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School Counselors’ Perspectives on Preparing Students Experiencing Homelessness for College
Get PDFThe purpose of the study is to investigate school counselors’ support of youth experiencing homelessness going to college. Using survey methods, school counselors reported their knowledge, perceived competence, advocacy, and actions related to supporting students experiencing homelessness in their college preparation. The results suggested that training and the number of students experiencing homelessness on counselors’ caseloads were significantly related to their knowledge and competence. Knowledge, competence, and advocacy all impacted the number of interventions utilized by participants. The implications of these results for school counselors and counselor educators are discussed
Master Narrative of College Access Belies Reality for Today’s Students
Get PDFMaster and alternative narratives offer a useful framework through which to consider contemporary issues in college access. Implicit and ubiquitous, the master narrative of a linear progression from high school through a residential college toward a fulfilling career has long been dominant. Meanwhile, alternative narratives of fluid, dynamic, alternate pathways are ascendant, having received a boost from the Covid-19 pandemic and the stubborn lack of affordable postsecondary options. Observing a decline in a shared cultural narrative about college, the authors recommend that advisors help students to sort through possible storylines and then write their own
Believing Medieval Women
No full textFeminism would encourage us to believe women’s claims of being forced into marriage or mistreated within it. Yet we find these claims in medieval court records, which we know cannot be believed at face value. Women and men knew how to use the ecclesiastical court system and what needed to be alleged to get out of a marriage. This article reviews the various legal means to separation or nullification of a marriage, and draws on examples from jurisdictions across Europe to show how women and men made use of them. It suggests that the different patterns in different jurisdictions are a result of people’s awareness of local court custom and that the social needs that lie behind them may have been quite similar
Jacque and Her Four Husbands (Picardy, 1490s)
No full textThis paper examines the judicial odyssey of Jacque Le Carpentier, an inhabitant of Amiens (Picardy)), judged in first instance by her bishop, then on appeal by the archbishop of Reims, and finally by the Pope and his judge delegate, the Bishop of Arras. With these multiple appeals, Jacque sought to escape the marital promise Gille Lhoste claimed she had made to him. The matter was complicated when Jean Hanocque, whom she had subsequently secretly married, killed Gille during the proceedings. Jacque then addressed a petition to the Apostolic Penitentiary, while Jean obtained pardon for the murder from the king of France. This reconstituted dossier of documents reveals a remarkable record of a woman’s engagement with courts at multiple jurisdictional levels, and as a result sheds light on the agency of a bourgeoise of Picardy at the end of the Middle Ages. The paper also shows that, contrary to what scholars has long asserted, different jurisdictions do not necessarily compete with each other: for the litigants, they can function as complementary resources in handling judicial concerns
A Global Perspective on Intersecting Social and Systemic Barriers Experienced by Grandparent-Caregivers: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Get PDFGlobally, many grandparents are taking on the caregiving role for their grandchildren without public or government interjection of support, particularly financial assistance for basic needs such as housing, health care and living expenses. This paper aimed to broaden understanding of social and systemic barriers experienced by grandparent-caregivers across the globe. Of the 2,828 relevant grandparent caregiving studies identified in the literature, 34 representing eight countries met our inclusion criteria to answer the research question and the focus of this paper: What are the social and systemic barriers experienced by grandparent-caregivers across the globe? We utilized Noblit’s and Hare’s (1988) meta-ethnography method and phases of the eMERGe reporting guidelines (France et al., 2019) to improve the completeness and clarity of the synthesis. Bronfenbrenner\u27s socioecological model informed the qualitative analysis that consisted of three interactive levels that impacted the various aspects of grandparent-caregivers and their grandchildren: the exosystem (physical environment and programs and services), macrosystem (systemic barriers, culture, religion, and spirituality), and chronosystem (time and historic influences). The use of both the meta-ethnography approach and eMERGe guidelines increased transparency, reproducibility and credibility of the synthesis, while the socioecological model enabled us to effectively identify common global and cross-cultural needs among grandparent-caregivers. Our findings have potential to: (1) identify gaps in, and barriers to, available resources for grandparent-caregivers and (2) inform the design of comprehensive intervention models and screening tools needed to address perceived support needs. Further research is needed on comprehensive assessment of support needs and health risks unique to each setting
Wellbeing and Indigenous Aymara Orphans in Perú: An Empirical Study at Hogar de Niñas Virgen de Fatima de Chejoña, Puno
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a wide spectrum of well-documented adverse mental health outcomes for children and adults, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), self-harm, suicide, and other detrimental impacts to the well-being of young people. These impacts have extended to Perú where 216,000 people in a population of 33 million died from the disease, despite that country being the first to fully lockdown in Latin America. It is predicted that about 200,000 children will become orphans or lose their guardians as a consequence of this unprecedented surge in mortality. Compelling and sustained international research since the 1970s suggests Transcendental Meditation generates salutary effects to physical and mental health and behavior and social relations, and a multi-school, multi-context, pre- and peri-pandemic research program has shown it may do the same in Perú. To test that proposition for well-being, the present study using the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) measured the impact of Transcendental Meditation on 49 Aymara orphan adolescent girls in a remote Andean residential care community. Results suggest that three months of meditation practice increased well-being from 42.8% to 55.1% (F = 11.08, p = .03), a statistically significant change when compared to two comparison groups from the same orphanage. While PWI post-test scores in the meditation group were lower than those observed for other girls in residential care in Perú and normative samples from Chile, Brazil, and Spain, the trend toward increased well-being is encouraging
The Role of Hope in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth: The Relationship Between Bullying and Life Satisfaction
No full textAmong sexual and gender minority students, 70% are bullied at school every year in the United States (2019). This study utilized a random 6% sample (n = 400) from the 2018 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey (n = 32,271), to assess the relationships between sexuality, bullying and life satisfaction, and then how hope moderates this established relationship. Results of this study illustrate the negative effects of bullying on life satisfaction for all students, while highlighting differences across sexuality. Additionally, this study illustrates that interventions to address the impacts of bullying might be best served by including the positive construct of hope
A Wide-Angle View of Prekindergarten Through 12th-Grade Teachers’ Beliefs About Language Correction
Get PDFThis article explores patterns in teachers’ reported correction of student language use in speech and writing. The authors use the concept of language correction in student writing and student speech as a proxy for prescriptive approaches to teaching about language. By conducting a large-scale survey of all language and literacy teachers from preschool through 12th grade across an entire state, the authors were able to identify patterns in teachers’ approaches to teaching about language that smaller case studies and nuanced qualitative studies have not yet documented. They examine differences in teachers’ self-reported correction of student language use across teacher characteristics and contexts such as grade levels taught, regions of the state, years of teaching experience, and whether teachers had taken a linguistics class. The authors identified marked differences in how elementary and secondary teachers report correcting student writing and speech. They found a small but significant difference in the impact of taking a linguistics class depending on grades taught. They note small but significant differences between reported correction of language for teachers in urban and rural contexts. They discuss implications for professional development on teaching about language targeted to the needs of teachers based on grade level, context, and experience
Associations Between Learning Environment and Study Satisfaction Across Time: Two Cross-Sectional Analyses of Occupational Therapy Students
Get PDFThere is increasing attention toward students’ satisfaction and how they perceive the quality of the program they attend. This study examined stability and change across time with regard to the relationships between learning environment factors and occupational therapy students’ satisfaction with the program. In the two consecutive cross-sectional analyses performed in this study, 163 second-year students and 193 third-year students from all six occupational therapy education programs in Norway participated. The Course Experience Questionnaire was used to assess learning environment factors and study satisfaction. The data were analyzed with Pearson’s correlation coefficient r and with hierarchical linear regression. Bivariate associations between the learning environment scales were positive and most associations were statistically significant in both study years. Relatively stable associations between the learning environment variable “good teaching” and higher study satisfaction were detected, while other associations differed between years of study. Embedding quality into the learning process, in particular by emphasizing good teaching and the clear dissemination of goals and standards, is important for student satisfaction throughout years of study