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Alemanji, Aminkeng A.; Dervin, Fred – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2016
This study offers a critique of the questions used in anti-racism discourse and education. It discusses the dangers of asking whether a person or group is racist and the possible consequences such questions could have on people's discourses and attitudes. Reactions or responses to the questions can vary from anger, defence of self against other,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Bias, Social Justice, Workshops
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hatamleh, habes Moh'd; al Khaza'leh, Mohammed Salman – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The study aimed to identify the (appropriate educational means of dealing with the phenomenon of smoking among Zarqa University students), and to achieve this goal, the descriptive approach has been used, also used a questionnaire submitted to (800) students of the sample, and a couple of open questions has been submitted to 70 members of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, College Students, Health Promotion
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Chen, Yung-Lung; Fouad, Nadya A. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2016
The bicultural work motivations of Asian Americans have not yet been comprehensively captured by contemporary vocational constructs and scales. For this study, we conducted two studies on the initial reliability and validity of the Bicultural Work Motivation Scale (BWMS) by combining qualitative and quantitative methods. First, a pilot study was…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, College Students, Student Motivation, Student Employment
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Paat, Yok-Fong – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Utilising semi-structured interviews, this study investigated various educational determinants contributing to college major selection and career choice of 40 undergraduates who had been admitted to a social work programme in southwestern United States. Major key principles of the life course approach were incorporated in this study to elucidate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Career Choice, Social Work
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Pérez, David; Taylor, Kari B. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2016
Little is known about the factors that contribute to Latino male success in higher education. In this qualitative study, Yosso's (2005) community cultural wealth framework provides an asset-based perspective to illuminate how Latino males used different forms of capital to nurture and sustain their dispositions to succeed at a selective,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Males, Success, Higher Education
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Xu, Xiaozhou; Ni, Hao; Ye, Yinghua – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016
The ideal stage to learn about and foster positive attitudes toward entrepreneurship is believed to be during childhood and adolescence. However, most entrepreneurial studies examine college rather than secondary school students (SSS). Based on a modified theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study used stratified cluster sampling and a…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
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Goforth, Anisa N.; Brown, Jacqueline A.; Machek, Greg R.; Swaney, Gyda – School Psychology Quarterly, 2016
There is a clear underrepresentation of Native Americans in the field of school psychology. There are a number of factors that have led to this underrepresentation, including cultural and historical variables, barriers to accessing higher educational opportunities, and lack of financial support. Given the importance of having diverse perspectives…
Descriptors: American Indians, School Psychology, Disproportionate Representation, Barriers
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Hanhela, Teemu – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2014
This article examines Axel Honneth's interpretation of Hegel's "ethical life" as a conception of a "drawn-out" process of education. Honneth's formulations of ethical life, namely "personal relationships", "market economy" and "the democratic will-formation", are an interesting…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Ethics, Individual Development, Lifelong Learning
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Sorensen, Tyson J.; McKim, Aaron J.; Velez, Jonathan J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
Data from a random sample of secondary school agriculture teachers in the United States were utilized to explore work characteristics and their relationship to work-family conflict, specifically how the work role interfered with the family role. Nine workplace characteristics (i.e., salary, work hours per work week, weekend work hours, years of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Secondary School Teachers, Family Work Relationship, Work Environment
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Jiménez, Hortencia; Oliva, Nereida – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2017
Latinx are one of the fastest growing demographic groups in the country and their growth is visible in higher education. Using focus groups with student mothers, we examine the narratives of four Latina student mothers pursuing higher education at the community college. Using Chicana Feminist Theory as our theoretical framework, we apply…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Mothers, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Tertoolen, Anja; Geldens, Jeannette; van Oers, Bert; Popeijus, Herman – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
School is one of the important educational practices, in which children are actively involved. When we want to contribute to the development of young children's voices, we need deeper insight into the way children act as they do. Therefore, we have to distinguish how young children's voices are composed, as we proclaim that all voices are…
Descriptors: Young Children, Case Studies, Correlation, Student Participation
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Koshy, Valsa; Smith, Carole Portman; Brown, Joanna – Gifted Education International, 2017
International evidence demonstrates the importance of engaging parents in the education of their "high-potential" children, yet limited research has focused on the involvement of parents from differing economic strata/backgrounds. The current study explored the dilemmas of parenting academically high-ability children from economically…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Child Rearing, Parent Attitudes, Urban Areas
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Chan, Jason – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
Research on college men and masculinities has been of interest within higher education, yet there is limited focus on the experiences of students with multiple marginalized identities. Through semi-structured interviews with gay, bisexual, and queer Filipino undergraduate men, this study examined how students defined, understood, and experienced…
Descriptors: Males, College Students, Masculinity, Homosexuality
Beno, Carolynne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Despite the clearly established, elevated need for early intervention services among Child Protective Services (CPS)-involved infants and toddlers, extant research consistently demonstrates a gap between CPS-involved infants' and toddlers' apparent developmental need for early intervention services and their receipt of an Individual Family Service…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Infants, Toddlers, Child Development
Hui, Mary Margaret – ProQuest LLC, 2017
First-generation college students are students whose parents do not have a college degree, and they face numerous barriers in college. Yet, several first-generation college students (FGCS) are successful and are on-track to graduate with a bachelor's degree in four years. Their success is important because education is associated with increased…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Achievement Gap, Success, Mixed Methods Research
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