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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Adult Roles"”.
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EXPECTATIONS AND ANTICIPATIONS OF MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS IN PREPARING THEIR STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY FOR FUTURE ADULT ROLES INCLUDING THOSE AS PARTNER AND PARENT
… restrictive environment, including possible adult roles as partners and parents. This study examined the choices teachers make, including teaching curriculum and professional responsibility, as they approach their professional duties in educating their students with ID for life beyond the …
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Involving Students in their own learning: The Experience of a first year Curriculum innovation
… development, preparation for work and other adult roles however fall short of the targets reached by basic education. There is no doubt though that since Hannan and Shorthall’s research in 1991, much has been done in Irish schools to improve students and to help them grow not only …
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BELIEFS ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AMONG EMERGING ADULT LATINOS
… in Latino populations. And finally, emerging adult’s unmet mental health needs / issues place them at risk for failing to adapt to adult roles, impacting their lives in many ways. This mixed methods study implores primarily quantitative design and includes two qualitative questions to explore …
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IS THE PARTY OVER? Unmarried Fatherhood and Drug and Alcohol Use
… men. Despite the importance of fatherhood as an adult role, I argue that commitment to the role of fatherhood and not paternity itself is what alters behavior. I hypothesize that young men who assume responsibility for fathering their children are more likely to reduce their drug and alcohol use …
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Self management of daily life tasks in diploma-track youth with disabilities
… have daily functioning challenges that impact adulthood outcomes. The studies in this dissertation address this concern by focusing specifically on a particular area of challenge: the ability to take over the decision making, problem solving, and organization needed to carry out complex daily …
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Work and School A Case Study
… for the successful performance of their adult roles .... and .... to allocate these human resources within the role structure of the adult society. Added to the manifest function of socialization there is this latent function of manpower allocation. The development of this view is that …
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The transition experiences of students with disabilities who participated in a community college secondary transition program: a narrative inquiry
… scant attention is given to hearing from young adults with disabilities who have successfully negotiated the transitions from high school, to community college, to employment. The method for this study is narrative. Four young adults with disabilities tell the stories of their lives and their …
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Design, story-making and play through child-adult partnerships
… losing the childhood expertise with the onset of adulthood. In this context, this thesis examines a partnership between adult designers and children working together on an imaginary design brief. The aim is to explore the possibility for children to acquire capabilities and experience how they …
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Navigating the transition from college to work: A study of baccalaureate graduates of a private university in Kenya
… difficulty adapting and keeping up with the new adult roles and responsibilities.
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Personal And Social Factors In Risk-Taking Behaviors Of Emerging Adults
… transitional period from adolescence to young adulthood is defined as the stage of life that begins at the conclusion of high school and ends with the acceptance of adult roles (i.e., career, marriage, parenthood). The focus of the present study was on college students' excessive use of alcohol …
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Making Sense of Debt Financed Education from the Perspective of Young Adult Student Loan Borrowers: Does higher education still have value and meaning if you have to repay loans?
… the association between higher education and adult success from the perspective of young adult student loan borrowers five years after graduating. Data for both studies were drawn from the Arizona Pathways to Life Success (APLUS) project. This sample borrowed during a period of changing …
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Examining the Social Investment Hypothesis: The Relationship of Social Role Investment and Personality Trait Development in Adulthood
… states that involvement in normative social roles is a critical mechanism of personality trait change in adulthood. The current research examines the importance of social investment as a developmental construct that is reciprocally related to Big Five personality traits over time. Investments …
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Symbiotic Caregivers: A Qualitative Case Study of African American Custodial Grandparents and Their Grandchildren
… as a way to prepare the grandchildren for adult roles, while the grandchildren assumed their roles in order to help with their grandparents’ physical inability. Grandparents’ caregiving activities included daily rearing of their grandchildren, ensuring that their grandchildren have adequate …
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A study of household determinants of migration
… to consider the influence of various adult roles on the family unit’s migration decision. <em>Therefore, the primary objective of the current analysis is to provide both theoretical and empirical extension of the migration literature to explicitly consider the role of secondary …
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Transitions out of crime: intentions, changes and obstacles on the road towards desistance
… activity itself, but a process of acquiring roles, identities, and virtues; of developing new social ties, and of inhabiting new spaces. Such a framing of desistance is undoubtedly affected by structural, cultural and gender issues. This dissertation attempts to fill some of the gaps in our …