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Mathur Grunewald, Nikki; Foley-Nicpon, Megan – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Mindfulness-based programs have become popular, empirically supported treatment modalities for increasing positive psychological outcomes for children and adolescents, with an overall effect size of 0.4. We argue for implementing community-based participatory research (CBPR) methodology to investigate the specific effects of mindfulness-based…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Participatory Research
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Pauline Prinsloo; Shakila Dada; Kirsty Bastable; Parimala Raghavendra; Mats Granlund – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
Participation is a fundamental human right, and being able to communicate is an essential component of participation in various life situations, such as at school, with peers, and in the community. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions aim to facilitate communication and social interaction, independence, and participation…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Children, Communication Problems, Participation
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Juras, Randall; Kelsey, Meredith; Steinka-Fry, Katarzyna; Lipsey, Mark; Layzer, Jean; Tanner-Smith, Emily – Prevention Science, 2022
Beginning in 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sponsored numerous studies testing the effectiveness of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention programs on youths' risky sexual behaviors. This article presents results from a meta-analysis of such studies completed between 2015 and 2019 and provided to us by HHS. Studies were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Pregnancy, Prevention, Sexuality
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Pullen Sansfaçon, Annie; Medico, Denise; Riggs, Damien; Carlile, Anna; Suerich-Gulick, Frank – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2023
Trans and non-binary youth (TNBY) face high levels of interpersonal and social adversity as well as disproportionate rates of mental health issues such as depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation. Among protective factors, context plays a key role. In addition to parental support, access to gender-affirming medical care begins to emerge as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, LGBTQ People, Access to Health Care, Cultural Differences
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Anderson, Lorin W. – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
Distance education has been practised for generations, although its purpose and form have changed. Correspondence courses, in which students receive instruction via mail and respond with assignments or questions to the instructor, date back to the mid-1800s, if not earlier. As technology changed, so did the nature of distance education. Radio,…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Improvement
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Song, Minjune – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
After the "1994 Gun-Free School Act," schools expanded the use of zero-tolerance policies with all Connecticut private high schools implementing punitive drug and alcohol policies. Based on the criminological theory of deterrence, zero-tolerance policies deliver severe and certain punishments designed to deter rational actors from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Drug Use, Private Schools
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Chineka, Raviro; Yasukawa, Keiko – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Adaptation to climate change has become an imperative intricately linked to human existence and the planet's wellbeing: if learning is not part of the adaptation process, it is doubtful the adaptation will be sustainable. In Zimbabwe, one initiative for promoting learning for adaptation is the establishment of the Eco-Schools Clubs (ESC), a…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Climate, Adjustment (to Environment), Foreign Countries
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Mnubi, Godfrey Magoti – Journal of Learning for Development, 2020
This paper highlights experiences of young mothers, victims of child, early and forced marriages (CEFM) as pertaining to their basic rights, social wellbeing and sustainable livelihood four years after their participation in the Girls Inspire project. CEFM is still a critical issue in Tanzania and one of the obstacles toward girls' and women's…
Descriptors: Marriage, At Risk Persons, Entrepreneurship, Program Effectiveness
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Meiksin, Rebecca; Campbell, Rona; Crichton, Joanna; Morgan, Gemma S.; Williams, Pippa; Willmott, Micky; Tilouche, Nerissa; Ponsford, Ruth; Barter, Christine A.; Sweeting, Helen; Taylor, Bruce; Young, Honor; Melendez-Torres, G. J.; McNaughton Reyes, H. Luz; Bonell, Chris – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
Adolescent dating and relationship violence is associated with health harms and is an important topic for sex education. School-based interventions addressing this have been effective in the USA, but schools in England confront pressures that might hinder implementation. We assessed the feasibility of, and contextual enablers/barriers to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Sex Education, Sexuality
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Bragg, Sara; Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Emmerson, Lucy; Bonell, Chris – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
In 2018, reflecting in this journal on the arrival of the 'age of consent' into sexuality education, Jen Gilbert questioned what would happen to a concept drawn in part from legal contexts, but partly also driven by the passion of feminist activists, when it met the demands and logics -- the learning outcomes and lesson plans -- of the classroom.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Sex Education, Comprehensive School Health Education, Secondary School Students
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Llanes, Àngels; Serrano, Raquel – Language Learning Journal, 2017
Given the growing importance of English as a lingua franca, this study examines which context (classroom instruction in the students' home country vs. studying abroad in an English-speaking country) better facilitates the acquisition of English by learners of different ages: children, adolescents and adults. Participants (N = 197) completed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Written Language
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Gilliam, Melissa; Jagoda, Patrick; Fabiyi, Camille; Lyman, Phoebe; Wilson, Claire; Hill, Brandon; Bouris, Alida – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
This project developed and studied "The Source," an alternate reality game (ARG) designed to foster interest and knowledge related to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among youth from populations underrepresented in STEM fields. ARGs are multiplayer games that engage participants across several media such as shared…
Descriptors: Simulated Environment, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Informal Education
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Duerden, Mat D.; Taniguchi, Stacy; Widmer, Mark – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2012
Identity research has focused primarily on outcomes associated with identity formation. Far less attention, however, has been given to understanding the facilitating contextual elements of this process. This qualitative study examined a context, a 2-week adventure recreation program for youth, quantitatively shown in previous research to have…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Recreational Activities, Recreational Programs, Adolescents
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Gomes, A. Rui; Marques, Brazelina – Educational Studies, 2013
This study examined the effects of a training programme on students' acquisition of life skills, life satisfaction, life orientation and expectations about academic achievement. Participants were allocated to either an intervention group ("n"?=?41) that took part in a life skills programme, or a control group ("n"?=?43).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Daily Living Skills, Life Satisfaction, Adolescent Attitudes
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Hallam, Susan; Rinta, Tiija; Varvarigou, Maria; Creech, Andrea; Papageorgi, Ioulia; Gomes, Teresa; Lanipekun, Jennifer – Psychology of Music, 2012
There has been considerable research considering how instrumental practice changes as expertise develops. Much of that research has been relatively small scale and restricted in the range of instrumentalists included. This paper aimed to explore the development of practising strategies and motivation to practise as expertise develops with a large…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Musicians, Music Activities, Musical Instruments
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