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Caroline Gelman; Anna Ortega-Williams; Laura Katz – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2024
COVID-19 has revealed and intensified economic and health disparities, prompting a profound national and global examination of racist systems perpetuating such disadvantage. The historic confluence of COVID-19 with movements for social justice offers a window, which COVID fatigue may already be closing, for us to enact true change in the process…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Work, Trauma Informed Approach
Peers Early Education Partnership, Oxford (England). – 1999
The Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) program was established in 1995 to make a significant long-term positive impact on the educational attainment of children and families in disadvantaged areas of the United Kingdom. This report examines the work of the PEEP program for the period April 1998 through March 1999. The sections of the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth
James, Simon; And Others – 1987
The Basic Education Development Scheme (BEDS) was first proposed in 1983 as a way of extending adult basic education services to single homeless persons. Its overall objective was to explore through programs (not research) the most fruitful ways of helping homeless men and women improve their literacy skills and eventually enter the mainstream…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Advocacy, Counseling Services
Branch, Alvia; And Others – 1984
This six-chapter document constitutes the final implementation report of Project Redirection, a demonstration of a comprehensive program designed to provide a range of services to adolescents who are pregnant or have children. Following an introductory chapter, chapter II examines characteristics of the four sites where programs were set up to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, Community Services, Contraception
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education and Culture. – 2003
This document profiles nine European programs that exemplify good practice in social and occupational integration of disadvantaged people. The programs profiled are as follows: (1) Restaurant Venezia (a CD-ROM program to improve the reading and writing skills of young people in Luxembourg who have learning difficulties); (2) an integrated…
Descriptors: CD ROMs, Comparative Education, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Flower, Fred, Ed.; Russell, Russ, Ed. – 1982
A party of vocational educators from the United Kingdom (UK) traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to observe the role of industrial tutors in providing technical training to German workers. During their study, the investigators focused their attention on the role of the meister in the vocational education and training system in…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Programs
Johnson, Hugh – 1982
A vocational education administrator from the United Kingdom (UK) traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to observe the education and training of young handicapped adults at 14 sites throughout the country. The focus of his investigation was on vocational counseling and vocational education and training for handicapped and disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Course Content
Newman, Charles A., Ed.; Caton, Joyce J., Ed. – 1981
This yearbook, consisting of 18 papers, deals with updating the content of secondary business education programs. The focus of the articles is on trends affecting secondary business education curricula, determining curriculum needs in secondary business education, implementing content changes, and changing secondary business education content to…
Descriptors: Accounting, Advisory Committees, Business Administration, Business Education