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Ellison, Scott, and Ariel M. Aloe. "Strategic Thinkers and Positioned Choices: Parental Decision Making in Urban School Choice." Educational Policy 33, no. 7 (2018): 1135–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0895904818755470.
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The economic logic of urban school reform holds that giving parents school choice options in an educational marketplace will lead to systemic improvements that will both resolve historical inequalities in American public schooling and will politically empower parents and urban communities. This article explores the economic logic of urban school reform policies that conceptualize parents as rational consumers of educational services and that seek normative justification for school choice as a mechanism to resolve educational inequalities and as a form of political empowerment. We do so through a qualitative research synthesis of five studies investigating the lived experiences of predominantly working-class parents of color as they navigate urban school choice. The findings from this synthesis suggest that the economic logic at work in the new politics of education obfuscates the complexity of the lived experiences of parents in urban communities. Parents hold nuanced views of urban school choice that reflect their positionality, report a limited or circumscribed form of empowerment, and express a preference for equitable learning opportunities in their locally zoned public schools.
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Potterton, Amanda U. "Leaders’ experiences in Arizona’s mature education market." Journal of Educational Administration 57, no. 1 (2019): 21–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-02-2018-0043.
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Purpose In Arizona’s mature, market-based school system, we know little about how school leaders make meaning of school choice policies and programs on the ground. Using ethnographic methods, the author asked: How do school leaders in one Arizona district public school and in its surrounding community, which includes a growing number of high-profile and “high-performing” Education Management Organisation (EMO) charter schools, make meaning of school choice policies and programs? The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The author analysed 18 months of qualitative fieldnotes that the author collected during participant observations and six semi-structured school leader interviews from both traditional district public schools in the area (n=4) and leaders from EMO charter schools (n=2). Findings School leaders’ decision-making processes were influenced by competitive pressures. However, perceptions of these pressures and leadership actions varied widely and were complicated by inclusive and exclusive social capital influences from stakeholders. District public school leaders felt pressure to package and sell schools in the marketplace, and charter leaders enjoyed the notion of markets and competition. Practical implications As market-based policies and practices become increasingly popular in the USA and internationally, a study that examines leaders’ behaviours and actions in a long-standing school choice system is timely and relevant. Originality/value This study uniquely highlights school leaders’ perceptions and actions in a deeply embedded education market, and provides data about strategies and behaviours as they occurred.
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Sulz, Lauren, Sandra Gibbons, Patti-Jean Naylor, and Joan Wharf Higgins. "Complexity of choice: Teachers’ and students’ experiences implementing a choice-based Comprehensive School Health model." Health Education Journal 75, no. 8 (2016): 986–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0017896916645936.
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Background: Comprehensive School Health models offer a promising strategy to elicit changes in student health behaviours. To maximise the effect of such models, the active involvement of teachers and students in the change process is recommended. Objective: The goal of this project was to gain insight into the experiences and motivations of teachers and students involved in a choice-based Comprehensive School Health model – Health Promoting Secondary Schools (HPSS). Setting: School communities in British Columbia, Canada. Design and methods: HPSS engaged teachers and students in the planning and implementation of a whole-school health model aimed at improving the physical activity and eating behaviours of high school students. The intervention components were specifically informed by self-determination theory. A total of 23 teachers and 34 school committee members participated in focus group interviews. The minutes of planning meetings were collected throughout the intervention process. Results: Analysis of the data revealed five themes associated with participants’ experiences and motivational processes: (a) lack of time for planning and preparation; (b) resources, workshops and collaboration; (c) teacher control impacts student engagement; (d) teacher job action inhibited implementation of HPSS action plans; and (e) choice-based design impacts participants’ experiences. Conclusion: Findings from this study can facilitate future school-based projects by providing insights into student and teacher perspectives on the planning and implementation of school-based health promotion programmes and implementing choice-based educational change initiatives.
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Baruch, Adele. "Chapter 2." Narrative Works 9, no. 1 (2020): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1068122ar.
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Phase 2 of the Courage and Moral Choice Project (CMCP) involved a more structured and planned learning experience than had Phase 1. Two teachers at an alternative public high school collaborated with researchers and artist educators to develop an integrated, three-month learning experience around stories of helping. Students participated on a voluntary basis and focused on these stories through language arts, history, art, and service learning experiences. They were encouraged to tell their own stories of courageous moral choices, and their exchanges led to more general disclosure and trust in the learning environment. Artist educators were brought into the schools to encourage students to translate their experiences of moral choice into poetry, essays, art, and songs. Teachers and students reported a more cohesive sense of community as well as increased empathy and awareness of the help of others among participants.
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Pattillo, Mary. "EVERYDAY POLITICS OF SCHOOL CHOICE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 12, no. 1 (2015): 41–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x15000016.
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AbstractSchool choice is promoted as one strategy to improve educational outcomes for African Americans. Key themes in Black school choice politics are empowerment, control, and agency. Using qualitative interviews with seventy-seven poor and working-class Black parents in Chicago, this article asks: How well do the themes of empowerment, agency, and control characterize the experiences of low-income African American parents tasked with putting their children in schools? Also, what kind of political positions emerge from parents’ everyday experiences given the ubiquitous language of school choice? I find that in their own recounting parents focused on finding a quality school while experiencing numerous barriers to accessing such schools; parents expressed experiential knowledge of being chosen, rather than choosing; and parents highlighted the opacity, uncertainty, and burden of choice, even when they participated in it quite heartily. I argue that their stories convey limited and weak empowerment, limited individual agency, and no control. Their perspectives conjure policy frameworks and political ideologies that require a discussion of entitlements and provision, rather than choice.
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Lundström, Ulf, and Karolina Parding. "Teachers' Experiences with School Choice: Clashing Logics in the Swedish Education System." Education Research International 2011 (2011): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/869852.
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This paper explores the school choice reform in Sweden, a country where a drastic shift in education policy has taken place that includes fast expansion of market solutions and strong state support for competition. Although there are studies examining the school choice reform, few focus on the effects of this reform from a teacher perspective, especially so in the context of Sweden. To this end, this paper examines how Swedish upper secondary teachers in independent (private) and public schools experience their work in relation to school choice reform. This study uses qualitative interviews of 58 teachers from five municipal and three independent upper secondary schools. Its theoretical framework relies on Freidson's distinction between the logic of the profession, the bureaucracy, and the market. The findings indicate that the traditional position of teachers—a position that must negotiate the tension between the logic of the profession and the logic of the bureaucracy—is now in fact challenged by the logic of the market. This study argues that values linked to the logic of the market are imposed on the teachers, and these market values clash with the teachers' values, values based on the logic of the profession.
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Potterton, Amanda U. "Parental Accountability, School Choice, and the Invisible Hand of the Market." Educational Policy 34, no. 1 (2019): 166–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0895904819881155.
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I introduce the concept of parental accountability by examining how parents understand and cope with what I characterize are pressures fostered by the long-standing public-school choice market in Arizona. Parental accountability refers to the sensemaking, experiences, and consequences that are related to decision-making in a school choice environment, wherein parents’ feelings about their child’s schooling may be intense, emotionally stressful, malleable, cyclical, and ongoing—not static. I argue that parental accountability is a necessary concept for understanding these reforms. The analysis, based on data collected from a study using ethnographic methods, reveals contradictions between parents’ perceptions of their responsibilities to public institutions and pressures to make private choices. Many parents acknowledged that socioeconomic and racial inequities may be exacerbated in some market-based, public-school choice systems. I show how school choice policies and programs can place unique pressure on parents that they experience as a distinct form of accountability.
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Haugen, Cecilie Rønning. "Teachers´ experiences of school choice from ´marginalised´ and ´privileged´ public schools in Oslo." Journal of Education Policy 35, no. 1 (2019): 68–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2019.1587519.
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Hentges, Dr Julie, and Dr Doug D. Thomas. "University Involvement with Charter Schools: Unique Opportunities for Service and Support." Journal of Arts and Humanities 6, no. 6 (2017): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/journal.v6i6.1210.
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<p>Charter schools are a controversial, but vibrant, component of the current educational landscape, now serving over 3.1 million students in approximately 6900 schools across the United States. A unique aspect of this movement has been the establishment of alternative authorizers, and specifically universities, to approve and provide oversight to these public schools. Campus leaders and policy makers must consider numerous variables regarding a university’s involvement with charter schools. What are the implications of school choice on university policies and practices? Should universities be “authorizers”, granting charters to schools in direct competition with the traditional public school system? Can universities provide the required “oversight” mandated by the charter school laws, as well as providing “support” for the schools? What opportunities for partnerships and practicum experiences exist? The article provides an overview of issues that arise with public charter schools authorized by universities. With 18 years of experiences as a public university on the forefront of enabling charter legislation and the “sponsorship” of inner-city public charter schools, the authors provide a historical perspective of the role of universities within the school choice movement, including oversight roles and supportive programs within the unique and growing phenomenon of school choice. </p>
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Moschetti, Mauro Carlos, and Antoni Verger. "Opting for Private Education: Public Subsidy Programs and School Choice in Disadvantaged Contexts." Educational Policy 34, no. 1 (2019): 65–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0895904819881151.
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Sociological research on school choice has mostly been dominated by studies analyzing the experiences of middle-class families rather than marginalized or minority populations. Drawing on 8 months of ethnographic case study research, this article explores the school choice experiences of disadvantaged families accessing publicly subsidized low-fee private schools (S-LFPSs) in Buenos Aires. We built a bounded-rationality framework to understand how disadvantaged families deal with structural constraints and negotiate their preferences to produce different, but predominantly reflexive rationalities of school preferences. In detailing our findings, we intend to provide “a realistic look at the cognitive and social processes of choice making” while addressing the equity implications of these dynamics—that is, whether S-LFPSs increase educational opportunities for students in economically disadvantaged areas or not—and problematizing the gaps, ambiguities, and enforcement shortcomings of the public subsidy for private schools’ policy.
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Frankenberg, Erica, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, and Jia Wang. "Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation." education policy analysis archives 19 (January 10, 2011): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v19n1.2011.
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The political popularity of charter schools is unmistakable. This article explores the relationship between charter schools and segregation across the country, in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charter school students in 2007-08. The descriptive analysis of the charter school enrollment is aimed at understanding the enrollment and characteristics of charter school students and the extent to which charter school students are segregated, including how charter school segregation compare to students in traditional public schools. This article examines these questions at different levels, aggregating school-level enrollment to explore patterns among metropolitan areas, states, and the nation using three national datasets. Our findings suggest that charters currently isolate students by race and class. This analysis of recent data finds that charter schools are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the nation. In some regions, white students are over-represented in charter schools while in other charter schools, minority students have little exposure to white students. Data about the extent to which charter schools serve low-income and English learner students is incomplete, but suggest that a substantial share of charter schools may not enroll such students. As charters represent an increasing share of our public schools, they influence the level of segregation experienced by all of our nation’s school children. After two decades, the promise of charter schools to use choice to foster integration and equality in American education has not yet been realized.
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Mander, David J., Lynne Cohen, and Julie Ann Pooley. "‘If I Wanted to Have More Opportunities and Go to a Better School, I Just Had to Get Used to It’: Aboriginal Students’ Perceptions of Going to Boarding School in Western Australia." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 44, no. 1 (2015): 26–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jie.2015.3.
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This study explored the experiences of 32 male Aboriginal students from regional and remote towns and communities while they attended a metropolitan boarding school away from home and family in Perth, Western Australia. Using narrative interviews it specifically investigated how these Aboriginal students construct meaning around the transition experience to boarding school. Three major themes emerged from the data: (1) Decision Making and the subthemes of Choice-less Choice and Opportunity; (2) Organisational Climate and the subthemes of School Environment and Belonging, Culture Shock, Homesickness, Identity, Code Switching, Teachers, Academic Expectations, Residential Life, and Friendships and Peer Relations; and (3) Relational Change and the subthemes of Family Dynamics, Friendships at Home, and Cultural Connectedness. This study emphasises the importance of conceptualising and understanding social phenomena from the perspective of those who actually undertake the experience, and the findings are discussed in terms of policy and practice relevant to Australian boarding schools.
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Gutshall, C. Anne, and Joshua D. McCall. "The Kids are Alright: Middle-Level Students’ Perceptions of School During COVID-19." Research Journal of Education, no. 73 (September 9, 2021): 141–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/rje.73.141.149.
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This research sought to determine middle school students’ perceptions of the academic year they experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic in a district in South Carolina. The students were surveyed three times throughout the year (beginning, midyear, and end of year), and their responses were disaggregated by the instructional model choice (face-to-face, in-person instruction, and online, virtual instruction via webcam technology). Families of students in this district were offered a choice of these two instructional models throughout the year, and the reasons for their family’s choice were surveyed. Students who were face-to-face for the entire year were more likely to perceive their school year as a positive experience than their online peers, but both groups identified that despite the circumstances, they mostly felt positive about the year, except in the case of being able to make friends, in which face-to-face students’ responses were significantly more positive. Also, students reported spending time during the previous school year’s shutdown (March 2020 to the end of the school year in June) completing many different academics and social tasks in which they were able to develop skills and direct their free time. The results of this research suggest that consistent with previous research suggesting that offering a few options results in people feeling satisfied, this research suggests that in the future when faced with difficult choices at the district level on how to handle student experiences in unprecedented circumstances, offering choice to the students and families may benefit the outcomes of those students and the district overall.
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Fong, Kelley, and Sarah Faude. "Timing Is Everything: Late Registration and Stratified Access to School Choice." Sociology of Education 91, no. 3 (2018): 242–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038040718785201.
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School choice policies necessarily impose registration timelines, constraining access to schools of choice for students who register late. Drawing on administrative data, survey data, and interviews with 33 parents in Boston, we find that late registration is common and highly stratified: Nearly half of black kindergarteners miss the first registration deadline, a rate almost three times higher than their white peers, consigning them to the least preferred schools. Contexts of instability and bureaucratic complexity serve as barriers to registering months in advance, and parents describe disengagement from the school system following their late registration. These findings show how despite equal access in theory, bureaucratic structures such as timeline-based lotteries hinder many families, particularly those disadvantaged already, from full participation. Inequality in school choice outcomes and experiences thus results not only from families’ selections, the focus of previous research, but also the misalignment of district bureaucratic processes with family situations.
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Stewart, Mahala Dyer. "Pushed or Pulled Out? The Racialization of School Choice in Black and White Mothers’ (Home) Schooling Decisions for Their Children." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 6, no. 2 (2020): 254–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2332649219901130.
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Homeschooling is an increasingly common schooling option for middle-class black families yet is often overlooked in research on race and education. Drawing on interviews with 67 middle-class black and white mothers living in one northeastern metropolitan area—half of whom homeschool, while the other half enroll their children in conventional school—the author examines how race influences mothers’ decisions to homeschool or conventional school. The findings show that mothers’ schooling explanations reflect their experiences as shaped by the racial hierarchy constituted in schools. Black mothers respond to a push out of conventional schools on the basis of their children’s experiences of racial discrimination. In contrast, white mothers respond to a pull out of conventional schools to individualize their children’s academic programs. Building on racialized organizations and critical race theory, these findings elucidate how the formal structure of schools is racialized in ways that constrain black mothers’ agency, while enabling the agency of white mothers to activate school choice. The findings underscore how homeschooling, often assumed to be race neutral, is racialized in ways that reproduce inequalities under school choice and appears to redress discrimination in schools.
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Yoon, Ee-Seul. "Neoliberalizing race? Diverse youths’ lived experiences of race in school choice." Research in Education 97, no. 1 (2017): 76–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034523717718309.
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Clauhs, Matthew, and Radio Cremata. "Student voice and choice in modern band curriculum development." Journal of Popular Music Education 4, no. 1 (2020): 101–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00016_1.
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The perspectives and experiences of students should be considered first in the process of any significant curriculum reform. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to music education, and educators have a responsibility to design experiences that meet the needs of learners in their classroom. After hearing the individual voices of students in one New York State school district in the United States, the music faculty and authors developed modern band electives designed to increase access to school music and attract a greater diversity of students by race, ethnicity and musical preference. District-level enrolment data demonstrate how these courses impacted the demographic profile of secondary school music by increasing participation rates among racialized student populations. These modern band music classes counterbalanced the disproportionately white and higher SES enrolment in the traditional band, orchestra and chorus, resulting in a school music programme that was more representative of the overall school population.
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Heath, Natalie. "Veiled and overt school choice: a consideration of the ways in which different forms of school choice affect student experiences." British Educational Research Journal 35, no. 4 (2009): 539–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01411920802044479.
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Mavrogordato, Madeline, and Julie Harris. "Eligiendo Escuelas: English Learners and Access to School Choice." Educational Policy 31, no. 6 (2017): 801–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0895904817724226.
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School choice has emerged as the linchpin of President Trump’s urban education reform plan, but it remains unclear how school choice policies will shape the educational experiences of the most underserved student groups, particularly English learners (ELs). Using quantitative data from one large urban school district, we examine EL participation in a system of school choice. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which never, current, and former ELs enroll in a nonzoned school. We find significant differences in the likelihood that students across these groups engage in school choice, raising important questions about whether school choice reforms are accessible to current ELs.
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Lapėnienė, Asta, and Deimantė Kvedaravičienė. "The Relationship Between Childhood Experiences and Pre-School Education Teacher’s Choice of Profession." Pedagogika 140, no. 4 (2021): 34–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/p.2020.140.3.
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Nowadays teachers preparation context is actual, when government nationwide develops a system of external motivation to choose the profession of pre-school education teacher (paid scholarships, raised salaries, the status of pre-school teachers is equated to the status of a general education teacher). It becomes important to recognize and understand the internal value motives of choosing a pre-school pedagogue’s profession. So that after choosing such studies, they would not doubt their choice, and after graduating, they would join the educational community.In the article is used the collective memory-work method and it is a way to discover the relationship between past events and the present. Past events influence the current experiences of individuals. The profession of pre-school educator often is chosen by those whose learning process has been related to interacting with adults through play. The childhood experiences of teachers allow educational management professionals to learn more about a teacher’s strengths, evaluate them, and utilize them to achieve the goals of the educational organization. During the collective memory-work sessions, the relationship between childhood games and current pedagogical activities became apparent. Teachers tend to realize their childhood games and creative experiences in the current pre-school educational activities. Childhood experiences directly influence the pre-school educator’s choice of educational methods, transfer of values, and the creation of an educational environment.
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Bhugra, D. "Medical students choice of psychiatry – an international survey." European Psychiatry 33, S1 (2016): S29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.850.
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The appeal of psychiatry as a speciality varies around the globe for a number of reasons. In a majority of countries, medical students are reluctant to choose psychiatry and this has become a much more evident matter of concern in the past three decades. The factors, which affect the choice of psychiatry as a specialty by medical students include external and internal stigma, quality of teaching of the subject as well as research exposure and clinical experience during placements. In many countries, a placement may last only two weeks and the exposure is to patients in asylums, whereas a majority of psychiatric conditions are treated in primary care. In addition, personal factors such as the ability to deal with openness and ambiguity play a role in the choice of speciality. A study in 19 countries to explore factors prior to entering medical school, experiences in medical school and postgraduate in the choice of the subject showed that those medical students who are likely to choose psychiatry fall into three major categories:– those who had decided prior to joining medical school that they wanted to choose psychiatry;– those who decide during medical school placements and, finally;– those who select the specialty after having finished their medical school training.The latter group has two further subgroups: one, which falls passively into psychiatry and another who make an active choice to take it up. Among 2198 students who participated, 4.5% of the sample planned to become psychiatrists, with a further 15% considering it as a possible career. Women (21%) were more likely to consider psychiatry than men (16%). Key factors associated with choosing psychiatry were personal as well as based on teaching/learning experiences. In order to recruit into psychiatry, better teaching, exposure to common mental disorders and small research projects may prove to be helpful.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.
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Cotto, Jr., Robert, and Sarah Woulfin. "Choice With(out) Equity? Family Decisions of Child Return to Urban Schools in Pandemic." Journal of Family Diversity in Education 4, no. 1 (2021): 42–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.53956/jfde.2021.159.
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In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, most schools across the country closed in-person instruction for a period of time and many shifted to online schooling. Beginning in fall 2020, schools around the United States began reopening and many districts offered families a decision or “choice” to return their children to an in-person or online schooling experience. In many cities, this approach complicated existing school choice and permanent closure policies with already existing equity issues. Building upon previous scholarship on school choice and closure, this study draws on the concept of school choice with(out) equity (Frankenberg et al., 2010; Scott & Stuart Wells, 2013; Horsford et al., 2019). Using data from an online survey (n = 155 participants) in August 2020, this study examines why families (50% white, 50% people of color) decided to return their children to in-person schooling in Hartford, Connecticut. This study uses a mixed-method analysis of qualitative responses and quantitative data to understand family decisions to return to in-person schooling (Creswell, 2014). Rather than school choices with full equity considerations during the pandemic, these family responses focused on needs of childcare for full-time work and health safety. These responses suggest a partial equity in the landscape of available choices. The study raises questions about reapplying old forms of school choice to a new form of temporary school closure during pandemic.
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Kuzņecova, Jeļena, and Vija Šverina. "FACTORS INFLUENCING CAREER CHOICE AMONG NURSING STUDENTS." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 4 (May 25, 2018): 127–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2018vol1.3274.
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Choosing a career is a complex and multi-factorial decision-making process that is based on several personal, situational and organizational factors. The purpose of this study is a literature review to determine factors influencing career choice among nursing students. The literature review displays that nursing students make their career decisions from a combination of personal interests in health care and their desire to help others. From the beginning of the studies students may have strong career preferences. Before they graduate and eventually decide about the future workplace, their career choices undergo several transitions. Career choices are influenced both by the students inclination before starting medical school as well as any exposure during training in medical school. Experiences in chosen specialties during training as well as the social environment of the medical school, the teaching programme and clinical staff role models can influence career preferences.
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Prikhidko, Alena, and Cliff Haynes. "Balancing Graduate School and Mothering: Is There a Choice?" International Journal of Doctoral Studies 13 (2018): 313–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4109.
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Aim/Purpose: Multiple emotional and cognitive resources are needed for graduate students to overcome stress associated with balancing studies and personal life. This research aimed to explore the difficulties, which graduate student-mothers face while balancing school and parenting, and describe mechanisms of the balancing process. Background: Graduate student-mothers need to structure their time so that they can equally distribute their energy between their children and graduate school work. Mothers face challenges in balancing graduate school and parenting, making choices between school and family responsibilities. This paper addresses the perceptions and experiences of graduate student-mothers who navigate coping with multiple role responsibilities. Methodology: Researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with eight graduate student-mothers who studied at a research-intensive university. Thematic analysis was used to explore the process of balancing graduate school and mothering. Contribution: In this paper we describe the mechanisms of the balancing process among graduate student-mothers and lay a foundation for the future research on coping strategies utilized by this population. Findings: Student-mothers may perceive balancing graduate school and mothering as a challenge, feeling guilty for not spending enough time at school and with their children, and experiencing stress choosing between school and mothering responsibilities. The coping mechanisms for balancing graduate school and parenting roles are compartmentalization, changing behavior, and changing thoughts. Recommendations for Practitioners : Graduate student-mothers could benefit from specific psychotherapeutic services within their institutions, learning to deal with the stress of balancing graduate school and mothering. Compartmentalization is a balancing mechanism that mothers may learn to use in counseling, separating life experiences of school and family in their mind and preventing feelings from one area of life – graduate school – to intervene with emotions related to mothering. Impact on Society: Current research highlights the necessity of counseling services tailored specifically for graduate student-mothers, who may have increased levels of stress due to multiple responsibilities. Future Research: The research on the effectiveness of suggested counseling strategies should follow.
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Iner, Derya. "Faith-Inspired Muslim Parents’ School Choices and Attitudes in the Cultural West and Australia." Religions 12, no. 9 (2021): 746. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12090746.
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All parents want the best accessible, available and affordable school for their children. Yet, the literature highlights that school choice for middle-class parents in the cultural West is a deliberate decision and a reflection of their salient identities. For racialised middle-class Western parents, school choice is an instrumental investment to secure social upward mobility and minimise the harms of racism for their children. Research focusing on Western middle-class Muslim parents highlights that accommodation of Muslim identities and ethno-religious values is pivotal in parental school choice. This is expected due to the rise of Islamophobia in the cultural West since 9/11. The semi-structured interviews with faith-inspired middle-class Muslim parents in Australia bring a new dimension to the parental school choice literature. Regardless of carrying more or less similar concerns for their children in an Islamophobic climate, middle-class Muslim parents’ school choices vary based on their childhood schooling experiences in the Australian context, diverse parenting styles and mentalities and their children’s varying personalities demanding a particular type of school setting. This article demonstrates there is no one size fits all Muslim parent in terms of deciding which school is the best for their children in an Islamophobic climate.
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Evans, Linnea A., Arline T. Geronimus, and Cleopatra Howard Caldwell. "SYSTEMATICALLY SHORTCHANGED, YET CARRYING ON." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 16, no. 2 (2019): 357–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x19000316.
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AbstractSchool reform policies, such as the closure of “low-performing” schools and the competitive introduction of school choice and charters, were presented to communities of color as the fix to educational inequities and the lifeline needed for urban Black students to have a chance at a quality education and social mobility. The ways in which reforms have under-delivered on this promise, and in some cases exacerbated negative academic outcomes, particularly for Black boys, are documented. Yet, research on the experience of Black adolescent girls is sparse. We explore ways that policies aimed at delivering a school choice environment have affected daily life for Black adolescent girls. We examine this issue in the context of the Detroit metropolitan area with Black adolescent girls, reflecting on their high school education experiences that spanned a time-period of rapid transitions in the schooling environment (2014–2016) prompted by a series of school reforms in Michigan. Through in-depth interviews we found that girls sought to invest in their high school education as a path to college; yet the very reforms advanced as ways to clear this path hindered their ability to spend time on the human and social capital activities believed to be important to their academic success and social mobility. Our findings suggest advantages for those students with proximal access to high quality neighborhood schools cannot be replicated in a choice environment. There may also be health consequences of the coping strategies girls are compelled to employ to carry on under adverse educational circumstances.
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Stuart, Shannon K. "Choice or Chance: Career Development and Girls with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders." Behavioral Disorders 28, no. 2 (2003): 150–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019874290302800209.
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This study examined the career aspirations of young women with behavioral disorders and the life experiences that contributed to those aspirations. Data, including open-ended interviews and written questionnaires, were collected via qualitative techniques. A grounded theory methodology was used to identify, categorize, and connect themes. The study confirms the importance of career development for women with behavioral disorders. Three overriding issues stand out from these personal stories. First, school experiences are important to career development. Although most participants were disengaged with the academic components of their educational plans, they were highly engaged with their school-supported vocational experiences. Second, family cohesion had a significant effect on career aspirations. Third, participants believe they have little control over their lives, including their career choices. Implications for practitioners are discussed.
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Berends, Mark, and R. Joseph Waddington. "School Choice in Indianapolis: Effects of Charter, Magnet, Private, and Traditional Public Schools." Education Finance and Policy 13, no. 2 (2018): 227–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00225.
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School choice researchers are often limited to comparing one type of choice with another (e.g., charter schools vs. traditional public schools). One area researchers have not examined is the effects of different school types within the same urban region. We fill this gap by analyzing longitudinal data for students (grades 3–8) in Indianapolis, using student fixed effects models to estimate the impacts of students switching from a traditional public school to a charter, magnet, Catholic, or other private school. We find that students experience no differences in their achievement gains after transferring from a traditional public school to a charter school. However, students switching to magnet schools experience modest annual losses of −0.09 standard deviation (SD) in mathematics and −0.11 SD in English Language Arts. Students switching to Catholic schools also experience annual losses of −0.18 SD in mathematics. These findings are robust to a series of alternative model specifications. Additionally, we find some variability in the mean school type impacts by students’ race/ethnicity, English language learner status, and number of years enrolled in a choice school. We discuss our results in the context of the variability of choice school effects across an entire urban area, something future research needs to examine.
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Cantu, Nereyda, Daniella G. Varela, Don Jones, and Linda Challoo. "Factors that Influence School Choice: A Look at Parents’ and School Leaders’ Perceptions." Research in Educational Policy and Management 3, no. 1 (2021): 19–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.46303/repam.2021.2.
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School choice is a growing movement, and public school districts are faced with the challenge of preventing declines in student enrollment. In response, school districts must work to retain enrolled students and at the same time, attract new students. This qualitative study focused on developing an understanding of the factors that influence parents’ decisions to enroll their child(ren) in a chosen school, that is, a school which differs from that assigned to the student, also known as school choice. This case study examined data from the perspectives and experiences of parents and public school district leaders. Results suggest that school leaders need to ensure they build good relationships with parents and keep a positive school culture where customer service is valued and held to the highest standards. In essence, school leaders must maintain strong partnerships with their families to attract and retain student enrollment. The results from this study equip school leaders with valuable information for strategic planning to address declines in student enrollment.
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Mizala, Alejandra, and Pilar Romaguera. "School Performance and Choice: The Chilean Experience." Journal of Human Resources 35, no. 2 (2000): 392. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/146331.
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Andrade, Maureen Snow, and Shaylana Davis. "Business School International Alumni: A Story of Grit." International Journal of English and Cultural Studies 4, no. 1 (2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijecs.v4i1.4975.
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Business is a top choice of study for international students in countries such as the U.S., UK, Australia, and Canada; however, knowledge about the post-graduation experiences of international business school graduates varies across hosting countries and is somewhat limited. Few business schools in the U.S. survey alumni to determine how their learning experiences have impacted their professional success. Fewer still have explored the role of English language proficiency for these graduates. This study collected data from online surveys to examine the on-campus and post-graduation experiences of international alumni to determine factors that impacted their academic and professional success, with an emphasis on English language development. Findings identified five themes—achievement-oriented, long-term commitment, involvement, sense of belonging, and experiential learning. Although participant success was largely due to their own grit, schools of business and their professors could do more to contribute to this success, particularly in the areas of curriculum and pedagogy.
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Kasman, Matthew, and Susanna Loeb. "Principals' Perceptions of Competition for Students in Milwaukee Schools." Education Finance and Policy 8, no. 1 (2013): 43–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00082.
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The assertion that choice-driven competition between schools will improve school quality rests on several largely unexamined assumptions. One is that choice increases the competitive pressure experienced by school leaders. A second is that schools will seek to become more effective in response to competitive pressure. In this article, we use responses from a survey of Milwaukee public school principals to examine these assumptions. Our results suggest that there is a substantial amount of variation in how principals experience competitive pressure. Somewhat surprisingly, the extent to which principals perceive competition for students is not related to geographic factors such as the number of nearby schools. However, perceptions of competition are related to student achievement as well as to transfer rates out of a school. Although some schools respond to competition by trying to improve through curricular or instructional changes, a more common approach is to use outreach or advertisement.
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Montaño, Elizabeth. "Becoming Unionized in a Charter School: Teacher Experiences and the Promise of Choice." Equity & Excellence in Education 48, no. 1 (2015): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2015.991220.
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Butler-Barnes, Sheretta T., Charles H. Lea, Seanna Leath, and Rosa Colin. "Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Program: Examining Black Girls’ Experiences at a Predominately White School." Urban Review 51, no. 2 (2018): 149–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11256-018-0464-y.
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Emanuelsson, Ingemar. "Differentiation, Special Education and Equality: A Longitudinal Study of Self-Concepts and School Careers of Students in Difficulties and with or without Special Education Support Experiences." European Educational Research Journal 2, no. 2 (2003): 245–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2003.2.2.4.
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The main aims of the article are to analyse how school and learning careers of students with special education support during their compulsory schooling differ from those judged not in need of such support. Choice of study programmes, success in upper secondary schooling, and schools' grading of learning in compulsory school are focused upon. Patterns of post-secondary school careers are of special interest. Determined needs of special support are related to individual student characteristics as well as teaching needs of differentiation and educational demands. The database used is from approximately 8000 Swedish students, born in 1982 and followed from school start-up through post-secondary school to the age of 19. Allocation of special education resources is found more clearly related to school needs of differentiation than to individual student characteristics. The amount and kind of special education support are also related to self-confidence and students' choice of and success in post-secondary school programmes. Conclusively, most of an individual student's education career possibilities are determined early, often in the compulsory school. Such patterns are related to the overruling aim of inclusive education in ‘a school for all’. More proactive roles for support teachers are discussed.
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Campbell, Peter G., Olatilewa O. Awe, Mitchell G. Maltenfort, et al. "Medical school and residency influence on choice of an academic career and academic productivity among neurosurgery faculty in the United States." Journal of Neurosurgery 115, no. 2 (2011): 380–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2011.3.jns101176.
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Object Factors determining choice of an academic career in neurological surgery are unclear. This study seeks to evaluate the graduates of medical schools and US residency programs to determine those programs that produce a high number of graduates remaining within academic programs and the contribution of these graduates to academic neurosurgery as determined by h-index valuation. Methods Biographical information from current faculty members of all accredited neurosurgery training programs in the US with departmental websites was obtained. Any individual who did not have an American Board of Neurological Surgery certificate (or was not board eligible) was excluded. The variables collected included medical school attended, residency program completed, and current academic rank. For each faculty member, Web of Science and Scopus h-indices were also collected. Results Ninety-seven academic neurosurgery departments with 986 faculty members were analyzed. All data regarding training program and medical school education were compiled and analyzed by center from which each faculty member graduated. The 20 medical schools and neurosurgical residency training programs producing the greatest number of graduates remaining in academic practice, and the respective individuals' h-indices, are reported. Medical school graduates of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons chose to enter academics the most frequently. The neurosurgery training program at the University of Pittsburgh produced the highest number of academic neurosurgeons in this sample. Conclusions The use of quantitative measures to evaluate the academic productivity of medical school and residency graduates may provide objective measurements by which the subjective influence of training experiences on choice of an academic career may be inferred. The top 3 residency training programs were responsible for 10% of all academic neurosurgeons. The influence of medical school and residency experiences on choice of an academic career may be significant.
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Parding, Karolina, Susan McGrath-Champ, and Meghan Stacey. "Teachers, school choice and competition: Lock-in effects within and between sectors." Policy Futures in Education 15, no. 1 (2017): 113–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210316688355.
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Neoliberal forces since the latter part of the 20th century have ushered in greater devolution in state schooling systems, producing uneven effects on the working conditions of teachers, commonly the largest segment of the public sector workforce. Within this context, this paper examines secondary teachers’ working conditions as they relate to the restructuring of the professional landscape that school choice reforms bring. Drawing illustrations from a qualitative study of teachers’ working experiences in the lowest socio-economic status schools, through the ‘middle band’, to the most prestigious and affluent in a metropolitan city in Australia, this paper finds that teachers develop skill-sets that are context specific, creating possible ‘lock-in effects’ within but also between sectors. Moreover, various work arrangement issues seem to reinforce the lock-in effects by making changes between sectors risky and unattractive. We postulate that inter- and intra-sectoral differences, which are exacerbated through school choice processes, have the potential to reinforce and deepen the lock-in effects on teachers, with possible consequences for their future career mobility.
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Rees, Eliot, David Harrison, Karen Mattick, and Katherine Woolf. "Does applicant specialty ambition influence medical school choice?" British Journal of General Practice 69, suppl 1 (2019): bjgp19X703685. http://dx.doi.org/10.3399/bjgp19x703685.
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BackgroundThe NHS is critically short of doctors. The sustainability of the UK medical workforce depends on medical schools producing more future GPs who are able and willing to care for under-served patient populations. The evidence for how medical schools should achieve this is scarce. We know medical schools vary in how they attract, select, and educate future doctors. We know some medical schools produce more GPs, but it is uncertain whether those school recruit more students who are interested in general practice.AimThis study seeks to explore how applicants’ future speciality ambitions influence their choice of medical school.MethodOne-to-one semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted with medical applicants and first year medical students at eight medical schools around the UK. Interviews were audiorecorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were analysed through thematic analysis by one researcher. A sample of 20% of transcripts were analysed by a second researcher.ResultsSixty-six individuals participated in 61 individual interviews and one focus group. Interviews lasted a mean of 54 minutes (range 22–113). Twelve expressed interest in general practice, 40 favoured other specialities, and 14 were unsure. Participants’ priorities varied by speciality aspiration; those interested in general practice described favouring medical schools with early clinical experience and problem-based learning curricula, and were less concerned with cadaveric dissection and the prestige of the medical school.ConclusionMany applicants consider future speciality ambitions before applying to medical school. Speciality aspiration appears to influence priority of medical schools’ attributes.
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Getz, Marjorie, and Sherri Morris. "Starting Them Young: Introducing High School Students to Community Gerontology." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (2020): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.026.
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Abstract The Clinical Research Experience Internship Program (CREST) provides participants with foundations in scientific research appropriate for high school students interested in clinical careers in health-related disciplines (for example, nursing). The overall program goal is to provide research and career experiences to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, racial/ethnic minorities, and others who are underrepresented in these fields. The focus of this presentation is that part of the CREST program that has been ongoing since 2013. One program mentor has provided an internship experience to 22 high school students training in and work experience with community-based programs designed to improve health for older adults (identified as ‘community gerontology’). This poster presentation describes some of these experiences (e.g., preparation of caregiver support materials, preparation of nutrition based materials for congregate meal sites for older adults, coaches’ training and program implementation of several evidence-based community programs). Students have worked with older adults in senior housing facilities, supported housing complexes for veterans, and congregate meal sites for older adults. Because of the program experience, the CREST program helps dispel common stereotypes about older adults and encourages students exploring possible clinical career options to consider focusing on older adults as client populations. Program components are described which can allow conference participants to decide on the applicability of this type of programming for their own communities. Qualitative data are presented that provide insights into these experiences as these influence choice of college major and projected career paths and attitudes about working in community-based healthcare with older people.
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Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Jana Kalin, and Jasna Mažgon. "How to Run an Empty School: The Experience of Slovenian School Heads During the COVID-19 Pandemic." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (2021): 215824402110321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211032154.
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In mid-March 2020, Slovenia declared the COVID-19 epidemic, which led to the closure of schools and the transition to remote education. This article presents the findings of a study conducted during the lockdown among school heads in primary and secondary schools. The authors identify the challenges and issues the school heads faced in the first weeks of the epidemic and examine the positive experiences that may represent examples of good practice for dealing with similar problems in the future. The study was carried out through an online questionnaire containing 12 single-answer and multiple-choice questions and one Likert-type scale. The school heads were free to write their answers to two open-ended questions. The findings show that schools responded quickly to the changed circumstances and continued to deliver education to their students without interruption, although their approaches differed significantly. A great deal of improvisation was observed, as was to be expected, as the state did not have a pre-prepared plan and was not able to provide a quick and adequate response.
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Michels, Berenice I., and Harrie M. C. Eijkelhof. "High-school students engaging with researchers within a pre-university programme: Motivations and experiences." Research for All 2, no. 1 (2018): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18546/rfa.02.1.05.
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For students, the transition between secondary school and higher education can be problematic. Their prior knowledge may be insufficient, they may lack the right attitude or not have enough skills for university. Especially gifted students often lack challenges to remain motivated. Moreover, it is not easy for secondary school students to get a good picture of a variety of further studies. For their teachers, it is difficult to keep students informed about actual research in science and technology, as they are not in touch with this research on a regular basis. In this paper, we report about experiences of more than ten years at Utrecht University, offering pre-university students opportunities to be involved in lectures, workshops, laboratories and research at the university. We report on students' motivation to register for this programme, and their experiences afterwards. Important categories of motivation and experience are: raising interest in science; the choice of, and preparation for, further studies; working with a group of similar, motivated students; the wish to be challenged; and the experience of doing research at the university. University lecturers involved in the programme like to work with these students, and are motivated to share their research experiences.
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DeMink-Carthew, Jessica, and Steven Netcoh. "Mixed Feelings about Choice: Exploring Variation in Middle School Student Experiences with Making Choices in a Personalized Learning Project." RMLE Online 42, no. 10 (2019): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19404476.2019.1693480.
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Moss, Hilary J. "From Open Enrollment to Controlled Choice: How Choice-Based Assignment Replaced the Neighborhood School in Cambridge, Massachusetts." History of Education Quarterly 59, no. 03 (2019): 313–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2019.27.
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In 1981, Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the first school district in America to replace its neighborhood schools with a “controlled choice” assignment plan, which considered parental preference and racial balance. This article considers the history preceding this decision to explore how and why some Americans became enamored with choice-based assignment at the expense of the neighborhood school in the late twentieth century. It argues that Cambridge's problematic experience with open enrollment in the 1960s and 1970s created a vocal, consumer-oriented, and politically active class of parents who became accustomed to choice and, by the early 1980s, dependent on its benefits. Moreover, controlled choice proved especially attractive in this university community because Cambridge had a constituency of well-educated, middle-income parents who possessed the social capital to identify the best educational opportunities for their children, but lacked the economic capital to use real estate to gain access to their preferred schools.
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Deakin, Jo, and Aaron Kupchik. "Tough Choices: School Behaviour Management and Institutional Context." Youth Justice 16, no. 3 (2016): 280–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473225416665610.
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In the light of recent disciplinary reform in United States and United Kingdom schools, academic attention has increasingly focused on school punishment. Drawing on interviews with school staff in alternative and mainstream schools in the United States and the United Kingdom, we highlight differences in understandings and practices of school discipline. We argue that, in both countries, there is a mismatch between mainstream schools and alternative schools regarding approaches to punishment, techniques employed to manage student behaviour and supports given to students. While these disparities mirror what one would expect based on the distinct institutional arrangements and organizational priorities of alternative and mainstream schools, they pose particular problems for children transitioning between the two types of school. In this article, we raise a series of questions about the impact of these mismatches on children’s experiences and the potential for school disciplinary reform to achieve lasting results.
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Kovienė, Skaistė, and Aida Plaušinaitienė. "REFLECTIONS OF STUDENTS' PEDAGOGICAL INTERNSHIP IN PRIMARY SCHOOL: THE CONTEXT OF IMPROVING PEDAGOGICAL INTERNSHIP." ŠVIETIMAS: POLITIKA, VADYBA, KOKYBĖ / EDUCATION POLICY, MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY 12, no. 1 (2020): 8–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.48127/spvk-epmq/20.12.08.
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First cycle students’ pedagogical internship in primary school helps to improve the preparation of future pedagogues – teachers, social pedagogues, organisers of extracurricular activities. Three cycles reflecting a consistent change of roles of students who do pedagogical internship are distinguished in the model of pedagogical internship of Šiauliai University – from the observer, or pedagogue assistant under the supervision of mentor and the head of internship, to independent teacher. Pedagogical internship is not only a part of the study process, but also the factor encouraging the professional progress of a student and school where s/he is appointed for internship to and the higher school preparing the future pedagogue. Following internship, students are prompted to reflect their experience, notice its negative and positive sides, successes and failures they faced, reconsider acquired competences and foresee the ways of their professional improvement. The aim of the research is to reveal the experiences and insights of first cycle students of Šiauliai University who did a pedagogical internship in primary school that are significant for improvement of internship arrangement. The written reflection method was applied to reach the aim and collect the research data. Empirical data are analysed in the way of content analysis. The experiences and insights of first cycle students of Šiauliai University, who did a pedagogical internship in primary school, significant for improvement of pedagogical internship implementation are analysed at the time of the study. It is established that students apply their theoretical knowledge in practice during their pedagogical internship, elucidate the expediency of their profession choice and motivation for pedagogical activity. The advantages and the aspects of the pedagogical internship in primary school to be improved are revealed. Keywords: choice of profession, experience reflection, internship improvement, pedagogical internship.
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Stahl, Garth D., and Cassandra Loeser. "“My choice was not to become a tradesman, my choice was to go to uni”." Education + Training 60, no. 6 (2018): 608–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/et-03-2018-0065.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the first-year university experience as an agent for the (re)learning and (re)making of masculine identity as it intersects with other categories of identity. Historically, male students from working-class backgrounds have often struggled with identity issues and many leave school early for vocational employment where their masculinity is reinforced and validated. A small percentage, however, re-enrol in higher education later in life. This paper explores how “Deo”, a tradesperson who became a university student, reconstructed his identity during this transition. Design/methodology/approach The primary methodology for this case study is semi-structured interviews. Findings Deo articulated his transition in terms of “change” and “transformation”, in which a theme of risk was central. He also drew attention to cultural practices that regulate hierarchies of masculinity as they intersect with the identities of age, sexuality, ethnicity and socio-economic status within his work and study. Research limitations/implications This study focusses on one student’s experience in an Australian public university, so findings may not be generalisable. However, single stories are an important means of illustrating the intersection of shared socio-cultural practices. Originality/value Within adult education literature there is limited engagement with intersecting cultural narratives that shape experiences, inequalities and barriers in learners’ lives. Deo’s story gives voice to socio-cultural narratives around masculinity, age, ethnicity, sexuality and socio-economic status, highlighting their central significance to learning, being and belonging.
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Wells, Amy Stuart, Alejandra Lopez, Janelle Scott, and Jennifer Jellison Holme. "Charter Schools as Postmodern Paradox: Rethinking Social Stratification in an Age of Deregulated School Choice." Harvard Educational Review 69, no. 2 (1999): 172–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.69.2.k34475n478v43022.
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For the last two-and-a-half years, authors Amy Stuart Wells, Alejandra Lopez, Janelle Scott, and Jennifer Jellison Holme have been engaged with a team of researchers in a comprehensive qualitative study of charter schools in ten California school districts. They have emerged from this study with a new understanding of how the implementation of a specific education policy can reflect much broader social changes, including the transformation from modernity to postmodernity. Given that much of the literature on postmodernity is theoretical in nature, this article invites readers to wrestle with the complexity that results when theory meets the day-to-day experiences of people trying to start schools. In their study, the authors examined how people in different social locations define the possibilities for localized social movements, and how they see the potential threat of greater inequality resulting from this reform within and among communities. They started with a framework that questioned how charter schools came into being at this particular time that is characterized by global economic developments and demands for a more deregulated state education system. This framework allowed the authors to examine the particularistic nature of a reform that defies universal definitions. Their purpose was not to definitively state whether or not charter school reform is "working," or whether or not it is leading to greater social stratification across broad categories of race, class, and gender. Rather, the authors focused on understanding how modern identities and postmodern ideologies converge and, thus, for whom charter school reform is "working," under what conditions, and on whose terms.
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André-Bechely, Lois. "Public School Choice at the Intersection of Voluntary Integration and Not-So-Good Neighborhood Schools: Lessons From Parents’ Experiences." Educational Administration Quarterly 41, no. 2 (2005): 267–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013161x04269593.
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Haegele, Justin A., Takahiro Sato, Xihe Zhu, and Timothy Avery. "Physical Education Experiences at Residential Schools for Students who Are Blind: A Phenomenological Inquiry." Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness 111, no. 2 (2017): 135–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145482x1711100205.
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Introduction Recently, researchers have explored the perspectives of those with disabilities to better understand their experiences in physical education. However, little has been done with focusing on those with visual impairments. Utilizing a qualitative interpretive phenomenological analysis framework, the purpose of this study was to examine the meaning that adults with visual impairments who attended residential schools for students who are blind ascribed to their physical education experiences. Methods A group of five adult males who attended physical education at residential schools in the United States were purposely selected for this study. Data were collected via semistructured telephone interviews and reflective interview notes. Data were analyzed using a five-step analytical process, and recurring themes were summarized and presented as results. Results and discussion Two broadly defined interrelated themes emerged from the participants’ narratives. One theme, “being the only blind guy, to being one of the crowd,” explained how differences in school settings contributed to the differences experienced by participants when attending residential and public or community schools. Cumulatively, participants described their residential school experiences as more inclusive and explained feelings of “being normal.” The second theme, “the bullies and the bullied,” explained the lived experiences of participants within the social dynamics of physical education environments and showed perceptions of those who were “able” and “less able.” Implications for practitioners Listening to the voices of individuals with disabilities can afford researchers and teachers with a better understanding of how they experience classes and help identify strategies to improve instruction. Two important implications for physical education teachers derived from this study were to ensure that adaptations are made to meet students’ needs, and that students are afforded choices within their physical education curriculum. Furthermore, in addition to experiences of bullying in inclusive settings, practitioners must be aware of these instances in residential schools as well.
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Erinosho, Stella Y. "Scientific Experiences as Predictors of Choice of Science among Female High School Students in Nigeria." Research in Science & Technological Education 15, no. 1 (1997): 85–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0263514970150106.
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