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Amy K. Graefe – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2024
Past research has indicated that teachers' use of relational power directly influences students' sense of empowerment and that students who feel empowered are more likely to be motivated. This phenomenological, retrospective study investigated gifted high school students' perceptions of power and empowerment within their classrooms and the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Classroom Techniques
Sargant, Naomi; Field, John; Francis, Hywel; Schuller, Tom; Tuckett, Alan – 1997
Adult participation in education and learning in the United Kingdom was examined through a Gallup survey of a stratified (by region and town size) national sample of 4,673 adults aged 17 years and over from England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Interviewers were given quotas for sex by respondents' age, class, and employment status.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Comparative Analysis
Hoffnung, Robert J.; Sack, Allan L. – 1981
The issue of whether higher education reduces or reproduces structured social inequality was investigated by comparing the background, current educational experiences, and expectations regarding future work of freshmen and senior liberal arts students who attend upper, middle, and working class universities. Responses were received from 173 Yale…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, College Seniors, College Students