This paper explores the self-authoring of two early childhood educators in Vietnam's disadvantaged areas, Ha and Dong, to understand their marginalization and resilience in their daily practices. Guided by a Bakhtinian view, teachers' self-authoring is conceptualized as an ongoing process in which the teachers articulate authoritarian discourses,…

Drawing on feminist and critical theories of politics and emotions, this paper attends to the hegemony of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for multiply-marginalized students and explores what exemplary Young Adult (YA) novels can teach scholars, educators, and students about the productive use of anger in the face of injustice. Two acclaimed young…

Changes in their brains, combined with a greater awareness of peers and events around them, make adolescence a key time for students to figure out who they are, what they aspire to be, and what they want to do in the world. This Alliance for Excellent Education report explores how human identity and self-regulation develop during adolescence and…

Guided by sociological perspectives that view (young) children as agents who are shaped by and shape the structures of social systems in which they live, we studied forms that agency of young children from historically marginalized groups may take in science class when offered opportunities to engage in science in a variety of ways, how curricular…

Class distinction determines who are insiders'' and who are outsiders''. In times of great social change the differences in the values, commitments and intellectual orientations of these conflicting groups become deepened into basic cleavages, social and cultural. (Author/JB)

CHANGES IN MANPOWER GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, AND THE MEANS OF ACHIEVING THEM, HAS RESULTED IN A NEW ROLE FOR THE UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. THE LOCAL EMPLOYMENT OFFICE IS NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS AND FOR BETTER MANPOWER UTILIZATION. NEWLY ASSIGNED MANPOWER RESPONSIBILITIES WHICH THE…

The employment of teacher aides, guidance aides, family workers, and other auxiliary school personnel has increased sharply, but preparation for such new programs has not kept pace. Advantages of using auxiliary personnel in school systems include (1) more individual attention for students, (2) improved teaching conditions with more teacher time…

By relegating the culturally disadvantaged to a deviant status, social and professional institutions create differential perceptions and expectations and influence their self-evaluation, academic success, and career opportunities. The transformation of deviance into incompetency has also led to formally sanctioned methods of managing deviancy.…

In connection with a study on rehabilitation occupations for the disadvantaged and the advantaged, a literature search was conducted to find books, articles, pamphlets, and publications on the use of paraprofessionals. Entries selected for inclusion in the annotated bibliography are categorized and cross-referenced according to: (1) Professional…

Several research studies that have compared the effects of television viewing on economically disadvantaged black children with its effects on white children indicate that the black children tend to allocate more time to television, are less selective in choosing content, and are more likely to accept fictional stories as reality. In addition, the…

When the psychologist serves Head Start, he must be a consultant to the whole Head Start organization, from top to bottom, director to children, and horizontally from potentially supportive agencies in the community to the Head Start staff, to the children and their parents. In the process of serving as a community psychologist, he will be called…

Change agencies have to choose among a number of possible goals, such as a rapid increase in productivity or the personal development of their clients. Possible strategies include giving orders, provision of means and services, directive advice and non-directive help. The conditions under which each can be chosen and the consequences which can be…

Cooperation among parents, paraprofessionals, and teachers offers an alternative to special class placement of the culturally deprived or mildly retarded child. (MC)

Role theorists maintain that good same-sex parent models are necessary for children to develop knowledge of appropriate sex roles. Cognitive theorists say that development of such knowledge depends on contact with good models, but models need not be parents. In the first phase of the study, children's knowledge of adult sex roles was determined…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE WERE COMMON OPINIONS ABOUT THE ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL LEADERS OF HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION IN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED PARENTS IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI. FIFTY-EIGHT PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS PARTICIPATED IN A STRUCTURED INTERVIEW USING A DECK OF 60 TWO-SORT CARDS, EACH…