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Jacob Højgaard Christensen – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2024
This study examines emotional well-being variations among students (n = 13,398) across 5 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondary analysis is conducted using data from the "Responses to Educational Disruption Survey" (REDS), which focused on the pandemic experiences, including well-being, of 8th-grade students. The study…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Jihyun Lee; Rachel Brooks; Jessie Abrahams – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Despite existing empirical work that explores the multiple ways in which students develop a sense of belonging in higher education, there is a dearth of comparative research about the extent to which the concepts of community and belonging are central to what it means to be a student and how students in different national contexts (beyond…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Student Experience, Foreign Countries, College Students
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David Lansing Cameron; Camilla Herlofsen; Charlotte Riis Jensen; Gunilla Lindqvist; Mette Molbaek; Kristina Ström; Christel Sundqvist – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the role of special education professionals in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in light of educational policies and reforms. The study places emphasis on (a) the policy context of inclusion and special needs education, (b) the formal qualifications required of special education professionals, and (c)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion
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Zaragoza Scherman, Alejandra; Salgado, Sinué; Shao, Zhifang; Berntsen, Dorthe – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
The extent to which highly emotional autobiographical memories become central to one's identity and life story influences mental health. Young adults report higher distress and lower well-being, compared with middle-aged and/or older adults; whether this replicates across cultures is still unclear. First, we provide a review of the literature that…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Stress Variables, Well Being, Age Differences
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Solhaug, Trond; Kristensen, Niels Nørgaard – Educational Psychology, 2020
The pluralisation of European societies has produced national and cultural diversification, increasing the need for communication and understanding to support recognition, equality, justice, self-determination and identification with others. This paper responds to the social and political challenges accompanying immigration by focusing on gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Cultural Awareness, Secondary School Students
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Li, Jin Hui – Gender and Education, 2022
This article centres on female students' reasoning about their emotional (re)actions during the process of academic becoming. It builds on an ethnographical study of students' subjectivity processes at a jointly run Sino-Danish university in Beijing. The article draws on a theoretical framework called "emotional reasoning," bridging Sara…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Student Attitudes, Emotional Response
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González-Moreira, Alba; Ferreira, Camino; Vidal, Javier – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The educational transition between early childhood education and primary education is a complex moment of change with repercussions throughout the academic life of the students. For this reason, it is important to seek continuity between both educational stages. A successful transition produces for the social, cognitive and emotional well-being of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries
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Achala Gupta; Rachel Brooks; Jessie Abrahams – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
The rapid expansion of neo-liberal regimes has effectively transformed how students -- their role and purpose -- are understood in society. Scholars, especially in the Anglophone North, have shown how dominant policy narratives tend to position students as consumers. More recent studies have begun to explore students' views of this construction.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Consumer Economics, Neoliberalism, Student Role
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Sansano-Nadal, Oriol; Wilson, Jason J.; Martín-Borràs, Carme; Brønd, Jan Christian; Skjødt, Mathias; Caserotti, Paolo; Roqué I. Figuls, Marta; Blackburn, Nicole E.; Klenk, Jochen; Rothenbacher, Dietrich; Guerra-Balic, Myriam; Font-Farré, Manel; Denkinger, Michael; Coll-Planas, Laura; Deidda, Manuela; McIntosh, Emma; Giné-Garriga, Maria; Tully, Mark A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2022
The main aim of this study was to assess the criterion validity of the Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) to measure SB in community-dwelling older adults using thigh-measured accelerometry as the criterion method. 801 participants (75.6 ± 6.1 years old, 57.6% females) provided valid thigh-based accelerometer data (activPAL/Axivity) and…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Life Style, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
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Delobel-Ayoub, M.; Saemundsen, E.; Gissler, M.; Ego, A.; Moilanen, I.; Ebeling, H.; Rafnsson, V.; Klapouszczak, D.; Thorsteinsson, E.; Arnaldsdóttir, K. M.; Roge, B.; Arnaud, C.; Schendel, D. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
We estimated autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence in 7-9 year-old children in 2015 using data from three nationwide health registry systems (Denmark, Finland, Iceland) and two French population-based regional registries. Prevalence ranged from 0.48% in South-East France to 3.13% in Iceland (South-West France: 0.73%, Finland: 0.77%, Denmark:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Incidence
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Jørgensen, Nanna Jordt; Martiny-Bruun, Asger – Environmental Education Research, 2020
In this article, we explore new materialist 'common world' approaches to early childhood environmental and sustainability education and the ambition of these approaches to challenge social-material and nature-culture dichotomies often taken for granted in Western education systems. Firstly, we point out the socio-cultural inequalities inherent in…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Cultural Differences, Environmental Education, Social Justice
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Anke Piekut – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study adopts the methodological lens of narrative ethnography and the concept of key incidents as condensed narratives to examine how narratives of education and cultural normativity emerge in diverse classrooms with migrant adolescents. In focus is how migrant students' experiences and participation in classrooms are framed and assessed by…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Student Diversity, Educational Experience, Student Participation
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Wilfried Admiraal – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
Of the teachers who leave the profession, about half of them are dissatisfied with the school they work at. Teachers' school environment can have both supportive and adverse effects on their satisfaction with school and teaching in general. Yet this relationship might be different for the Nordic countries than for other European countries as the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Teacher Persistence, Work Environment
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Hellesdatter Jacobsen, Gro; Piekut, Anke – Education Inquiry, 2023
International migration in general and the recent refugee crisis in particular are complex and much debated topics in European politics. Concurrently, education systems must operate under uncertain and unpredictable conditions. In this situation, migrant children become a group at particular educational risk of exclusion and marginalisation. This…
Descriptors: Immigration, Public Policy, Principals, Migrants
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Wilczewski, Michal; Wang, Rong; Du, Juana; Søderberg, Anne-Marie; Giuri, Paola; Mughan, Terence; Puffer, Sheila M.; Jacob, Mark J. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Research has linked cultural differences between a sojourner's home and host country with their cultural transformation. Nonetheless, the results of empirical studies are inconclusive due to different operationalizations of cultural differences and testing among different groups of sojourners. We extend previous investigations by examining the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Foreign Students, Acculturation
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