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Lupe Mendez – English in Texas, 2023
This issue's Featured Article is bold! Readers are challenged to be advocates with loud voices, ready to push back on current legislation intended to silence voices in our classrooms and on our bookshelves. The author provides readers with an overview of laws and legislation currently impacting teachers and provides ideas for what you, as an…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Censorship, Advocacy, Resistance (Psychology)
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Von Bergen, C. W. – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2015
For decades, universities have been accommodating physically disabled students who require guide dogs and other types of service animals. Within the past several years, however, mentally disabled students have increasingly petitioned colleges with no-pet policies to permit them to bring their animals on campus because they need a companion or…
Descriptors: Animals, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Stress Variables
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Hermanns, Melinda; Mastel-Smith, Beth – Qualitative Report, 2012
A common definition of caregiving does not exist. In an attempt to define the concept of caregiving, the authors used a hybrid qualitative model of concept development to analyze caregiving. The model consists of three phases: (a) theoretical, (b) fieldwork, and (c) analytical. The theoretical phase involves conducting an interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Definitions, Concept Formation, Semi Structured Interviews
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Kousky, Carolyn – Future of Children, 2016
We can expect climate change to alter the frequency, magnitude, timing, and location of many natural hazards. For example, heat waves are likely to become more frequent, and heavy downpours and flooding more common and more intense. Hurricanes will likely grow more dangerous, rising sea levels will mean more coastal flooding, and more-frequent and…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Children, Climate, At Risk Students
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Hubbard, Timothy L.; Ruppel, Susan E.; Courtney, Jon R. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2005
If a moving stimulus (i.e., launcher) contacts a stationary target that subsequently begins to move, observers attribute motion of the target to the launcher (Michotte, 1946/1963). In experiments reported here, a stationary launcher adjacent to the target appeared or vanished and displacement in memory for the position of the target was measured.…
Descriptors: Motion, Memory, Stimuli, Perception