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Kai Bao; Meihua Liu – SAGE Open, 2024
This study compared the five-word lexical bundles (LBs) expressing gratitude in acknowledgments of dissertations written by Chinese and American PhD students of linguistics. Two corpora were built: (1) The Chinese University Dissertation Acknowledgments Collection (CUC) which contained 700 acknowledgments with a total of 300,686 tokens, and (2)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Linguistics, Language Usage
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Margoni, Francesco; Block, Katharina; Hamlin, Kiley; Zmyj, Norbert; Schmader, Toni – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Can well-documented gender differences in evaluations of prosocial versus antisocial actions found in childhood and adulthood be traced to sex differences in basic sociomoral preferences in infancy? We provide an answer to this question by meta-analyzing sex differences in preference for prosocial over antisocial agents in a set of 53 samples of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Infants, Toddlers, Prosocial Behavior
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Padilla-Walker, Laura M.; Van der Graaff, Jolien; Workman, Katey; Carlo, Gustavo; Branje, Susan; Carrizales, Alexia; Gerbino, Maria; Gülseven, Zehra; Hawk, Skyler T.; Luengo Kanacri, Paula; Mesurado, Belén; Samper-García, Paula; Shen, Yuh-Ling; Taylor, Laura K.; Trach, Jessica; van Zalk, Maarten H. W.; Žukauskiene, Rita – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Evidence suggests an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, particularly among emerging adults. However, theories on altruism born of suffering or adversarial growth suggest that we might also see prosocial behavior as a function of the pandemic, which may protect against mental health challenges. Because cultural values are central in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Mental Health, Prosocial Behavior, Cultural Influences
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Zaiets, Rostyslav; Cherednichenko, Natalia; Shandruk, Svitlana – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
Problem of formation Ukrainian students` civic consciousness is in the focus of research in philosophical and psychological and pedagogical sciences of Ukraine. United States of America is an example of the formation of civic consciousness in a democratic society. Education of citizenship of students on the basis of respect for the rights of every…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civics, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizenship Education
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Amanda B. Nickerson; Margaret E. Manges; Gina M. Bellavia; Jennifer A. Livingston; Lyndsay N. Jenkins; Thomas H. Feeley – Grantee Submission, 2022
This study investigated the extent to which adolescents' personal normative attitudes (also referred to as personal norms) and perceived peer norms regarding bullying, sexual harassment, and bystander intervention predicted each step of the five-step bystander intervention model (i.e., Notice, Interpret, Accept Responsibility, Know how to Help,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior, Bullying
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Simon Marginson – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
Anglophone societies in which the sovereign individual is primary vis and vis social relations, and policy focuses on economic competition and consumption in education, find it hard to grasp non-pecuniary outcomes in higher education. These include the self-formation of students as persons and collective goods like knowledge, technological…
Descriptors: Individualism, Well Being, Altruism, Prosocial Behavior
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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
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McDougle, Lindsey M.; Li, Huafang; Rossi, Gabrielle – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2022
Globally, public affairs programs are designed to meet dual educational purposes. On the one hand, these professional degree programs are intended to educate students for careers in service to the public. On the other hand, these programs are also intended to educate students about our common responsibility to contribute to the betterment of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Public Affairs Education, Private Financial Support, Philanthropic Foundations
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Warren, Meg A.; Bordoloi, Samit D. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
Allyship is increasingly viewed as a crucial practice to address social and economic inequities faced by marginalized groups. However, little research explores how dominant group members can behave as allies and what marginalized group individuals consider as valuable. Research shows that women faculty in male-dominated academic disciplines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Sex Fairness
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Fei Wang; Bin Ai; Eugene Williams – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
Drawing upon interview data collected from six American professors who have taught in a Sino-US collaborative programme, this study explores these Western educators' perceptions of their Chinese students. Adopting the theoretical lens of cultural non-essentialism, this study finds that these educators formed an appreciative and contextualized…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, North Americans, Asians
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Hollomotz, Andrea; Greenhalgh, Joanne – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: The resources used in treatment for sex offenders with intellectual disabilities have had much research attention, but less has been written about how participants are expected to respond (programme mechanisms). Methods: A realist evaluation of seven programmes from the UK, Canada, USA, Switzerland and Germany was conducted. In…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Criminals, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries
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Amy M. Anderson; Justina Or – Adult Learning, 2024
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is a simulated global exchange experience that utilizes technology to bridge the gap between classrooms worldwide. Past research suggests that COIL may be useful in facilitating intercultural communication effectiveness and cultural humility for adult learners. As such, this quantitative study…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Adult Learning, Technology Uses in Education
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Krystyna Nowak-Fabrykowski – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2025
Building on the idea that the culture of an organisation has an extremely deep influence on the personalities, minds and identities of people who participate in it (Hofstede 2015) -- we reflected on how the US and Polish cultures' specific values and beliefs were represented and symbolised in the early childhood settings. We focused our analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
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Lee, Seon-Young; Matthews, Michael; Shin, Jongho; Kim, Myung-Seop – High Ability Studies, 2020
In this study, we examined the perceptions of over 1,600 gifted and typically developing (not identified as gifted) secondary students from South Korea and the USA to identify gifted adolescents' preferred modes of social purpose, interest in and engagement with their communities, and actual commitment to societal improvement. We then examined the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Community Involvement
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2020
This paper argues that it is important for educators in democratic education to understand how the rise of right-wing populism in Europe, the United States and around the world can never be viewed apart from the affective investments of populist leaders and their supporters to essentialist ideological visions of nationalism, racism, sexism and…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Democracy, Educational Philosophy, Nationalism
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