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García, Luis – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2019
This paper evaluates whether student loans given to poor students at a large university in Peru are effective in reducing the time-to-degree. It uses a methodology that avoids the "selection problem" because the students voluntarily request a loan depending on their economic situation. The econometric results confirm the negative effect…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Poverty, Universities, Time to Degree
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Verharen, Charles C. – Ethics and Education, 2020
Philosophy confronts two existential crises: the threats to its existence from scientists like Stephen Hawking who claim that philosophy is dead; and the threat to life itself from catastrophic climate change. The essay's first theoretical part critiques Nietzsche's claim that philosophy's primary function is to guarantee the future of life. The…
Descriptors: Ethics, Philosophy, Models, Educational Philosophy
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Schulz, Sam; Agnew, Deborah – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
This paper focuses on an Australian university short-term study abroad programme in India part-funded by the Australian Government New Colombo Plan -- an initiative that facilitates transformative people-to-people encounters. Our chief interest is extending our reach, through photo diaries and interviews, to understand how participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Program Descriptions, Transformative Learning
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Ahmed, Kathryn Struthers – Action in Teacher Education, 2020
This paper explores Megan's -- a preservice teacher's -- learning around teaching literacy while enrolled in a social justice-oriented teacher education program and student teaching in poverty-impacted schools. Megan had fewer opportunities to teach literacy in university-promoted ways when student teaching with an attentive cooperating teacher…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Social Justice, Cooperating Teachers, Disadvantaged Schools
National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2020
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is the nation's first nutrition education program and remains at the forefront of educational efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youth today. Funded by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), EFNEP supports program participants' efforts…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition Instruction, Extension Education, Low Income Groups
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Assaf, Lori Czop; Lussier, Kristie O'Donnell; Lopez, Minda – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2020
The purpose of this qualitative study was to uncover preservice teachers' generative learning and explore whether and how they built on and/or extended linguistically responsive teaching 1 year after participating in a study abroad program and community-based international service learning project. We relied on narrative reflections, interviews,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Teaching Methods, Service Learning, Preservice Teachers
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Montecinos, Carmen; Cortez, Mónica; Zett, Isabel; Chávez, Sofía – European Journal of Education, 2023
The qualitative study on which this article reports explored how senior leaders, mathematics and Spanish language teachers (N = 72) in four high-performing, high-poverty, public secondary schools in Chile enact performance-based accountability policies related to standardised assessments. These four public schools were selected because prior to…
Descriptors: Accountability, High Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries
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Roberts, Paul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
The interaction between doctoral education and social class is under-researched, yet is perceived to play an important part in securing social mobility. Research that does exist tends to focus on issues of access or transition, rather than considering experiences during the doctorate. This article focuses on doctoral students' experiences of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Social Class, Social Mobility, Doctoral Students
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Marneweck, Aja – Research in Drama Education, 2020
The article explores the multifaceted process of creating the large-scale annual public puppetry event, The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade, in the rural town of Barrydale, South Africa. It unpacks the complex layers of meaning and making arising through a co-creative puppetry project in a region of South Africa marked by poverty and the on-going…
Descriptors: Poverty, Puppetry, Self Concept, Cultural Activities
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Ankeny, Raisa; Marichal, Nidza; Coady, Maria – School Leadership Review, 2019
This paper describes an ongoing Professional Development (PD) program that aimed to prepare teacher-leaders for rural English learner (EL) students. We delineate the theoretical underpinnings of the PD design and describe the two-year graduate coursework program with onsite coaching in rural schools in detail. We define rurality and the context of…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development, English Language Learners, Program Descriptions
Warr, Melissa; West, Richard E. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2020
This article describes the implementation of an interdisciplinary design studio as a means to teach creative problem-solving through project-based learning. "Learning and Innovation Skills" has been designated as a core skill that students need to be successful in today's world, and project-based learning is one approach to helping…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Schwartz, Tammy; Dinnen, Hannah; Smith-Millman, Marissa K.; Dixon, Maressa; Flaspohler, Paul D. – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2017
Supporting students' mental health needs is critical in high-poverty urban school districts where many students are at risk for mental health problems. Although teacher-student relationships are at the core of student mental health promotion in the classroom, many teacher preparation programmes do not adequately prepare pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Preservice Teachers, Mental Health, Teacher Student Relationship
Rudd, Timothy; Rodriguez, Jonathan; Greenberg, David – MDRC, 2016
Family Rewards was an innovative approach to poverty reduction in the United States that was modelled on the conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs common in lower- and middle-income countries. The program offered cash assistance to poor families to reduce immediate hardship, provided they met certain criteria related to family health care,…
Descriptors: Rewards, Poverty, Employment, Family Programs
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Anderson, Elizabeth M.; Blitz, Lisa V.; Saastamoinen, Monique – School Community Journal, 2015
Schools serving communities with high rates of poverty face the profound challenge of meeting the needs of students who are often exposed to significant family and environmental stressors and trauma. Classroom staff are vital members of school communities who often work closely with students with the highest needs, but they are typically not…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Poverty, Workshops, Trauma
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Beckman, Paula J.; Christenson, Lea Ann – Global Education Review, 2016
This qualitative case study was designed to explore student's perceptions of the impact of a two-week service-learning experience in rural El Salvador. Students stayed in an economically impoverished village in rural El Salvador and worked on projects that promoted education for children in the village. Participants included 15 graduate and…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
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