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Anne Riise; Veronika Paulsen – Child Care in Practice, 2024
This article examines social workers' perceptions of youths' participation and how their perceptions influence their practice towards youths in aftercare. The article is based on qualitative interviews with 38 social workers in child welfare services (CWS) and collaborative welfare services. The interviews were analysed using a hermeneutic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Young Adults, Transitional Programs
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Maximiliane Marschall; Susanne Falk; Christina Klug – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Despite the substantial efforts made by higher education institutions to reduce dropout rates, a considerable proportion of students still discontinues their initial study program. In view of this situation, the present study aims to investigate whether participation in first-year courses for personal and academic support goes along with a…
Descriptors: Student Participation, College Freshmen, Dropouts, Foreign Countries
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Davis, Charmaine; Green, Jonathan H. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
For efficient and effective learning, intensive-mode programs have increasingly focused on threshold concepts -- transformative, often-troublesome, moments in learning that represent the development of key knowledge. Threshold concept theory has support in the context of content-based, disciplinary domains, but questions remain about its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Disadvantaged
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Samantha Lukey; Lynne Keevers; Chye Toole-Anstey; Jodie Stewart; Steven Dodd; Lisa MacLeod – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
This systematic review reports evidence on practices and programmes that enhance successful primary-secondary school transition and participation for Indigenous students in Australia. A thematic analysis found three sets of practices: the school context; bridging practices; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students cultural recognition.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Indigenous Personnel, Transitional Programs
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Bas T. Agricola; Fiona Veraa; Mieke van Diepen; Louise Elffers – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students' participation in a preacademic program and the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Student Experience
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Husny, Maximilian; Fasching, Helga – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2022
The transition of youths with disabilities from mandatory schooling into further education or vocation is still a major challenge for inclusive measures in the Austrian transition system. In the last decade, projects from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), including 'Participatory experiences in the vocational biography of persons with intellectual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Transitional Programs, Teamwork
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Tideman, Magnus; Kristén, Lars; Szönyi, Kristina – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
The upper secondary school for individuals with intellectual disability should prepare for an adult life as an active citizen with great self-determination and participation in democratic decision-making processes. The extent to which and in what way the schools work to prepare the students and develop their skills are likely of great importance…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Secondary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Transitional Programs
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Anneka Anderson; Elana Curtis; Melaney Tkatch; Belinda Loring; Sue Reddy; Kanewa Stokes; Wills Nepia; Tracey Winter; Papaarangi Reid – Discover Education, 2024
Hikitia te Ora (Certificate in Health Sciences) is a 1 year Indigenous bridging foundation programme at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. The programme aims to increase Maori and Pacific health workforce representation. This qualitative study applied a Kaupapa Maori positioning to elucidate the strengths, challenges, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Secondary School Students
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Picchio, Mariacristina; Mayer, Susanna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
The study explored the experience of young children from migrant families during their first entry into an early childhood education and care (ECEC) service and analysed how the children cope with the new context, which is socially, culturally and linguistically different from their home. The activities and social behaviour of two groups of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Migrants, Coping
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Hart, Sarah M.; Hill, Mary F.; Gaffney, Janet S. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2021
Background: This study investigated transition, or school leaving, as experienced by young adults living in Aotearoa New Zealand who had significant intellectual and developmental disabilities. Method: To investigate these typically unheard perspectives, qualitative methods were adapted to individual communication preferences. Personal and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
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Bason, Louise – Educational & Child Psychology, 2020
Many professionals and families have expressed enthusiasm about annual reviews that implement a person-centred philosophy. Person-centred planning (PCP) has been perceived to facilitate a transition process, as well as supporting the key features of pupil involvement and family participation. This paper focuses on the way in which person-centred…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Special Schools, Student Participation, Family Involvement
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Kamm, Chantal; Gebhardt, Anja; Gonon, Philipp; Brühwiler, Christian; Dernbach-Stolz, Stefanie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
This article examines the different functions and further potential of a curriculum of career guidance in lower secondary school and bridge-year courses. With a focus on young adults following a nonlinear pathway to post-compulsory education in the Swiss Canton of Zurich, we answer the questions why bridge-year courses are attended (RQ1) and how…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Career Guidance, Student Centered Learning
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Wood-Downie, Henry; Ward, Verity; Ivil, Kathryn; Kovshoff, Hanna; Parsons, Sarah – Educational & Child Psychology, 2021
Aims: 'I am…' Digital Stories are short videos designed to provide a holistic, strengths-based representation of the child through enabling them to contribute their perspectives to transition planning. Digital Stories have potential during periods in which professionals are unable to physically visit settings or spend time getting to know a child.…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Children
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MacFarlane, Karen – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Student success in higher education (HE) is dependent on the possession of a positive learner identity, the development of which is a complex longitudinal process of change. Exploring the growth of learner identity within the transition between school and university is therefore apposite, especially for learners from disadvantaged backgrounds who…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Success, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
Dean, Julia Catherine; Adade-Yeboah, Vandyck; Paolucci, Caitlin; Rowe, Dawn A. – National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, 2020
Career and Technical Education (CTE) has predominantly existed parallel to academic education. Recently however, CTE and academic instruction have begun to intersect and merge. This confluence can be very beneficial for students with disabilities. Careful planning for both academic and CTE instruction is critical. It allows for students with…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Students with Disabilities, Integrated Curriculum, Educational Legislation
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