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The Social Psychology of Disintegrative Shaming in Education
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Brown, Joel H.; Clarey, Amy M. – Journal of Drug Education, 2012
Despite considerable research concerning drug education and zero tolerance policies, few have examined their combined youth impact. Comprehensive and nationally recognized mixed method evidence is drawn from 77 school districts and 118 schools in the Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco Education (DATE) evaluation. For the first time it is found that the…
Descriptors: Prevention, Youth, Drug Education, Social Psychology
Resilience and Risk Competence in Schools: Theory/Knowledge and International Application in Project REBOUND
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Brown, Joel H.; Jean-Marie, Gaetane; Beck, Jerome – Journal of Drug Education, 2010
Despite a 50-year interdisciplinary and longitudinal research legacy--showing that nearly 80% of young people considered most "at risk" thrive by midlife--only recently have practitioners/researchers engaged in the explicit, prospective facilitation of "resilience" in educational settings. Here, theory/knowledge distinguishing…
Descriptors: Social History, Drug Education, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
Youth, Drugs and Resilience Education.
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Brown, Joel H. – Journal of Drug Education, 2001
Presents institutional, policy, and program evidence that although primarily delivered in schools, the educational community rarely participates in the development of drug education; and despite the finding that anti-drug programs are ineffective, they continue to thrive in schools. Several explanations are given including insufficient educational…
Descriptors: Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness, Resilience (Personality)
Listen to the Kids.
Brown, Joel H. – American School Board Journal, 1997
Presents findings of a study of the effectiveness of drug-abuse-prevention programs. Included a survey of 5,000 students and interviews with 249 students in 40 focus groups. Outlines components of effective drug education. (three references) (LMI)
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention
Students and Substances: Social Power in Drug Education.
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Brown, Joel H.; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1997
Analysis of 143 educator interviews and 40 student focus groups showed that educators in a school-based substance use and drug education program in California used a no-substance-use approach through fear messages. Survey responses of 5,045 secondary school students showed that students were not very greatly influenced. (SLD)
Descriptors: Drug Education, Focus Groups, Interviews, Secondary Education
On Becoming "At Risk" through Drug Education: How Symbolic Policies and Their Practices Affect Students.
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Brown, Joel H.; Caston, Marianne D'Emidio – Evaluation Review, 1995
A student-centered evaluation of the California Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education (DATE) program shows how a state policy directed toward students at risk influences program directions and affects at-risk and thriving students. Reasons to question the validity of the risk factor model as a prevention tool are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Drinking, Drug Education, Educational Policy
In Their Own Voices: Students and Educators Evaluate California School-Based Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco, Education (DATE) Programs.
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Brown, Joel H.; And Others – 1995
In an effort to prevent substance use and abuse by children and adolescents, the California Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education (DATE) Program was initiated in 1991. This report evaluates the program from perspectives of school district personnel, and students, generating an explanation of the "whats" and "hows" of drug…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students