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Gift Khumalo; Edmarie Pretorius – South African Journal of Education, 2025
Adolescence is a complex developmental stage with challenges that affect transitioning to adulthood. The success in managing the transition depends on personal capabilities, circumstances, and support systems. Contextual situations in adolescent development are understudied in developing countries. In this qualitative study, we explored what South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
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Eric D. Deemer; Aryn M. Dotterer; Stacey A. Duhon; Pedro A. Derosa; Seoyoung Lim; Jessica R. Bowen; Kay Beck Howarter – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
The stereotype inoculation model proposes that environments primarily comprised of underrepresented in-group members afford them protection against the inimical effects of stereotypes. We conducted a macrolevel test of this model by examining the conditional effects of university context on students' perceptions of threatening race-science,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Stereotypes, Racial Factors, Context Effect
Sarah Catherine Radke – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Research in mathematics education has described learning and identity development as dynamic, negotiated, and cultural. However, disciplined ways of engaging in school mathematics remain most valued, resulting in positioning only some learners as successful. Research that investigates mathematics learning and identity has predominantly occurred in…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Individual Development, Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods
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Braden Hill; Caroline Nilson; Bep Uink; Catherine Fetherston – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2023
Research on transformative learning (Mezirow, 1991), particularly within the context of higher education, has demonstrated the significant impact university learning can have on a wide range of cohorts across diverse learning contexts. However, the extensive body of literature pertaining to transformative learning remains largely silent on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Universities, Transformative Learning
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Tymms, Mark – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
The aim of this study has been to explore and understand the implementation of PDP as an educational innovation in a single institutional context. Adopting a Sartrean ontology in which the subjective individual takes precedence over the systems within which that same individual exists, an interview process sought to understand the attitudes of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Innovation, Professional Identity, Psychological Patterns
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Thota, Neena; Berglund, Anders – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
We know from research that there is an intimate relationship between student learning and the context of learning. What is not known or understood well enough is the relationship of the students' background and previous studies to the understanding and learning of the subject area--here, computer science (CS). To show the contextual influences on…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Asians, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Cappella, Elise; Hughes, Diane L.; McCormick, Meghan P. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2017
Children in late elementary and middle school tend to form friendships with same-race peers. Yet, given the potential benefits of cross-race friendships, it is important to understand the individual and contextual factors that increase the likelihood of cross-race friendship over time. Guided by contact hypothesis and systems theory, we examine…
Descriptors: Racial Relations, Friendship, Behavior Problems, Elementary School Students
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Sanders, Linda A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
As a lifelong theater artist and educator, as well as practitioner of a variety of meditative techniques, this author has been keenly interested in the potential impact of sitting meditation and other contemplative practices on acting, vocal, and movement training in college and university performing arts departments. For many years, she wondered…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Masters Programs, Fine Arts, Theater Arts
Walloff, Alyssa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to research teacher and student perceptions of the impact of an advisory program at a large, suburban high school. The advisory program on which this study focused was created in August 2004. Kottler and Kottler (1998) note "it is through your relationships with students that you affect and influence them most…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Students, Suburban Schools, Advisory Committees
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Caplan, Roberta – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2011
This article discusses and illustrates with case examples the impact on the college experience for students who have impaired--medically or mentally ill, substance abusing, developmentally disabled--siblings. Although these students often show resilience and a well-developed sense of compassion, they may also struggle with developmental tasks of…
Descriptors: College Students, Siblings, Disabilities, Substance Abuse
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Jones, Susan R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2009
The purpose of this article is to present the results of an autoethnographic study designed to investigate the complexities of identity development among a diverse group of eight participants and to use results to explore potential relationships between self-authorship and intersecting identities. Data was collected via personal autoethnographic…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Social Class, Focus Groups, Context Effect
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Yair, Gad – British Educational Research Journal, 2009
Positive turning points touch upon the essence of education. They epitomize its power and reflect its core agenda: maximizing human capital. Paradoxically, previous studies have not looked into this important phenomenon. The current exploratory study fills this lacuna by building on extensive empirical research of key educational experiences to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Human Capital, Change
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McLoughlin, Paul J., II – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2012
This hermeneutic phenomenological study describes the lived experiences of high-achieving, low-income undergraduates and their transition into a college environment historically reserved for wealthy students. The results of this study indicate that these students are flourishing in full need-based financial aid programs as a result of their own…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Financial Aid, Low Income, High Achievement
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Nurmi, Jari-Erik; And Others – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1994
The extent to which differences in age-graded sociocultural contexts influenced adolescent future-oriented goals, concerns, and related temporal extension was studied in 596 Australian adolescents. Overall, results show that goals, concerns, and related temporal extension reflect the major developmental tasks of adolescents' own ages. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Context Effect, Foreign Countries
Greene, Myrna L.; Campbell, Cathy – 1993
The study described in this report explored the development of the professional perspectives of 12 students through all phases of their teacher preparation program in southern Alberta (Canada). The purpose of the study was to examine the process of "becoming a teacher" from the point of view of students "in process" and to…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Attitude Change, Change Agents, Context Effect