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Heffernan, Kayla; Peterson, Steven; Kaplan, Avi; Newton, Kristie J. – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
Students' relationships with mathematics continuously remain problematic, and researchers have begun to look at this issue through the lens of identity. In this article, the researchers discuss identity in education research, specifically in mathematics classrooms, and break down the various perspective on identity. A review of recent literature…
Descriptors: Intervention, Identification (Psychology), Mathematics Education, Student Motivation
Gee, James Paul – Teachers College Press, 2017
This is a profound look at learning, language, and literacy. It is also about brains and bodies. And it is about talk, texts, media, and society. These topics, though usually studied in different narrow academic silos, are all part of one highly interactive process--human development. Gee argues that children will need to be resilient,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Educational Change, Resilience (Psychology), Educational Principles
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Gu, Qing – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2015
This article discusses the nature of Chinese students' transnational experiences and its impact on their identities within and beyond national and cultural boundaries. The discussion is located in the theoretical framework of transnationalism and explores in detail the ways in which students adapt, change and develop, both in the host country of…
Descriptors: Asians, Emotional Experience, Study Abroad, Transformative Learning
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Smith, Janice E. – Adult Learning, 2009
This reflective paper discusses aspects of the author's personal development as an adult learner. Though that development is reflected in her practice as an adult educator, she does not explore those implications in the paper. Instead, she grapples with what it means to make meaning, to determine how she knows what she thinks she knows. The author…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Reflection, Individual Development
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Anderson, Lisa; Gold, Jeff – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2009
In this paper we consider the construction of narrative identity and particularly how managers of small businesses may construct new narrative identities within the activity of the action learning situation. We build on recent work to suggest that the "world" of managers can be explored through a consideration of Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Experiential Learning, Administrators, Identification
Schroeder, Timothy D. – 1979
The effect of sports participation on character development is discussed. Literature concerned with the differences between the formation of male athletes, female athletes, high-skill-level athletes, low-skill-level athletes, and nonathletes is reviewed, as well as research concerned with the differences in personality between participants in…
Descriptors: Athletics, Individual Development, Participant Characteristics, Personality Theories
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Hansen, J. Merrell – Educational Leadership, 1978
Discusses the difficulties, conflicts, and dilemmas of growing up in America today and the positive steps that educators can take to facilitate this maturation process. (Author/JG)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Humanistic Education, Individual Development, Secondary Education
Clarken, Rodney H. – Online Submission, 2005
This paper will present evidence to support ontogenetic and phylogenetic parallels and draw from these comparisons to further illuminate our understanding of micro and macro human development. Individual and collective stages of physical, psychological and spiritual development will be compared and their homologous structures examined.…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Developmental Stages, Individual Development, Physical Development
Fulton, Paul R. – 1983
The variety of culturally-constituted conceptions of self are investigated in this essay. A history of ethnopsychology is given which includes an examination of evolutionist and sociological theories of the self in relation to culture and society. Various approaches to ethnopsychology are considered, and different facets of the self are explored.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Harbeson, Gladys Evans – 1971
The second edition, as the previous edition, deals with evolutionary processes contributing to changing life patterns of American women; however, new portions relate to the acceleration of the trend. The new self-image of women cannot be understood if viewed as an isolated development but must be interpreted with a perspective view. Two…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Opportunities, Employed Women, Employment Patterns