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Shin, Kyunghee – Education as Change, 2019
Korea and the US have different levels of tolerance toward homosexuality. At the same time, the school in both countries is considered to reinforce homophobia and heteronormativity. This study focuses on juxtaposing Korean and American prospective teachers to compare their past and current understanding and attitudes toward homosexuality. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, LGBTQ People, Social Bias
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Giordmaina, Joseph; Zammit, Lucianne – Education Sciences, 2019
The aim of this paper is to show how changes in the social fabric of Malta have resulted in amendments to the school curriculum in respect to the teaching of moral values. The curriculum now caters for a new subject in schools called Ethics, which is aimed at students who opt out of the mainstream Catholic Religious Education classes. As educators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Social Change, Moral Values
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Yerbulatova, Ilmira Kanatovna; Gilazetdinova, Gelinya Khajretdinovna; Bozbayeva, Aigul Galimzhanovna – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
The development of intercultural relations and the globalization of multicultural civilization gives rise to the need for educational study the elements found in the language of each nation, not only in the national-cultural aspect but also in comparative translation. At the present stage of translation educational study development, special…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Languages, Cultural Awareness, Role
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Mohamed, Mawarni; Tajuddin, Puteri Aquila – Asian Journal of University Education, 2019
Malaysia and ASEAN society are rich with a variety of traditional games and usually played during leisure time. 'Tossing the Stones' or Batu Seremban was chosen in this survey. Using a purposive sampling technique, respondents from Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand went through the game intervention and answered the questionnaires…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Games, Folk Culture, Leisure Time
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Erbstein, Nancy; Fabionar, James O. – Afterschool Matters, 2019
Increasingly, leaders of youth-serving organizations voice concern about low Latinx participation (Borden et al., 2006), often recognizing that poor participation reflects a need to develop new capacities and inclusive practices (Perkins et al., 2007). The authors were asked to summarize the scholarship on Latinx participation in youth development…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Youth, Participation, Youth Programs
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Rolleston, Caine; Schendel, Rebecca; Grijalva Espinosa, Ana M. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2019
The concept of 'approaches to learning' (Marton, 1976) has long assumed a position of central importance in the analysis of student learning outcomes. However, constructing effective measures of students' approaches to learning is a complex task, and it is an empirical question whether such measures transfer well across contexts. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Learning Strategies, Evaluation Methods
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Goodwin, Kelly; Mbah, Marcellus – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
This article reports the findings from an institutional case study into the work placement experience of undergraduate international students studying at a UK-based university. Given the centrality and importance of the employability and internationalisation agendas in higher education, little published literature considers both and how they…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Student Placement, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students
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Bobe, Belete J.; Cooper, Barry J. – Accounting Education, 2019
Employing the approaches to learning theoretical framework, this study examines the effects of language proficiency on overall student satisfaction with a unit of study mediated by approaches to learning accounting. Survey data was gathered from undergraduate second year accounting students from an Australian and an Ethiopian universities using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Student Satisfaction, Undergraduate Students
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Kelman, Dave – Research in Drama Education, 2019
This case study of a community youth theatre project interweaves reflective descriptions of practice, data excerpts and analysis to examine young people's exploration of cultural identity through theatre in a regional city in Australia. The process undertaken to create this work is theorised in relation to concepts of cultural difference and…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Youth Programs, Community Programs, Cultural Background
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Solak, Ekrem; Gezegin, Betül Bal – World Journal of Education, 2019
The presence of refugee students in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms relatively influences the development of local students as well. Students with different languages and cultural background in a learning environment create a different atmosphere and may influence the attitude of local students to other languages and cultures.…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences
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Einarsdottir, Johanna; Jónsdóttir, Arna H. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
This study aims to examine the meaning-making of parents in five Icelandic preschools concerning the collaboration between preschools and families. Further, the perspectives of educators on the views of the parents were also sought. The theoretical background was Moss's ideas of democratic early childhood education and MacNaughton's ideas of power…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Waizbard-Bartov, Einat; Yehonatan-Schori, Maya; Golan, Ofer – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Experiences of parenting a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have mostly been studied in relation to hardship. The current study explored personal growth experiences of Israeli parents to children with ASD, specifically in relation to Tedeschi and Calhoun's crisis-related growth model. Nineteen parents were interviewed, and qualitative…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Parenting Styles
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
This study examined longitudinal links between household income and parents' education and children's trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behaviors from age 8 to 10 reported by mothers, fathers, and children. Longitudinal data from 1,190 families in 11 cultural groups in eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines,…
Descriptors: Family Income, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Socioeconomic Status
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Unver, Vesile; Uslu, Yasemin; Kocatepe, Vildan; Kuguoglu, Sema – European Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The aim of the study evaluates cultural sensitivity in healthcare services among senior nursing students to patients with different cultural backgrounds. The study had a one-group pre-posttest model descriptive study design. Thirty-four nursing students taking the courses Emergency Care and Diabetes were included into the study. Standardized…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Nursing Students, Cultural Differences, Simulation
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Hopson, Jericha – Multicultural Education, 2019
The cultural view of disability presents the issue of disability from the perspective of group identity distinct from other groups who do not share the disability identity. This article attempts to articulate the importance of disability identity, culture, and acceptance while advocating for the inclusion of disability culture in the conversation…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Identification (Psychology), Group Membership, Cultural Influences
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