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Barton, Georgina; McKay, Loraine – English in Australia, 2016
Evidence suggests that increasingly young adolescents are finishing school with poor literacy skills limiting their access to further education, training and employment. This has lifelong effects in terms of their economic participation and health and wellbeing. This paper examines the spatial practices of one school's approach to improving…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Literacy Education, Outcomes of Education, Interviews
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Gatz, Jennifer; Kelly, Angela M. – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objective: This study evaluated the effect of a Transformation through Triathlon after school programme in promoting health status, academic motivation and socioemotional development in at-risk girls aged 11-14 years attending middle school in the USA. Design: A phenomenological approach was employed with elements of grounded theory to analyse…
Descriptors: After School Programs, After School Education, Athletics, Physical Education
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Pugh, Kevin J.; Bergstrom, Cassendra M.; Heddy, Benjamin C.; Krob, Karen E. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
The Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science (TTES) model was designed to facilitate the application of academic learning in students' everyday experiences. In the current study, we describe a 2-year design-based intervention that aimed to further develop and evaluate the TTES model. In the first year, a teacher implemented the TTES…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Transformative Learning, Instructional Design, Models