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Paul Sharp; Caitlin Sankey; John L. Oliffe; Nico Schulenkorf; Cristina M. Caperchione – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
Over the past decade, there has been an increased emphasis on tailoring men's health promotion programs. To optimize outcomes, participatory action research that involves and elicits feedback from end-users has been highlighted as important to creating gender-responsive interventions. In this scoping review, we examine (a) how participatory action…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Males, Program Design, Gender Issues
O'Neill, D. Kevin – Learning, Media and Technology, 2011
This article synthesizes research on social capital, school outcomes, internet use, and volunteering to argue that e-mentoring--which is commonly practiced over long distances--could become a powerful way to build greater cohesiveness in local communities. Realizing this potential will require a larger-scale and more coordinated approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Design, Mentors, School Effectiveness
Ouellet, Micheline – 1990
The history of French immersion instruction in Canada is reviewed, and the literature relating to that history is examined. The first chapter offers three distinct perspectives on the emergence of French immersion: (1) chronological; (2) phenomenological and pragmatic; and (3) methodological and pedagogic. Also in the first chapter, the immersion…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational History, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
Cole, Ardra L.; McNay, Margaret – Education Canada, 1988
Discusses the need for more formalized orientation procedures for beginning teachers in Ontario, Canada. Reviews the literature on the goals of induction programs, provision of financial and human resources, program content and management, and commitments required of participants, manager, and policymakers. Contains 32 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Internship Programs
Dolson, David P. – 1985
The characteristics of Canadian language immersion, bilingual education, and modified immersion programs are described, and their characteristics are compared with research findings on the characteristics of effective dual language programs. The information provided is intended to assist policymakers, educators, and community leaders in making…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs
Miller, Bruce A. – 1988
Small, sometimes multi-cultural, rural schools need specialized preservice teacher education programs to prepare teachers. After outlining the classroom, school, and sociocultural characteristics affecting a teacher's success and survival in a rural community, this paper discusses the apparent lack of rural content in teacher preparation programs…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Elementary Secondary Education, Hawaiians, Multigraded Classes

Shore, Bruce M. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1979
This paper summarizes some of the developments which have occurred since the 1960s in gifted child education and teacher training for the gifted. Discussed are the major types of programs which have evolved and their underlying assumptions, debates in the field, and estimates for the future. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Problems, Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Kelly, Nancy – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2001
This article provides information on special education topics on the international front. Topics range from a BrailleNote project in British Columbia, a Swedish program to help Romanian children with special needs, a visual resource room to help New Zealand students with visual impairments, and technology programs in European countries. (CR)
Descriptors: Braille, Disabilities, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Terry, Marion – Educational Research Quarterly, 2006
In 2002-03, a qualitative case study explored the perspectives of 70 stakeholders connected to two community-based adult literacy programs in Manitoba, Canada. Four themes emerged from within-case and cross-case analyses of the data: program design, human relations, community context, and financial support. Instructor-learner and learner-learner…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Design, Financial Support, Classroom Environment

Brandt, Elizabeth A.; Ayoungman, Vivian – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1989
Reviews critical factors in successful language transmission and acquisition, factors responsible for language maintenance and renewal. Considers theoretical issues underlying communities' maintenance and renewal efforts and the reflection of those issues in practical goal-setting plans that outline desired plans that outline language maintenance…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Planning, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Rutherford, Jane – 1989
Many older Canadians (almost half, by some surveys) have low levels of functional literacy that lead to problems with everyday life. More than half of Canadians over age 55 have less than a grade 9 education, and they often have lower incomes than more literate seniors. However, older people are the smallest group represented in adult basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Educational Needs

Lapkin, Sharon; And Others – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1993
Existing empirical research on core French instruction is reviewed, and research directions are proposed in four areas: program design, program objectives and outcomes, curriculum issues, and teacher education. Experimentation with alternative instructional designs for delivery of core French is seen as a high priority. (84 references) (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
Towards a Framework for Integrating Early Childhood Development and Family Support Programs--Part I.

Kyle, Irene J. – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 2000
Reviews current thinking about the optimal organization and delivery of child care and other family support programs, focusing on how child care services in selected Canadian provinces and other countries have been coordinated with other services. Presents theoretical and conceptual frameworks informing current thinking about organization and…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Sage, Sheila – TESL Talk, 1993
Focuses on growing companies in the areas of computers and semiconductors, health and medicine, instrumentation, and communications and telecommunications. The article argues that a knowledge of employment trends and workplace changes is important for those working with unemployed English-as-a-Second-Language learners. (25 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Career Counseling, Economic Change, Employment Qualifications

Bezeau, Lawrence M. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1979
Since 1968, Quebec province has subsidized private schools by a voucher system. This analytical literature review describes that system; summarizes information since 1968 on Quebec private schooling; and compares, using price theoretic concepts, Quebec's public and private education sectors in terms of economically efficient resource allocation.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Comparative Analysis, Educational Economics
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