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Feld, Scott L.; Carter, William C. – American Journal of Sociology, 1998
Observes that interracial contact is a primary goal of school desegregation policies. Demonstrates that reallocation of students among schools may reduce opportunities for interracial contact by focusing on weak social ties as one important type of contact. Considers policy implications for schools and theoretical implication for understanding…
Descriptors: Class Size, Desegregation Methods, Educational Policy, Educational Research

Kindermann, Thomas – New Directions for Child Development, 1998
Presents a network-assessment technique and examples showing how group experiences affect children's behavior. Compares classical sociometry and the use of composite social maps. Discusses quantifying peer-network information, using peer-network profiles as context descriptors, and identifying change in children and networks. Shows that peer-group…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Group Dynamics, Group Structure

Bird, Sharon R.; Sapp, Stephen G.; Lee, Motoko Y. – Rural Sociology, 2001
Supporting a "structural relational" view of small business success, data from 423 small business owners in Iowa suggest that links between owner characteristics, social relational processes, business structure, and success operate differently depending on urban-rural location and owner sex. Female owners had more professional training…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Females, Gender Issues, Human Capital
Sharp, Jeff S. – Rural Sociology, 2001
I examine the concept of the community field to identify the structures, elements, and processes that generate improved capacity for community action. I conduct analysis of interlocking leadership among local organizations and recent community action in three Midwestern communities to determine the structure and attributes of the community field.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Network Analysis, Community Action, Community Influence
Lochrie, Margaret – Adults Learning, 2005
Among the great scientific discoveries of the 20th century, attachment theory provides an explanation for the intense and enduring bonds which are formed in infancy and extended and developed through childhood and adult life. Those early attachments, formed within families, provide people with a framework for understanding themselves and others…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Family Relationship, Family Literacy, Social Networks
Byrd-Blake, Marie – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2003
The purpose for conducting this study was to examine the differences among African American, Hispanic, and white female public school administrators with respect to their perceptions of successful strategies that led to career advancement. Female public school administrators continue to experience barriers to career advancement. The data revealed…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Females, Educational Administration, Racial Differences
Audrey, Suzanne; Cordall, Kathleen; Moore, Laurence; Cohen, David; Campbell, Rona – Health Education Journal, 2004
Objective: To design, implement and evaluate a peer-led intervention to reduce smoking amongst secondary school students. Design: A health promotion intervention combining peer education with diffusion of innovation theory, to be rigorously evaluated by means of a cluster randomised controlled trial with concurrent process and economic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Health Promotion, Smoking, Foreign Countries
Reifman, Alan; Watson, Wendy K. – Journal of American College Health, 2003
Students' first semester on campus may set the stage for their alcohol use/misuse throughout college. The authors surveyed 274 randomly sampled first-semester freshmen at a large southwestern university on their past 2 weeks' binge drinking, their high school binge drinking, and psychosocial factors possibly associated with drinking. They…
Descriptors: Probability, Social Networks, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking
Harris, Suzy – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2005
Under neo-liberal modes of governance, new forms of partnership are emerging. This article begins by looking at the notion of partnership and the dominant model of partnership operating under New Labour in the United Kingdom, through a discussion of two cases of partnership working. I argue that the dominant model of partnership is primarily…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Political Attitudes
Schimmelmann, Benno Graf; Conus, Philippe; Schacht, Melanie; McGorry, Patrick; Lambert, Martin – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To assess the risk and predictors of service disengagement in adolescents with first-episode psychosis (FEP) receiving their first treatment in a long-standing early intervention and prevention centre. Method: The Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) in Australia admitted 157 adolescents, ages 15 to 18, with FEP…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Family Involvement, Psychosis, Prevention
Kerpelman, Jennifer; White, Lloyd – Journal of Black Psychology, 2006
Social capital may be particularly important for the well-being and future opportunities of African American adolescents living in low income families. In this study, linkages between interpersonal identity formation and adolescents' perceptions of social capital quality were examined in a cross-sectional study of 374 low income, rural, African…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Social Capital, Low Income
Goodyear, Peter; de Laat, Maarten; Lally, Vic – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2006
Educational design for networked learning is becoming more complex but also more inclusive, with teachers and learners playing more active roles in the design of tasks and of the learning environment. This paper connects emerging research on the use of design patterns and pattern languages with a conception of educational design as a conversation…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Literature Reviews, Theory Practice Relationship, Pattern Recognition
McWhirter, Paula T. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2006
This article investigates a community-based group therapy intervention designed to address specific needs of women in transition as compared to women also in transition, engaged in a traditional, nonclinical women's program. Both interventions were found to increase social network size, decrease social isolation, and decrease financial stress. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Females, Self Efficacy, Social Isolation
Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Issa, Theodora, Ed.; McKay, Elspeth, Ed.; Isias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the International Conferences on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS 2016), Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2016) and Sustainability, Technology and Education (STE 2016), which have been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Internet, Educational Technology
Allen, Jeffrey G. – 1995
This book, which is intended for individuals who have been in a job for a decade and feel that their career development has stalled, explains how to break through the 10-year career barrier and get a desired job. The following topics are discussed in the book's 15 chapters: career stalls and their causes; the 10-year career barrier; the legality…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Career Change, Career Development