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Al-Khayat, Amjad; Al Khatib, Amal Jamal; Al-Rousan, Ayoub Hamdan – Curriculum and Teaching, 2023
Prospective teachers' attitudes towards teaching are grounded in their experiences of successes and failures as students. Thus, addressing their attitudes towards teaching before starting their profession is strategic. To this aim, this study explored Jordanian prospective kindergarten teachers' attitudes towards the teaching profession.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Kindergarten, Teaching (Occupation)
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Woods, Bobbi; Miller, Cindy Faith; Wheeler, Lorey A.; Reisslein, Martin – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study examined the association between elementary students' (N = 1627; 51.3% girls, ages 4-12) engineering-related ability beliefs (competence), task-value beliefs (interest, importance), and career aspirations. Findings suggest that mean levels of children's engineering-related beliefs did not vary by gender. High levels of competence,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Engineering, Beliefs, Academic Achievement
Tiffany A. Corum – ProQuest LLC, 2021
At the time of this writing, little research had been completed on the occupational aspirations of students and students' perceptions of their parents' career satisfaction. I completed a qualitative study in which I compared the occupational aspirations of 14 third-grade students, 7 girls and 7 boys, from a low socio-economic school and 14…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Occupational Aspiration, Parents
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Mizala, Alejandra; Schneider, Ben – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
Reformers in developing countries increasingly seek to raise education quality. Yet we know little about the politics of improving education. One significant and instructive case of reforms designed to boost education quality comes from Chile, where in 2016 the government enacted a sweeping reform of teaching careers. This paper first uses a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Educational Improvement
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Mascia, Maria Lidia, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2019), held during November 7-9, 2019, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and co-organised by University Degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Engineering Education, Critical Thinking
Kung, Chih-Chin – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the comparison between American and Taiwanese parents' views on their young children learning a second/foreign language, the ideal language and learning age, and parents' perceptions regarding language. There were 24 U.S. and 44 Taiwanese participants who had at least one child studying in the day-care…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten