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Direct linkErin Siostrom; Reece Mills; Terri Bourke – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
Ongoing shortages of quality teachers has prompted policy interest into career changers as potential solutions. Although Initial Teacher Education (ITE) comprises one-third career changers, little is known about this group. This paper presents a scoping review of career changers' motivations/decisions to choose teaching as a career. Themes from…
Descriptors: Career Change, Preservice Teachers, Motivation, Foreign Countries
Koklu, Onder – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to identify the main motivational factors that led practicing teachers to choose teaching as a profession in the United States and Turkey. Another purpose of this research is to investigate the possible significant difference between male and female teachers from the United States and Turkey considering motivational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation)
Matthias Fischer; Kerri Tobin – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Because housing instability can make it difficult for students to attend school, students experiencing homelessness (SEH) may become chronically absent. For this reason, SEH have lower graduation rates than their housed counterpants. Germany's second-chance schools give students an opportunity to catch up on their learning so they can take final…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Foreign Countries, Attendance, Barriers
Hoffmann, Kristin; Berg, Selinda Adelle; Brancolini, Kristine R.; Kennedy, Marie R. – College & Research Libraries, 2023
Academic librarians face multiple barriers in conducting the research that is expected in their work, yet they still manage to successfully complete it. This study aimed to identify the factors that contribute to their success. Through an online survey sent via email to a random sample of academic librarians in the United States, we gathered and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Research, Influences
Stathis Grapsas; Judith van de Wetering; Jenna Spitzer; Astrid M. G. Poorthuis; Sander Thomaes – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
The sustainability motive-alignment hypothesis posits that adolescents will be motivated to act sustainably when they view sustainable behavior as aligned with their motives for autonomy and peer status. Based on this hypothesis, we developed the Sustainability Motive-Alignment Scale (SMAS), a brief self-report scale of individual differences in…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Adolescents, Motivation, Measures (Individuals)
Wang, Qiu; Langager, Mark W. – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2023
Purpose: Given the less mature homeschooling ecosystem in China, together with the similarity of purpose, the current study examined the lived experiences of curricular choice making in the USA and China and categories of respective families (homeschools), as a way of understanding curricular flexibility. In addressing these features, based on an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Curriculum Development, Motivation
Bowker, Julie C.; Sette, Stefania; Ooi, Laura L.; Bayram-Ozdemir, Sevgi; Braathu, Nora; Bølstad, Evalill; Castillo, Karen Noel; Dogan, Aysun; Greco, Carolina; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kim, Hyoun K.; Kim, Yunhee; Liu, Junsheng; Oh, Wonjung; Rapee, Ronald M.; Wong, Quincy J. J.; Xiao, Bowen; Zuffianò, Antonio; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The goal of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of an adapted assessment of motivations for social withdrawal ("Social Preference Scale--Revised"; SPS-R) across cultural contexts and explore associations with loneliness. Participants were a large sample of university students (N = 4,397; M[subscript age] = 20.08 years,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Withdrawal (Psychology), Motivation, Foreign Countries
Tröhler, Daniel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
The guiding thesis of this article is that international comparisons have been shaped by nationalist, and thus potentially imperial, religious and consequently also latent missionary, motives. By means of selected milestones in the last 250 years, this thesis is made plausible by asserting a historical development of nationalism that started from…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational History, Educational Change, Religious Factors
Adam Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As China's higher education system underwent dramatic growth and development in the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a proliferation of educational collaborations between Chinese and foreign universities. Many US universities saw positive benefits to building educational programs and exchanges with Chinese universities, such as enhancing…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Motivation, Educational Change
Jungwon Kim; Eunhye Park – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2025
This study investigates the acquisition of normative knowledge and values about democracy by North Korean refugees in the United States through everyday experiences and academic concepts. Drawing on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, which posits that knowledge is socially constructed and forms the basis of a society's culture, an analysis is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Democracy, Social Influences
Ka I Ip; Jean Anne Heng; Janice Lin; Jiannong Shi; Wang Li; Sheryl Olson – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Across all cultures, parents have intuitive ideas ("ethnotheories") of what undesirable child characteristics are as well as how to explain them. Yet there have been relatively few cross-cultural comparisons of parents' ethnotheories about the nature and causes of child misbehavior. 108 mothers of 5-year-old children from the United…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Mothers, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Nalipay, Ma. Jenina N.; King, Ronnel B.; Yeung, Susanna S. S.; Chai, Ching Sing; Jong, Morris Siu-Yung – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Individuals pursue teaching careers for numerous reasons, such as for instrumental or prosocial purposes. Aims: This study examined the personal (instrumental motivation) and social (prosocial motivation) utility of teaching as predictors of teaching quality in terms of clarity of instruction, classroom management, and cognitive…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation), Motivation, Predictor Variables
Donal Howley; Ben Dyson; Seunghyun Baek – European Physical Education Review, 2025
Drawing on social constructivist learning theory and a conceptual framework for meaningful physical education (MPE), the purpose of this self-study was to present and explore how one teacher-researcher (TR) evolved their approach to implementing pedagogy promoting MPE in an alternative secondary/high school education setting. Utilizing self-study,…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Physical Education, Curriculum Implementation, Physical Education Teachers
Francioni, Barbara; Curina, Ilaria; Dennis, Charles; Papagiannidis, Savvas; Alamanos, Eleftherios; Bourlakis, Michael; Hegner, Sabrina M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have experienced severe cutbacks in funding over the past few years, with universities examining options for alternative funding streams, such as alumni funding. Identifying the factors influencing their alumni's intentions to invest in their alma mater can be of significant importance when establishing a…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Donors, Educational Finance, Private Financial Support
Jialin Li – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Fixed and growth mindsets describe the underlying beliefs people have about human capacity to grow (Dweck, 2006). The theoretical framework of growth mindset classroom cultures (Murphy et al., 2021) as interpreted in the context of music education provided a solid foundation. This qualitative multiple case study explored the mindset construct and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Music Teachers, Beliefs, Role
