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Title Progress in education. Volume 17 / Robert V. Nata, editor
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 277 pages)
Series Progress in education ; v. 17
Contents PROGRESS IN EDUCATION, VOLUME 17; PROGRESS IN EDUCATION, VOLUME 17; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1WHY THEORY IS FAILING IN THEAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY:THE BATTLE TO REDUCE HIV/AIDS; ABSTRACT; DISTRUST OF THE GOVERNMENT; CONSPIRACY THEORIES; SOURCES OF HEALTHCARE TREATMENT; OTHER BARRIERS TO CONDOM USE; INCORRECT BELIEFS; UNIQUE NEEDS OF AT-RISK GROUPS; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN (MSM); CURRENTLY OR PREVIOUSLY INCARCERATED MEN; INJECTION DRUG USE (IDU); HETEROSEXUAL WOMEN; CONCLUSIONS/CALL TO ACTION; REFERENCES
Chapter 2AGAINST SCIENCE EDUCATION: THE AIMS OFSCIENCE EDUCATION AND THEIR CONNECTIONABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY AND THE ONUS ARGUMENT; POSSIBLE JUSTIFICATORY STRATEGIES IN DISCHARGE OF THE ONUS; SOME POSSIBLE AIMS OF SCIENCE EDUCATION OFFEREDIN DISCHARGE OF THE ONUS; WORKFORCE PREPARATION?; CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY'S WEALTH?; ""COPING""?; (INTRINSIC)WORTHWHILENESS OF SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDINGAS PART OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION?; PURSUING LIFE GOALS; BECOMING A""GOOD CITIZEN""?; COMBINATIONS?; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES
Chapter 3BECOMING DIFFERENT: PERSPECTIVETRANSFORMATION THROUGH POST-REGISTRATIONBACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDIESABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; BACKGROUND; STUDY DESIGN; FINDINGS -- BECOMING DIFFERENT; Thinking Differently; Seeing Things in a Different Light; Bringing Others Along; DISCUSSION; IMPLICATIONS, LIMITATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH EDUCATIONRESEARCH -- VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; DEFINITION OF "VULNERABLE POPULATION"; THE SCORE OF HEALTH EDUCATION; APPLYING HEALTH EDUCATIONTHEORY TO VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH (CBPR) ANDPARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (PAR)CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DEVELOPING CULTURALLY SENSITIVE INTERVENTIONS; APPLYING HEALTH EDUCATIONTHEORY AMONG VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; Step 1: Social Assessment; Step 2: Epidemiological Assessment; Step 3: Behavioural and Environmental Assessment; Step 4: Educational and Ecological Assessment; Step 5: Administrative and Policy Assessment; Steps 6 to 9: Implementation and Evaluation; CASE STUDY I; THE EBINO EDUCATION PROJECT; Step 1: Social Assessment; Step 2: Epidemiological Assessment
Step 3: Behavioural and Environmental AssessmentStep 4: Educational and Ecological Assessment; Step 5: Administrative and Policy Assessment; Steps 6 to 9: Implementation and Evaluation; THEORY OF DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; PLANNING FOR DIFFUSION: INNOVATIONAND ADOPTER CHARACTERISTICS; DIFFUSION AS A MULTI-LEVEL CHANGE PROCESS; CASE STUDY II; THE PIKA WIYA PROJECT; BACKGROUND; MULTI-LEVEL CHANGE PROCESS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5HEALTH AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AMONGIMMIGRANT CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHOD; Subject Selection; Procedure; RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253) and index
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Subject Education -- United States -- Periodicals
Educational change -- United States -- Periodicals
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Education
Educational change
Aufsatzsammlung
Forschung
Pädagogik
United States
USA
Genre/Form Periodicals
Form Electronic book
Author Nata, R.
ISBN 9781614706243
1614706247
9781606925058
1606925059