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Joanna Horne; Joseph De Lappe; Paul Anand; Jenny Tse-Leon; Kathy Wormald; Chantel Carr; Jitka Vseteckova – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Vulnerable and disadvantaged young people are often disengaged from mainstream education and lack the substantive capacity and opportunity to benefit from nature-focused activities without support. Ecotherapeutic out-of-classroom environmental education (EE) programmes hold the potential to benefit such young people, although research involving…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Therapy, Climate
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Fuat Balci; Gökçe Elif Baykal; Tilbe Göksun; Yasemin Kisbu; Asim Evren Yantaç – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Many training programs have aimed to improve creative thinking abilities in various settings. The study of relevant literature revealed a relatively lower number of creativity programs for children than those developed for adults. The current work introduces a new and comprehensive nine-week long creativity intervention program implemented (out of…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Children, Preadolescents
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Lalli, Gurpinder Singh – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Abstract Households with children eligible for Free School Meals are at risk of food insecurity. This paper reports on a rapid-response study that investigated the impact of the school food voucher scheme during the COVID-19 crisis on young people, families and schools. It pays close attention to the reliance of the state on the goodwill of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Eligibility
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Jana Obrovská; Martin Majcík; Jaroslava Simonová – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Educational inequalities persist between students of low socioeconomic status and their more affluent peers. At the same time, there is evidence of positive relations between student engagement and achievement. This multiple case study investigates a national project aimed at increasing student engagement and achievement through post-COVID-19…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth
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Aiwen Niu; Changchun Gao; Chenhui Yu – SAGE Open, 2025
Entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid has profound implications for economic development in impoverished regions. Building upon Timmons' three-factor theory of entrepreneurship and the resource conservation theory, this study adopts the transition-persistence strategy of entrepreneurs from lower social classes as the focal point, with…
Descriptors: Poverty, Entrepreneurship, Disadvantaged, Social Class
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Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia; See, Beng Huat – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Pupil Premium funding has been provided to schools in England since 2011, to reduce socio-economic segregation, and the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. There is little evidence it works. Some stakeholders are now considering whether funding should cease, or have a new objective. Evaluating the impact of such a funding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Attainment, Disadvantaged
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Peterson, Carla A.; Zhang, Dong; Flittner, Allison; Shelley, Mack C.; Doudna, Kimberly; Cohen, Rachel Chazan; Aaron, Lindsey; Fan, Liuran – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: More than two million U.S. families receive home visiting services each year, yet little is known about the content and process of home visit interventions. Home visit observations are a recommended tool to address this gap in knowledge, but guidance regarding how much observation time is needed to provide a trustworthy picture of home…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Observation, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education
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Dena Seidel; Marissa Staffen; Lamia Abdallah; Xenia Morin – Journal of Extension, 2025
This article shares research outcomes and recommendations for replication of a Food, Agriculture and Marine Ecosystems (FAME) pilot project that successfully supported high school aged youth involved in a new 4-H special interest program. The goal of the program was to recruit and engage underserved youth in STEM learning through the production of…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, STEM Education, Video Technology, Story Telling
Ben-Michael, Eli; Feller, Avi; Rothstein, Jesse – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants for freshman admission to submit letters of recommendation. This proved controversial within the university, with concerns that this change would further disadvantage applicants from disadvantaged groups. To inform this debate, we…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Letters (Correspondence), Disadvantaged Youth
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Ni Shuilleabhain, Aoibhinn; Cronin, Anthony; Prendergast, Mark – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2021
In this paper we explore the attitudes of under-privileged secondary school pupils in Ireland towards mathematics and investigate the impact of attending a 4-week engagement programme on these attitudes. The pupils involved in this research attended schools recognized by the Department of Education & Skills as socio-economically deprived.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Program Effectiveness, Program Length, Mathematics Education
Adam M. Lavecchia; Philip Oreopoulos; Noah Spencer – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
This study finds substantial reductions to criminal activity from the introduction of a comprehensive high school support program for disadvantaged youth living in the largest public housing project in Toronto. The program, called Pathways to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching, tutoring, group activities, free public…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, High School Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Poverty
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Szu-Yin Chu; Tzu-Hui Yang; Ying-Wen Wang – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study investigated the implementation of culturally responsive teaching (CRT) and the provision of professional growth training for preschool teachers serving at-risk children or children from culturally disadvantaged backgrounds in Taiwan. Related strategies and challenges were analyzed, and teachers' application of CRT practices in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education
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Annie Everett; Kelly Rosinger; Dominique J. Baker; Hyung-Jung Kim; Robert Kelchen; Justin C. Ortagus – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Administrative burden, or the frictions individuals experience in accessing public programs, has implications for whether and which eligible individuals receive aid. While prior research documents barriers to accessing federal financial aid, less is known about the extent to which state aid programs impose administrative burden, how administrative…
Descriptors: Financial Aid Applicants, Tuition, Federal Programs, Technical Education
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Çimen, Ismail – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2021
It is widely accepted that effective teachers can make the most significant difference to student learning, particularly for disadvantaged students. On the other hand, teacher education has a critical role in effective teaching. However, can preservice education in Turkey sustain its role in social justice, especially for disadvantaged students?…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Role of Education, Social Justice
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Xavier Bonal; Sheila González Motos – European Educational Research Journal, 2025
The spatial, institutional and social configurations of school supply and demand are crucial aspects in understanding the various mechanisms of production and reproduction of socio-spatial inequalities in education. The same policy instruments may have different effects depending on the characteristics of local education markets and the dynamics…
Descriptors: School Segregation, School Desegregation, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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