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Chun Sing Maxwell Ho; Jiafang Lu; Lucas Chiu Kit Liu – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
Against the background of expanding parental choices and declining global birth rates, schools are experiencing rising competition regarding student enrolment. Schools have responded by strategically presenting information about their students' academic achievement and whole-person development orientation in the hope of attracting parents'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach, Individual Development, Foreign Countries
Katrine K. Wong – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
Often discussed as a support system or strategy linked with academic, social, and emotional benefits for its participants, mentorship is conducted in increasingly more diverse forms, and the discussion thereof has gained much traction in multiple domains. In China, mentoring has received increasingly more attention in recent years. Holistic,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Residential Institutions
Cheng Deng; Maureen Legge – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
Health and Physical Education (HPE) has been an important learning area in the "New Zealand Curriculum" (NZC) since the two learning areas were integrated in the 1990s. HPE in the NZC proposed a multi-dimensional education vision, principles and values for students' holistic development founded upon theoretical perspectives such as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Physical Education
Emilia H. Babiano – Online Submission, 2025
This case study investigates the experiences of public-school pupils transferring to private schools, focusing on the complexities and outcomes of such transitions. The research identifies seven key themes: the role of students in educational decision-making, school choice and educational quality, parental expectations of school leadership and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Outcomes of Education, Student Role
Ahrens, Joan Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative study explored how ethnic identity and self-authorship development have impacted the academic success and engagement of Latina students who have successfully transferred from community college to the university. The qualitative method of social science portraiture (Lawrence-Lightfoot & Davis, 1997) was used to collect,…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Individual Development, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
Bianca Briana Teats – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This case study depicted the development and implementation of the Holistic Undergraduate Growth Experience (HUGE) student success and retention program that spans the second year of undergraduate study to graduation. This study set out to expand student development theory and practice to include an international perspective, specifically one from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Program Development, Undergraduate Study
Thorburn, Malcolm – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
In recent years there has been a heightened interest in educating for well-being; the belief that even when beset by economic gloom, schools can be a civilising force for good and can help make young people's lives more fulfilling and meaningful. However, the relative lack of conceptual analysis on well-being values and how they can flourish in…
Descriptors: Well Being, Values, Individual Development, Educational Policy
Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Li, Bingyi; Wilson, Ian; Craven, Rhonda G. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
Much research has acknowledged the importance of self-concept for adolescents' academic behaviour, motivation and aspiration, but little is known about the role of self-concept underpinning the motivation and aspiration of higher education students in a specialised field such as medical education. This article draws upon a programme of research…
Descriptors: Role, Self Concept, Medical Education, Social Environment
Heekin, Jonathan Ralph Calvin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Biology faculty at an East Coast university believed their undergraduate students were not being well served by the existing academic advising program. The purpose of this mixed methods project study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the academic advising model in a biology department. Guided by system-based organizational theory, a learning…
Descriptors: Biology, Academic Advising, Undergraduate Students, Holistic Approach
Lovat, Terrence; Dally, Kerry; Clement, Neville; Toomey, Ron – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Recent research in fields as diverse as educational philosophy and psychology, as well as in the neurobiological sciences, has underlined the need to reassess many of the assumptions that underpin the role of the school, the teacher and education in general. The work of the philosophers such as Carr and Kristjansson could be interpreted as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foundations of Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Adoption (Ideas)
Ikegulu, T. Nelson – 1999
This study examined the nature and needs of international students in American higher education within the context of multicultural and globalized educational programs and support services. Most international students are considered developmental upon admission into postsecondary institutions. The success of these students has been attributed to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Preparation, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Counseling