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Hoover, Elizabeth – Online Submission, 2018
This action research study investigates how the implementation of a Choice-Based Art curriculum might foster the development of self-determination in pre-kindergarten through first-grade students with diverse learning needs. Through a case study conducted over a ten-week period, the participant-researcher, an art teacher at a non-profit community…
Descriptors: Action Research, Art Education, Self Determination, Early Childhood Education
Giebelhausen, Robin; Kruse, Adam J. – International Journal of Music Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore educational and social environments of multiple American community ukulele groups. The foundations, objectives, and leadership of four community ukulele groups offer expansions to our understandings of the ways in which people are teaching and learning with the ukulele as well as what are hopefully valuable…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Community Programs, Educational Environment, Music Education
Gollenberg, Audra; Fendley, Kim – Child Care in Practice, 2018
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) remains a leading cause of infant death in the United States, and in Virginia. We sought to gauge the perceptions among community-identified stakeholders regarding community resource needs to reduce SIDS. Snowball sampling identified important community stakeholders to be interviewed as key informants. A…
Descriptors: Infant Mortality, Death, Attitude Measures, Prevention
Vierimaa, Matthew; Turnnidge, Jennifer; Bruner, Mark; Côté, Jean – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2017
Background: A growing body of research has studied sport as a vehicle for positive youth development (PYD). While much of this research has investigated the developmental outcomes associated with sport participation, less is known about the mechanisms through which PYD occurs in a sport context. Further, much of the research on PYD in sport has…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Athletic Coaches, Attitude Measures, Team Sports
Plante, Catherine; Moreau, Nicolas; Jaimes, Annie; Turbide, Carole – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
Recruitment is known to be a challenge for intervention programs targeting youths, including sports programs. Following the popularity of the "Alter-Action" program of the Montreal-based organization "DesÉquilibres", we wanted to understand the motivations and barriers to youths' recruitment in this voluntary sports community…
Descriptors: Youth, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Recruitment
Morgan, Haydn J.; Bush, Anthony J. – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
Reducing social exclusion through interventions designed to sustain school engagement is a key aim of the education and social policy of any government. This paper is a response to the call for there to be more focused empirical sports coaching research through examining the transformative potential of community-based sports coaches to support…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Athletic Coaches, Community Programs, School Community Relationship
Halsall, Tanya; Forneris, Tanya – Applied Developmental Science, 2018
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) youth experience many health disparities in comparison with their mainstream Canadian peers. Researchers have recommended that interventions developed to enhance health and well-being for FNMI youth apply a strengths-based approach that acknowledges contextual challenges. This article uses a qualitative…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Canada Natives, Intervention, Well Being
Liljestrand, Johan – Religious Education, 2018
This paper explores the spatial and environmental conditions for democratic education in an interreligious project. The interreligious project provides a case for applying Dewey's concepts of experience and environment. Four kinds of experiences are presented: invited places-being a guest, common meeting points-shaping an interreligious…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Educational Experience, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy
Washburn, Lisa T.; Cornell, Carol E.; Traywick, LaVona; Felix, Holly C.; Phillips, Martha E. – American Journal of Health Education, 2017
Background: Limited access to fitness programs for rural older adults make lay or volunteer delivery approaches potentially desirable to extend reach. However, factors affecting adoption of such approaches are not well explored. Purpose: This study sought to identify barriers and facilitators affecting adoption of a volunteer lay delivery approach…
Descriptors: Females, Rural Areas, Barriers, Physical Fitness
Nygreen, Kysa – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
This article describes a parent organizing effort with Latina/o immigrant parents in a large, high-poverty, racially and linguistically diverse urban school district. Drawing from ethnographic research and the theoretical framework of "mujerismo," it examines the relational processes of community building and radical healing that…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Parents, Social Justice, Equal Education
Weeks, Fiona H.; Powell, Terrinieka W.; Illangasekare, Samantha; Rice, Eric; Wilson, James; Hickman, Debra; Blum, Robert W. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Previous studies have documented Black churches' receptivity to implementing adolescent sexual health programs within their congregations. Some authors have argued for new sexual health programs to be designed specifically for churches, similar to the development of school- and community-based interventions. However, strategies and curricula used…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Adolescents, Health Promotion, African Americans
Sheerin, Fintan; Griffiths, Colin; de Vries, Jan; Keenan, Paul – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2015
One of the central principles underpinning Irish intellectual disability policy is that of decongregation. Allied to this is the belief that life in community settings offers greater opportunities and richer experiences than does life in institutional settings. This study explores the experiences of a group of adults with intellectual disabilities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Public Policy, Adults
Torres, Irene; Simovska, Venka – Health Education, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate concerning community participation in school-based health education and health promotion, with regard to food and nutrition. Design/methodology/approach: Based on empirical data generated over the course of one year of fieldwork in three rural communities and schools in Ecuador, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, School Health Services, Health Promotion
Wark, Stuart; Canon-Vanry, Miranda; Ryan, Peta; Hussain, Rafat; Knox, Marie; Edwards, Meaghan; Parmenter, Marie; Parmenter, Trevor; Janicki, Matthew; Leggatt-Cook, Chez – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
Background: Access to support services in rural areas is known to be problematic both in Australia, and in other countries around the world, but the majority of research on the population of people ageing with learning disability has so far focussed on metropolitan residents. The authors report about select aspects of the lived experience of older…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Aging (Individuals), Older Adults
Meiklejohn, Sarah J.; Barbour, Liza; Palermo, Claire E. – Health Education Journal, 2017
Objectives: Food insecurity remains an issue for vulnerable populations in developed countries. The potential dietary and food security impacts of nutrition education programmes in Australia remain largely undocumented. This study investigated the impacts of an eight-session nutrition education programme delivered within community case management…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Program Effectiveness, Homeless People