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Brown, Aaron; Bauer, Michael – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
Engineers provide essential services to society, solving pressing challenges through technological inventiveness. Students new to engineering often cite the lure of creative problem solving as attracting them to the discipline. However, traditional engineering curricula typically focus on a narrow application of fundamentals for solving…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Service Learning, Community Development, Sustainable Development
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Enslein, Terri W.; Wiles, Brenda – Journal of Experiential Education, 2020
Background: Health care today is presented with a complex set of circumstances requiring exploration of new and varied teaching methodologies to produce requisite student reasoning and prepare them for professional practice. Health care practitioners require high-level clinical reasoning skills to practice, skills traditionally achieved through…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Clinical Experience, Thinking Skills, Nursing Students
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McConkey, Roy – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
The rise in prevalence rates of children with ASD is well documented internationally. In the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland has consistently higher rates although the reasons for this are not clear. Using data from the annual school census that is held each year in Northern Ireland, changes in the numbers and prevalence rates of pupils…
Descriptors: Incidence, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Kerr, Kirstin; Dyson, Alan; Gallannaugh, Frances – Educational Research, 2016
Background: The field of school-community relations is well established in the scholarly literature. However, its largely descriptive and fragmented nature has served to disguise its conceptual complexity. To date, the sets of assumptions about school-community relations which underpin the literature, and the opportunities, tensions and…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Disadvantaged Environment, Neighborhoods, Educational Research
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Gallegos, Bernardo – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2018
The essay examines the state of the American Educational Studies Association and Social Foundations of Education through the lenses of auto-ethnography and critical reflection. A discussion of the relevance of the AESA and social foundations in the context of transformative education for scholars from marginalized communities is central to the…
Descriptors: Reflection, Foundations of Education, Social Theories, Ethnography
Driessen, Geert – Education Sciences, 2018
Early childhood education (ECE) intervention programs nowadays are the core of the educational disadvantage policy in the Netherlands. They offer institutional compensatory activities to young children who lack educational stimulation in the home environment. Target groups mainly comprise children from deprived socioeconomic backgrounds and of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Intervention
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Richter, Linda M.; Lye, Stephen J.; Proulx, Kerrie – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2018
Forced displacement worldwide is at its highest in decades and millions of young children are living in conflict zones, in transitional or enduring refugee contexts, and in demographically diverse marginalized and informal settlements. There is a huge unmet need for delivering early childhood development interventions to ensure the safety and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Conflict, Early Childhood Education, Child Development
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Atatoa Carr, Polly E.; Reese, Elaine; Bird, Amy L.; Bandara, Dinusha K.; Grant, Cameron C.; Morton, Susan M. B. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
Infants are increasingly cared for by adults other than their parents. Here we describe non-parental infant care within a diverse cohort; and investigate the relationship between parents' antenatal intentions and actual infant care. 6822 New Zealand women were recruited during pregnancy and asked about their intentions for childcare. Non-parental…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
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Damons, Bruce; Wood, Lesley Angelina – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
Schools in poor working class communities in South Africa face a myriad of equity challenges that impact negatively on their ability to achieve basic school functionality. Yet, within such communities, there exists a wealth of valuable local knowledge and support that can be mobilised to assist school leaders, not only to bring about school…
Descriptors: School Administration, School Community Relationship, Action Research, Participatory Research
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Passy, Rowena; Ovenden-Hope, Tanya – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
This paper is a response to an earlier article in the "Journal of Education Policy," which calls for 'new ideas and constructive principles and practices for the provision of socially-just education'. We first discuss how an economistic approach to education entrenches socioeconomic disadvantage and argue that, in the light of evidence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Administration, Disadvantaged Environment, Community Characteristics
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Wahl, Rachel – Educational Theory, 2018
Deliberation has become a defining ideal of democratic theory, and learning is central to robust deliberation. It is challenging for people to learn from each other, however, in contexts of inequality and deep social cleavages--though this is precisely when such learning is most needed. The political theorist Danielle Allen has argued that the…
Descriptors: Democracy, Democratic Values, African Americans, Learning Processes
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Barr, Megan; Duncan, Jill; Dally, Kerry – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2018
Children in regional, rural and remote areas have less access to services than those living in urban areas. Practitioners serving children with a hearing loss have attempted to address this gap, however there are few studies investigating service access and experiences of non-metropolitan families and professionals. This systematic review…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Related Services (Special Education), Hearing Impairments, Literature Reviews
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Allen, Jeanne Maree; Wright, Suzie; Cranston, Neil; Watson, Jane; Beswick, Kim; Hay, Ian – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
This paper reports on the views of key members of the educational community about student engagement and retention in rural, regional and disadvantaged areas of the Australian state of Tasmania. It provides insights into the attributed reasons for the longstanding low levels of student retention in Tasmania, and the possible ways to militate…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, School Holding Power, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Smith, George; Sylva, Kathy; Smith, Teresa; Sammons, Pam; Omonigho, Aghogho – Sutton Trust, 2018
Latest research from the authors and their team at the University of Oxford has used administrative data, a survey of local authorities, and a series of case studies to paint a picture of what has happened to children's centres across England. The six case studies include Londonborough, Portcity, Shipcity, Rivershire, Midshire, and Northport.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers, Disadvantaged Environment, Young Children
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Zahir, Mariyam Z.; Miles, Anna; Hand, Linda; Ward, Elizabeth C. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Access to speech-language therapy services for children with communication difficulties is limited in vulnerable countries within the Majority world, such as Small Island Developing States. The use of information and communication technology (ICT) has been identified as a possible solution to provide equitable access to services in…
Descriptors: Speech Therapy, Ancillary School Services, Developing Nations, Technology Integration
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