitive list of factors predicting coalition success has been identified. One factor, social…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Advocacy, Community Action, Health Promotion
Radu, Petronela – PRIMUS, 2013
Math in the City is an interdisciplinary mathematics course offered at University of Nebraska-Lincoln in which students engage in a real-world experience to understand current major societal issues of local and national interest. The course is run in collaboration with local businesses, research centers, and government organizations, that provide…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Urban Areas
Ingram-Goble, Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This is an exploratory design study of a novel system for learning programming and 3D role-playing game design as tools for social change. This study was conducted at two sites. Participants in the study were ages 9-14 and worked for up to 15 hours with the platform to learn how to program and design video games with personally or socially…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Social Change, Computer Simulation
Berliner, David C. – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: This paper arises out of frustration with the results of school reforms carried out over the past few decades. These efforts have failed. They need to be abandoned. In their place must come recognition that income inequality causes many social problems, including problems associated with education. Sadly, compared to all other…
Descriptors: Poverty, Educational Change, Socioeconomic Status, Correlation
Brkich, Christopher Andrew; Newkirk, April Cribbs – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2015
Providing middle-grades students the opportunity to engage meaningfully with controversial public issues (CPIs), socioscientific issues (SSIs), or a framework for social justice can be very dangerous work professionally. However, rather than encouraging teacher candidates to eschew controversy, ensuring they receive sufficient training in how to…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Social Justice, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Preservice Teacher Education
Harrison, Lisa – Middle Grades Review, 2015
In this self-study I critically reflect upon my experience guest teaching a seventh grade unit that integrated social justice and mathematics in an urban school district. As a teacher educator who was newly introduced to the scholarship of social justice mathematics, I analyze my meaning making process of bridging my conceptual understanding of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Grade 7, Mathematics Instruction, Urban Schools
Pupil-Teacher Relationships: Perceptions of Boys with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
Hajdukova, Eva Brown; Hornby, Garry; Cushman, Penni – Pastoral Care in Education, 2014
This article is derived from a study of pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties' (SEBD) perceptions of their schooling experiences both in mainstream and residential schools. It is based on the accounts of 29 boys with severe SEBD who were attending a residential special school for children in New Zealand. Through in-depth,…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Males, Emotional Disturbances, Social Problems
Supplee, Lauren H.; Metz, Allison – Society for Research in Child Development, 2014
Despite a robust body of evidence of effectiveness of social programs, few evidence-based programs have been scaled for population-level improvement in social problems. Since 2010 the federal government has invested in evidence-based social policy by supporting a number of new evidence-based programs and grant initiatives. These initiatives…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Social Problems, Evidence Based Practice, Intervention
Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Levine, Phillip B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
This paper examines two aspects of teen childbearing in the United States. First, it reviews and synthesizes the evidence on the reasons why teen birth rates are so uniquely high in the United States and especially in some states. Second, it considers why and how it matters. We argue that economists' typical explanations are unable to account for…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Females, Economically Disadvantaged, Birth Rate
Palmer, Geoffrey J.; Palmer, Ransford W.; Payne-Borden, Jacqueline – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2012
Counseling maintains a small yet growing presence in Jamaica as a profession. Practitioners are confronted with several societal problems. The authors provide a historical overview of Jamaica and a synopsis of the development of counseling. The emergence of counseling services through the limitations of psychiatry and psychology sets the stage for…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Services, Negative Attitudes, Foreign Countries
