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Susan Davis; Alex McInch; David Egan – International Journal of Nurture in Education, 2020
The concept of nurture establishes the importance of supporting children's social and emotional skills, wellbeing and behaviour. As such, a Welsh Police Force implemented the "Heddlu Bach" (Mini Police) scheme in three Welsh Primary schools in the 2017-18 academic year. Using an evaluation research design, three focus groups were…
Descriptors: Nature Nurture Controversy, Transfer of Training, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Kumar, Revathy; Karabenick, Stuart A.; Burgoon, Jacob N. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
The theory of planned behavior and the dual process attitude-to-behavior MODE model framed an examination of how White teachers' (N = 241) implicit and explicit attitudes toward White versus non-White students were related to their classroom instructional practices in 2 school districts with a high percentage of Arab American and Chaldean American…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Whites, Arabs
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Phillips, Romeo Eldridge – Journal of Negro Education, 1978
Teachers need not live in a ghetto to gain knowledge of their students' experiences. All that is needed is an awareness of the general lifestyle experiences of ghetto children and youth and the use of a little imagination in relating these experiences to the teaching process. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences
Waits, Mary Jo; Campbell, Heather E.; Gau, Rebecca; Jacobs, Ellen; Rex, Tom; Hess, Robert K. – Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University, 2006
Throughout Arizona and the Southwest, the odds are against high achievement in schools with a mostly Latino, mostly poor student enrollment. Some schools, however, "beat the odds" and achieve consistently high results or show steady gains. Why do these schools succeed where others fail? Using the methodology of business guru Jim Collins…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, High Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Enrollment