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Brotherly Love? The Manipulation of Body Boundaries
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Beck, Benjamin – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2011
This article is about a street-wise boy who is unaware that his younger brother has been using clever manipulation to get him into trouble. Nicholas is a 12-year-old boy whose father was recently given a life sentence for murder. Nicholas is in a boxing league and uses his fighting skills on the streets. Angel is Nicholas' nine-year-old brother…
Descriptors: Siblings, Crisis Intervention, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Change
New Directions for Self-Regulation of Learning in Postsecondary Education
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Bembenutty, Hefer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
This chapter highlights the major contributions of this volume on self-regulation of learning and provides new directions for cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work that could serve to facilitate self-regulation of learning in postsecondary education. "Self-regulation of learning" refers to learners' beliefs about their ability to engage in…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Learning, Self Control, Self Efficacy
Thriving in Community
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Schreiner, Laurie A. – About Campus, 2010
In the previous two issues of "About Campus," the author has described the national study of college-student thriving that she has conducted with her doctoral students at Azusa Pacific University over the past several years. Their validated and reliable 35-item Thriving Quotient has been administered to over 15,000 college students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
From Tourists to Citizens in the Classroom: An Interview with H. Jerome Freiberg.
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Sudzina, Mary R. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1997
Interview with H. Jerome Freiberg discusses the Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline program, which encourages students to become "citizens" of their classroom and take responsibility for its academic and social environment. Recommends ways to improve the environment in urban schools and describes Freiberg's work with…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education
Narratives of Practice and the Construction of Identity in Teaching
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Watson, Cate – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
The importance of the concept of professional identity lies in its relationship to professional knowledge and action, but these links are complex. A traditional notion of identity is of something essential about ourselves, a fixed and stable core of "self". More recently, however, identity has been seen as an ongoing and performative…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Knowledge Base for Teaching
NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Volume V: 33 Month Manual, 36 Month Manuals.
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National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1994
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care is an ongoing, prospective, 3-year longitudinal study of over 1,300 full-term healthy infants and families from 10 sites across the United States. While the sample is not nationally representative, the subjects come from major regions of the country: the…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Data Collection, Day Care