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Riggs, Damien W.; Bartholomaeus, Clare – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
Sexuality education as pedagogy is often fraught by the perceived requirement to balance the informational needs of young people with an investment in notions of childhood 'innocence'. Nowhere is this perhaps more evident than in sexuality education that seeks to be inclusive of transgender young people, often resulting in the failure of such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity, Adolescent Attitudes, Intimacy
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Cansiz, Nurcan; Cansiz, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2018
The purpose of this study is to translate and adapt the Sentiments Attitudes and Concerns about Inclusive Education Scale (SACIE) for use in the Turkish context. For this purpose, translated version of SACIE was administered to 304 and 368 preservice teachers (PTs) to perform exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis respectively. The result of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attitude Measures, Likert Scales, Questionnaires
Lee, Jaekyung; Kim, Namsook; Wu, Yin – Online Submission, 2018
This study examines undergraduate students' college readiness and educational engagement gaps in a U.S. public research university. The study reveals the heterogeneity of domestic (American) and international student groups. While typical international students may have disadvantages in college readiness and engagement, English speakers and…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Learner Engagement, Achievement Gap, Foreign Students
Jenson, Kim – Online Submission, 2018
A teacher is essential in implementing inclusive policy practices into the classroom. Teacher attitudes towards inclusion, be it positive, negative or indifferent, can determine the success of an inclusive classroom and how it influences students with special educational needs and their school life. This literature review reports on information…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Inclusion, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities
McElroy, Jeffery William – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As universities face the ongoing challenge to recruit and retain students, the demand for a quality education has become increasingly important; however, the definition of a quality education remains nebulous. While there is disagreement on who or what the focus for the definition of a quality education should be, many agree on the importance of a…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, Business Administration Education, Private Colleges
Bynes, Ingrid – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In the United States, there is an increasing need for educators to acknowledge and utilize culturally-relevant pedagogy within their classrooms. Many MEP educators in public schools, particularly those working in secondary education, find it challenging to ensure this disadvantaged and, often invisible, population is served in a consistent and…
Descriptors: Migrant Education, Culturally Relevant Education, High School Teachers, Hispanic American Students
Stephens, Rachael; Westgren, Dana – National Governors Association, 2018
Roughly one in five American adults, or approximately 53 million people, live with some type of disability, and their unemployment and poverty rates are nearly double the rates of people without disabilities. Labor force participation for people with disabilities is just 20.2 percent--less than a third of the rate of participation among people…
Descriptors: State Programs, Employment Opportunities, Training, Disabilities
St. Amand-Santos, Monica – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Children with social skills deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication can face a variety of social challenges in many aspects of their lives. Given the increasing social needs of many students in today's classrooms, there is a need for increased social skills instruction and support in public schools. Inclusion opportunities in public schools…
Descriptors: Generalization, Interpersonal Competence, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
Rozema, Robert – Teachers College Press, 2018
With 1 in 59 children being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), odds are that students on the spectrum will be in many classrooms across every subject area. "Seeing the Spectrum" argues that secondary English teachers are uniquely equipped to prepare students with autism for future success, both in school and in life. Writing…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, English Instruction, Language Arts, Autism
Leticia Tomas Bustillos; Michele Siqueiros – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2018
California's public colleges and universities are among the best, from the talent evident in the students to the groundbreaking research conducted by world-renowned faculty. They are also some of the most diverse in the nation. Left out from serving in vital positions of leadership, however, is a proportional representation of Asian Americans,…
Descriptors: Values, State Colleges, State Universities, College Administration
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Howard, Antoinette; Gray, Pamela; Kew, Kristin – School Leadership Review, 2020
This case study research identified culturally relevant leadership practices that influence the outreach, recruitment, and retention of Hispanic girls in Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (T-STEM) programs in a School District in the Southwest Border region. Educators have a social justice responsibility to challenge the inequitable…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Leadership Styles, Principals
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Li, Jia; Ai, Bin; Zhang, Jie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This case study investigates how a cohort of Myanmar ethnic minority students' language ideologies shape their Putonghua learning and educational trajectories at government schools and Chinese supplementary schools in the borderland next to China. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and from the participants' autobiographies…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Mandarin Chinese
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Mc Keon, David – Improving Schools, 2020
The use of 'soft barriers' to deter students with special educational needs (SEN) from accessing some schools has been reported in the Irish media. This article investigates the influence of ethos and culture on access to and inclusive practice in mainstream schools in Ireland. Ethos and culture are nebulous concepts yet are integral to how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Access to Education, Special Needs Students
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DeRosa, Donald; Franzblau, Carl; Phillips, Constance; Romney, Carla – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2020
Boston University's (BU) CityLab program was created in 1991 as a partnership between faculty members of BU's School of Medicine and School of Education in response to the first call for proposals under the Science Education Partnership Awards initiative of the National Institutes of Health. CityLab's founders recognized the need for CityLab, a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Biotechnology, Outreach Programs, Mobile Classrooms
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Dolan, Erin L.; Borrero, Michelle; Callis-Duehl, Kristine; Chen Musgrove, Miranda M.; de Lima, Joelyn; Ero-Tolliver, Isi; Gerhart, Laci M.; Goodwin, Emma C.; Hamilton, Lindsey R.; Henry, Meredith A.; Herrera, Jose; Huot, Bethany; Kiser, Stacey; Ko, Melissa E.; Kravec, Marcy E.; Lee, Mark; Limeri, Lisa B.; Peffer, Melanie E.; Pires, Debra; Ramirez Lugo, Juan S.; Sharp, Starlette M.; Suarez, Nicole A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
The 2019 Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference (UBER GRC), titled "Achieving Widespread Improvement in Undergraduate Education," brought together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners working to identify, promote, and understand widespread adoption of evidence-based teaching, learning, and success…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology, Evidence Based Practice
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