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"Urban" Schooling And "Urban" Families: The Role Of Context And Place, Vivian L. Gadsden, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román Dec 2015

"Urban" Schooling And "Urban" Families: The Role Of Context And Place, Vivian L. Gadsden, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román

Ezekiel J Dixon-Román

Conceptualizations of urban context and place in research, practice, and policy are relational, ranging from spatial dimensions to cultural practices of children, families, and communities in metropolitan areas. In this article, we focus on the inherent complexity of these conceptualizations and long-standing debates in education and social science research that label urban as a point of both identity and designation. We position urban context itself as a genre of thinking and imagining; challenges complicated in research, scholarship, and policy; practice and pedagogy; and public will and political rhetoric, influencing educational options and spanning issues from poverty to schooling.

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Asthma Management: An Ecosocial Framework For Disparity Research, Robin A. Evans-Agnew Jun 2014

Asthma Management: An Ecosocial Framework For Disparity Research, Robin A. Evans-Agnew

Robin A Evans-Agnew

Background: Asthma management disparities (AMD) between African and White Americans are significant and alarming. Various determinants have been suggested by research frameworks that affect the unfair distribution of resources for asthma management to groups who are more or less advantaged socially. Ecosocial models organize determinants into individual/family, healthcare, community, and sociocultural levels. Multilevel interventions can affect AMD through simultaneous actions on different levels and pathways between determinants. Objective: Provide a comprehensive summary of the known determinants of AMD. Method: Peer reviewed research frameworks of AMD from 1998-2009 were retrieved from PubMed/ Web of Science databases using (“Socioeconomic Factors”[Mesh] OR (“Healthcare …

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Social Learning Pillars, Sam Frankel Dec 2012

Social Learning Pillars, Sam Frankel

Sam Frankel

The Social Learning Model provide a focus for a Social Learning Agenda in schools. This document reflects the definition of a Social Learner and the 5 pillars that can direct school communities in implementing a social learning agenda as they seek to equip children as social learners.

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Reflexive Autopoietic Systems Theory, Kent D. Palmer Dec 1999

Reflexive Autopoietic Systems Theory, Kent D. Palmer

Kent D. Palmer

Exploring the Meta-systems of Emergent Worlds

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