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Strategies for Greater Inclusion of Indigenous Students in College Science Programs

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The substantial underrepresentation of American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiʻian (AI/AN/NH) students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) majors at United States colleges and universities results from systemic barriers in higher education.
Jonathan D. Baker, Nievita Bueno Watts, Devon S. Isaacs, Matthew D. Johnson, DenYelle B. Kenyon, Racheal Killgore, Catherine Peltier, Jesse L. Peltier, Sasheen Shailee C. Raymond, Alan H. Savitzky, Hugh E. Smeltekop, Amy E. Sprowles, Melissa Tehee, Jennifer Yazzie, Mary Jo Ondrechen   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Horizontal inequality in the transition to upper secondary education in Spain

Papers, 2022
Effectively maintained inequality theory posits that a reduction in vertical inequality following the expansion of a level of education will be compensated by an increase in horizontal inequality.
Manuel T. Valdés
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of the Aspire Alliance's Regional Collaboratives (RCs) in STEM Faculty Pathways

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical challenge in postsecondary education: the persistent lack of diversity and limited pathways into STEM faculty roles, particularly at community colleges. We examine how the Aspire Alliance's Regional Collaboratives (RCs) model works to create sustainable two‐year and four‐year partnerships to advance and ...
Lorenzo Baber, Karla Velasco, Jeongsan Hwang, Gianina Baker, Jess Gregg, Chandra Turpen, Craig Ogilvie   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol, Elizaveta Lyssova‐Golomzina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the influence of a psychiatry training program on nursing students’ attitudes towards mentally ill

Journal of Education and Health Promotion
BACKGROUND: Mental disorders are a global concern, affecting millions worldwide. Despite effective therapies, societal stigma toward mental illness persists, hindering access to healthcare and perpetuating negative stereotypes. These prejudiced attitudes
Praveen Rikhari, Vishal Sinha, Gyanendra Kumar, Ayushi Bisht, Aayush Kapoor, Pragya Rikhari   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Entry into and Completion of Vocational Baccalaureate School in Switzerland: Do Differences in Regional Admission Regulations Matter?

Education Sciences, 2022
Upper secondary education in Switzerland is divided into a general and a vocational path. Approximately two thirds of adolescents attend the vocational path.
Miriam Hänni, Irene Kriesi, Jörg Neumann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing interdisciplinary understanding: Disciplinary crossroads in the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Assessing interdisciplinary learning within school curricula remains a persistent challenge in educational research. Difficulties in articulating shared assessment criteria, alongside differing disciplinary and pedagogical perspectives, have contributed to ongoing uncertainty around how interdisciplinary learning should be evaluated.
Hermione Paddle
wiley   +1 more source

Rapports à l’institution scolaire chez les lycéens de terminale

إنسانيات, 1998
The wager in attenting a secondary school in preparing for the G.C.S.E.’ A levels’ or highers school life is organised more and more in this objective from the passage to and attendance of 4 th form (1° A.S. in the Algerian educational system).Confronted
Nouria Benghabrit Remaoun
doaj   +1 more source

Cloud technologies as a basis for the integration of teacher training systems for the International Baccalaureate schools

RUDN Journal of Informatization in Education, 2020
Problem and goal. The article describes and substantiates the ways of solving the problem of the lack of approaches to the integration of methodical systems for training future teachers for International Baccalaureate programs based on the use of cloud ...
Vadim V. Grinshkun, Lyubov A. Shunina
doaj   +1 more source

Metabolic Syndrome and Dementia Risk in Older Adults: A Narrative Review

The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dementia is a major global health issue in aging societies. Metabolic syndrome (MetS), a cluster of metabolic abnormalities, has been proposed as a modifiable risk factor for dementia, although existing evidence remains inconsistent. This review examined recent studies on the association between MetS and dementia risk in older adults.
Hyojin Park, Mallika Chuansangeam, Yuan‐Han Yang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source