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Smith, Alison; Chen, Yi-Chun – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
A benefit of the increasing participation in online professional development courses is the ability for such courses to reach a wide variety of educators, despite geographic distance. Along with this benefit comes the challenge of ensuring that such courses can engage learners from diverse backgrounds. The current study investigates educators'…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Workshops
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Salomo, Dorothe; Liszkowski, Ulf – Child Development, 2013
Daily activities of forty-eight 8- to 15-month-olds and their interlocutors were observed to test for the presence and frequency of triadic joint actions and deictic gestures across three different cultures: Yucatec-Mayans (Mexico), Dutch (Netherlands), and Shanghai-Chinese (China). The amount of joint action and deictic gestures to which infants…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Cultural Differences
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Dugan, John P.; Rossetti Morosini, Ana M.; Beazley, Michael R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine similarities and differences in students' capacities for socially responsible leadership as well as significant predictors of its development at a higher education institution in Mexico as compared with US schools. Results revealed that Mexican students both entered and left college with significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Responsibility, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Responsibility