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Bhaumik, S.; Watson, J. M.; Devapriam, J.; Raju, L. B.; Tin, N. N.; Kiani, R.; Talbott, L.; Parker, R.; Moore, L.; Majumdar, S. K.; Ganghadaran, S. K.; Dixon, K.; Gupta, A. Das; Barrett, M.; Tyrer, F. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: Aggressive challenging behaviour is common in adults with intellectual disability (ID) in long-term care facilities. The government's commitment to the closure of all facilities in England has led to concerns over how to manage this behaviour in the community. The aim of this study was to assess changes in aggressive challenging…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Land Settlement, Drug Use, Foreign Countries
Kharma, Maher M. – Online Submission, 2010
Following wars and natural disasters, individuals and their families face displacement from their native land and relocate to a new location where they become refugees. As occupational beings, people find meaning in their environment and build their identity through engaging in meaningful occupations. The environment plays a role in shaping the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Jews, African Americans, Slavery
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McLeod, Christine; Heriot, Sandra; Hunt, Caroline – Australian Journal of Education, 2008
Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that more than 40 per cent of Australian children moved their place of residence at least once in the Census period from 1996 to 2001 (ABS, 2001a). The literature varies in its assessment of the impact that this has on children. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Personality Traits, Place of Residence
Bacon, La Shawn Catrice – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in African American students who have experienced geographic mobility was the focus of this study. Specifically, this study used quantitative methods to assess African American students from counties in Iowa to obtain information about the students' relocation from urban to…
Descriptors: African American Students, Rural Schools, Student Attitudes, Grade Point Average
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Journell, Wayne – Journal of American Indian Education, 2009
Using an interpretive analysis, American history standards from nine states that incorporate high-stakes assessments in social studies are analyzed for their representation of American Indians. Research on high-stakes assessments shows that teachers are more likely to align their instruction with state standards due to mounting pressure to achieve…
Descriptors: United States History, American Indians, State Standards, Relocation
Treager Huber, Carey – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Issues surrounding social class are often overlooked and rarely discussed in higher education; however, they affect students and institutions in critical ways. Although research has demonstrated that social class is a predictor of access to college, retention, academic performance, overall undergraduate and graduate experience, and college…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Higher Education, Independent Living, College Graduates
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Mosselson, Jacqueline – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2010
I argue in this article that recognizing the role of subjectivity and bringing in the researcher's positionality as a tool in the research process can not only enhance the ethical integrity of the research but also enhance both the research process and the analysis and interpretation of the data. Cultural studies theorists have long argued that…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Adolescents, Females
Sallu, Adama – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the schooling experiences and perceptions of resettled sub-Saharan African middle school refugee students in a metropolitan area of the United States Southwest. The research questions underpinning this study included: What are the schooling experiences and perceptions of resettled sub-Saharan African middle school refugee…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Middle School Students, Refugees, Relocation
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Johnson, Odis, Jr. – Review of Educational Research, 2010
The "underclass" debate of the 1980s often concerned the relative importance of neighborhood racial and economic isolation to the educational challenges facing many African Americans. This review organizes the neighborhood effects research that has emerged since that time according to these differing perspectives. The review's triangulated…
Descriptors: African American Students, Neighborhoods, Racial Segregation, Macroeconomics
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Shepherd, Jeffrey P. – American Indian Quarterly, 2008
Standard, even "new Indian history" narratives of relocation and removal have generally avoided critical discussions of colonialism, memory, and space. Choosing instead to emphasize the important political, economic, social, and even cultural implications of such dislocations, much of what passes as "Indian" history fails to…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Relocation, American Indian History, Social Structure
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Neegan, Erica – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2008
This article provides a critical reflective analysis of my life growing up in Jamaica where I attended colonial school, to making the transition to high school in the Canadian context. I examine the elements that have influenced my cultural/racial identity as a person of African ancestry living in the diaspora. I ask questions such as how has…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Racial Identification, Phenomenology, Cultural Influences
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Aikau, Hokulani K. – American Indian Quarterly, 2008
Kanaka Maoli are under constant threat of becoming exiles in their homeland. With the steady encroachment of development such as new luxury subdivisions on Moloka'i, high-rise condominiums in Waikiki, and new multi-million-dollar homes on the beaches of all the major islands, they are being pushed off their land and replaced by new wealthy…
Descriptors: Salaries, Indigenous Populations, Hawaiians, Economic Development
Carr, Patrick J.; Kefalas, Maria J. – School Administrator, 2010
Things are not going so well in small-town America. While the so-called "Great Recession" of the moment has focused considerable attention on the travails of Main Street and Middle America, the truth is that the troubles that plague such places have been a long time in the making. For the past 30 years, nonmetropolitan counties and the…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Brain Drain, Young Adults
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Surface, Jeanne – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2011
The purpose of the study was to make a qualitative assessment of the impact of school consolidation on several rural Nebraska communities that have recently lost their schools. This research uses a multiple-case study design with interviews conducted in three Nebraska communities. The data from this research fell into four broad themes: social…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Qualitative Research, Rural Schools, School Closing
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Gartner, Niko – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2010
In September 1939, two days before declaring war on Germany, the British government evacuated over half a million children from London to supposedly safer areas in the country. Schoolchildren went there with their teachers and infants with their mothers. Immediately after the event (and ever since) the impact of the evacuation on the children--the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Counties, Children
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