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Pulkkinen, Lea; Lyyra, Anna-Liisa; Kokko, Katja – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of social capital assessed in early adulthood in linking self-control in childhood with psychological and social functioning in middle age. Data collected at ages 8, 27, and 42 years were based on the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (159 females, 177 males).…
Descriptors: Psychology, Social Networks, Social Capital, Social Development
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Booth, Alan; McLean, Monica; Walker, Melanie – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
There is currently an over-emphasis on the economic aims of higher education at the expense of the aims of personal and social transformation. This article proposes a specific approach to integrating educational aims. It draws on the works of Jurgen Habermas and Martha Nussbaum to conceptualise integrative learning as a simultaneous focus on self,…
Descriptors: Social Change, Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
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Kean, June – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1980
Descriptors: Attitudes, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
Boston Public Schools, MA. – 1966
MOST OF THIS EVALUATION CONSISTS OF APPENDIXES TO A SUMMARY OF THE EVALUATION REPORTS OF THE VARIOUS PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROGRAM. PRINCIPALS REPORTED ON ASSEMBLIES, PARENT INVOLVEMENT, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, AND LAY ADVISORY COMMITTEES. SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT COUNSELORS FOUND PROGRESS MADE TOWARD BETTER HOME-SCHOOL RELATIONSHIPS. TEACHERS NOTED…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Arithmetic