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Matthew Schmidt; Nigel Newbutt; Minyoung Lee; Jie Lu; Marc-Sonley Francois; Pavlo D Antonenko; Noah Glaser – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This study presents a strengths-based framework for designing virtual reality experiences tailored to the needs and abilities of autistic individuals. Recognizing the potential of virtual reality to provide engaging and immersive learning environments, the framework aligns the strengths and preferences of autistic users with the affordances of…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Computer Simulation, Program Design
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Lui, Kristine P. H.; O'Kuma, Thomas; Hilborn, Robert – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2021
This chapter describes the last 30 years of the engagement of community college faculty with one physics professional society. Plans are under development for establishing a National Center for Physics focused on two-year colleges.
Descriptors: Physics, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges
UNESCO Bangkok, 2021
This guidebook aspires to build a community where learning for sustainable development takes place everywhere for everyone as an ongoing practice. It introduces you to "Reflect-Share-Act," a process to discover and define sustainable development in your own contexts together with others in your community. The guide compiles resources…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Community Programs, Community Involvement
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Calvo, Mirian; Sclater, Madeleine – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2021
Urgent societal challenges have led to unease in our socio-cultural interactions and the production systems that underpin our lives. To confront such challenges, collaboration stands out as an essential approach in accomplishing joint goals and producing new knowledge. It calls for interdisciplinary methodologies such as co-design, an approach…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Social Environment, Cooperative Planning, Interdisciplinary Approach
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St. John, Brittany; Gray, Megan; Malzacher, Amanda; Hladik, Libby; Lurie, Savanna; Ausderau, Karla – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Background: Understanding the daily health experiences of people with intellectual disability is necessary to illuminate factors that may be influencing health and health disparities. The objective of this study is to understand how people with intellectual disability participate in and access health promotion. Methods: Ten adults with…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Intellectual Disability, Participation
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Urban, Jennifer Brown; Linver, Miriam R.; Kornak-Bozza, Yolanta; MacDonnell, Marisa; Buckley, Jane – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2022
Background: The goal of the study was to develop and verify a pathway model (or theory of change) for STEM Scouts, an out-of-school time (OST), positive youth development program for elementary through high school-aged youth. Pathway models include connections between hypothesized activities to short-, mid-, and long-term outcomes. STEM Scouts is…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Values Education, Extracurricular Activities, Participation
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Waight, Consuelo Luisa – International Journal of Training and Development, 2020
Researchers have established the role of tertiary education (TE) in economic development (ED). Globally, TE generates significant and multiple direct, indirect and catalytic economic impacts, which result in well-established benefits pertaining to both individuals and broader economies. Last year, the government of Belize published its first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Economic Development, Labor Market
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McCann, Edward; Marsh, Lynne; Brown, Michael – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to examine the research evidence concerning the views and experiences of people with intellectual disabilities regarding their participation in and the effectiveness of relationship and sex education programmes. Methods: A systematic search of relevant electronic databases was conducted using…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Sex Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Attitudes
Brown, Rachellee L. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
School communities are looking for new and innovative ways to educate children. One effective reform strategy that schools are using to better prepare teachers to meet these needs is the development of professional learning communities. Much of the literature presented in this area focuses on teachers and their growth as collaborative working…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Teacher Competencies, Faculty Development
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Gehrke, Sean; Kezar, Adrianna – Research in Higher Education, 2019
This study examines how involvement in four undergraduate faculty communities of practice is associated with faculty perceiving they improved in individual practices related to STEM reform. It is informed by the communities of practice and faculty change literature and utilizes data gathered through a survey of community members (n = 2503). The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Study, STEM Education, Educational Change
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Kruger, Bethany; Northway, Ruth – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
There is limited research that explores the experiences of how behavioural specialists actively involve people with a learning disability and challenging behaviour in the development of their positive behavioural support (PBS) plan. Accordingly, this exploratory research study aimed to explore this little understood area of practice. Methods: The…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Specialists, Learning Disabilities, Participation
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Cross, Amanda Brown; White, Aisha; Jackson, Medina; Wanless, Shannon Beth – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
Young children of color experience daily messages, explicit or implicit, that they are not as good as White children. These encounters act as barriers to African American children's positive racial identity development. This paper presents findings from a feasibility study of a program to infuse a community with positive messages about African…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, African Americans, Race, Community Programs
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Erbstein, Nancy; Moncloa, Fe; Olagundoye, Stacy Shwartz; Diaz-Carrasco, Claudia; Hill, Russell – Journal of Extension, 2017
California's 4-H Youth Development Program has adopted an asset-based community development approach to extending programming with Latino youths and families. This approach entails learning and relationship building with local Latino communities and building on untapped existing resources, such as Latino-serving organizations and networks. Here we…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Hispanic Americans, Community Programs, Cultural Relevance
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Hopkinson, Michelle; Smolianov, Peter; Dion, Steven; Schoen, Christopher; Norberg, Jaclyn; Bouncher, Christopher – ICHPER-SD Journal of Research, 2018
This study examines the current state of volleyball in the USA against a heuristic model for high performance sport integrated with mass participation. A questionnaire was utilized for the following elements of the model: talent development; advanced athlete support; training centers; competitions; intellectual services; partnerships with…
Descriptors: Athletics, Team Sports, Talent Development, Athletes
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Martins, Patrícia Roque – Journal of Museum Education, 2016
This article addresses ways that museums can strengthen programming for d/Deaf audiences. Through the development and study of a tour for a d/Deaf audience conducted through signing and oral translation at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (Portugal), the author examines issues of language, identity and inclusion. She argues that the use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Deafness, Sign Language
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