Peace education requires that students have a correct and academic perception regarding other countries. These perceptions of students, who acquire certain perceptions starting from primary school to university, need to be based on real facts and should not contain extravagance. This study aims to determine whether 3rd year Prospective Social…

This paper presents an analysis of pre-service teachers' reflections on the consequences of their perceived public humiliation in school mathematics classrooms, based on Torres and Bergner's (2010) model of the stages of humiliation. It analyses two examples of preservice teachers' critical incident reflections from studies at two Australian…

Contemplating one's teaching is an essential part of teacher education. As instructors of a methods course with a tutoring component, we asked education majors in the class to author weekly e-mail reflections about their teaching experiences. However, they had difficulty considering their lessons. The authors knew poetry stimulated introspections.…

The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine whether Christian, Millennial college students' secure attachment to God relationship could contribute to their psychological separation. This question was addressed by examining (a) the correlation between attachment to parents and psychological separation, (b) the correlation…

Given the prevalence of group project assignments in college coursework, it is surprising that the rich literature on achievement goal orientation has been so rarely used to understand students' commitment to an assigned group project and the emotions they associate with group work, especially when they report some degree of group conflict among…

The present book collects, integrates, and discusses the range of perspectives and discourses on agency at work. In addition, the book compiles the empirical research that has been generated by various perspectives. The chapters deal with the relationship between (a) agency at work, and (b) professional learning and development. They encompass a…

Workforce shortages in school psychology have been a persistent problem since the field's inception. To inform targeted recruitment efforts, the present study aimed to identify factors that contributed to current graduate students' decisions to pursue a career in the field. Participants were 356 student members of the National Association of…

Father involvement is a salient predictor of children's development and recent studies suggest that African American fathers who are highly involved across infancy and toddlerhood have children who enter school better prepared to succeed. Little is known, however, about the specific dimensions of fathering (e.g., language stimulation) that…

Psychological threats to people's social identity and sense of belonging can undermine motivation and performance in in-person learning environments. I argue that these social psychological processes can also apply in technology-mediated environments and limit the potential of online environments to provide more affordable, personalized, and…

This paper investigates the speech act of refusal taking as a case study British responses to a salesperson's offer through the study of recordings of 109 conversations between the salesperson and a potential British customer. The data are analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively with the aim of finding the most frequent responses that denote…

Internet addiction among college students in terms of causes and effects are investigated. Correlation study method is utilized; structural equation modelling is applied to analyze the data. There are fifteen hypotheses generated for the model. The data is collected via numerous instruments proven as reliable and valid by the previous studies.…

This paper presents the results of a research study based on a pedagogical experience of two pre-service English teachers with seventh graders. The main goal was to analyze the students' context representations, after using some songs in English as a trigger for reflection. The pedagogical implementation of the songs was designed from a critical…

When a predominantly white organization decides to take on white normativity, it is cause for hope. However, havoc ensues when well-intended folks are caught enacting white normativity. Taking a performativity-inspired approach, this article analyzes what happened at the 2018 Religious Education Association annual meeting. By examining the…

Perfectionism is multidimensional and includes perfectionistic striving (ceaseless pursuit of very high performance standards) and perfectionistic concerns (excessive self-criticism over one's inability to live up to unrealistically high expectations). Previous studies generally suggest that both perfectionistic striving and perfectionistic…

The aim of this qualitative study was to contribute to an understanding of how biological fathers (N = 311) believe having a child with Down syndrome has impacted them personally. Thematic analysis was used to derive meaning from responses to open-ended survey questions. In addition to describing personal impacts, fathers shared how their…