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Hizi, Gil – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2021
Despite recent socioeconomic transformations, young adults in China construe local social norms as inhibiting their individualized selfhood. Based on a study of pedagogies of interpersonal "soft" skills, this article describes an apparatus of self-improvement where self- and social critique play a pivotal role. Through comparison with…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Change, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards
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Towner, Emil B.; Everett, Heidi L.; Klemz, Bruce R. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
Previous studies have noted the difficulties students have in understanding and adapting to professional workforce policies, especially mobile device usage and e-etiquette. This study focuses on determining how closely students and working professionals align in their perceptions of appropriate mobile phone usage during business meetings. After…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Work Environment, Professionalism
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Heuckmann, Benedikt; Hammann, Marcus; Asshoff, Roman – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study investigated factors influencing teachers' intention and willingness to teach about cancer in the context of the theory of planned behaviour. Because teaching about cancer is mandatory in Germany, we compared n=355 teachers' intention to teach about cancer under mandatory conditions and their willingness to teach about cancer if they…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Cancer, Comparative Analysis
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Turpen, Chandra; Finkelstein, Noah D. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2010
This paper summarizes variations in instructors' implementation practices during Peer Instruction (PI) and shows how these differences in practices shape different norms of classroom interaction. We describe variations in classroom norms along three dimensions of classroom culture that are integral to Peer Instruction, emphasis on: (1)…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship
Lee, Shih-Ting – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined the relationships between metacognition, self-regulation and students' critical thinking skills and disposition in online Socratic Seminars for ninth grade World Geography and Culture students. Participants of this study came from six intact pre-AP (Pre-Advanced Placement) classes in a public high school in south central Texas…
Descriptors: High School Students, Metacognition, Self Management, Critical Thinking
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Kibble, Jonathan; Hansen, Penelope A.; Nelson, Loren – Advances in Physiology Education, 2006
Peer leading of small-group discussion of cases; use of modified subjective, objective, assessment of physiology (SOAP) notes; and opportunities for self-assessment were introduced into a Medical Physiology course to increase students' awareness and practice of professional behaviors. These changes arose from faculty members' understanding of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Group Discussion, Student Attitudes, Hidden Curriculum