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Alison Stein – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study examined how eighth grade students in a privileged suburban community and school district understood their civic identities and saw their roles and responsibilities as citizens. Through analyzing artifacts the student participants generated in their eighth grade civics social studies class and conducting semi-structured…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Citizenship, Citizen Participation, Civics
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Lay, Yoon-Fah; Khoo, Chwee-Hoon; Treagust, David F.; Chandrasegaran, A. L. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the levels of energy literacy among 276 Form 2 (Grade 8) Malaysian students as no similar study has been previously conducted in the country, as well as the contribution of students' energy-related knowledge and attitudes on their energy-related behaviors. This was a non-experimental quantitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Energy, Energy Conservation, Energy Education
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Haynes, Gill; McCrone, Tami; Wade, Pauline – Research Papers in Education, 2013
This paper explores the decision-making processes of young people aged 13-14?years in 30 consortia across England as they chose their options for Key Stage 4 at a time when a new qualification, the 14-19 Diploma, was being introduced. It draws on data collected as part of a longitudinal national study (January 2008-August 2011) of the introduction…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Decision Making, Comprehensive Guidance, Longitudinal Studies
Meira, Luciano; Correia, Monica – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
While the influence of individuals' participation in practices of economic subsistence on the development of mathematical knowledge has been widely reported in the literature, there are not as many studies about the relationship between cultural life and mathematical cognition in the context of recreational practices. This article reports a study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction