Maria Martinez-Cosio
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4192091 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maria Martinez-Cosio |
| NOMBRES | Maria |
| APELLIDO | Martinez-Cosio |
| FIRMA | MARTINEZ-COSIO M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
(St)aging in place
As the number of older adults is growing rapidly in the U.S., the need for personalized, innovative, and sustainable Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) solutions is critical to support individuals' social, emotional, and physical health. Such technology can significantly help older adults' ability to live independently in their homes despite the challenges the aging process may present, referred to as aging or staging in place. In …
The Tempering Effect of Schools on Students Experiencing a Life-Changing Event
Focusing specifically on adolescents forced to relocate after Hurricane Katrina, the study looks closely at the role of schools in helping adolescents adapt after a natural disaster. Data collected from 46 middle and high school students across a 6-month period demonstrate that those who showed the greatest improvements in their well-being were those who sought help from their teachers, whose new school created a milieu of cooperation, and who we…
Private foundations and community development
Comprehensive community change through focused, place-based is gaining traction among private foundations and public partners frustrated with the lack of systemic change in poor neighborhoods. As they work to engage low-income residents, private foundations often describe their work as “bottom-up” participation. However, “bottom-up” approaches to empowering communities vary in their strategies, implementation and outcomes. We use an “outcome-base…
Parents’ Roles in Mediating and Buffering the Implementation of an Urban School Reform
This article presents an analysis of a Latino parent group and an African American parent group in California who struggled to engage with a contentious urban school reform. Using Bourdieu’s cultural capital framework, the study focuses on the institutional responses to parent involvement, and the inequality in access that occurs as capital from different parent groups is validated or dismissed. Findings suggest that researchers also focus on sch…
Ethical Issues in Disaster Research
The Tenuous Role of Institutional Agents
This article reports on the contradictory role of parent involvement coordinators charged with increasing participation of low-income immigrant parents. This urban ethnographic study investigates the success of one program that engages Latino, Asian, and African American parents in the governance of their Southern California urban elementary school. It illustrates the dilemmas and tensions that arise as institutional agents serve as cultural brok…
The Tenuous Role of Institutional Agents
This article reports on the contradictory role of parent involvement coordinators charged with increasing participation of low-income immigrant parents. This urban ethnographic study investigates the success of one program that engages Latino, Asian, and African American parents in the governance of their Southern California urban elementary school. It illustrates the dilemmas and tensions that arise as institutional agents serve as cultural brok…
Parents’ Roles in Mediating and Buffering the Implementation of an Urban School Reform
This article presents an analysis of a Latino parent group and an African American parent group in California who struggled to engage with a contentious urban school reform. Using Bourdieu’s cultural capital framework, the study focuses on the institutional responses to parent involvement, and the inequality in access that occurs as capital from different parent groups is validated or dismissed. Findings suggest that researchers also focus on sch…
Private foundations and community development
Comprehensive community change through focused, place-based is gaining traction among private foundations and public partners frustrated with the lack of systemic change in poor neighborhoods. As they work to engage low-income residents, private foundations often describe their work as “bottom-up” participation. However, “bottom-up” approaches to empowering communities vary in their strategies, implementation and outcomes. We use an “outcome-base…
Ethical Issues in Disaster Research
The Tempering Effect of Schools on Students Experiencing a Life-Changing Event
Focusing specifically on adolescents forced to relocate after Hurricane Katrina, the study looks closely at the role of schools in helping adolescents adapt after a natural disaster. Data collected from 46 middle and high school students across a 6-month period demonstrate that those who showed the greatest improvements in their well-being were those who sought help from their teachers, whose new school created a milieu of cooperation, and who we…
The Tenuous Role of Institutional Agents
This article reports on the contradictory role of parent involvement coordinators charged with increasing participation of low-income immigrant parents. This urban ethnographic study investigates the success of one program that engages Latino, Asian, and African American parents in the governance of their Southern California urban elementary school. It illustrates the dilemmas and tensions that arise as institutional agents serve as cultural brok…
Ethical Issues in Disaster Research
Parents’ Roles in Mediating and Buffering the Implementation of an Urban School Reform
This article presents an analysis of a Latino parent group and an African American parent group in California who struggled to engage with a contentious urban school reform. Using Bourdieu’s cultural capital framework, the study focuses on the institutional responses to parent involvement, and the inequality in access that occurs as capital from different parent groups is validated or dismissed. Findings suggest that researchers also focus on sch…
The Tempering Effect of Schools on Students Experiencing a Life-Changing Event
Focusing specifically on adolescents forced to relocate after Hurricane Katrina, the study looks closely at the role of schools in helping adolescents adapt after a natural disaster. Data collected from 46 middle and high school students across a 6-month period demonstrate that those who showed the greatest improvements in their well-being were those who sought help from their teachers, whose new school created a milieu of cooperation, and who we…
Private foundations and community development
Comprehensive community change through focused, place-based is gaining traction among private foundations and public partners frustrated with the lack of systemic change in poor neighborhoods. As they work to engage low-income residents, private foundations often describe their work as “bottom-up” participation. However, “bottom-up” approaches to empowering communities vary in their strategies, implementation and outcomes. We use an “outcome-base…
(St)aging in place
As the number of older adults is growing rapidly in the U.S., the need for personalized, innovative, and sustainable Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) solutions is critical to support individuals' social, emotional, and physical health. Such technology can significantly help older adults' ability to live independently in their homes despite the challenges the aging process may present, referred to as aging or staging in place. In …
Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Economic growth (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · Medicine (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Public relations (3 obras) · Cultural capital (2 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (2 obras) · Disaster Response and Management (2 obras)