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Marie-Amélie Martinie; Rebecca Shankland – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
The present study investigated whether study engagement is predicted by personal resources (i.e., self-efficacy and psychological flexibility) and achievement goals. A total of 223 French first-year humanities and social sciences students were invited to complete an online questionnaire comprising scales measuring the three predictors. The results…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Psychological Patterns
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Mascret, Nicolas; Marlin, Kane; Laisney, Patrice; Castéra, Jérémy; Brandt-Pomares, Pascale – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the aims of the present cross-sectional study were i) to investigate acceptance by teachers of an open-source, collaborative, free m-learning app, named "Artefac," ii) to examine whether teachers' self-approach goals (i.e., the motivation to teach more effectively than before) may be a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Open Source Technology
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Marini, Giulio – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The paper analyses which conditions may predict a better salary for people who got a PhD in social sciences and humanities (SS&H) in 13 European countries. Among the controlling variables, predictors are also: change of country of residence; percentage of time spent respectively in research and managerial activities; and impacts achieved…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Humanities, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs
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Coey, Chris – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
This article explores knowledge outcomes of international researcher mobility in the social sciences and humanities. Looking in particular at international experiences of longer durations in the careers of European PhD graduates, it proposes a threefold analytical typology for understanding the links between the modes, durations, and outcomes of…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Humanities, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Millard, Debbie – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
This paper argues that links between academia and other economic sectors are increasing, especially through intersectoral mobility of university graduates. Murray [(2010). "The Oncomouse that Roared: Hybrid Exchange Strategies as a Source of Distinction at the Boundary of Overlapping Institutions." "American Journal of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Social Sciences, Humanities
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Huppatz, DJ; Lees-Maffei, Grace – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2013
This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews the practice and purpose of design history, in the education of historically aware and critically engaged designers, as an emerging independent discipline, and in terms of what the subject has to offer allied fields such as history, sociology,…
Descriptors: Design, History, Intellectual Disciplines, History Instruction
Breda, Thomas; Ly, Son Thierry – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2012
Stereotypes, role models played by teachers and social norms influence girls' academic self-concept and push girls to choose humanities rather than science. Do recruiters reinforce this strong selection by discriminating more against girls in more scientific subjects? Using the entrance exam of a French higher education institution (the Ecole…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Higher Education, Females, Gender Discrimination
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De Botton, Alain – Liberal Education, 2009
The contemporary university is an uncomfortable amalgamation of ambitions once held by a variety of educational institutions. It owes debts to the philosophical schools of Ancient Greece and Rome, to the monasteries of the Middle Ages, to the theological colleges of Paris, Padua, and Bologna and to the research laboratories of early modern…
Descriptors: Schools, Foreign Countries, Sciences, Humanities
Lopez-Varela, Asuncion, Ed. – InTech, 2012
This is a unique and groundbreaking collection of questions and answers coming from higher education institutions on diverse fields and across a wide spectrum of countries and cultures. It creates routes for further innovation, collaboration amidst the Sciences (both Natural and Social) and the Humanities and the private and the public sectors of…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Hermeneutics, Observation, European History
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Herubel, Jean-Pierre V. M. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2006
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the use and importance of examining dissertations listed in scholarly journals, while focusing on a critical period of French doctoral education in historical studies. French dissertations in history were bibliometrically examined from "Revue historique," a mainstream history journal published…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Academic Discourse, Periodicals