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Lewis, Kirstin – Improving Schools, 2016
Recent UK government policy suggests that all schools have a key role to play in building "character and resilience" in children. This article draws on data from a wider research project, exploring the school experiences of mixed White/Black Caribbean and mixed White/Black African children in two London secondary schools. Because data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiracial Persons, Blacks, Whites
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Norodien-Fataar, Najwa – Education as Change, 2016
This article focuses on the pre-university access pathways of disadvantaged first-generation students studying at a South African university. Based on data collected via qualitative methods, it draws on findings from a study of purposively selected students at a university in the Western Cape Province. It explores the ways they access and gain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Qualitative Research
Rice, Amber H.; Kitchel, Tracy – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2016
The purpose of this grounded theory qualitative study was to explore how beginning agriculture teachers break down content knowledge for student understanding. The overarching theme that emerged during data collection and analysis was beginning teachers' self-perceived content knowledge deficiency in various subjects within agriculture. This…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Agricultural Education, Credibility, Grounded Theory
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Reid, Caroline; Gill, Freya; Gore, Nick; Brady, Serena – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
The current study presents findings from an acceptance and commitment therapy-based intervention for family carers of children who have an intellectual/developmental disability and display high levels of challenging behaviour. The parent well-being workshops consist of two workshops incorporating acceptance and mindfulness-based exercises and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Therapy, Behavior Problems, Workshops
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Eren, Altay; Coskun, Hamit – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The authors examined the relationships among students' levels of boredom, boredom coping strategies, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance regarding mathematics lessons, with the intention to explore the mediating roles of boredom coping strategies and epistemic curiosity in the relationship between the level of boredom and graded…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Coping, Learning Strategies, Personality Traits
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Ding, Qun – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2016
The number of Chinese students studying abroad has increased. Chinese international students have constituted the largest proportion of overseas students in New Zealand (Zhang, 2013). Little research has been done concerning those undertaking doctoral study. The study I have proposed to do thus intends to explore the experiences of Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Doctoral Students, Asians
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Thomson, Samantha; Frydenberg, Erica; Deans, Jan; Liang, Rachel P-T – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2015
Coping skills provide a resource for tackling stress in everyday situations, including those relating to parenting. The aim of this article is to establish whether parents who experienced a 10-hour universal social emotional parenting program--Families Coping (FC)--benefit through increased productive coping strategies, decreased nonproductive…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Well Being, Preschool Children, Coping
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Hensley, Lauren; Shaulskiy, Stephanie; Zircher, Andrew; Sanders, Megan – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2015
Underprepared college students face transition issues that prevent full academic engagement. The written responses of 176 students in a learning-strategies course were used to develop a grounded model of overcoming barriers to academic engagement. Findings revealed contexts in which academic engagement involved high costs (i.e., effort, trade-off,…
Descriptors: Barriers, College Students, College Readiness, Learning Strategies
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Gregoire, Josee; Cramer, Elizabeth D. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2015
This exploratory qualitative study examines the perceptions of ten Haitian parents regarding their child with a disability, the education the child was receiving, their interaction with the school system, and how the disability has affected their relationship with their child and their involvement with the school. Data were obtained from…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Educational Quality
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Williams, Amanda S. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2015
Statistics anxiety is a common problem for graduate students. This study explores the multivariate relationship between a set of worry-related variables and six types of statistics anxiety. Canonical correlation analysis indicates a significant relationship between the two sets of variables. Findings suggest that students who are more intolerant…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Anxiety, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes
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Gilat, Itzhak; Reshef, Eyal – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
The present research examined the perceived helpfulness of an increasingly widespread mode of psychological assistance, namely, emotional first aid via email. The sample comprised 62 naturally occurring email interactions between distressful clients and trained volunteers operating within the framework of the Israeli Association for Emotional…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Mental Health, Coping, Counselor Client Relationship
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Hong, Ee Rea; Neely, Leslie; Lund, Emily M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2015
Bullying or any aggressive behavior of a more powerful person or group toward a less powerful person is a widespread problem in the U.S. educational system. While bullying is a significant problem for all students, students with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have a particularly high incidence rate of becoming victims of bullying. The social…
Descriptors: Bullying, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence
Cowan, Katherine C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Behind every student dealing with a mental health problem is a family trying to grasp what's happening to their child and struggling to do its best. This personal story shares the journey of a family as it confronts a child with Generalized Anxiety and Panic Disorder and describes the many starts and stops and confusion of diagnosing and…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Anxiety Disorders
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Gomez, Mary Louise; Ocasio, Kelly; Lachuk, Amy Johnson; Powell, Shameka N. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2015
Deploying Russian philosopher M. M. Bakhtin's notions of utterances or communicative interactions, we explore the life histories of two administrators at State University, a predominantly White institution of higher education in the Midwestern United States. In particular, we explore how working with White students, peers, and supervisors demands…
Descriptors: Biographies, Higher Education, African American Teachers, Racial Bias
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d'Ardenne, Patricia; Kiyendeye, Moses – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
The 1994 Rwandan Genocide murdered over a million and brought on incalculable distress to survivors. An non-governmental organisation, "Network for Africa," has a music programme to rehabilitate orphans in Kigali, now entering adulthood. This naturalistic study investigated whether music had transformational meaning for participants.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Therapy, Counseling Techniques, Children
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