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Direct linkMatsunobu, Koji – British Journal of Music Education, 2012
In this paper the role of spirituality in learning music for North American adult students is explored by examining the case of shakuhachi music. One distinctive character of engaging in music through the shakuhachi is that it facilitates the attainment of an "optimal relationship" between the practitioners" musical pursuit and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Adult Students, Religious Factors
Helmsen, Johanna; Koglin, Ute; Petermann, Franz – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2012
This study examined whether the relation between maladaptive emotion regulation and aggression was mediated by deviant social information processing (SIP). Participants were 193 preschool children. Emotion regulation and aggression were rated by teachers. Deviant SIP (i.e., attribution of hostile intent, aggressive response generation, aggressive…
Descriptors: Aggression, Preschool Children, Information Processing, Correlation
Abdallah, Amy F. Davis – Religious Education, 2012
Ritual theorist Ronald Grimes notes a lack of rites of passage in Western society, yet a parallel longing for them. Although Grimes hesitates to invent new rites, such invention is the interest of this article. Building on research that juxtaposes ritual theory and Evangelical values, this work narrates the invention and implementation of a rite…
Descriptors: Females, Maturity (Individuals), Ceremonies, Individual Development
Andersson, Matthew A. – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2012
Using the 2004 General Social Survey (N = 453), the identity stress process is investigated in terms of crises in intimate relationships and at the workplace. I discuss dispositional optimism as a psychological resource that is relatively independent of the situation and the self, making it ideal for structurally disadvantaged actors and for…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Problems, Work Environment, Positive Attitudes
Rivera, Angelica – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to describe the educational experiences of a Mexican woman in Chicago's Little Village community in the 1980s. The author was born in Mexico and raised in Little Village which has been home to Mexican immigrant communities for decades. Little Village is also home to the largest Mexican-American population in the…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Immigrants, Womens Education, Womens Studies
Lahman, Mary – Communication Teacher, 2012
Service-learning scholars contend that engaging students in systematic reflection during community service promotes one, if not all, of the following student outcomes: (1) academic learning; (2) personal growth; and (3) civic engagement. For communication instructors in particular, Applegate and Morreale (1999) proposed that service-learning both…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Reflection, Inquiry, Organizational Change
Lima, Licínio C.; Guimarães, Paula – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2016
This paper focuses on recognition of prior learning as part of a national policy based on European Union guidelines for lifelong learning, and it explains how recognition of prior learning has been perceived since it was implemented in Portugal in 2000. Data discussed are the result of a mixed method research project that surveyed adult learners,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Public Policy, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2016
Adults need certain capabilities to get and keep a job, provide responsive care for children, manage a household, and contribute productively to the community. When these skills have not developed as they should, or are compromised by the stresses of poverty or other ongoing adversity, our communities pay the price. But where do these capabilities…
Descriptors: Adults, Skill Development, Job Skills, Parenting Skills
Malcolm, Zaria T.; Mendoza, Pilar – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
Afro-Caribbean international students (ACIS) often become engrossed in a complex racial and ethnic dialogue wherein they are thrust into homogenous categorizations forcing them to negotiate their Afro-Caribbean self with other identities perceived by others such as African American, first- and second-generation Caribbean immigrant, African, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Ethnicity, Racial Identification, Undergraduate Students
Bobilya, Andrew J.; Kalisch, Kenneth R.; Daniel, Brad – Journal of Experiential Education, 2014
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to understand participants' perceptions of their Outward Bound Final Expedition experience and more specifically the relationship between the instructor supervisory position and participant's perception of learning. A sample of 331 students consented to participate and completed a survey at the conclusion…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Teacher Student Relationship
Aldous, David C. R.; Sparkes, Andrew C.; Brown, David H. K. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
This paper explores the layered transitional experiences of a semi-professional athlete named Jack (a pseudonym) between the fields of professional sport and further and higher education. Our analysis is framed by the quadripartite framework of structuration and focuses on Jack's "in-situ" practices at his college and university in order…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Higher Education, Student Experience, Student Adjustment
McClure, Kevin R. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
Turkey's recent development plans suggest that, according to state planners, development is no longer identified with, achieved through or measured by economic growth. These documents evince that Turkey has embraced what is referred to as the capability approach. What remains unclear is whether this embrace is substantive or rhetorical. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Program Development, Program Implementation
Yeo, Seungsoo; Park, Sohee – Exceptionality, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the developmental difference in curriculum-based measurement (CBM) reading aloud performance between Grade 8 English-speaking students and English language learners (ELLs) using two theories of reading development: compensatory model and cumulative model. Fifty non-ELLs and 133 ELLs were administered the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Age Differences, Individual Development, Oral Reading
ahmed Shafi, Adeela; Rose, Jo – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
This study explores relationships between experiences in initial education, subsequent life experiences/opportunities and the decision to return to education later in life. Semi-structured interviews with seven female returners to education, focused initially upon the women's perceptions of their aspirations and motivations at various ages, how…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Females, Reentry Students, Adult Students
Stringaris, Argyris; Castellanos-Ryan, Natalie; Banaschewski, Tobias; Barker, Gareth J.; Bokde, Arun L.; Bromberg, Uli; Büchel, Christian; Fauth-Bühler, Mira; Flor, Herta; Frouin, Vincent; Gallinat, Juergen; Garavan, Hugh; Gowland, Penny; Heinz, Andreas; Itterman, Bernd; Lawrence, Claire; Nees, Frauke; Paillere-Martinot, Marie-Laure; Paus, Tomas; Pausova, Zdenka; Rietschel, Marcella; Smolka, Michael N.; Schumann, Gunter; Goodman, Robert; Conrod, Patricia – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2014
Background: It has been reported that mania may be associated with superior cognitive performance. In this study, we test the hypothesis that manic symptoms in youth separate along two correlated dimensions and that a symptom constellation of high energy and cheerfulness is associated with superior cognitive performance. Method: We studied 1755…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Youth Problems, Cognitive Ability, Hypothesis Testing
