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Holmes, Stephanie; Redmond, Adrienne; Thomas, Julie; High, Karen – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2012
Current data suggest fewer females than males continue to be interested in engineering and that this gender gap is first evidenced during middle school years. One might expect that female engineering role models would encourage adolescent girls to pursue future careers in engineering and thereby increase the girls' interests in and attitudes…
Descriptors: Mentors, Females, Mathematics Anxiety, After School Programs
Martin, Kerry; Springate, Iain; Atkinson, Mary – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2010
This research looked at five intergenerational projects focusing on football, arts, knife crime, living history and personal and social education. Two projects ran in schools, one in a health centre, one in a youth drop-in centre and one at a football club. Each project had its own aims, but in addition to these, the projects aimed to improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intergenerational Programs, Age Differences, Interpersonal Relationship
Payne, Phillip G. – Environmental Education Research, 2010
"Green families" in Australia were studied so as to shed light on how a more durable, everyday environmental ethic and ecopolitic might slowly be enacted in the intimacy of the home "place" over an extended period of time in rapidly changing socio-cultural-ecological conditions. Of particular interest to this study of the green…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Foreign Countries, Ethics
Watts, A. G. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2010
The three major national all-age career guidance services--in New Zealand, Scotland and Wales--have been reviewed using an adaptation of the methodology adopted in the OECD Career Guidance Policy Review. The main features of the three services are summarised, and some key differences and distinctive strengths are outlined. The alternative approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Guidance, Evidence, Comparative Education
Bartoszuk, Karin; Randall, Brandy A. – Journal of Extension, 2011
The study reported here examined 367 adolescent 4-H participants in terms of demographic, psychological, behavioral, and relational characteristics, as well as their perceptions and experiences in 4-H. Overall, participants scored high on all outcome variables except having a diverse population in their club. Older participants were more…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Adolescents, Age Differences, Participant Characteristics
Larkin, Elizabeth; Kaplan, Matthew S. – Young Children, 2010
Newcomers to intergenerational programs in early childhood settings tend to recognize immediately the value of bringing younger and older age groups together. However, they then ask, "But what do they do together?" The goal of intergenerational programs is to promote bonds between younger and older generations--relationships that will…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
Flage, Lynette; Vettern, Rachelle; Schmidt, Mark; Eighmy, Myron – Journal of Extension, 2010
Communities benefit from meaningful involvement by individuals of all ages, but adults don't always perceive youth as legitimate, crucial contributors to community decision-making processes. The purpose of the study reported here was to determine if adults who participated with youth in the Horizons program changed their attitudes, opinions, and…
Descriptors: Opinions, Leadership Training, Behavior Change, Attitude Change
Springate, Iain; Atkinson, Mary; Martin, Kerry – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2008
This report focuses on the findings from a literature review of what is known about the effectiveness of intergenerational practice, conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) for the Local Government Association (LGA). The overall purpose of this study was to carry out a literature review of what is known about the…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Educational Research, Literature Reviews, Program Effectiveness
Woodland, Malcolm H.; Martin, Justin F.; Hill, R. LeRoi; Worrell, Frank C. – Journal of Negro Education, 2009
The social and educational life risks associated with being a Black male in the United States are not novel concerns. However, researchers, policymakers, educators, and other stakeholders have yet to consistently identify programs and interventions that can mediate the inequities that confront young Black men. Some researchers have indicated that…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Urban Youth, Males, Youth Programs
McCleskey, Nicole – National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2010
This paper presents the key findings from a national Internet survey of 400 teachers and 95 principals. This survey was conducted November 12-21, 2008. The sample was based on a list provided by EMI Surveys, a custom online research sample provider with an extensive portfolio of projects. The margin of error for a sample of 495 interviews is [plus…
Descriptors: Principals, National Surveys, Elementary Education, Middle School Teachers
Marshall, Elizabeth; Toohey, Kelleen – Harvard Educational Review, 2010
In this article, Elizabeth Marshall and Kelleen Toohey use critical discourse analysis to examine educators' efforts to incorporate funds of knowledge from the communities and families of Punjabi Sikh students in a Canadian elementary school. Using MP3 players, students first recorded and then translated their grandparents' stories of life in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Criticism, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students
Smits, Annika; van Gaalen, Ruben I.; Mulder, Clara H. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010
Using administrative data on all adult children living in The Netherlands age 30-40 and their parents (N = 1,999,700), we investigated the extent to which situations and events associated with the support needs and privacy needs of either generation determine intergenerational coresidence and the transition to coresidence. Logistic and multinomial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Multiple Regression Analysis, Housing Needs
Ayers, Edward L.; Narduzzi, James L. – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2009
Opportunities for intergenerational learning abound on college campuses. The advantages of these experiences for both young and mature learners are well documented, particularly in the context of service learning, civic engagement, and other experiences outside the classroom. Less well documented but no less compelling are the advantages of…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Higher Education, Campuses, Adult Students
Serriere, Stephanie C.; Mitra, Dana; Reed, Katherine – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2011
Service-learning is promoted widely by professional organizations (NCSS, 2001), but often with little reflection on the nature of meaningful student participation and the impact of teacher leadership styles. The authors studied mixed-age "small school" advisory groups involved in service-learning at one elementary school; observational, interview,…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Focus Groups, Student Participation, Leadership Styles
Spudich, Dimana; Spudich, Christine – Improving Schools, 2010
This article focuses on intergenerational communication and provides a practical approach for how teachers and administrators can implement intergenerational programs in their schools. A discussion of the social and cultural implications of intergenerational communication is offered, and a review of literature regarding intergenerational programs…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Older Adults, Volunteers, Interpersonal Communication