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Thabang Donald Mokoena; Gideon Petrus van Tonder – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to determine the impact of mentorship on the development of self-directedness among beginner teachers in their initial years of teaching. Design/methodology/approach: The researcher adopted a positivist paradigm to explore the situation of concern. Quantitative research was conducted, involving the collection and analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Mentors
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Daniel F. O. Onah; Elaine L. L. Pang; Jane E. Sinclair – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2024
Despite the proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and the impressive levels of enrolment they attract, many participants do not complete these courses. High drop-out has been identified as one of the major problems with existing MOOC formats. Our work addresses two factors relating to non-completion. Firstly, MOOCs require a high…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Self Management, Independent Study, Educational Technology
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Rebecka M. Bloomer; Aishia Brown – Children & Schools, 2024
Youth development programs offer flexible environments for healing and positive identity development for youth facing discrimination and oppression. Programs often occur in out-of-school time (OST), a context that is clearly positioned in tandem with the education system to create complex relationships that lead to challenges in OST spaces. Youth…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Youth, Action Research, Participatory Research
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Richard J. Sampson – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Empirical work exploring additional language (L+) learning emotions has both proliferated and expanded its focus over the past 15 years. The current article explores one possibility for responding to the challenge of capturing and describing emotions in order to furnish a more contextualized, multidimensional picture of emotions in L+ learning:…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Instructional Effectiveness
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Hsin Huang; Hui-Chen Lin – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
Professional Identity Formation (PIF) is considered a crucial process in medical education. It involves how medical students identify their role as physicians, discover their professional positioning, and gradually develop their professional identity through social interactions. This qualitative descriptive study adopted the phenomenological…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Professional Identity, Medical Education, Medical Students
Donald Erik Reed – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation uses an anti-deficit perspective to explore the academic experiences of Black men who have completed their bachelor's degrees at predominantly white institutions (PWIs). Despite the reality that only 34% of Black men achieve their undergraduate degrees within six years, this study shifts the narrative from focusing on obstacles…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Males, Bachelors Degrees, Predominantly White Institutions