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Kimberly Thaggard – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Adolescents' in-school identities, out-of-school identities, and literacy practices are intertwined and connected. This research project aimed to explore the development of adolescent identities and out-of-school literacy practices in students' English Language Arts classes. As a high school teacher and administrator, the researcher adopted a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Adolescents, English Instruction
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DeJaynes, Tiffany – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2015
The paper draws upon a year-long practitioner inquiry with adolescents who conducted auto-ethnographies as part of a research course in their urban public high school. Through ethnographic data collection, youth researched their own lives, cultures, and beliefs with the end goal of producing multimodal films that represented their embodied senses…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Adolescents, Film Production
Mudrak, Jiri; Zabrodska, Katerina – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
Although considerable research has addressed development from childhood giftedness to adult excellence, subjective perceptions of this development by gifted individuals themselves have remained largely unexplored. This multiple case study examined the ways in which young adults, who in the past had been identified as gifted, made sense of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Case Studies, Young Adults
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Conroy, James C. – Journal of Moral Education, 1999
Analyzes the confusion in the language of political economy in Great Britain that generates and sustains moral infantilism in the civil polity. Critiques the limits of recent approaches to moral education. Sketches the relationship between the use of interpretative understanding and Jungian insights in support of poetry in moral engagement.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Practices, Ethical Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Wheal, James R. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2000
Contemporary schooling, particularly high schools, could benefit from a return to the model of Plato's Academy in which ecstatic experience provided a central and informative role in addressing the higher stages of human development. Supplementing traditional curricula with integral practices that address body, mind, and spirit, and reviving the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
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Sosniak, Lauren A. – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 1999
A study examined the educational histories of 120 talented individuals in various fields for recurrent patterns. The study found patterns for childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood phases. The importance of time, task, and communities of practice in everyday life is stressed. The Academic Talent Development Program, a summer program for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Developmental Stages
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Morgan-Redshaw, M.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1990
Five hearing mothers of hearing-impaired adolescents were interviewed on their experiences in rearing a hearing-impaired child. Using qualitative analysis, six major themes were identified: the mothers' personal growth, the mother-child relationship, parent-professional relationships, concerns about educational programing, the importance of fluent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Educational Practices, Hearing Impairments
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Kahn, David – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Presents information on the Hershey Montessori Farm School in Huntsburg, Ohio, after a year of operation. Includes beginning case studies, which represent individual change to a higher level of personal realization and social cooperation. Focuses on development of the farm community as the backdrop for personal change and healing, which…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Case Studies, Educational Practices
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Kahn, David; Stewart, Ron – NAMTA Journal, 2001
Provides preliminary draft of proposal to kindle thought about what a Montessori secondary school could look like. Suggests ways to think about integrating a farm model and its extensions to adolescent students. Emphasizes the universality of work, the nature of commitment and contribution, the meaning of community, and an optimistic view of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Educational Environment, Educational Practices
Dwyer, Peter; Wyn, Johanna – 2001
This book examines how social and economic changes in the past 20 years have affected the lives of Western youth and changed their attitudes toward and experiences of work, education, relationships, and health. Part 1 reviews 10 years of research, policy, and practice related to individuals aged 15-30 in the United Kingdom, Australia, the United…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Attitude Change, Career Development
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1997
This document contains information about and papers from meetings of educational practitioners and policymakers in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and the Arab States and a collective consultation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on literacy and education for all. Contents (arranged by region) are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Adult Education, Adult Literacy