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Seider, Scott C. – Journal of College and Character, 2016
This past winter, the third student-run homeless shelter in the United States came into being. Two recent Harvard graduates, Sam Greenberg and Sarah Rosenkrantz, who had volunteered at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter as college students, saw a need within the Boston and Cambridge communities for a homeless shelter serving young adults. Drawing…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Emergency Shelters, Young Adults, Undergraduate Students
Zoumenou, Virginie; Sigman-Grant, Madeleine; Coleman, Gayle; Malekian, Fatemeh; Zee, Julia M. K.; Fountain, Brent J.; Marsh, Akela – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2015
A webinar or web-seminar is a presentation, seminar, lecture, or workshop transmitted over the internet. This emerging technology is becoming increasingly popular due to its convenience and affordability. However, little research has been conducted on best practices for an interactive webinar that engages learners in a professional development or…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Literature Reviews
Hamunen, Katri; Appelstrand, Marie; Hujala, Teppo; Kurttila, Mikko; Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah; Vilkriste, Lelde; Westberg, Lotten; Tikkanen, Jukka – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2015
Purpose: This paper explores the concept of peer-to-peer learning (P2PL) in the context of North-European small-scale forest owners. The aim is to develop a framework for initiating new and evaluating already existing forest owners' P2PL communities. Design: Previous studies of peer-learning are used to determine and justify eight dimensions for…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Peer Teaching, Forestry Occupations, Forestry
Rader, Shannon Natasha – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Standards-based reform has traditionally focused on K-12 educational systems, but there is growing evidence that it is now affecting early childhood programs. While it is increasingly apparent that standards-based reform has arrived in early childhood, there is a significant gap in our understanding of how these policies are being implemented in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Implementation, Educational Change, Program Descriptions
Alsaman, Marwa A. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2014
Purpose: To examine the experiences of international rehabilitation counseling graduates who had returned to their home countries or had moved to other countries to work. The study focused on their perceptions of the effectiveness of the training they had received in the United States. Method: A qualitative methodology was used to conduct the…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Counseling, Counselor Training, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Students
Miller, Paul; Craven, Barrie; Tooley, James – Research Papers in Education, 2014
The 2010 Academies Act was significant in introducing Free Schools to the English education system. Opening up funding to new, non-profit entrants on the basis of demand, the policy has aroused support and controversy on political, philosophical and practical educational grounds with implications for social justice in terms of equity and freedom.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Social Justice, School Choice
McDonald, K. E.; Kidney, C. A.; Patka, M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2013
Background: Persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities have had regrettably few opportunities to voice their opinions on aspects of research with which they have had direct experience. Understanding and responding to these views can contribute to policies and practices that increasingly treat people as they desire to be treated.…
Descriptors: Program Attitudes, Accessibility (for Disabled), Interviews, Developmental Disabilities
Hardman, Frank; Hardman, Jan; Dachi, Hillary; Elliott, Louise; Ihebuzor, Noel; Ntekim, Maniza; Tibuhinda, Audax – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper reports on the findings of a pilot school-based professional development programme for Tanzanian primary school teachers launched in February 2011 and evaluated in December 2012 by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training with the support of UNICEF. The study set out to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of the pilot…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Program Implementation, Elementary School Teachers
Mincey, Barrett; Maldonado, Nancy – Online Submission, 2011
Criminologists, lawmakers, policymakers, educators, and others discuss juvenile delinquency and recidivism and note the relationship to adult offending and cost factors. Poverty, peer relations, family life, and school are risk factors that have been linked to define the problem of juvenile crime. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Sanctions, Delinquency, Residential Programs
Smith, Janet – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Since the first Circle of Trust retreat was offered in 2005, the Center for Courage & Renewal (CCR) and other individual facilitators across the United States, Canada, and Australia have continued to offer many cross-professional retreats, as they have proven extremely popular. They are designed for people from any profession who want to…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Program Effectiveness
Kiggundu, Edith; Moorosi, Pontso – School Leadership & Management, 2012
This article presents the findings from the evaluation of the pilot of a new entry qualification for school principals in South Africa. The programme, Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) School Leadership, had networking as a distinctive feature, and this article examines candidates' perceptions and experiences of networking as a leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Admission Criteria
Al-Omari, Aieman A.; Ihmeideh, Fathi M.; Al-Dababneh, Khouloud A. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: Forty-five child caregivers and 120 parents participated in this study to examine perceptions of childcare programs in Jordan. The researchers developed a questionnaire that consisted of 6 dimensions: health, education, parent-caregiver relationship, facilities, building/landscape, and playground. Moreover, interviews with 10…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Evaluation
Karlsson, Hakan – Online Submission, 2011
This paper aims to outline findings from a research project that has investigated an initiative to stimulate youths to become more entrepreneurial. The concept of summer entrepreneur has been developed in the last decade in a Swedish county. It was developed out of the idea that youths should have a possibility to run their own companies as…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs, Case Studies
White, Richard B.; Polly, Drew; Audette, Robert H. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2012
The study provides an illustration of an elementary school's implementation of a model of Response to Intervention (RTI). The school was selected to be the pilot for RTI implementation within the district. The study employed interviews of all members of the school RTI Leadership Team and select members of the district-level RTI Leadership Team. An…
Descriptors: Intervention, Response to Intervention, Program Implementation, Case Studies
Baran, Bahar; Cukurbasi, Baris; Colak, Canan; Dogusoy, Berrin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
This study aims to reveal Second Life (SL) residents' profiles, first hand experiences, opinions about SL and its potential as an educational environment. The members of 14 Turkish Island in SL answered a questionnaire including Likert-type, open ended and multiple-choice items and participated in interview sessions. Researchers collected 118…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Profiles, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries