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Grossi, Sergio – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2021
The call for social reintegration of prisoners, in many cases, does not work or has been abandoned, leaving the question of inclusivity regarding the imprisoned an open challenge in contemporary societies. My study provides a critical analysis of a model defined as an educational system of social reintegration, which aspires to be an alternative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutionalized Persons, Social Integration, Correctional Education
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Sweetman, Rachel; Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth; Thomas, Liz – Tertiary Education and Management, 2023
There are widespread concerns about a shortage of nurses in society, making it vital to educate and retain as many nursing students as possible. This paper interrogates the fit and relevance of established models for student retention, particularly Tinto's model of student departure and its central notion of 'integration'. Early social and…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Foreign Countries, Models, School Holding Power
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Dorantes, Andrew R.; Peterson, Joel L. A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2020
This chapter examines the impact and success of mid-level business and finance staff at private colleges or universities, using an adaptation of Bronfenbrenner's multilevel social integration model. This chapter also highlights the voices of mid-level business and finance staff and describes the experiences, successes, and challenges they have…
Descriptors: College Administration, Private Colleges, Middle Management, Administrator Attitudes
Glodkowska, Joanna; Pagowska, Marta – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2020
The concept of the "authorship of their own lives in people with disabilities" belongs to the trend which creates a positive, capable image of a person with disability in the society. The aim of this article is to relate contemporary theories which conceptualise disability in the categories of a universal human condition, natural human…
Descriptors: Individual Power, Disabilities, Theories, Needs
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Brown, Steve – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This article explores connections between language and the social inclusion of immigrants. It analyses three different models of immigration settlement: assimilation, integration through social capital, and inclusion. It then explores how education - and in particular the teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) - can promote…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Immigrants
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Thirolf, Kathryn Q. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Because of the importance of faculty engagement to achieve our nationwide student completion goals, this paper comprehensively and critically reviews the conceptualizations of faculty and employee engagement in the extant literature. This review is a means to develop an improved, more inclusive, faculty engagement framework. It is a framework that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Part Time Faculty, Teacher Participation, Sense of Community
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Szukala, Andrea – Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
Purpose: The Samuel Paty murder has generated a great response from the professional community and the world of education and schools in Europe and worldwide. In a unique way, civic educators expressed horror, sorrow, and solidarity with the family and with their French colleagues. The article is dedicated to Samuel Paty and the question of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Case Studies, Models, Educational Policy
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Nicoletti, Maria do Carmo – Higher Education Studies, 2019
In the context of university higher education at undergraduate level, the model of student-institution integration, proposed by Tinto & Cullen and later refined in some of its parts, has often been used to explain the process of dropout/persevere, and even to anticipate such events. This paper approaches the evolution of the Tinto's model…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Dropouts, Academic Persistence
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Judit Langer-Buchwald – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2019
The migration crisis of the past few years has influenced Hungary and Austria; therefore, migration, as well as its linguistic effect on society and education, and the cultural and social variation came to the front in both countries' educational policies. Nonetheless, while Austria is a well-developed welfare country, and according to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Hungarian, Public Policy
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Stuart, G. Rob; Rios-Aguilar, Cecilia; Deil-Amen, Regina – Community College Review, 2014
Community colleges play a key role in educating the large number of non-traditional, low-income, and under-prepared students who have entered higher education in the past several decades. Despite increased access, community colleges are struggling to graduate students. Most, if not all, strategies provided by scholars to improve college completion…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence, Employment Opportunities
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Kerby, Molly B. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015
Theoretical models designed to predict whether students will persist or not have been valuable tools for retention efforts relative to the creation of services in academic and student affairs. Some of the early models attempted to explain and measure factors in the "college dropout process." For example, in his seminal work, Tinto…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Models, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
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Brewe, Eric; Kramer, Laird; Sawtelle, Vashti – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
Developing a sense of community among students is one of the three pillars of an overall reform effort to increase participation in physics, and the sciences more broadly, at Florida International University. The emergence of a research and learning community, embedded within a course reform effort, has contributed to increased recruitment and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Social Integration, Network Analysis, Physics
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Borg, Marit; Kristiansen, Kristjana – Disability & Society, 2008
Most citizens with long-term mental distress want a real job, and both Norway and European policies agree that work is a crucial part of social inclusion goals. Yet we know little about the actual impact of work on the recovery process for people with severe and often enduring mental distress. This article reports findings from a qualitative study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Mental Disorders, Social Integration
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Mannan, Md. Abdul – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2007
This study explores the compensatory relationship between academic and social integration, and also assesses the differences of group specific academic and social integration in a small university in the Pacific as perceived by the students. In order to reduce attrition through developing a relevant retention policy, a comprehensive group specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attrition, Academic Persistence, Social Integration
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Odom, Samuel L.; Vitztum, Joann; Wolery, Ruth; Lieber, Joan; Sandall, Susan; Hanson, Marci J.; Beckman, Paula; Schwartz, Ilene; Horn, Eva – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2004
Using an ecological systems conceptual framework proposed by Bronfenbrenner, research on the inclusion of preschool children with disabilities in programs with typically developing children was reviewed. Drawing mainly from studies conducted in the United States, research on child characteristics (biosystem), classroom practices (microsystem),…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Family Attitudes, Disabilities, Preschool Children
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