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Toward a Thriving and Inclusive Intercultural Community
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Crutcher, Ronald A. – Liberal Education, 2018
Just over fifty years ago, the author began his senior year on the bucolic campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. By the time of his graduation in 1969, he had been affiliated with the university for seven years, having studied cello there since the age of fourteen. Yet this familiarity did little to quell the profound alienation that he felt…
Descriptors: Alienation, College Freshmen, Student School Relationship, Racial Differences
Urban Public Schools: Lived Experiences of Indigenous Students
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Hudson Smith, Georgianne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
More than half of the Native American population has migrated to cities during the last 30 years resulting in a higher percentage of American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) youth growing up in urban areas than those of their parents' generation. The survival of the American Indian is no less a miracle when combining staggering statistics of poor…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Student Experience, American Indian Students
Positive Peer Group Interventions: An Alternative to Individualized Interventions for Promoting Prosocial Behavior in Potentially Disaffected Youth
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Mclouglin, Caven S. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2009
Introduction: Most approaches to reducing the socially inappropriate behavior of adolescents target the individual rather than a group. Evidence suggests greater efficiency and longlasting effects may be achieved when groups of peers work together to make meaningful contributions to their communities through service learning projects. In the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Youth, Alienation, Negative Attitudes
Who's Pushing Whom: Stress and Kindergarten.
Hatch, J. Amos; Freeman, Evelyn B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1988
A recent study found that kindergartens in Ohio have become skill-based, academically oriented programs that young children can fail. Children are not the only victims; many teachers, principals, and supervisors are experiencing stress resulting from the increasing emphasis on academics in kindergarten programs. Parental and societal aspirations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Alienation, Developmental Stages
Positive Peer Solutions: One Answer for the Rejected Student.
Rosenberg, Steven L.; McKeon, Loren M.; Dinero, Thomas E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Positive Peer Groups (PPG) is a leadership training program that helps alienated and disengaged students bond to school via participation in school-oriented service activities stressing work, discipline, and responsibility. Students form affiliations with peers involved in the same efforts. Results in Ohio schools are encouraging. (MLH)
Descriptors: Alienation, High Risk Students, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention
A Collaboration of Community Educators Follows Crisis in Cincinnati: Two Museums and a University Join Forces to Promote Understanding
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Brown, Lionel H.; Larsen, Judith I.; Britt, Ruth; Ruiz, Donna M.; Star, Rachel – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
This paper focuses on how community educators might collaborate to help break the cycle of frustration, failure, and violence that shadows many disadvantaged inner-city African American students. It suggests that persistent, race-based inequities in urban areas are a major factor in this syndrome. These causes are proposed to be disparity in…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, United States History, Social Problems, Conflict