This research explores the transformative potential and effect of democratic education as an alternative to mainstream hegemonic education. It examines and compares two unique schools in two diverse communities: The one is a bilingual (Spanish and English) multicultural public e…
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This Executive Leadership Paper documents efforts to develop a comprehensive framework of promising practices to best serve Black and Latino boys. The educational and societal plight of this population is well documented and they are served in alternative schools and programs in…
Homeschooling is not an aberration but a phenomenon which many scholars believe to be associated with the most idiosyncratic individuals. As unconventional as this educational method may appear, the practice of educating children at home is one alternative to charter, public, pr…
The modernist paradigm of education seems to have failed in seeing an adequate rationale to advocate spiritual literacy and spiritual growth in schools because of its subscription to the secular worldview. Likewise, art educators, adhering to the secular sanctioning of spiritual…
The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions toward distance learning in the private sector in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, this study aims to examine and explain the impact of the type of organizations and occupation on the perceptions of training managers and trainin…
This phenomenological case study describes how a Post-Correctional Education Intervention (PCEI) was developed for a local community-based organization that had recently constructed a transition house for formerly incarcerated adults who converted to Islam while incarcerated. Th…
Contesting international strategies for combatting child labour that derive from modern, Western conceptions of childhood, several developing country organizations have embraced the principle of child protagonism by declaring that working children can become the leading agents i…
The homeschooling movement has seen steady growth since its resurgence in the last half of the 20 th century. In the last several years, there have also been a growing number of African American and Muslim homeschoolers, adding to the diversity of the homeschooling community. Mu…
Today, education is perhaps more important than at any other time in history. Amid the ever-accumulating frequency of technological, systematic and social change in the world, the right to a valuable education should expand to all children. The tremendously damaging information …
The purpose of this study was to: (1) describe the perceptions of County Office of Education Court and Community School administrators on the accuracy of the CaliforniaDashboard/Dashboard Alternative School Status; (2) describe the perceptions of County Office of Education Court…
Teacher wellbeing (burnout, secondary trauma, compassion satisfaction) is associated with teacher attrition (Chang, 2009; Howard & Johnson, 2004; Hutell, Melin, & Gustavsson, 2013) and student academic outcomes (school connectedness and academic achievement) (Arens & Morin, 2016…