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The Postmodern Perfectionist, the Pragmatic Hedonist and the Materialist Maximalist: Understanding High School Students' Profile Choices towards or away from Mathematics, Science and Technology (MST) Fields in the Netherlands
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Yazilitas, D.; Saharso, S.; de Vries, G. C.; Svensson, J. S. – Gender and Education, 2017
This study focuses on high school students' profile choices and the choice for or against the Nature and Technology (NT) profile in the Netherlands. A mixed-methods approach is used to study cultural values that affect this choice. The quantitative part of the study shows that being female is negatively correlated with the choice for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Gender Differences, Mixed Methods Research
Knowledge, Interest, and Value of Youth Zoo Visitors
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Burris, Alexandra M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the face of massive global extinction, the mission of zoos for conservation education has increasing importance. Zoos are in a unique position to affect the development of youth in ways that are consistent with cultivating pro-environmental behaviors. The purpose of this study was to examine three intrinsic traits of youth important to the…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Zoology, Youth Opportunities, Field Trips
Personal Values, Social Capital, and Higher Education Student Career Decidedness: A New "Protean"-Informed Model
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Fearon, Colm; Nachmias, Stefanos; McLaughlin, Heather; Jackson, Stephen – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This study investigates the role of personal values as motivational antecedents for understanding higher education (HE) student career decidedness among university business school (UBS) students. We propose a new "protean"-informed HE student career decidedness model for theorizing how both personal values and social capital mediators…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Career Choice, Higher Education, Focus Groups
Ubuntu-Praxis: Re-Modelling the Balanced Scorecard Model at a University, an Afrocentric Perspective
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Ndoda, Gladys Ruvimbo; Sikwila, Mike Nyamazana – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
The authors design the innovation and learning perspective of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) of "Ubuntu and client service charter nexus." This article borrows and advances the research carried out by Khomba, Vermaak and Gouws (2011). The point of departure is on praxis of ubuntu/unhu as a holistic approach in the re-modelling of the BSC…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, African Culture, Holistic Approach, Mixed Methods Research
Urban Teacher Persistence: Self-Efficacy, Affect, and Values
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Ige, Elaine Anita – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The problem of teacher attrition was reviewed and a mixed-method study of motivational characteristics for years of persistence in a teaching career was conducted. Ninety-two second, third, or fourth grade urban public school teachers who taught for five years or more were surveyed in order to gather quantitative data on the five motivational…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Persistence, Correlation, Teacher Motivation
Has Elementary Social Studies Instruction Become Collateral Damage of the No Child Left Behind Act?
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Babini, Kathleen Callanan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Public schools stress the need for students to become informed and engaged citizens, however social studies instruction is becoming marginalized in many elementary schools today, the very area where they learn citizenship and about the world around them. This study seeks to: understand the reason for the loss of instructional time for social…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation