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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"educational barriers"”.
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Exploring Thriving of Inuit Youth Through an Engagement Lens: A Strengths-Based Focus on Factors Related to Nunavummiut Youth's Participation in a Psycho-Educational Mental Health Project
… science and addresses solely physical and educational barriers. The current study aimed to identify multi-systemic factors that may directly or indirectly support Inuit youth leaders and participants engagement in two mental wellness research initiatives: the Making I-SPARX Fly in Nunavut …
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Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Parental Involvement Among ELL Families in Diverse School Districts
… Floyd School District, need to overcome many barriers on a daily basis. These families also experience a limitation of their parental involvement. Parental involvement has limitations because of families experiencing language barriers, educational barriers, lack of understanding of the …
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Upon a dangerous design: the public life of Edward Sexby, 1647-1657
… Sexby's public life demonstrates how social and educational barriers separating political groups were permeable and how radical thought and action were intertwined.
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Black Space On A White Campus; Exploring The Relationship Between African American Students And The Physical Structure Of The University Of Mississippi
… of Mississippi campus creates social and educational barriers for African American students. Furthermore, along with being surrounded by "whiteness," African American students lack any physical representation of their own. As a result, these students must create their own safe spaces, or …
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From Community College to Degree: Examining the Success of Undocumented Community College Transfer Students
… linguistic, and alliance) to overcome educational barriers. It also examined the factors that shaped undocumented community college students’ willingness to trust and disclose their immigration status. Using a narrative research design rooted in Chicana feminist epistemology, data were …
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THE BLUEPRINT OF REFORM, SOCIAL JUSTICE QUESTIONS, AND THE MISSING PERSPECTIVE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
… twentieth century is an indication of historical educational barriers facing nonwhite people (2013). The purpose of this study is to raise awareness to the evidence of the historical roots of racial inequality in failing schools and how it relates to Black and Latino students locked into inferior …
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Living in Franklin Square: an exploration of black culture
… that blacks perceive, interpret, and respond to educational barriers. In this exploratory study, the researcher investigated a lower socioeconomic community in Baltimore, Maryland, which in many ways represents the general black population, to learn if Ogbu's caste paradigm explained black …
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Testimonios of Latino/A Students in Hispanic Serving Institutions: Lessons for Community Colleges
… continue to feed into a history of limited educational and societal mobility, which is vastly different from the white students experience (Cohen, 2008). Community colleges have an obligation to address the issues of inequitable services to Latino/a student’s that will change the trajectory …
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Nutritional Deficiencies During the Harvest Season According to Household Consumption and Level of Nutritional Knowledge: A Case Study of Northern Mozambique
… consumption. Although availability impacts diet, educational barriers may also threaten the knowledge of nutrition and perceptions of healthy foods. Illiteracy and lack of education are extreme challenges to disseminating nutritional education efforts in the rural Nampula region. New Horizons, a …
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AIDS related knowledge, and sexual practices among two groups of adolescents of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A contribution to HIV/AIDS prevention programs
… as low. Strategies to address policy and educational barriers to reduction of risk for HIV infection are discussed and specific goals for targeting the population studied here are described."
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Registered nurses who do and who do not pursue the baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN)
… orientations, Locus-of-Control, and perceived educational barriers guided the study. The subjects consisted of 102 RNs who lived/worked in the same geographical region. Fifty-three of the subjects were enrolled in a BSN program and included three male students. Forty-nine of the subjects were …
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Understanding the Influences on the Homework Experiences of Low-Socioeconomic, African American, Kindergarten Students
… homework appeared to benefit the students. Educational barriers to the homework learning experiences for a small number of students included the need for more homework, the need to raise the difficulty level of the homework, the confusing wording of some homework assignments, the lengthiness …
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Essays on Human Capital Formation in Developing Countries
… explores the effects of occupational and educational barriers on human capital stock and aggregate productivity. I find that students' academic skills have very small impact on occupational choice in most developing countries. This finding suggests a higher incidence of occupational …
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The Influence Of Perceived Barriers, Perceived Social Support, And Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy On High School Juniors' And Seniors' Postsecondary Plans
… study was to examine the influence of perceived barriers, perceived social support, and career decision-making self-efficacy on high school juniors’ and seniors’ postsecondary plans. High school juniors and seniors (n = 124) were surveyed to determine the influence of three predictors on their …
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The Aspirations of Youth in Arkansas: A Comparison of Rural Locales
… Students’ residential, occupational, and educational aspirations are effective predictors of life choices, such as future residence. This study’s purpose was to determine the aspirations of rural students in Arkansas overall, and by locale. This study used descriptive survey methodology …
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'Scéal to Storia': creating a framework for cultural heritage education, outreach learning methodologies and international exchange in primary schools
… For instance, regardless of financial status, educational opportunities can vary widely based simply on geographic circumstances. Following some initial reading in public history and outreach programmes, it became clear just how variable learning can be. The development of this investigation …
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Academic Life Under Occupation: The Impact on Educationalists at Gaza's Universities
… and current higher education (HE) experience of educationalists at Gaza’s universities and how this experience may be evolving in the shifting socio-political context in the Arab World. The thesis is motivated by three questions: 1. What are the perspectives of academic staff in the Faculties of …
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Motivation and Perceived Barriers for Underrepresented Students Interested in Art Therapy
… To understand the role of student motivation and barriers to the field, this study recruited 116 undergraduate students academically exposed to AT. Student interest in the field, psychological needs defined by Self-Determination Theory and perceived educational and career barriers were measured. …
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Applying a critical quantitative lens to examine the learning outcome differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Peru
… new insights on the processes that may explain educational disadvantages of Indigenous children in Peru. Following equality of opportunity theory, this thesis is grounded on the notion that children should have the same chances to succeed in education regardless of their background. The first …