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Makbule Duran Mucuk; Ekrem Sedat Sahin – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of relative deprivation in the relationship between social exclusion and depression in adolescents. A total of 437 (269 female, 168 male) adolescents (78 9th, 106 10th, 192 11th, and 61 12th-grade students) from four different high schools in Turkey participated in the study. Latent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Isolation, Depression (Psychology), High School Students
Yovanna Chacon Valdez; Olivier Gaudet; Jérémie Verner-Filion; Marie-Hélène Véronneau – Educational Psychology, 2024
High school teachers often struggle to engage students who have little or no motivation to learn. We argue that improving students' perceptions of affective relationships with teachers may have the potential to positively influence their motivation, and vice versa. This study looks at reciprocal associations between students' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Student Motivation, High School Students, High School Teachers
José Weinstein; Javiera Peña; Matías Sembler; Elisa Ansoleaga – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
The COVID crisis has caused that the way of teaching classes in schools must be reinvented, but it has also transformed other dimensions of relationship between teachers and students. This article collects qualitative information regarding how high school teachers have developed actions to interact with their students, as well as the vision that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High School Teachers, COVID-19
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Chiang, Yi-Lin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
Scholars generally agree that financial deprivation negatively affects students' educational outcomes. However, while absolute levels of resources are important, individuals' perceived relative economic wellbeing also shape their educational outcomes. This article asks whether attending school with peers from comparably richer families is related…
Descriptors: Expectation, Academic Aspiration, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
Michael Kuran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted traditional K-12 education worldwide, forcing a rapid shift to emergency remote teaching and learning. This dissertation utilizes a three-article approach and investigates the multifaceted impact of the pandemic on urban charter high school students and their principals in under-resourced communities. The first…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Schools, COVID-19
Schultz, Madeleine; Delaney, Seamus – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements in 2019 provided a perfect opportunity to implement community engagement activities that repositioned the public image of chemistry, from one detrimentally linked to the long-term impacts of its previous achievements such as plastic waste and polluting industrial plants to one that…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Outreach Programs, Sustainable Development, Hands on Science
McMullan, Tara; Sutherland, Julia – London Review of Education, 2020
This action research study, drawing on participatory frameworks, investigated whether a Year 10 English class (15-16-year-olds), including struggling readers, could develop their reading self-concept and 'voice'. The research aimed to extend findings from a larger, mixed-method study, developing reading comprehension and motivation with younger…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Reading Motivation, Grade 9
Koukounaras-Liagkis, Marios – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
Based on a qualitative research (2012-15) this paper is concerned with the identification of concepts and constructs of knowledge in RE. It is based on participative enquiry and educational action-research methodology. Over a three-year period, the researcher, teachers and the students of a High School in one of the most difficult social, economic…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
Worrell, Frank C.; Perry, John L.; Wells, Kevin E.; McKay, Michael T. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
Closing the poverty-related attainment gap in schoolchildren is a stated priority for the Scottish Government. In the present study, we examine the poverty-related attainment gap in Glasgow, a city wherein more than half of the 100 most deprived areas in Scotland are to be found. Further, we examine the potential mediating role of school…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Time Perspective
Wewiora, Elizabeth – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2019
This article describes a current project by Liverpool organisations Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), Whitby High School (Ellesmere Port), recent partners Liverpool Hope University and Curious Minds. The school is in an area of high socio-economic deprivation and low level of cultural engagement. The project seeks to support students' photographic and…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Photography, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
Lembe, Gorgon; Ewamela, Aristide; Litoto Pambou, Lucien; Afobouri, Georges Alfred; Massamba, Alphonse – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
This study identifies and analyzes the different expressions of violence during physical education courses among a school population, and the pedagogical strategies of teachers to reduce violence in Brazzaville, Congo. Based on a survey of students of high schools from disadvantaged environment and teachers, a cross-sectional and analytical survey…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Physical Education, Violence
Laplanche Carey, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Social capital is an under investigated resource that many students access to increase their human capital. Within disadvantaged communities, social capital is not readily available to African American male adolescents. This narrative inquiry study explored how social capital impacted the academic achievement of young African-American males during…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Academic Achievement, Males, Adolescents
Omidire, Margaret Funke – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This article reports on the influence of communication skills on rural students' resilience and well-being. Purposive sampling was used to retrospectively select 40 (f: n = 20; m: n = 20) Grade 9 students in a rural school that were involved in a larger youth project that aimed to deliver pathways towards resilience in rural schools through…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Aspiration, Resilience (Psychology), Student Welfare
Mavuru, Lydia; Ramnarain, Umesh Dewnarain – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This article draws from an exploratory study of science teachers' experiences when utilising learners' home languages in teaching grade 9 learners in three South African high schools. This research investigated teacher use of learners' home languages in science instruction, with a particular focus on the affordances and challenges of using…
Descriptors: Affordances, Barriers, Multilingualism, Natural Sciences
Douglas, Walter; Topping, Keith – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2020
Introduction: High school students' self-efficacy beliefs about their ability to successfully obtain a first postsecondary destination in employment, education or training, and the learning sources of these beliefs were examined. Method: Factor analysis of an inventory administered to 1044 high school students (573 males and 471 females) who…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Adjustment (to Environment)