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Guastaferro, Kate; Font, Sarah A.; Miyamoto, Sheridan; Zadzora, Kathleen M.; Walters, Katie E.; O'Hara, Kathryn; Kemner, Allison; Noll, Jennie G. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: As constant figures in children's lives, parents are key in protecting children from sexual abuse. One barrier to reaching parents is that the topic can be difficult to broach and is sensitive in nature. Such barriers can interfere with implementation and fidelity of evidence-based prevention strategies that are focused on reducing…
Descriptors: Barriers, Sexual Abuse, Self Efficacy, Prevention
O'Dwyer, Lisel; Mihelic, Mandy – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2021
Defined as language, literacy and numeracy, and employability skills, foundation skills are essential for individuals to participate in further education, employment and wider society. Community education providers, such as community colleges, neighbourhood houses, faith-based organisations and adult learning associations, are key providers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Literacy, Reading Skills
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Duncan, Janine; Duncan, Daniel – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2014
As demographics in the United States shift, family and consumer sciences (FCS) professionals must be prepared to foster healthy communities that embrace multilingual families. Because hegemonic language ideologies challenge multilingual families, FCS professionals need to know how to inclusively reframe communities to honor multilingual families.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Literacy, Consumer Science, Sociolinguistics
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Laidemitt, Heidi; DeMola, Sarah; Martin, Jaymee; Kelley, Caroline – CATESOL Journal, 2012
This article is written from the perspective of 4 current MA TESOL graduate students at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). These students have written about their experiences by incorporating their theoretical and pedagogical English language-teaching knowledge into the growth and maintenance of a community-based ESL program…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Graduate Students, Social Justice
Montes, Gladys – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
It started with a dream: to create a national best practices teaching and learning center that would not only provide the best available care and education to children ages 0 to 5 years old, but would also serve as a model for adult learners and like-minded entities and individuals in the early education arena. Committed to elevating the quality…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Early Childhood Education, Child Development Centers, Child Care Centers
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Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed.; Avoseh, Mejai, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Undergraduate Students
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1980
The report presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among topics covered are education-equalization programs, including desegregation assistance, civil rights advisory services, education of disadvantaged children, grants to local education agencies, migrant children, neglected…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Access to Education