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Simone Titus; Dick Ng'ambi – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2023
Although game-based learning has gained significant attention in higher education globally, it is difficult to harness its engagement and interactions to improve student success. This paper argues that the use of digital games has the potential to interrupt social practices and increase engagement and interaction, thereby fostering meaningful…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Game Based Learning, Computer Games, Learner Engagement
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Pantic, Nataša – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
Internationally teachers are called upon to act as agents of change. However, there is little clarity about the kind of change teachers are expected to contribute to and even less empirical evidence about the ways teacher agency operates in schools and beyond. Empirical analyses of teacher agency require a clear articulation of the purpose and…
Descriptors: Models, Social Justice, Cultural Pluralism, Change Agents
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Thompson, Ron; Simmons, Robin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
This paper uses Raymond Boudon's model of educational expansion to examine the relationship between education and social mobility, paying particular attention to post-compulsory education--an important site of social differentiation in England. The paper shows how Boudon focuses explicitly on the consequences of educational expansion, and argues…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Social Theories, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Schoon, Ingrid; Duckworth, Kathryn – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Taking a longitudinal perspective, we tested a developmental-contextual model of entrepreneurship in a nationally representative sample. Following the lives of 6,116 young people in the 1970 British Birth Cohort from birth to age 34, we examined the role of socioeconomic background, parental role models, academic ability, social skills, and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Employment Level, Prediction, Entrepreneurship
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Haunberger, Sigrid – Policy Futures in Education, 2010
This article focuses on the question of whether educational expansion leads to a new type of society, the education society. Taking into consideration the combined elements of three models of society (the post-industrial society, the knowledge society and the information society)--the chances and risks of an educational society will be elicited…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Structure, Education Work Relationship, Sociology
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Lang, LingLing; Irby, Beverly J.; Brown, Genevieve – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2012
For more than 2000 years, Confucian teaching has had tremendous influence on the history, politics, economy, and culture of East Asian countries and regions. Despite the rapid growth in gross domestic product (GDP), people's standard of living, and economic advancements, Confucian Asia continues to adhere to the Confucian cultural values that they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Models, Cultural Differences
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Brockmann, Michaela – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010
The paper arises from my PhD thesis on the learner biographies of retail and motor vehicle maintenance apprentices in Germany and England which explores the interrelationship of social structures and individual agency in identity formation over time and in particular learning environments. The paper reports initial findings, focusing largely on…
Descriptors: Maintenance, Apprenticeships, Young Adults, Motor Vehicles
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Abrahams, Caryl – Journal of the Community Development Society, 1992
The community practice model illustrates how goals of participation, empowerment, cooperation, and institutionalization are affected by inputs from human resources, program characteristics, finances, social costs, and policy requirements within the context of the social, economic, and political structure; population diversity; physical…
Descriptors: Community Development, Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries, Models
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Kuftinec, Sonja; Alon, Chen – Research in Drama Education, 2007
This article details how a unique educational project conducted through Tel Aviv University's Community Theatre program tackled the complex dynamics of the prison-political system over nine months in 2005-2006. The program focused on theatrical facilitations between mainly female students and male prisoners - two more or less homogeneous groups…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Correctional Institutions, Heterogeneous Grouping, Foreign Countries
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Olson, Philip – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1987
The future of the elderly in the People's Republic of China will be influenced by political agenda, degree to which traditional values toward the aged are preserved, degree to which eldercare support is built on the existing social structure, eldercare program institutionalization in the state budget, and the elderly's continued integration into…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Models, Older Adults
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Hudabiunigg, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper analyses an extensive corpus of texts from the German media and existing studies of German perspectives on Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia in order to demonstrate that there are two idealised culture cognitive models (ICCMs) that function as overarching categories for Europe: the ICCM west (the members of the European…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, German, Schemata (Cognition)
Hurrelmann, Klaus – 1984
A general frame of reference for a comprehensive model of socialization is presented. This model considers different levels of theoretical analysis and a methodological combination of investigations of the "objective" social reality with "subjective" interpretations of reality as it is in the Federal Republic of Germany. The…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Educational Psychology, Foreign Countries
Ramanujam, B. K. – 1984
The cross-cultural validity of many models of personality development has been challenged because of their emphasis on Western ideals of individuation, setting goals for oneself, and aggressively pursuing those goals. The model of Hindu society presented in this paper is different. Case studies of two individuals who sought psychological help are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Caste, Conflict Resolution, Cultural Differences