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Myfanwy Tilley – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
A persistent challenge for Australian higher education policymakers and researchers has been to understand why policies and practices have met with limited success in widening the participation and attainment of non-traditional students. This paper explores theorising Narrative Identity as a constructive methodological framework for understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Student Experience
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Deborah Earnshaw; Natalie Harrison – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
Extra-curricular activities, such as playing sport and participating in mentoring programmes, have physical and mental health benefits for individuals. For adolescents particularly, nurturing these interests has the potential for positive outcomes in academic attainment and personal development, an increase to self-esteem, and positive development…
Descriptors: Mentors, At Risk Persons, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Vaughan K. Collins; Catherine M. Corbin; Jill J. Locke; Clayton R. Cook; Mark G. Ehrhart; Kurt D. Hatch; Aaron R. Lyon – School Mental Health, 2024
Although there are a growing number of implementation strategies to increase the adoption, fidelity, and sustainment of evidence-based practices (EBP), they are often complex and bulky, which can interfere with their widespread application. To address these challenges, the Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM) strategy was created…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Leadership Training, Evidence Based Practice, Organizational Change
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Huffman, Levi; Lefdahl-Davis, Erin M.; Alayan, Allie – Christian Higher Education, 2022
The Enneagram is an internationally used personality tool that many find effective for personal transformation and spiritual development. In recent years, the Enneagram has experienced a surge of popularity and use in the United States. Although research on its effectiveness is underway in the U.S., most is conducted in other countries.…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Personality Traits, Spiritual Development
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Dina Amaro; Ana Maria Caldeira; Cláudia Seabra – SAGE Open, 2024
This study addresses the growing interest in transformative experiences in international academic tourism from a managerial and consumer perspective. While the managerial perspective focuses on delivering highly personalized experiences that profoundly impact each individual, the consumer perspective emphasizes inner transformation and personal…
Descriptors: Tourism, Transformative Learning, Study Abroad, Educational Experience
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Hardy, Sam A.; Baldwin, Chayce R.; Herd, Toria; Kim-Spoon, Jungmeen – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Prior research has demonstrated that religiousness is associated with and potentially facilitative of self-regulation, though most of the research has been cross-sectional. The present longitudinal study examined dynamic relations between religiousness development and self-regulation formation from early adolescence into young adulthood. The…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Self Management, Predictor Variables, Adolescents
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Gesselman, Amanda N.; Ryan, Rebecca; Yarber, William L.; Vanterpool, Karen B.; Beavers, Karly A.; Francis, Heather; Grant, Brandon T.; Wood, Katherine; Graham, Cynthia A.; Milhausen, Robin; Sanders, Stephanie A.; Crosby, Richard A. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Dual use of male condoms and female contraceptives is widely advocated for unplanned pregnancy prevention, yet college students often neglect condoms. This feasibility and acceptability study assessed the efficacy of a self-guided home-based condom-promotion intervention among college students in heterosexual relationships.…
Descriptors: Contraception, Sexuality, Prevention, Pregnancy
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Uthaphan, Phattharachai; sa-nguan, Saccarak Rai; Mueaithaisong, Aphichit; Phanphoon, Artit; Karsapone, Somkhuan; Sopajorn, Sakdipong; Neadpuckdee, Radchaneeboon; Promsri, Prasong; Chachikul, Prachan – Higher Education Studies, 2022
This study aims to involve the institutions of family, community, and Buddhism in designing a training course that could enhance vulnerable youths' knowledge of unintentional pregnancy prevention. The attitude toward the involvement of the three stakeholders and changes in teens' behaviors are also the center of the investigation. 302 vulnerable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Buddhism, Pregnancy, Intention
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Robb, Elizabeth; Voorhees, Terry Tuvi – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2023
Colleges are currently involved in an epic struggle to keep students enrolled. One reason for student attrition involves non-academic issues such as executive functioning. In the present study, we investigated how journaling helped influence paradigm shifts in students' thinking regarding a growth mindset towards their educational performance. We…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Community College Students, Journal Writing
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Jankiewicz, Edyta – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2019
This qualitative study was concerned with describing the lived experience of conversion in the lives of third- and greater-generation Seventh-day Adventist (Adventist) young adults. Fourteen participants were asked to describe both their formational faith experiences as well as their conversion experiences. A hermeneutical analysis found that a…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Religious Cultural Groups, Christianity, Young Adults
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Champagne, Frances A.; Curley, James P. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
Maternal behavior is dynamic and highly sensitive to experiential and contextual factors. In this review, this plasticity will be explored, with a focus on how experiences of females occurring from the time of fetal development through to adulthood impact maternal behavior and the maternal brain. Variation in postpartum maternal behavior is…
Descriptors: Mothers, Brain, Parent Child Relationship, Individual Development
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Wu, Meng; Zhu, Zhen; Chen, Jin; Niu, Lijuan; Liu, Chi-Chang – Environmental Education Research, 2020
In this study, we assessed how 34 young adult participants in an environmental education (EE) program from 2011 to 2014 constructed their learning outcomes through interviews and the exploration of autobiographical memory functions (AMFs) regarding program experiences. We articulated a variety of directive, social, and self AMFs, including the…
Descriptors: Memory, Environmental Education, Outcomes of Education, Autobiographies
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Antoine-Morse, Kristen – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2019
This article summarizes the results and conclusions of a study conducted in 2017 in which Kristen Antoine-Morse examined the lived experiences of four men incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) near St. Francisville, Louisiana, (referred to in this article as LSP or Angola) and one returning citizen who was previously…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Males, Postsecondary Education
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Salite, Ilga; Briede, Liene; Drelinga, Elga; Ivanova, Oksana – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2021
The article continues a broader theme of long-term action research aimed at reorienting education towards sustainability. The study uses a broader, more holistic research perspective, which takes into account the quality of the current relationship between nature and humanity, which is related to the formation of relations in the Anthropocene age…
Descriptors: Action Research, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Correlation
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Conlon, Claire M.; Wilson, Charlotte E.; Gaffney, Paul; Stoker, Michael – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2018
This study aimed to understand the process of change within Wilderness Therapy. It used grounded theory to explore development and change during the programme and relate this to theories of adolescence and engagement, particularly for adolescents in the care system. Data collected from interviews with 11 adolescents were analysed using…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Therapy
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