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Direct linkProsser, Theresa M. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2009
Parent involvement in preservice teacher education is an important component of that preparation. Parents' stories of their everyday experiences having an infant/toddler with disabilities can bring insights to future interventionists that no one else can provide. How do we get parents into the university classrooms? How do we help them tell their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Early Intervention, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Baskin, Monica L.; Zunker, Christie; Worley, Courtney B.; Dial, Brenda; Kimbrough, Linda – Health Education, 2009
Purpose: This paper seeks to describe the design, implementation, and lessons learned from an obesity prevention pilot program delivered in a low resource school in the USA. Design/methodology/approach: A planned program evaluation was conducted to: document explicitly the process of designing and implementing the program; and assess the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Obesity, Physical Activities, Program Evaluation
Soultatou, Pelagia; Duncan, Peter – Health Education Journal, 2009
Objective: To explore the barriers and facilitators of building partnerships in terms of the national school health education (SHE) curriculum in Greek secondary education. Setting: One large urban public secondary school, local authorities and external partners. Methods: A single case study, adopting an ethnographic approach, sought to record and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, International Schools, Comprehensive School Health Education, Focus Groups
Wells, Ryan – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2009
This study addresses the role that social and cultural capital play in first-to-second year persistence in higher education and examines how race and ethnicity are associated with initial levels of such capital. Using logistic regression analysis, the results show that social and cultural capital are positively significant for persistence in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethnicity, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power
Scahill, Lawrence; Aman, Michael G.; McDougle, Christopher J.; Arnold, L. Eugene; McCracken, James T.; Handen, Benjamin; Johnson, Cynthia; Dziura, James; Butter, Eric; Sukhodolsky, Denis; Swiezy, Naomi; Mulick, James; Stigler, Kimberly; Bearss, Karen; Ritz, Louise; Wagner, Ann; Vitiello, Benedetto – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2009
This paper presents the rationale for a 24-week, randomized trial designed to test whether risperidone plus structured parent training would be superior to risperidone only on measures of noncompliance, irritability and adaptive functioning. In this model, medication reduces tantrums, aggression and self-injury; parent training promotes…
Descriptors: Intervention, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Parent Education, Drug Therapy
Download full textWashington, Wanda – Online Submission, 2008
This report summarizes many of Austin Independent School District's parent and community involvement activities for the 2007-2008 school year.
Descriptors: School Districts, Parent Participation, Community Involvement, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Reinaerts, E.; Crutzen, R.; Candel, M.; De Vries, N. K.; De Nooijer, J. – Health Education Research, 2008
The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of two primary school-based interventions on children's fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption on the long term (2 years after the start of the interventions). Six primary schools were recruited and randomly assigned to (i) a daily free distribution program for the whole school or…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Participation, Eating Habits, Nutrition
Lindsay, Gordon B.; Merrill, Ray M.; Owens, Adam; Barleen, Nathan A. – American Journal of Health Education, 2008
Background: There is some debate over the efficacy of alcohol industry parenting manuals. Purpose: This study compares the content and focus of alcohol industry and non-industry "talk to your child about drinking" parenting manuals. Methods: Parenting manuals from Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing Company were compared to federal government and…
Descriptors: Health Education, Industry, Alcohol Education, Public Health
Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2008
The purpose of this study is to bring forth preschool teachers' and parents' views on both established and future forms of cooperation between the preschool and home. The empirical sample is based on both individual and focus-group interviews. Results show that cooperation mainly revolves around the individual child. The form of cooperation that…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Preschool Teachers, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Parent Attitudes
Reinaerts, E.; De Nooijer, J.; De Vries, N. K. – Health Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show how the intervention mapping (IM) protocol could be applied to the development of two school-based interventions. It provides an extensive description of the development, implementation and evaluation of two interventions which aimed to increase fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption among primary…
Descriptors: Intervention, Health Promotion, Parent Participation, Program Implementation
Johnson, Samantha; Wolke, Dieter; Marlow, Neil – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008
Parental questionnaires are inexpensive alternatives to standardized testing for outcome measurement. The Parent Report of Children's Abilities has previously been revised (PARCA-R) and validated for use with very-preterm infants at 2 years of age. This study revalidated the PARCA-R for assessing cognition in a larger and more inclusive sample of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Pregnancy, Premature Infants, Cognitive Development
Barker, John – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
Whilst there is a growing body of literature considering the different settings in which young children spend their time, less explored is how children travel to and from the different everyday spaces of childhood. Although research on gendered carescapes has identified the central role of mothers in caring for and escorting children, as well as…
Descriptors: Travel, Mothers, Young Children, Fathers
Theodorou, Eleni – Ethnography and Education, 2008
Parental involvement has been increasingly gaining support among education theorists and policymakers across many countries (Kelley-Laine 1998) as an effective way to improve student academic performance. However, the cultural assumptions underlying calls for parental involvement have received little attention (De Carvalho 2001; Lareau 1987).…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Ethnography, Ideology, Foreign Countries
Taub, Deborah J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2008
This article explores the impact of parental involvement on student psychosocial development. High levels of parental involvement in the lives of today's college students and increased contact and communication between today's college students and their parents has caused concern for some in higher education. Among the concerns is the potential…
Descriptors: College Students, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Student Development
Hansen, Laurie – Young Children, 2008
The author describes a parent art program, how it works, and ways to implement it. She emphasizes the strengths of parent programs as a way to support and enrich existing arts education, not as a replacement. Hansen describes the art kit--the adult's teaching resource--and the basic four-part process: presentation, demonstration, an art activity,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Parent Participation, Enrichment Activities, Visual Arts
