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Diana Sousa; Laura Oxley – Educational Review, 2024
In societies where authoritarian and populist perspectives are on the rise, a focus on the concept of democracy within education can provide a meaningful space to reflect critically on, and disrupt, the status quo. In post-dictatorship Portugal, democracy has become a central symbolic concept within education policy and, in particular, Early…
Descriptors: Democracy, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education
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Wright, Paul M.; Henert, Shaine; Looney, Marilyn A. – Physical Educator, 2021
Research indicates physical education can foster personal and social development. However, few studies have examined teacher beliefs about delivering this aspect of the curriculum. To move research and practice forward, it is important to understand educators' self-efficacy beliefs. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Self Efficacy, Individual Development, Social Development
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Javiera Marfán; Ngee Derk Tiong – Professional Development in Education, 2025
At a time of increasing global uncertainty, it is critical that school systems succeed at transforming their educational aims and practices. This article focuses on the Chilean System of Educational Quality Assurance as a policy case aimed at expanding the purpose of education by incorporating indicators of social and personal development (ISPD)…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Communities of Practice, Educational Policy
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Dogan, Soner – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2020
This study aims to find answers to the question: What kind of person should the Turkish education system raise? To evaluate the participants' responses thoroughly, the phenomenology method has been used. The study group includes 185 teachers and school administrators working in Sivas city centre. To reach out to more participants, the data have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Development, Individual Development, Ethics
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Falzon, Ruth; Frendo, Clarisse; Muscat, Maud – Journal of School-Based Counseling Policy and Evaluation, 2019
This study explored whether Personal and Social Development (PSD) teachers, school-based counsellors, and students in Maltese secondary schools perceived processing experiences as empowering to seek counselling, if and when needed. The study investigated if processing techniques within PSD methodology helped develop self-awareness. The research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Counseling, Social Development, Individual Development
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Smith, Lorna – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
It is now five years since the introduction of the current National Curriculum for English in England; it is just over 50 years since the Dartmouth Conference drew together American and English educationalists. This paper reports on a hermeneutic study that presents voices from the field of English teaching in England. It asks questions of today's…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Creative Teaching, National Curriculum, Hermeneutics
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Jackson, Robert; Everington, Judith – British Journal of Religious Education, 2017
The article draws on experience of teaching, teacher education and qualitative research related to an impartial approach to inclusive religious education (including pupils from families who identify with or do not identify with religion or belief groups), in publicly funded schools in England. Such religious education is considered to be…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Religious Education, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
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Harvey, Stephen; Jarrett, Kendall – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: In 2006, Oslin and Mitchell published a review of the game-centred approaches (GCAs) to teaching and coaching literature highlighting a number of core concepts thought to provide justification for the use of GCAs including (a) its potential to enhance participant motivation, (b) potential for tactical transfer, and (c) development of…
Descriptors: Games, Physical Education, Athletics, Literature Reviews
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Hockridge, Diane – Distance Education, 2013
There are many challenges for educators in using distance and online education to adequately prepare students for their future professions. These challenges are accentuated in disciplines that prepare people for relational professions, which require people skills and a certain maturity of character. Educators in many disciplines, including…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Barriers, Teaching Methods
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Brown, Jackie; Busfield, Robert; O'Shea, Alison; Sibthorpe, Joanne – Pastoral Care in Education, 2011
This paper will discuss research undertaken within a London borough in 2009 that aimed to examine how Personal, Social, Health and Economic education (PSHE) was perceived and delivered. The ethos of schools was incorporated into the enquiry as a key determinate of both perception and delivery of PSHE. The findings are presented with particular…
Descriptors: Health Education, Economics Education, Educational Environment, Mail Surveys
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2017, taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from 29 of April to 1 of May, 2017. Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Anxiety, Cognitive Restructuring, Outcomes of Treatment
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Elliott, Julian; Tudge, Jonathan – Comparative Education, 2007
In this paper, the authors draw on Bronfenbrenner's theory of human development in order to examine western influences upon Russian education. They argue that while some have embraced western ideas about education and schooling, reflecting both the influence of specific educational theorizing and that of broader globalizing trends, many teachers…
Descriptors: Russian, Educational Development, Individual Development, Adoption (Ideas)
Overman, Bette C. – 1980
Findings regarding the functions of schooling from the perspectives of teachers, parents and students in the elementary and secondary schools that participated in "A Study of Schooling" are presented. These functions were classified into four major categories: social, intellectual, personal, and vocational development. Study participants were…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Educational Attitudes, Individual Development, Intellectual Development
Brandt, Godfrey L. – 1986
In order to dismantle racism through development of new curricula and positive pedagogic practices, education professionals must be informed about the history, structure, and culture of racism. An examination of the nature of schooling demonstrates that the education system is a crucial component of a racist state, by propounding a racist…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Curriculum Development, Individual Development, Instruction
Sparapani, Ervin F.; And Others – 1991
A survey of 136 junior high and middle school teachers focused primarily on teachers' knowledge about and opinions relative to curriculum and teaching strategies appropriate for the early adolescent or transescent. The teachers came from four states (Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania), taught in schools in four socio-economic settings, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Techniques, Individual Development, Learning Strategies
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