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Sara Pulido Bracht – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this intrinsic qualitative case study was to understand the meaning-making experiences and experienced-based decision making that occur among middle school girls while playing the tabletop role playing game Dungeons & Dragons through the online videoconferencing platform zoom. table-top games have been played in some form for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Females, Role Playing
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Wenda Liu; Nikita Shah; Ili Ma; Gabriela Rosenblau – Developmental Science, 2024
Information sampling about others' trustworthiness prior to cooperation allows humans to minimize the risk of exploitation. Here, we examined whether early adolescence or preadolescence, a stage defined as in between childhood and adolescence, is a significant developmental period for strategic social decisions. We also sought to characterize…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Relationship, Decision Making, Individual Development
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Tan, Charlene – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2019
This article examines a Confucian conception of competence and its corresponding response to the competencies agenda that underpins international large-scale assessments such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). It is argued that standardised transnational assessments are undergirded by a technical rationality that…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Measurement, Confucianism, Adults
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Wallace, Elizabeth – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2017
The purpose of this study was to understand the factors leading to college students' spiritual development at a secular institution. I examined student perceptions to determine the factors that facilitated their individual personal growth. A Grounded Theory approach was used because I sought to explain how students use their social, relational,…
Descriptors: Christianity, Educational Experience, Spiritual Development, Grounded Theory
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Geršicová, Zuzana; Barnová, Silvia – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2018
Introduction: The presented paper deals with the issues of the work of class teachers and their further education in the field of personal and social training. The main goal of the research was to find out about changes in personal and social development after the realization of social-pedagogical training. Methods: On the level of personal…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Individual Development, Social Development, Values
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Lear, Glenna – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
This article explores women's midlife learning as an awakening of the self in the process of being in the world and interacting with others and uses the author's personal experience of transformation as a developmental change with the emergence of personal growth and self-realization of a more complete, balanced, and fulfilled self. In the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Females, Individual Development, Metacognition
Le, Anh – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The main purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the experiences of Vietnamese international students who returned to Vietnam after graduation from a U.S. higher education institution (henceforth, the repatriates). Areas to be explored include the transitional period, perceptions of the relevance of the U.S. education to their current…
Descriptors: Vietnamese People, Qualitative Research, Higher Education, Foreign Students
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Blasco, Maribel – Comparative Education Review, 2009
This article uses life course theory and family bargaining theory to explore how decisions over schooling are negotiated in poorer Mexican families for whom compulsory basic education is a luxury. It explores educational decision making by conceptualizing education in terms of the way it meshes with other social relations and institutions across…
Descriptors: Poverty, Attendance, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
Pearson, Richard E. – New York State Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1975
This article discusses the small group experience as it contributes to a person's total effectiveness. Much emphasis is placed on decision making. (Author/EK)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Education, Group Therapy, Groups
Gordon, Edmund W.; And Others – J Nat Assn Coll Admissions Counselors, 1970
Panel presentation by Edmund W. Gordon, Earl Stahl, and Anthony Riccio, which discusses lack of behavioral training for counselors. Indications are that, regardless of counselor sensitivity and genuineness, he does not do effective job communicating with school staff or lower class students, particularly in area of college campus environment…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Role, Counselor Training, Decision Making
Foulds, Melvin L. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1972
The goal of the group experience is to foster more whole, fully integrated, real, and authentic persons who are willing to accept themselves and take responsibility for their lives. (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Group Dynamics, Group Experience, Individual Development
Dobbs, Ralph C.; Pry, Harry – American Vocational Journal, 1974
Participation training is a process of open communication and personal interaction. This process provides an opportunity for all FFA members from green hands on up to gain experience in group decision-making. (Author/KP)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Decision Making, Group Membership, Individual Development
Sheinbein, Marc – Journal of Family Counseling, 1976
Familial psychosocial development is a series of choice points, or crises, and progressive separations from the family itself. The role of the family therapist is to help the family members evolve concurrently to stages of higher maturity and autonomy. A family therapy model based on developmental stage theory is proposed. (Author)
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Crisis Intervention, Decision Making, Family Counseling
Maestas, Nicole; Gaillot, Sarah – RAND Corporation, 2008
This report presents results from a multisite, quantitative evaluation of the international Spirituality for Kids (SFK) after-school program. Despite its name, SFK is a nonreligious program that seeks to build resilience in children by teaching them to access inner resources and build positive connections with others. The SFK program is unlike…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Spiritual Development, Personality Traits, Skill Development
Lippitt, Gordon L. – Human Resource Development: An International Journal, 1980
Recent research in group behavior and organizational development is centered around increasing the individual's self-esteem and on developing individual participation in group success. Effective groups depend on a variety of individual contributions and shared decision making, while in turn satisfying human needs for security, achievement, and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Decision Making, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics
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