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Direct linkJuang, Linda P.; Schachner, Maja K.; Pevec, Sharleen; Moffitt, Ursula – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
We examined whether German adolescents who participated in an adapted 8-week school-based intervention, the "Identity Project," reported greater changes in heritage and global identities and perceptions of classroom cultural climate. We used a longitudinal, wait-list control design pooling eight classrooms across the school years of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adolescent Development, Intervention, Educational Environment
Bronk, Kendall Cotton; Baumsteiger, Rachel; Mangan, Susan; Riches, Brian; Dubon, Valeska; Benavides, Celina; Bono, Giacomo – Journal of Character Education, 2019
Although searching for and discovering a purpose in life has been associated with a variety of psychological, physical, and academic benefits, the experience is relatively rare (Bronk, 2013). Only about one fifth of adolescents and one third of young adults report leading a life of purpose (Damon, 2008). Accordingly, we designed and tested 2 brief…
Descriptors: Intervention, Self Concept, Values Education, Correlation
Download full textGeng, Gretchen; Midford, Richard; Buckworth, Jenny – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
In comparison to undergraduate pre-service teachers (PSTs), graduate PSTs have previously completed a three-year bachelor degree and are enrolled in initial teacher education (ITE) programs to become a teacher. Following a review of literature on teachers' sense of stress, reflection and identity development, this study compared the stress levels…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Stress Variables, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
Pipitone, Jennifer M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Efforts to globalize higher education have resulted in study abroad climbing to an all-time high in the United States. Amidst this growth, emergent bodies of literature have uncovered problematic trends in study abroad that reproduce hierarchies of power and colonialism, perpetuate views of an exotic cultural "other," and privilege…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Journal Writing, Reflection
Grosseman, Suely; Hojat, Mohammadreza; Duke, Pamela M.; Mennin, Stewart; Rosenzweig, Steven; Novack, Dennis – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2014
We administered the Jefferson Scale of Empathy and the Groningen Reflection Ability Scale to 61 of 64 entering medical students who self-selected a problem-based learning curricular track and to 163 of 198 who self-selected a lecture-based track (response rates of 95.3% and 82.3%, respectively, with no statistically significant differences in mean…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Medical Students, Problem Based Learning, Lecture Method
Gambrell, James A. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2016
Transformative learning theory (TLT) describes the process of reframing discriminative worldviews with a more permeable and reflective epistemology. Although TLT has been around for more than 50 years, few studies empirically engage critical theoretical frameworks to move beyond personal learning to identify the impacts of transformation on…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Social Change, Epistemology
Brody, David L.; Hadar, Linor L. – Teacher Development, 2015
Experience in the workforce influences teacher educators' responses to professional development efforts for adapting new practices. This study examines trajectories of novices and experienced teacher educators in a three-year longitudinal professional development community focused on infusing thinking into college teaching. A four-stage trajectory…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Bohn, Annette – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
Autobiographical reasoning is closely related to the development of normative ideas about life as measured by the cultural life script. The acquisition of a life script is an important prerequisite for autobiographical reasoning because children learn through the life script which events are expected to go into their life story, and when to expect…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Self Concept, Autobiographies, Reflection
Stewart, Dafina Lazarus – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2010
Two studies investigating the meaning and articulation of multiple identities among Black college students revealed shifts in the findings from the 2001 study to the 2005 study. This theoretical review explores the role of the researcher as instrument within the constructivist research paradigm as a possible explanation for some of these apparent…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Researchers, Role, Black Colleges
Aladag, Mine; Tezer, Esin – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2009
The purpose of this study was to develop a peer helping training program for university students in Turkey and to examine its effectiveness in improving the helping skills and self-growth of peer helpers. A pre-test, post-test, follow-up-test experimental design, involving a treatment and control group, was carried out with a total sample of 31…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Research Design, Foreign Countries, Peer Counseling
Graham, Suzanne – Language Learning Journal, 2007
This article reports on part of a larger study of the impact of strategy training in listening on learners of French, aged 16 to 17. One aim of the project was to investigate whether such training might have a positive effect on the self-efficacy of learners, by helping them see the relationship between the strategies they employed and what they…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Listening Comprehension, Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies
