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Doug Risner; Chris Marlow – Research in Dance Education, 2024
Using an autoethnographic approach, this article focuses on the experiences of two male dance educators/researchers living with/through terminal cancer. Autoethnographers analyze their 'unique life experiences in the context of the social and cultural institutions that have shaped the world the researcher inhabits.' Drawn from a larger research…
Descriptors: Cancer, Dance, Males, Ethnography
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Turner, James C.; Leno, E. Victor; Keller, Adrienne – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2013
This pilot study from self-selected institutions of higher education provides an estimate of the causes and rates of mortality among college students between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. One hundred fifty-seven 4-year colleges participated in an online survey of student deaths during one academic year. A total of 254 deaths were reported. The…
Descriptors: Accidents, Injuries, Mortality Rate, College Students
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Srougi, Melissa C.; Carson, Susan – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2013
Intracellular and extracellular communication is conducted through an intricate and interwoven network of signal transduction pathways. The mechanisms for how cells speak with one another are of significant biological importance to both basic and industrial scientists from a number of different disciplines. We have therefore developed and…
Descriptors: Cancer, Drug Therapy, Science Instruction, Molecular Biology
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Granek, Leeat – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2009
The death of the author's mother was not a surprise. Despite eighteen years of relative psychological and physical health while she lived with metastatic breast cancer, the last year of her life was a violent struggle against the disease that aggressively invaded her body. Her mother fought her death until the last moment. Within five days of…
Descriptors: Grief, Teacher Effectiveness, Cancer, Psychological Patterns
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Mosher, Catherine E.; Danoff-Burg, Sharon – Death Studies, 2007
In a study designed to examine correlates of cancer-related stigma, 405 college students were assigned randomly to listen to an audiotaped interview in which the target's cancer type and smoking status were manipulated. In the lung cancer conditions, target gender also was manipulated. Social distance and emotional responses differed according to…
Descriptors: Death, Cancer, Anxiety, Smoking
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology