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Krieger, Theresia; Floren, Miriam; Feron, Frans; Dorant, Elisabeth – Educational Action Research, 2021
Complex public health programmes may suffer from 'teething problems' during their implementation in practice, especially when programmes are developed top-down without the participation of end-users and service providers. Trying out and optimising a new concept in practice with stakeholder's participation may enhance the programme's chance of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Caregivers, Caregiver Role
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Schuss, Eric – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
This paper provides evidence on the effect of apprenticeship costs on the decision whether care facilities employ apprenticeship graduates after completing apprenticeship training. To account for the endogeneity in apprenticeship costs, we exploit an exogenous reduction in the apprenticeship costs of care facilities by exploiting the fact that the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Education Work Relationship, Costs, Caregivers
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I. Lin Sin; Alina Schartner – Journal of International Students, 2024
This article casts light on informal caregiving, an essential aspect of the international postgraduate researcher (PGR) experience, but which is often invisible in literature and discourses on international education. Drawing from qualitative semi-structured interviews with international PGRs in a British university, it highlights their dual role…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Mental Health, Well Being, Graduate Students
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Lena Grüter – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2024
Little is known about OCD in people with learning disabilities (LD) in general and in terms of current and professional support. In this study, we examined caregivers' perceived challenges and strategies practiced in institutionalized settings in managing OCD in people with LD and derived implications for research and practice. We studied…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Caregivers
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Dörr, Lisa; Perels, Franziska – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
Metacognition is a crucial prerequisite for self-regulated learning and refers to the knowledge and the regulation of cognitive processes. Several authors argue that children at preschool age can use initial metacognitive control strategies and monitor their learning activities. This fact will create the conditions for promoting metacognitive…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Preschool Children, Caregivers
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Ulzheimer, Lisa; Kanzinger, Annika; Ziegler, Alina; Martin, Bernd; Zender, Joerg; Römhild, Antje; Leyhe, Christine – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant challenges for universities. Digital inclusion "of all learners regardless of their circumstances, learning prerequisites and needs" is a major challenge (Walgenbach, Compes & Lambrich 2019: 9, authors' translation). Starting with accessibility and related concepts such as digital…
Descriptors: Barriers, COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning
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Linertová, Renata; González-Guadarrama, Javier; Serrano-Aguilar, Pedro; Posada-De-la-Paz, Manuel; Péntek, Márta; Iskrov, Georgi; Ballester, Marta – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2019
Inclusive education of disabled students has been promoted in European disability policies. However, the transition process from more segregated system is slow. The purpose of this study was to provide an insight about different types of schooling of disabled children affected by a rare disease across Europe and to evaluate their and caregivers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities
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Davis, Elise; Freeman, Ramona; Doherty, Gillian; Karlsson, Malene; Everiss, Liz; Couch, Jane; Foote, Lyn; Murray, Patricia; Modigliani, Kathy; Owen, Sue; Griffin, Sue; Friendly, Martha; McDonald, Grace; Bohanna, India; Corr, Lara; Smyth, Lisa; Morkeseth, Elisabeth Ianke; Morreaunet, Sissel; Ogi, Mari; Fukukawa, Sumi; Hinke-Rahnau, Jutta – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2012
Despite emerging evidence of the contributors to high-quality family day care, a comprehensive comparison of international family day care systems has not been undertaken. The aim of this paper is to compare regulated family day care (FDC) in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, and the USA,…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
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Bayley, Susan N. – History of Education, 2014
In nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Europe, the age of the governess coincided with the age of nationalism. This paper explores the connection between them in the specific context of intercultural education by foreign governesses. It argues that nationalism, with its focus on the identification and projection of a distinct national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Multicultural Education, Stereotypes
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Keller, Heidi; Borke, Joern; Lamm, Bettina; Lohaus, Arnold; Yovsi, Relindis Dzeaye – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
This paper is aimed at analyzing verbal and nonverbal strategies in terms of body contact, face-to-face contact, and discourse style during the first three months of life in two cultural communities that have been characterized as embodying different cultural models of parenting: German middle-class, and Nso farmer families. It can be demonstrated…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Wihstutz, Anne – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
A growing number of empirical studies deal with children's participation in care relationships in the family. Based on a review of empirical findings in the UK and Germany, this article discusses care-giving children in terms of vulnerability and agency. The focus is set on understandings of family life as interdependent and reciprocal…
Descriptors: Caring, Parent Child Relationship, Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries
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Demuth, Carolin – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2013
This article addresses the socialization of emotion expression in infancy. It argues that in order to adequately understand emotion development we need to consider the appraisal of emotion expression through caregivers in mundane, everyday interactions. Drawing on sociocultural and Bakhtinian theorizing, it claims that caregivers' appraisals of…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Infants
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Kozak, Agnessa; Kersten, Maren; Schillmoller, Zita; Nienhaus, Albert – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purposes of this study were to investigate the potential predictors of personal burnout among staff working with people with intellectual disabilities and to investigate whether personal burnout is associated with health and work-related outcomes. A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2011 in 30 residential facilities in northern Germany…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Job Satisfaction, Mental Retardation
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Courtenay, Ken; Jokinen, Nancy S.; Strydom, Andre – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2010
Authors conducted a systematic review of the available Dutch, English, and German language literature for the period 1997-2008 on the current knowledge on social-psychological and pharmacological caregiving with respect to older adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) affected by dementia. Authors note that caregiving occurs on a personal level…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Dementia, Caregivers, Older Adults
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Schwarz, Beate; Trommsdorff, Gisela; Zheng, Gang; Shi, Shaohua – Journal of Family Issues, 2010
This study investigates how Chinese and German adult daughters evaluate the norm of reciprocity and the unbalanced exchange of support in relation to their aging parents. Women from rural and urban China (n = 292) and from Germany (n = 264) have participated in this study. Results show that for the German daughters, differently from rural Chinese…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Daughters, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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