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Johanna S. Quinn; E. Danielle Roberts; Wei-Lin Chen; Rachael Doubledee; Jennifer Brown Urban; Miriam R. Linver – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
This paper focuses on data from a study of middle- to upper-middle class Scottish S2 ([approximately]seventh grade) students who participated in Inspiring Purpose, a school-based character development program, during the 2016 to 2017 school year. Directed by their teachers, participating youth reflected on values and future aspirations and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Middle School Students, Grade 7
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Wang, Hao; Tang, Aimin – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2023
The widespread practices of online learning have sparked increasing interest in its educational efficacy. The effects of online learning on learners' moral development remain contentious in existing research. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to ascertain how online leaning impact students' moral development. It included 42 experimental and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Moral Development, Student Development, Thinking Skills
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Yashchuk, Inna P.; Vykhrushch, Vira O.; Rusnak, Ivan S.; Sharhun, Tetiana O.; Vasylyk, Maryna S. – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2020
The article presents an empirical research of the problem of educational edification in the axiological plane, analyzes scientific literature, history, and strategies of edificatory changes in response to contemporary challenges in primary education, substantiates the features of cultural and historical and pedagogical processes related to the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Values
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Hull, Darrell M.; Fagan, Marcus A.; Powell, Marvin G.; Hinerman, Krystal M.; Näslund-Hadley, Emma I.; Hayes, DeMarquis – Educational Psychology, 2021
Aggressive, violent, and disruptive behaviour among Belize youth is disproportionately high. The present study evaluated a school-based positive youth development program (Positive Action) using a clustered RCT. The aim of the study sought to examine post-treatment positive youth development competencies (i.e. social-emotional character…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
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Dogan, Soner – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2020
This study aims to find answers to the question: What kind of person should the Turkish education system raise? To evaluate the participants' responses thoroughly, the phenomenology method has been used. The study group includes 185 teachers and school administrators working in Sivas city centre. To reach out to more participants, the data have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Development, Individual Development, Ethics
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Wong, Mei-Yee – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
The human development (HD) model for religious education (RE) emphasises how students benefit from studying religion. However, detailed teaching practices for 'learning from religion' are not fully understood. In this article, lesson observations, school documents and interview data were collected from two Christian primary schools in Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Educational Practices, Role of Education, Classroom Techniques
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Watson, Marilyn; Daly, Lana; Smith, Grinell; Rabin, Colette – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2019
This article contains four parts. It begins with a description of the Child Development Project, a research project aimed at discovering ways to integrate a focus on students' social and moral development in elementary schools. Then we describe the project's mixed results in helping teachers successfully apply its approach to classroom management,…
Descriptors: Student Development, Social Development, Moral Development, Elementary School Students
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Nipitpon Nanthawong – Higher Education Studies, 2024
This research aims to compare the social studies curricula of Thailand and New York State, USA, analyze their similarities and differences, and propose guidelines for improving the Thai social studies curriculum. The study employed a qualitative research methodology, using documentary analysis of the Thai Basic Education Core Curriculum B.E. 2551…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Social Studies, Core Curriculum, Foreign Countries
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Shaked, Haim – Journal of School Leadership, 2018
Principal educators' and policy makers' predominant expectation from school principals to serve as instructional leaders--who engage primarily in a wide range of activities that clearly focus on improving teaching and learning for all students--has scarcely been applied in practice by principals in today's schools. Researchers have found several…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Role, Instructional Leadership, Educational Objectives
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Kamberelis, George; McGinley, William; Welker, Alyson – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2015
In this report, we argue that some of the most productive and edifying kinds of literature discussions among certain ages/grade levels may be best understood as "mangles of practice" (Pickering, 1995). Mangles of practice involve the coalescence of planned and contingent forces, and they produce emergent or self-organizing…
Descriptors: Literature, Discussion, Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language)
Denaro, Edward Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of elementary school physical education teachers towards teaching character education related to the variables respect, honesty, fairness and self-discipline and to examine their attitudes towards the character development of their fourth and/or fifth grade students related to the variables…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Behavior, Discipline, Females