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Xu, Zhengye; Liu, Duo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
In the present study, 151 third-grade Hong Kong children participated in two expression-picture matching experiments (a relation priming paradigm). In this paradigm, an unambiguous prime was first presented, followed by an ambiguous target that could be interpreted with either of two relations (i.e., Descriptor and Possessor). Children were asked…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Pictorial Stimuli
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Chen, Eva E.; Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Lai, Veronica K.W.; Poon, Sze Long; Gaither, Sarah E. – Child Development, 2018
The impact of social group information on the learning and socializing preferences of Hong Kong Chinese children were examined. Specifically, the degree to which variability in racial out-group exposure affects children's use of race to make decisions about unfamiliar individuals (Chinese, White, Southeast Asian) was investigated. Participants…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Socialization, Racial Identification, Racial Differences
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Cheung, Rebecca Hun Ping; Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching – Educational Psychology, 2013
The study aimed to uncover the conceptions of creativity among early childhood teachers in Hong Kong. The sample comprised 563 early childhood teachers. Factor analysis supported the multidimensional hypothesis of teachers' conceptions of creativity. Five dimensions were found: novelty, product, problem solving, cognitive processes and personal…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Marton, Ference; Pang, Ming Fai – Frontline Learning Research, 2013
In helping learners to make a novel meaning their own, such as when helping children to understand what a word means or teaching students a new concept in school, we frequently point to examples that share the aimed-at meaning but differ otherwise. This type of approach rests on the assumption that novel meanings can be acquired through the…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Computer Games, Differences, Phenomenology
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Smith, Karen – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
In an increasingly global higher education environment, many universities are taking their educational services overseas. One model of overseas provision is through transnational (offshore) education. Transnational teaching challenges the prevailing understanding of an academic role at every level. Transnational teachers are expected to work in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Professional Development, Teaching Experience