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Ignasia Renatus Mligo – Global Education Review, 2023
The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the provision of under-five childcare services taking experiences from marginalized and vulnerable communities in Tanzania. This interpretive study employs phenomenology design to investigate the views of stakeholders based on childcare services. The focus was to determine the childcare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Persons, Disadvantaged Environment, Power Structure
Jennifer Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Positive mentoring experiences are crucial for retaining and advancing those who hold marginalized identities in STEM, as they foster a greater sense of belonging and self-efficacy that encourage these students to persist in their fields. Marginalized identities in STEM include, but are not limited to, women, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Doctoral Students, Engineering Education, Females
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
Bridget A. Walsh; Sarah N. Mitchell; Emmanuel Kyeremeh Addai; Matthew Aguirre; Keira M. Hambrick – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2024
While research demonstrates that family support is essential for doctoral students, research detailing institutional efforts to involve families is limited. We developed the GAIN Scholars program, consisting of two 3-week-long boot camps for incoming first-generation and historically marginalized doctoral students. Quantitative data were collected…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, First Generation College Students, Doctoral Students, Disadvantaged
Luedke, Courtney L.; Collom, Gresham D.; Henderson, Tyler N. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2023
In this critical qualitative study, we examined how mentoring in a college bridge program for first-year students from historically marginalized backgrounds contributed to the development of a culture of mentoring. Participants included 24 students who participated in Project Scholar, and four staff members who worked for the program. We utilized…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Minority Group Students, Disadvantaged, Power Structure
Hsu, Pi-Sui; Lee, Eric Monsu; Smith, Thomas J.; Kraft, Carol – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how an after-school program that infused Maker education influenced Midwestern U.S. middle school youths' attitudes toward science. The researchers conducted pre- and post-interviews with six students from non-dominant backgrounds as well as the teacher, and also administered attitudinal…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Scientific Attitudes, After School Programs, Shared Resources and Services
Anastasia Jerbic-Gonzalez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The qualitative study examined the mental health aspects of marginalized elementary school students in addition to constructing and implementing a culturally responsive and sustaining mindfulness program to observe if there were improvements regarding emotional regulation and awareness. To achieve this, I constructed a culturally responsive and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mental Health, Disadvantaged, Power Structure
Easaw Alemayehu Assefa – Online Submission, 2025
School Feeding Programs (SFPs) represent essential interventions which enhance health along with nutritional status and educational attainment of children who live within regions experiencing food insecurity in low and middle-income countries. This paper examines the role of school feeding programs toward achieving the United Nations (UN) 2030…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Educational Attainment, Geographic Regions, Food
Kimberly Villescaz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The opportunity gap between Black and Brown students and their White counterparts in math performance is present in our middle school math classrooms. This opportunity gap creates an urgent need for educators to prepare middle school math teachers with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to build the math content and math identity of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education
Melissa DeJonckheere; Samantha A. Chuisano; Lisa M. Vaughn; Amanda Ajrouche; Alison Allen; Beatrice Palazzolo; Jane Rafferty; Tammy Chang; Matthew A. Diemer – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2023
Despite ongoing efforts to increase diversity in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEM) fields, disparities persist. MYHealth Summer Launch is a virtual, out-of-school STEM outreach program aiming to increase participation of historically marginalized students in health research to develop researcher identity and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Power Structure, Student Research
Martin, George – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this proposed study was to address the issue of the effectiveness of community college retention programs, particularly their impact on poor or low-income students. Indeed, this study sought to identify actions and events that contributed to students choosing to drop out and the positive impact that college retention programs did or…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Disadvantaged, Power Structure, School Holding Power
Empowering Children from Socially Vulnerable Backgrounds through the Use of Roles in Sport Education
García López, Luis M.; Kirk, David – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
Sport and physical education are considered a powerful tool to empower children from socially vulnerable backgrounds (SVB). The purpose of this study was to analyse coaches' perceptions of the effect of the Sport Education (SE) pedagogical model, and use of the allocation of roles beyond player in particular, on the empowerment of children from…
Descriptors: Athletics, Physical Education, At Risk Students, Athletic Coaches
Ricardo Marmolejo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educational equity programs have been created to provide opportunities and resources for upward social mobility to low-SES individuals and students, students of color, historically marginalized students, and first-generation college students. This research study focused on educational equity programs recognized as the federally funded TRIO…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Socioeconomic Status, STEM Education
Ngo, Mai – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2013
This paper discusses the role of institutions in the ethical engagement of Canadian youth volunteers abroad. In recent years, researchers and practitioners in the international field have questioned the ethics of volunteering as part of development, with scrutiny on who actually benefits from volunteering initiatives. Since the 1960s, over 65,000…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Volunteers, Ethics, Youth Programs
Lapayese, Yvette V.; Aldana, Ursula S.; Lara, Eduardo – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2014
This article discusses Teach for America (TFA), one of the alternative education programs of the U.S. Department of Education designed to address the achievement gap of students of color in the country. Topics explored in this research include issues of racism and race in the recruitment and support of its teacher corp; how TFA educators of color…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Achievement Gap, Federal Programs, Racial Bias
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