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Winstone, Naomi; Balloo, Kieran; Gravett, Karen; Jacobs, Daniel; Keen, Harry – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Students' engagement in extra-curricular activities can play a significant role in their development of a student identity, as well as leading to a greater sense of belonging and wellbeing. However, individual characteristics such as sociability may influence the likelihood of students engaging in extra-curricular activities. We collected mixed…
Descriptors: Well Being, Sense of Community, Equal Education, Barriers
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Francis, Leslie J.; ap Siôn, Tania; McKenna, Ursula; Penny, Gemma – British Journal of Religious Education, 2017
This study begins by examining the way in which, in both England and Wales, Religious Education has become implicated in political discussion regarding the role of education in promoting community cohesion. The relationship between taking Religious Education as an examination subject and attitude towards religious diversity (as an affective…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Community Coordination, Role of Education, Role of Religion
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Francis, Leslie J.; Whinney, Michael; Robbins, Mandy – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2013
A sample of 168 bishops, serving or retired, in the Church of England completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales. The psychological type profile of these bishops was compared with that of 626 Anglican clergymen. The bishops differed significantly from the clergymen on three of the four aspects of psychological type. The bishops were more…
Descriptors: Profiles, Clergy, Churches, Foreign Countries
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Francis, Leslie J.; Lankshear, David W.; Robbins, Mandy – Research in Education, 2011
A sample of 221 female primary school teachers in Anglican state-maintained schools in England and Wales completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales (FPTS). The data demonstrated clear preferences for Extraversion (E) over Introversion (I), for Sensing (S) over Intuition (N), for Feeling (F) over Thinking (T) and for Judging (J) over…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Elementary School Teachers, Parochial Schools, Personality Measures
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Furnham, Adrian; Stephenson, Rebecca – Psychology of Music, 2007
The aim of this study was to ascertain the nature of the interaction between the affective value of musical distraction, personality type and performance on the cognitive tasks of reading comprehension, free recall, mental arithmetic and verbal reasoning in children aged 11-12 years. It was hypothesized that the cognitive performance of extraverts…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Music, Personality, Correlation