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Douglas B. Stirling – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how fourth-year Christian male emerging adults at a Christian college in the northeastern United States identify and describe changes in religiosity as expressed by the tenets of trust in parental religiosity, by missional outreach, and by personal faith, which form the basic…
Descriptors: Christianity, Males, Religious Colleges, Young Adults
Irina, Avdeeva; Valeria, Hrabrova; Larisa, ?donina; Olga, Shutova; Elizaveta, Rusnakova – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
A key characteristic of a learner-centered educational process is its realization as a subject-to-subject interaction between participants. At present, a view that the goal of the pedagogical process is to create conditions for the development of a creative and moral personality, independent in cognitive and practical activities, free to choose a…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Personality Traits, Interaction, Personality Development
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Madsen, Ulla Ambrosius; Carney, Stephen – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2011
This paper challenges us to consider the meaning of schooling for youth in the global south. We explore the ways in which young people living and learning on the outskirts of Kathmandu balance the visions and passions of modern schooling with social realities that are often quite incompatible. We depart from conventional analyses of modernity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postmodernism, Youth Problems, Youth Opportunities
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Newton, Nicola; Stewart, Abigail J. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2010
It has been argued that the predominant focus of midlife personality development is generativity; other research has found that social roles influence both its onset and its expression. In this article, we examine women's midlife personality development and its relationship to career and family commitments. Results for a sample of 90 women…
Descriptors: Females, Intimacy, Personality Traits, Personality Development
Porter, Susan Eva – Independent School, 2010
Teenagers, and many preteens, can't get away from their hormone-filled bodies; therefore, they spend lots of time during school contending with issues of sexuality--from profound questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to more mundane issues such as whom a particularly cute classmate will choose to sit next to in English. Like it or…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Adolescents, Guidelines, Sexuality
Zacharias, Nugrahenny Tourisia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study reports the evolving teacher identities of 12 South/East Asian teachers during their study in the United States. Grounded in poststructuralist views of identities, the study employed narrative analysis to capture the complexities of teacher identity construction. Narrative data were collected through in-depth individual interviews,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Focus Groups, Content Analysis, Personal Narratives