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Long, Gia – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this phenomenological systematic qualitative review is to increase awareness about the self-identified lived experiences of college students with ADHD and provide information to faculty and administrators to influence institutional change, as well as peers and parents to inform practical, personalized support. The conceptual…
Descriptors: College Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Self Concept, Social Support Groups
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Jacob Oppong Nkansah; Yusuf Ikbal Oldac – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Any undergraduate student lacking the knowledge and skills for digital technology will find it challenging to succeed academically and thrive in the 21st-century higher education setting. This study employed a novel conceptual framework built from ecological theory to investigate the attributions of the knowledge and skill gap in digital literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Empowerment, Digital Literacy
Hara, May; Good, Annalee G. – Teachers College Press, 2023
This book argues that teachers' active participation in policy advocacy is crucial to creating a K-12 educational system that honors the needs of students, families, and communities. The authors examine obstacles to teacher involvement in policy, analyze preservice and practicing teachers' experiences, and present a model for collaborative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Advocacy, Teacher Role, Elementary Secondary Education
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Rios, Kristina; Burke, Meghan M. – Exceptionality, 2021
Family-professional partnership is an essential component of the special education process for children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). However, many families face barriers to participation in the special education process. Latino families especially face systemic barriers when participating in educational…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Barriers
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Baran, Evrim; AlZoubi, Dana – Distance Education, 2020
Open pedagogy has emerged as an important teaching and learning practice while the current global open education resources movement has developed. The present research addresses the need to develop and conceptualize open pedagogy models in higher education contexts. This case study examined student perspectives on the affordances, challenges, and…
Descriptors: Affordances, Barriers, Open Educational Resources, College Students
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Rudhumbu, Norman; du Plessis, E. C.; Maphosa, Cosmas – Journal of International Education in Business, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate challenges faced by and opportunities open to women entrepreneurs in Botswana and how entrepreneurship education can boost their knowledge and skills of doing business profitably and contribute to women empowerment. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 400 women entrepreneurs of different…
Descriptors: Females, Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Empowerment
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Motsoeneng, Thabiso Jonah; Nichols, Henry James; Makhasane, Sekitla Daniel – Perspectives in Education, 2021
The twenty-first century has witnessed a call for teachers to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) into teaching and learning. However, creating a classroom environment that engages in active learning has proved to be a hurdle to South African teachers, as more traditional teaching methods continue to be utilised in teaching.…
Descriptors: Barriers, Rural Schools, Accounting, Grade 10
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Gailloud, Leslie; Gonzalez-Argoti, Tatiana; Philip, Sophia; Josephs, Lena S.; Mantell, Joanne E.; Bauman, Laurie J. – Health Education Research, 2021
Although 21% of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnoses in the United States are in youth aged 13-24 years, adolescent awareness and uptake of the HIV prevention medication pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are low. This study explores the attitudes and challenges that adolescents face while taking PrEP. Thirty interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Contraception, Secondary School Students
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Burke, Meghan M.; Rios, Kristina; Garcia, Marlene; Magaña, Sandra – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Compared to White families, Latino families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face systemic barriers when accessing services for their children. Although there is research about systemic barriers among Latino families, less is known about how Latino and White families differ with respect to special education knowledge, family-school…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Empowerment, Special Education
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Hernandez, Rosa Neidin – Journal of Student Affairs, New York University, 2020
A mixed-method study is used to measure the effectiveness of specialized classroom guidance lessons designed for teen mothers to increase knowledge of higher education while also encouraging the empowerment of teen mothers to pursue higher education. Empowerment here is defined as the process of gaining control of one's circumstances in life.…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Empowerment
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Tompkins, Joanne; Kearns, Laura-Lee; Mitton-Kükner, Jennifer – McGill Journal of Education, 2017
Critical challenges facing teacher educators at faculties of education is how to prepare teacher candidates to see schools situated in larger social contexts and support their ongoing learning as social justice advocates. Anti-oppressive work that challenges the marginalization of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Two-Spirited, Queering and/or…
Descriptors: Barriers, Teacher Educators, Social Justice, Advocacy
Dinkins, Toni Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study explored teachers' perceptions of implementing personalized learning in several urban elementary school classrooms. Additionally, this study examined teachers' readiness for change through the lens of Ely's (1990) Eight Conditions of Change Model. The study participants included five elementary school teachers and the school principal.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation, Individualized Programs
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Hambacher, Elyse L.; Bondy, Elizabeth – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper draws on the literature on effective African American teachers of African American students to investigate the enactments of culturally relevant critical teacher care (CRCTC) in two fifth-grade teachers' classrooms in a large, urban school district. Using interview and observation data, the findings illustrate the teachers' knowledge of…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, African American Students, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers
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Mehrani, Mehdi B. – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2017
The present narrative study examined the purposes that language teachers pursue in their research studies. The study also explored the opportunities and challenges that teachers experience while doing action research. Data were collected through a survey of narrative frames among 68 teachers, reflective essays written by 9 teachers and individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Chinn, Deborah – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
Health literacy research and scholarship has largely overlooked the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities (ID), though growing concern about the health inequalities they face has increasingly given rise to health promotion interventions for this group. However, these interventions reference a rather limited vision of health literacy…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Knowledge Level, Mental Retardation, Literacy
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