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Kolin Ebron – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Sport participation has been limited in marginalized communities due to socioeconomic factors such as access to facilities, cost of participation, and the overall lack of opportunity to engage in physical activity (The Aspen Institute, 2019). Sport Based Youth Development (SBYD) programs have been one avenue of providing sport and physical…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Student Athletes, Student Participation, Cooperative Learning
Lawson, Nicole Lannoy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Mainstream American environmental education (EE) programs often place undue privilege on inquiry-based scientific epistemologies and settler colonial wilderness ideologies (Cronon 1995b, Wolfe 2006) as the primary drivers in determining program design. Those programs in the urban setting add an environmental justice layer to these frameworks, by…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Urban Areas, Disadvantaged Youth, Minority Groups
Silva, Bethany – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Theories of writing process have informed the teaching of writing for the past forty years, providing writing mentors with a language of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing that broadens ways to invite young writers to approach composition. In the past forty years, new technologies for composition have impacted the products,…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Parks, Summer Programs, Qualitative Research
Barksdale, Agnes W. – 1979
A two-year (1977-1979) program was developed to increase mental health services to students and their families in an inner city school. The counseling supervisor from the school district and the director of a mental health agency developed a mobile mental health program. Students and their families were not always able to go to the agency for…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Educational Therapy, Elementary Education, Family Counseling