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Direct linkJennifer Lee O'Donnell – Ethnography and Education, 2024
This ethnographic paper navigates the intersections of feminism, urban farm movements, and democratic education at La Granja Puerta del Sol, a small farm near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Under the stewardship of Dani Ramirez, the farm resonates with the ethos of urban agriculture, while actively contesting gender norms and patriarchal structures. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Farm Management, Feminism
Allyson Hile – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Urban school districts are often tasked with turning around poor school performance. Research, however, tends to focus on the school's role in reform and sustaining change, rather than the role of the school district, particularly the central office. This study of a mid-sized Midwestern urban K-12 school district attempts to address the gap in the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Areas, Central Office Administrators, School Effectiveness
Sara Jones – Urban Education, 2024
This article addresses tensions between how researchers have conceptualized and operationalized adolescent reading motivation and how a group of Black girl readers perceive and enact reading motivation. Through a grounded theory approach, this qualitative study offers an initial exploration into mapping a race-reimaged reading motivation construct…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Blacks, Race
Deborah K. Reed – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
This evaluation study explored a two-year literacy reform effort in a school district with 10 of its 13 elementary schools in the improvement process. Schools were placed in three groups. Group 1 (four schools, 80 teachers) implemented new instructional practices in Year 1 and then added a new curriculum. Group 2 (four schools, 102 teachers)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Fluency, Intervention, Literacy Education
Download full textMichael Conteh – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
This research examines the significance of higher education institutions (HEIs) as anchors in their host cities and their community engagement strategies between 1980 and 2020. By examining four case studies of urban-based universities that are members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) across diverse geographical and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Municipalities, School Community Relationship, Urban Universities
Huiguang Ren; Craig H. Hart; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Chris L. Porter; David A. Nelson; H. Melis Yavuz-Müren; Wen Gao; Fatimah Haron; Liuqing Jiang; Akiko Kawashima; Ai Shibazaki-Lau; Jun Nakazawa; Larry J. Nelson; Clyde C. Robinson; Ayse Bilge Selçuk; Cortney Evans-Stout; Jo-Pei Tan; Chongming Yang; Ai-Hwa Quek; Nan Zhou – Developmental Science, 2024
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards
Dunn, Ben – Research in Drama Education, 2022
Considering "Tenancy," a year-long residency project by Manchester-based performance company Quarantine, this article examines the spatial implications of economic policy and the opportunity for performance to facilitate social practices of knowledge making and exchange that exceed the strategically ordered contexts of the modern city.…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Performance, Theater Arts, Information Dissemination
Jonnese Arrington – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Researchers and policymakers have shown significant concern over urban communities' sociological and criminological disparities. Yet, research has not focused on the direct correlation between life's hardships and stressors for minority students raised in urban communities and their resiliency to pursue higher education. This study explores the…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, College Students, Violence, Minority Group Students
Shonae Mills – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Formerly incarcerated women often find it difficult to reintegrate into their communities after release. For this population, adjustment to changes directly impacts their reentry success in all areas of life. Previous research has identified significant gaps in social services for formerly incarcerated females (FIFs). Service providers'…
Descriptors: Females, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Labor Force Development
Courtney B. Dunn; Albert D. Farrell – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Polysubstance use is related to elevated risk for adverse outcomes but remains understudied among early adolescents. This study focused on a cross-sectional (N = 1568) primarily Black (79%) sample of eighth grade students living in urban communities (Mean age = 13.8, SD = 0.68) to identify subgroups based on adolescents' reports of lifetime and…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Early Adolescents, Urban Areas, African Americans
Md. Abdus Shabur; Jafrin Jahan; Protik Barua – Discover Education, 2025
As the global educational landscape undergoes rapid transformation, "Education 4.0" emerges as a cutting-edge paradigm that harnesses advanced technologies to revolutionize the learning process. This study investigates the impact of Education 4.0 on improving English proficiency among engineering students in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Shivakami Rajan; L. R. Niranjan – International Journal of Educational Management, 2025
Purpose: This research examines the complex relationship between usage of Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) amongst student and their creativity, learning and assessment using empirical data collected from postgraduate students. In addition, the study explores the student's intrinsic motivation for usage to understand student…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education, Creativity
Dobbins, Catherine E.; Edgar, Don W.; Cox, Casandra K.; Edgar, Leslie D.; Graham, Donna L.; Perez, Amanda G. Philyaw – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2021
As interest in local food development and urban agriculture increases, the Cooperative Extension Service is challenged to serve local and urban food communities in Arkansas. Urban farmers in Arkansas have differing motivations for operation than those in production agriculture, so understanding agricultural county agents' perceptions of urban…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Extension Agents, Urban Areas, Agriculture
Rosendal, Tove; Amini Ngabonziza, Jean de Dieu – Language Policy, 2023
In this paper we explore the nexus of language policy, ideology and power in the linguistic landscape of urban Rwanda. In post-genocide Rwanda, English has been promoted and gained status. This has led to an increased usage of English on shop signs in the streets of Kigali and other towns in Rwanda at the expense of both French and Kinyarwanda.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Ideology, Power Structure
Okechukwu, Franca O.; Mefoh, Philip C.; Nubia, Uju I.; Nwauzoije, Ezinne J.; Umennuihe, Chidiogo L.; Nwobi, Chibundo A.; Ogba, Kalu T.; Chukweze, Moses E.; Aliche, Joseph C.; Ogbonnaya, Ezeda K.; Okoli, Dorathy N.; Onyekachi, Clara C.; Abang, Stephen; Epistle, Esther; Nnorodi, Chioma; Obi, Chidera V. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects children of school-going age and exists in all cultures and backgrounds. Dyslexic children are deficient in phonological awareness, which makes the children to fail to attain the skills of reading, writing and spelling commensurate with their intellectual abilities. Inadequate knowledge…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Test Construction, Test Validity, Questionnaires
