STEP in Australia

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 32-34
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Effective Parenting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Systematic Training ◽  
Social Agencies

SummaryIn the past couple of years, Dinkmeyer and McKay's (1976) Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) has become very popular in Australia. It is currently being used in public schools, Department of Children Services and other social agencies. As the use of STEP increases, it seems appropriate for STEP users to share their ideas in order to promote a better understanding of the programme. In this paper, the author(i) describes his early experiences with parent education;(ii) identifies the theoretical origins of step, and(iii) describes some guidelines for a STEP leader.

From learning to labour to custody for the precariat

Ethnography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ove Sernhede
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Young People ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Compulsory School ◽  
High Rise ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Large Groups

The globally reported riots in the poor high-rise suburbs of Sweden’s metropolitan districts in 2013 were stark manifestations of the increased social and economic inequality of the past 30 years. Large groups of young adults acted out their unarticulated claims for social justice. In the light of the riots, it is relevant to ask whether any trace of resistance or protest can be found in the compulsory school where the young people from these neighbourhoods spend their days. The ethnography sampled for the article comes from two public schools in two poor, multi-ethnic, high-rise neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Gothenburg. The article argues that the theoretical and methodological concepts and perspectives developed by Willis still is of crucial importance to any investigation aimed at understanding the presence or absence of resistance in contemporary Swedish schools.

Teacher Fellows

2016 ◽  
pp. 281-294
Author(s):  
Barbara H. Davis ◽  
Terri Cearley-Key
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Teacher Retention ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Over Time

This chapter describes the Teacher Fellows Program. This program is a school/university partnership that has provided comprehensive mentoring and induction support to more than 400 teachers over the past 20 years. The program is grounded in social-constructivist, cognitive-developmental and teacher development theories. Both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods have been used to determine the program's effectiveness over time. Results from analyses of the data indicate the program (a) improves teacher retention, (b) increases teacher effectiveness, (c) fosters collaboration between the university and public schools, and (d) impacts student learning.

When Educators Are the Learners: Private Contracting by Public Schools

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Forbes ◽  
Nora Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Consulting Services ◽  
Private Contracting

Abstract We investigate decision-making and the potential for social learning among school administrators in the market for school reform consulting services. Specifically, we estimate whether public schools are more likely to choose given Comprehensive School Reform service providers if their “peer” schools—defined by common governance or geography—have performed unusually well with those providers in the past. We find strong evidence that schools tend to contract with providers used by other schools in their own districts in the past, regardless of past performance. In addition, our point estimates are consistent with school administrators using information from peers to choose the plans they perceive to have performed best in the past. Despite choosing a market with an unusually comprehensive data source on contracts between public schools and private firms, our statistical power is sufficiently weak that we cannot reject the absence of social learning.

Parents in education and democracy. Ontologies of engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-99
Author(s):  
Maria Mendel
Keyword(s):  
Parent Education ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Parent Engagement ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Parents Education

In this text I will briefly consider the issues which form its framework. I will explain the choice of the tag: Parents-Education-Democracy, and present the circumstances in which this particular network of concepts seems to have current relevance. First, I will describe the chosen approach to the issue of the relationship between education, democracy, and the school as positioned within this interdependence. This issue has been extensively studied in social pedagogy, both in the past (see, e.g., the works by Radlińska or Wroczyński) as well as currently (see, e.g., the works by Tadeusz Plich, Mikołaj Winiarski, and many others). Next, following the lines of the aforementioned relationships and viewing parents as important for their shaping, I will show three ontologies of parent engagement which can frame the discourse on this volume’s subject matter - the parent-education-democracy triad - from multiple perspectives.

Violence Prevention: An Ecological Adaptation of Systematic Training for Effective Parenting

1996 ◽  
Vol 77 (7) ◽  
pp. 414-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen McInnis-Dittrich
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Effective Parenting ◽  
Similar Program ◽  
Parent Training Program ◽  
Systematic Training ◽  
Societal Violence ◽  
Step Program

The author examines the utilization of a standardized parent-training program, Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP), in an isolated community in the Appalachian mountains where domestic and societal violence widely occurs. Based on the experiences of the parent educator and parents participating in the training, the STEP program is adapted to address the sociocultural context of child rearing according to an ecological model of child-abuse prevention. Recommendations are offered for implementation of a similar program in other environments in which violence is prevalent.

Genuine Religious Tolerance: Is It a Thing of the Past in Public Schools?

Interchange ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-350
Author(s):  
Paul A. Wagner ◽  
Lillian Benavente-McEnery
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
The Past

Superpave Field Implementation: Florida’s Early Experience

1998 ◽  
Vol 1609 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Musselman ◽  
Bouzid Choubane ◽  
Gale C. Page ◽  
Patrick B. Upshaw
Keyword(s):  
Asphalt Pavement ◽  
Early Experience ◽  
Field Application ◽  
Pavement Performance ◽  
Department Of Transportation ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Florida Department ◽  
Current Loading

Over the past 10 to 15 years, Interstate pavements in northern Florida have experienced a significant number of failures, primarily due to rutting. It was believed that the present fine-graded, 50-blow Marshall-designed mixes were inadequate to withstand current loading conditions. The newly developed Superpave system represented an opportunity to address several of Florida’s asphalt pavement problems. Thus, the Florida Department of Transportation made a concerted effort to implement Superpave technology in 1996. During this period, eight projects were changed from the traditional Marshall mix designs to Superpave. Although the new procedure offers potential for improved pavement performance, there has been very little experience nationally with its field application. Florida’s early experiences with the field implementation of Superpave are documented.

School corporal punishment, family tension, and students’ internalizing problems: Evidence from India

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibnath Deb ◽  
Aneesh Kumar ◽  
George W. Holden ◽  
Lorelei Simpson Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Internalizing Problems ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
The Past ◽  
Student Functioning

There is considerable evidence that parental corporal punishment (CP) is positively associated with children’s behavioral and mental health problems. However, there is very little evidence addressing whether CP perpetrated by teachers or school staff is similarly associated with problematic student functioning. To address this gap in the research literature, data were collected from students in a locale where school CP continues to be widely practiced. Participants were 519 adolescents attending public or private schools in Puducherry, a city in eastern India. Students completed surveys assessing school CP, internalizing problems, social support, and resilience. The results indicated that 62% of the students reported experiencing school CP in the past 12 months, with males and those attending public schools being significantly more likely to report school CP than females and those in private schools. Youth who reported school CP reported more anxiety and depression. That relation was more pronounced in youth who reported family tension. Social support and resilience did not moderate the relations. The findings add to the substantial evidence about negative associations regarding the use of CP but in a new venue—the school, and provide some evidence for the need to change how students are disciplined in schools in India and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Nauczanie religii w szkole w Polsce – analiza wybranych debat medialnych

Politeja ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (1(46)) ◽  
pp. 265-282
Author(s):  
Dagmara Głuszek-Szafraniec
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media

Religious education in school in Poland – analysis of selected media debates The aim of this article is to present an analysis of media debates on religious education in a public schools, conducted in polish opinion‑forming newspapers. In the spring 2015 citizen’s initiative “Secular school” initiated changes in a law which allowed to finance religion lessons from public funds. The author tackles a topic from the perspective of the presence of religious education in schools for 25 years. Such approach gives opportunity to confront contemporary views on this issue, presented over the past year in the media, with public opinion research on this subject, conducted since 1990.

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