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Stein M. Wivestad – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
How can an open access database annotating pictures, films, music and texts support adults as existential exemplars? This article explores the opportunities of a Norwegian database called the OE-database. Its target group is all adults who want to become better exemplars for children through encounters with art and conversations in small groups.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Information, Databases, Independent Study
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Megan Fulcher; Kingsley Schroeder; Jennifer Rabung – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2024
This study was designed to test how well a commercial intervention with a highly feminized role model (Barbie) worked to improve pre-adolescent girls' interest and performance in computer science. Concurrently, this study examined how overtly feminist texts and images of real women would impact girls compared to the traditional highly feminized…
Descriptors: Role Models, Toys, Early Adolescents, Females
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Elizabeth H. Schultheis; Ash T. Zemenick; Rachel M. Youngblood; Robin A. Costello; Emily P. Driessen; Melissa K. Kjelvik; Marjorie G. Weber; Cissy J. Ballen – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Featuring scientists in classroom materials provides opportunities for students to relate to scientists as role models and see themselves in science. However, it is unclear what information students find most relatable when encountering scientists throughout their education. In this study, we manipulated the amount and type of information provided…
Descriptors: Humanization, Science Education, Biology, Information Sources
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Ludi Wishnu Wardana; Jefry Aulia Martha; Andy Prasetyo Wati; Bagus Shandy Narmaditya; Amelia Setyawati; Farij Ibadil Maula; Angga Martha Mahendra; Suparno – Cogent Education, 2024
Entrepreneurship has emerged a prominent of concern during COVID-19 pandemic, making essential contribution toward unemployment as a result of the pandemic. The purpose of this research is to look at the entrepreneurial intentions of students in Indonesia's East Java Province. The research focuses on how students' entrepreneurial intentions are…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Self Efficacy, Intention, COVID-19
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Sarah Manchanda; Travis Bristol; Phelton Moss – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2024
Despite existing recruitment and retention efforts, there has been a persistent underrepresentation of Black men teachers in the U.S. educator workforce. The present study employed a phenomenological approach to examine what motivated Black men (n = 27) to enter the teaching profession. We drew on the social-cognitive career theory (SCCT)…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Males, Career Choice, Decision Making
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Chapple, Larelle – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2022
In University life, the first women to achieve status or leadership positions inevitably are perceived as role models to their colleagues, peers and students. Role model theory suggests that although we generally understand the meaning of terms such as "role model" or "mentor", the position of role model has several dimensions…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Role Models, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Xinfa Yi; Peiling Hong; Pengfei Chen; Xinyang Bai; Sijia Li; Senqing Qi; Mark A. Runco – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2023
The creative achievements of eminent genius in Chinese history are of enormous interest. There is, however, uncertainty about the accurate measurement of eminence and creativity. The most tenable measurement approach is historiometric. Nearly all historiometric research on eminence and creative achievement has involved Western samples. The present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Achievement, Scientists, Creativity
Torrez M. Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Institutions of higher learning generally seek to provide students with experiential learning, professional development, and tools for contributing to a diverse global society. However, many students are not able to connect their learning to their career interest. As a result, graduates do not feel confident that they have acquired the job…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Employment, Supervisors, Self Efficacy
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Bernadeia Johnson; Julianne E. Schwietz – Thresholds in Education, 2023
The concurrent crises of climate change, a pandemic, and social unrest have laid bare systemic inequities in our economic, health, education, and criminal justice institutions that negatively impact people of color. School leaders face unprecedented challenges as they navigate these dilemmas and are compelled to address the implicit biases and…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Racism, Equal Education
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Cameron Richards – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
In ageing societies around the world, the general life experience of 'seniors' (i.e. the elderly, retirees and other 'later' lifelong learners) has become widely devalued and regularly ignored at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This is despite the obvious and growing need for 'tribal elder' knowledge and wisdom to help guide a future…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Sustainability, Advocacy
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Rosa M. Banda; Alonzo Flowers – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The influential role of familía remains a crucial aspect to understand Latinxs' success in postsecondary schooling. Rather than relying on a deficit lens, this study employs an asset-based lens to gain insight into the paternal influence that assists Latinas' persistence to degree attainment in engineering. More specifically, this study examines…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Influence, Daughters, Academic Persistence
Brittany Fleming – Knowledge Quest, 2024
According to the author, we are all creators and consumers of media. Technology has made it easy to copy, paste, and transfer anything educators might want to use in their classrooms. As educators, school librarians have an obligation to honor the law and be the role models that learners and other staff members need them to be. So many times the…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Copyrights, Intellectual Property
Janice Denice Stewart – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how church members describe the influence of pastoral transformational leadership to achieve the church's organizational vision and goals. The theoretical foundation for this study was Bernard Bass' (1985) transformational leadership theory. The research was guided by four questions,…
Descriptors: Clergy, Churches, Transformational Leadership, Organizational Objectives
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Violeta Vasilevska; Carolyn Hamilton – PRIMUS, 2024
Math Girls Rock! is a year-long, two-tiered mathematics mentoring program that prepares female undergraduate mentors to facilitate high school girls' engagement in challenging mathematics concepts through a dynamic after-school program. In this article, we describe the distinct educational component of this program in which female faculty members…
Descriptors: Mentors, Females, Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Education
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Mesut Demirbilek – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Students' parents are important stakeholders of school leadership. Student mobility and some other problems in a school environment may occur when the expectations of students' parents cannot be met. Hence, I studied the expectations of the parents of secondary school students about the leadership of school principals through focus-group…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Aspiration, Expectation, Secondary School Students
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