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Direct linkIsraa A. Samarin; Ahmed A. Al-Asfour – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2023
This paper establishes an understanding of the Saudi National Human Resources Development (NHRD) and proposes effective strategies for improving the NHRD in the knowledge-based economy. Building on the foundations of HRD at the national level, provided by Harbison and Myers and the utilization of Paprock's NHRD model for transitional societies,…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Barriers, Sociocultural Patterns
Edmonds, Ruth – Global Studies of Childhood, 2019
The concept of 'agency' is regularly put forward as an analytic tool to help understand, evaluate and act upon places around the world, through social development policies and programmes ostensibly designed to support or increase children's agency. This article reflects on empirical research into children's agency spanning a range of international…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Social Development, Humanism, Children
Streitwieser, Bernhard; Loo, Bryce; Ohorodnik, Mara; Jeong, Jisun – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2019
This paper examines current interventions to reduce barriers to access into higher education for refugees in North America and Europe. We analyze a diversity of interventions sponsored by host governments, higher education institutions, foundations, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals. These interventions differ in size, delivery…
Descriptors: Refugees, Access to Education, Higher Education, Barriers
Download full textDaro, Deborah; And Others – 1990
In October 1985, the Board of the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse (NCPCA) adopted a goal and extablished a plan to reduce child abuse 20 percent by 1990. With data collected through March 1990, this document reports progress made toward realizing objectives articulated in the NCPCA's 5-year plan. After an overview in Section…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Data Collection, Death, Discipline
Tran, Bach-Tuyet Pham; And Others – 1986
Four papers address cultural issues related to the involvement of limited-English-proficient parents in public schools in the United States. "Cultural Issues in Indochinese Parent Involvement" (Bach-Tuyet (Pham) Tran) outlines the linguistic, social, and practical barriers to Indochinese immigrant parent involvement and makes suggestions for…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Elementary Secondary Education, Family English Literacy, Hispanic Americans
Peer reviewedGaetz, Stephen – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1992
A weakness in the approach to community-based youth services in Cork (Ireland) involves viewing the terms "youth" and "community" as though they represented homogeneous categories. Ethnographic data highlight the difficulties of monolithic classification by describing the experiences of three distinct categories of young…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Ethnic Groups, Ethnography
Peer reviewedCochran, Susan D.; Mays, Vickie M. – Journal of Black Psychology, 1993
Highlights difficulties inherent in applying existing models of attitude-behavior relationships to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) risk behavior of African Americans. The relevant determinants of African-American risk behaviors may not be captured by these social psychological models that may ignore uniquely African-American issues.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Afrocentrism, Behavior Patterns, Black Attitudes
