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Rebecca M. Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Collaboration among music educators is an essential practice in building professional relationships, furthering student achievement, and supporting professional learning (Anderson, 2013; Armstrong, 2010; Battersby, 2019; Harris, 2015; Kastner, 2014; Sinberg, 2016). Unfortunately, music educators are quite frequently left out of the collaborative…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Communities of Practice, Teaching Experience
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Bean, Vanessa; Farmer, Nicole M.; Kerr, Barbara A. – Gifted and Talented International, 2015
The Maker Movement is an international trend for communities to form around shared tools and workspaces in order to engage in do-it-yourself activities. Women are underrepresented in Makerspaces, and exploration of issues related to their participation may provide directions for future research. Eight women participated in a focus group study of…
Descriptors: Females, Creative Activities, Disproportionate Representation, Participation
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Becerra, Terrie A.; Middendorf, Gerad; Campbell, Amber; Tomlinson, Peter – Journal of Extension, 2016
We surveyed Extension educators in the southern Great Plains about their attitudes and beliefs regarding climate change, their interactions with constituents surrounding climate change, and challenges they face in engaging constituents on the topic of climate change. Production-oriented and sociocultural challenges in meeting constituents'…
Descriptors: Climate, Extension Education, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Ely, Andrea C.; Befort, Christie; Banitt, Angela; Gibson, Cheryl; Sullivan, Debra – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2009
Objective: To explore weight control beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and practices among rural Kansas women, and to characterize the relationship of these women with their primary-care providers around weight control. Design: Qualitative research using focus groups. Setting: Three separate communities of rural Kansas. Participants: Six focus groups…
Descriptors: Females, Rural Population, Body Weight, Dietetics
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Overton, Cynthia; Volkman, Cheryl; Silver-Pacuilla, Heidi; Gray, Tracy – Assistive Technology Outcomes and Benefits, 2008
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how existing market research in the assistive technology (AT) field can be leveraged to create new solutions and to help those solutions reach wider markets. To do so, we discuss market research projects, focusing on seminal activities that have occurred in the assistive and learning technology field;…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Marketing, Research, Needs
Guss, Thomas O. – 1999
Rural communities are often plagued with socioeconomic challenges that contribute to family vulnerability and developmental challenges. Family Development Programs is a course that provides learning experiences related to rural community issues and family interactions with an opportunity to review programs that are provided within the region.…
Descriptors: Community Support, Family Life, Family Violence, Marital Satisfaction
Hernandez, Ascencion; Mendoza, John – 1973
Forty trainees, consultants, and resource persons attended the 3-day Institute held in Topeka, Kansas. Among the Institute's objectives were to: provide a basic orientation to the roles and functions of the aging services, programs, and the field of gerontology; examine aging services and benefits, both legislative and programmatic relating to…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Role, Community Organizations, Delivery Systems