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Young People and Alcohol--Where's the Risk? Changing the Focus of School-Based Prevention Initiatives
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Petrie, Margaret – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2017
Research statistics highlighting the social costs of widespread excessive alcohol consumption have led to a proliferation of school-based prevention programmes that aim to give young people the skills and knowledge necessary to resist social pressure to drink alcohol and avoid potentially "risky" consumption. Such interventions offer,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Drinking, Case Studies, Foreign Countries
The Social Networks of People with Intellectual Disability Living in the Community 12 Years after Resettlement from Long-Stay Hospitals
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Forrester-Jones, Rachel; Carpenter, John; Coolen-Schrijner, Pauline; Cambridge, Paul; Tate, Alison; Beecham, Jennifer; Hallam, Angela; Knapp, Martin; Wooff, David – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Background: The social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities presents a major challenge to services. As part of a 12-year follow up of people resettled from long-stay hospitals, the size of 213 individuals' social networks and the types of social support they received were investigated, as viewed by people with intellectual…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Social Integration, Mental Retardation, Hospitals
Promoting Participation at a Time of Social and Political Turmoil: What Is the Impact of Children's and Young People's City Councils?
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Sant, Edda; Davies, Ian – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2018
Youth councils are examined as spaces of citizenship education where young people are educated as political subjects. At a time of political and economic instability data were collected in a Catalan city through tests and focus groups involving 112 students, three teachers and two youth council managers during one academic year. Students'…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Politics, Citizen Participation, Mixed Methods Research
Primary Teachers' Representational Practices: From Competency to Fluency
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Nichols, Kim; Stevenson, Michael; Hedberg, John; Gillies, Robyn Margaret – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2016
Eighteen primary teachers across three conditions (Representational Fluency, Representational Agency, Comparison) received two days of training around an inquiry unit on plate tectonics replete with representations. The Representational Agency group also received training around the semiotic and material affordances of representations while the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Pretests Posttests, Interviews
National Home Start Evaluation Interim Report VI. Twelve-Month Program Issues, Outcomes and Costs.
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Goodrich, Nancy; And Others – 1975
This report assesses the progress of the six summative Home Start projects as evaluation families completed their first twelve months of enrollment. Home Start, a federally-funded 3-year (1972-1975) home-based demonstration program for low-income families with 3- to 5-year-old children was designed to enhance a mother's skills in dealing with her…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education
Children's Concepts of Average and Representativeness.
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Mokros, Jan; Russell, Susan Jo – 1992
This paper reports a study to address two questions concerning children's understanding of average: How do children construct and interpret representativeness within the context of data sets? and How do children think about the mean as a particular mathematical definition and relationship? Twenty-one students (seven each of 4th, 6th, and 8th…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Grade 4