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Lisa Gilman – Journal of Folklore and Education, 2024
A collaboration between youth in a refugee camp in Malawi, U.S. college students, and a professor of folklore has produced a website and forthcoming book manuscript. The project augments opportunities for the artists, all of whom are refugees or asylum seekers, to share their work, bring visibility to the talent in the camp, raise awareness about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Refugees, Emergency Shelters
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Aneta Kwak – College & Research Libraries, 2025
Introducing accessibility initiatives is increasing across academic libraries and effective library staff training is one of the factors for the successful implementation and continuity of any accessibility endeavours. This case study outlines the development of a training program to teach student library assistances to format scanned PDFs to be…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Personnel, Training Methods, Program Development
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Willey, Craig; Magee, Paula – Global Education Review, 2016
In a longitudinal design experiment conducted within an urban teacher preparation program, we employed ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods to investigate the following questions: 1) In what ways do clinical experiences (CEs) support prospective teachers' (PTs) development of knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for urban teaching?…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Ethnography, Experiential Learning, Preservice Teachers
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Polesel, John; Klatt, Malgorzata; Blake, Damian; Starr, Karen – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This article seeks to provide a school perspective on the nature and quality of the partnerships which schools form with businesses in order to deliver work placements and workplace learning in Australia. It found that the ability of schools to engage with external partners depended on the ability of school leaders to define and communicate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, Vocational Education
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Beck, Jori S. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2016
Urban teacher residency (UTR) programs have been widely endorsed (National Education Association, 2014; Thorpe, 2014), yet the body of literature on these programs has not definitively identified the benefits of UTRs over and above traditional teacher education programs--if any exist. The current study explored how faculty and staff working in one…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Teacher Education Programs, Attitude Measures, College Faculty
Brown, Wade R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The postsecondary acts of violence at Virginia Technical University (VT) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) forced Illinois legislators to approve the "Campus Security Enhancement Act" in 2008 (110 ILCS 12/20). The "Act" requires all private and public postsecondary education institutions to develop a Campus Violence…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Violence, Colleges, Educational Legislation
Dimmitt, Catherine L., Carey, John C.; Hatch, Patricia A. – Corwin Press, 2007
Today's school counselors are under increasing pressure to document their effectiveness by using data and producing quantitative accountability reports. This guide from recognized counselor educators and trainers gives preservice and inservice school counselors the tools to identify evidence-based practices in their field and to use data in…
Descriptors: Program Development, Decision Making, School Counselors, Needs Assessment