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Geert Franzenburg – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2025
How can the use of metaphors promote sustainable resilience in an educational process? How can educators and pastoral workers facilitate transformative learning by promoting strategies for coping with challenges? The paper answers these questions from a religious and psychological perspective by applying a biographical approach. By evaluating the…
Descriptors: Self Control, Emotional Intelligence, Resilience (Psychology), Transformative Learning
Taboas, Amanda; Doepke, Karla; Zimmerman, Corinne – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Although person-first language is commonly used in many professional settings, this practice has received criticism from self-advocates and scholars who believe that identity-defining features, such as autism, cannot be separated from the individual. Arguments have been made that person-first language may perpetuate stigma by drawing attention to…
Descriptors: Preferences, Self Concept, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Usage
Brockett, Ralph G. – International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, 2019
This article explores the process through which John Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath." This process can be viewed as a learning process with elements of self-directed and transformative learning. Using primary and secondary sources, including a journal Steinbeck kept while writing the book, four themes are discussed: (1) Steinbeck's…
Descriptors: Novels, Authors, Independent Study, Learning Processes
Isik, Utku – World Journal of Education, 2018
This study aimed to evaluate the estimated/judged results for elite archers before competitions in the context of Achievement Goal Theory and determine its impact on actual performance. Also, the study assessed the impact of goal orientation on the competition scores to comprehend the relationship between goal orientation and performance. Study…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Competition, Self Concept
Davidson, Yonaton Sahar – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Recent research supports the benefit of students' construction of relevance through writing about the connection of content to their life. However, most such research defines relevance narrowly as utility value--perceived instrumentality of the content to the student's career goals. Furthermore, the scope of phenomenological and conceptual…
Descriptors: Biology, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Phenomenology
Brehmer-Rinderer, B.; Zigrovic, L.; Weber, G. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2014
Background: Based on the idea of the Common Sense Model of Illness Representations by Leventhal as well as Lohaus's concepts of health and illness, a health behaviour model was designed to explain health behaviours applied by persons with intellectual disabilities (ID). The key proposal of this model is that the way someone understands the…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Models, Health Behavior, Comprehension
Gilman, Rich; Rice, Kenneth G.; Carboni, Inga – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
Although studies examining multidimensional perfectionism among adolescents have increased over the past two decades, most continue to focus on psychological outcomes such as anxiety or depression. The purpose of this study was to examine two social outcomes that may differ among perfectionistic subtypes: "social perspective taking"…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Perspective Taking, Motivation, Interpersonal Relationship
Kedrova, Irina A.; Matantseva, Tatiana N. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The article deals with the development of inclusive, special and integrated education in regions of the Russian Federation which is connected with socio-cultural changes in modern education. The author underlines the need for continuous improvement of education system and education of children with different development level. The expansion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Special Education
MacInnes, Maryhelen; Broman, Clifford L. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
It is well established that children and adolescents with learning disabilities are more likely to experience depressed mood than are their peers. Many scholars explain this relationship as resulting from low self-esteem, stress, or social isolation. However, little work has explored whether this relationship continues to exist into young…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Learning Disabilities, Depression (Psychology), Longitudinal Studies
Mistry, Jayanthi; Wu, Jean – Human Development, 2010
For children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds the ability to maintain flexible identities and integrate multiple facets of self is a crucial developmental task. We present a conceptual model for the development of expertise in navigating across cultures, delineating how community characteristics interact with family and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Children, Cultural Differences, Expertise
Watzlawik, Meike – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2009
During adolescence, identity development reaches its crucial point. Siblings foster the search for their own uniqueness through social comparisons. These comparisons can lead to identification ("I am like you." or "We are special.") as well as deidentification ("I am different from you!"). In this study, 204 siblings were interviewed to determine…
Descriptors: Twins, Identification, Age Differences, Adolescents
Buchanan, Tom – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2011
In this study, the psychological well-being of college students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was analyzed. A survey was administered to a convenience sample of undergraduates aged 18-25 at a Southern university (N = 317). Well-being was measured using Ryff's (1989) 6 likert scales of psychological well-being. Students with…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, College Students, Likert Scales, Well Being
Cankar, Franc; Žakelj, Amalija; Grmek, Milena Ivanuš – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
Through the influences of our social environment, both boys and girls learn their sexual norms, specific rules and values from the early childhood. Hence, children grow up in the world of distinct sexual duality. In their efforts to act according to their sexual stereotypes, children adopt these widespread stereotyped conceptions in developing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Esteem, Self Concept, Social Influences
Koster, Marloes; Pijl, Sip Jan; Nakken, Han; Van Houten, Els – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2010
This study addresses the social participation of young students (Grades One to Three) with special needs in regular Dutch primary schools. More specifically, the focus lies on four key themes related to social participation: friendships/relationships, contacts/interactions, students' social self-perception, and acceptance by classmates. The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students
Sharabi, Adi; Margalit, Malka – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2011
Many adolescents spend time online, communicating with friends, family members and strangers, and these social activities have been often related with their loneliness experience. The goals of this study were to examine the social distress expressed by adolescents with and without learning disabilities (LD) and to distinguish between unique…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Friendship, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
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