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Jessica Bouchard; Jennifer S. Wong – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Adolescents face many difficulties when transitioning to high school, particularly when it comes to their social circles and maintaining friendships. As these challenges can have long-term consequences, providing support to youth during this period is essential. The YWCA Youth Education Programs (YEP) in Vancouver, BC offer group-based,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, Gender Issues, After School Programs
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Jane Perryman; Sandra Leaton Gray; Eleanore Hargreaves; Katya Saville – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The normal lives of schools were significantly affected by the recent global pandemic. Some countries closed all schools nationally, others such as the USA closed at a local level according to state law. Much of the focus of research in this area is on the effect on children and learning loss, but this paper uses secondary analysis of data from a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Professionalism, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ji Hye Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The expansion and universalization of educational opportunities in many parts of the world raised expectations that education inequality could be alleviated. Contrary to expectations, however, empirical evidence on educational inequality has been revealed. This is because qualitative differentiation of education programs at a certain level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Transitional Programs, Middle School Students
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Petra Engelbrecht; Hannelie Louw; Julialet Rens – Perspectives in Education, 2024
This paper focuses on exploring the transition South African learners make from Grade 7 to Grade 8, with an emphasis on the experiences of all the role players in two school cultures during this transition phase. This qualitative exploratory research project was placed in a constructivist research paradigm. The data were analysed in an exploratory…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Transitional Programs, Foreign Countries
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Mahmud, Arif – Pastoral Care in Education, 2021
Research demonstrates that pupils do not always have the necessary social and emotional intelligence to cope with the transition to secondary school successfully. This paper explores a context-specific intervention designed to enhance key social and emotional skills after a secondary school transition. The intervention was designed with reference…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development