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Neuman, Ari – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
Home schooling is a growing practice in many Western countries. Examination of the practice has entailed collection of "hard" data, such as academic achievements and success rates in higher education, as well as investigation of the practice from the perspective of parents. It is very important to examine homeschooling from the…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Evaluation
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Jay, Jeffrey; Birney, Robert C. – American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1973
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing, Personality Assessment
Bronfenbrenner, Urie – Saturday Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Emotional Development, Parent Child Relationship
Tal, Amos – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
A study examines environmental and personality factors as predictors of academic achievement among kibbutz and urban high school students. Results of a comparison of personality factors indicate that kibbutz students are more restrained, reserved, adaptable, and conforming. The higher scores of city students on intelligence tests may stem from a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Collective Settlements, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
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Isralowitz, Richard E. – Adolescence, 1989
Examined family unemployment in terms of its effects on adolescent work values and self-concept. Findings from 344 high school students from Israeli development town showed no significant differences among youth from families where father was employed or unemployed. Findings suggest that father's work status has little impact on adolescent family…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Family Life, Fathers
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Mazor, Aviva; And Others – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1990
The individuation process was explored from a social-cognitive perspective using 61 kibbutz adolescents and youth in grades 4, 7, and 10, and post-high school in military service. Results support the developmental sequence of the individuation construct in kibbutz adolescents and fit the model proposed by A. Mazor (1985). (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Smilansky, M. – 1979
This paper presents and evaluates the broad results of pre-school intervention experiments and programs aimed at fostering the intellectual and social development of "disadvantaged" groups. Among the general findings discussed are (1) there is a "sensitive," or even "critical," period in child development, an age at…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth
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Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
Israeli children responded to a questionnaire assessing self-esteem, locus-of-control, and classroom social climate. Data were compared according to school grades, socioeconomic status, and sex. Affective personality variables and children's perception of the school social environment followed divergent patterns of development according to social…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Class Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Almeida, Patrícia Albergaria, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
This volume contains papers submitted to the 11th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 14-17 May 2013, and papers submitted to the 1st International Distance Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre "Scientific Cooperation,"…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, Comparative Education, Global Approach