In this literature review, the authors suggested that three themes arose from recent vocational psychology literature promoting (a) agency in career development, (b) equity in the workforce, and (c) well‐being in work and educational settings. The authors reviewed research on career adaptability, self‐efficacy beliefs, and work volition with the goal of delineating variables that promote or con...

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends early childhood education programs based on strong evidence of effectiveness in improving educational outcomes associated with long-term health and sufficient evidence of effectiveness in improving social- and health-related outcomes. When provided to low-income or racial and ethnic minority communities, early childhood education programs ...

Nearly half a century or so of unsuccessful attempts to achieve structural equity in educational outcomes exposes the ultimate ineffectiveness of conventional educational practices. This is of great concern because in the era of ‘fast capitalism’ and the globally competitiveness of the ‘New Work Order’, educational achievement by working class and ‘minority’ group students, and therefore our co...

This paper examines gender and computer game playing, in particular questions of identity, access and playful engagement with these technologies. Because computer-based media are not only central tools for learning and work, and because games and simulations are increasingly being recruited as educational and instructional genres, it is likewise exceedingly important, from an educational equity...