Researchers acknowledge that the African American male was framed in limited research that presented statistics with negative narratives. These narratives portrayed the African American male as disadvantaged and underprivileged and many narratives showed their chances of academic success as bleak. The voice of high-achieving African American males…

Part of the higher education structure is the co-curricular experience, and is a way for students to develop a sense of belonging on campus, which leads to positive outcomes, like self-actualization and persistence (Strayhorn, 2012, 2018). This study is to better understand the lived experiences through narrative inquiry of fraternity men's sense…

The purpose of this qualitative retrospective case study was to measure the impact that intervention methods derived from Arwood's Neuro-Education Model had upon the learning and development of one young adult with moderate to severe developmental disabilities. One participant received the intervention methods over the course of 2 years from a…

This mixed methods study investigated the influence of peer mentoring on pre-service teachers' proficiency with technology use after completion of an educational technology course. To measure proficiency with technology, a convenience sample of 83 pre-service teachers completed the self reported "Technology Proficiency Self-Assessment for…

Wiki activities are among the most common online learning activities examined by previous research due to the collaborative learning properties wikis offer; however, students are not always satisfied with such activities. Due to this dissatisfaction, learners may finish the wiki activities but not repeat them. While wikis are primarily used to…

Research has shown that students with disabilities who do use accommodations are more successful in terms of final degree classification compared to those who do not. However, in Dutch universities, access to accommodations must be requested at different levels, meaning that disclosure of ones' disability is inevitable. The official numbers of…

The popularity of LMSs tools and the different levels of interaction they offer have influenced learning. Interest in the use of technology among nursing students has risen and the need to find out how nursing students use Learning Management Systems to learn has become more critical now in developing countries and universities. Whilst LMSs…

This study set out to examine student misbehaviors confronted in preschool classrooms, intervention types to these misbehaviors, and the problematic areas that pre-service teachers experienced in preschool classroom management during teaching practice based on senior preservice preschool teachers' observation and experiences during teaching…

This study explored teachers' perception of inclusion of students with special educational needs (SEN) in Swedish regular elementary schools. Semi-structured qualitative interviews with six teachers from different schools were used, and the interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Two themes were arrived at:…

Family meals have been associated with positive adolescent outcomes in cross-sectional and longitudinal research. However, it is not known how adolescents experience family meals on a daily basis, and whether family meals buffer stresses associated with interpersonal conflicts on the daily level. To address this gap in the literature, adolescents…

Children generally favor individuals in their own group over others, but it is unclear which dimensions of the out-group affect this bias. This issue was investigated among 7- to 8-year-old and 11- to 12-year-old Iranian children (N = 71). Participants evaluated in-group members and three different out-groups: Iranian children from another school,…

This study was intended to examine the relationship between children's shyness and play behaviour during peer play, and the moderating effect of the level of children's language development. Participants were 229 South Korean children aged 48-53 months. The results of the study are as follows. Children's shyness was negatively associated with…

Interactions are vital for any learning, be it in a classroom learning or e-learning. While e-learning is reaching its bloom in many parts of the world it is equally gaining popularity among African nations. The situation in Botswana is not different from other African nations. Many of the e-learning institutions are now claiming that they offer…

Teasing is a type of bullying which is seen in children at very early ages and considered as devastating for the victim. The skill of coping with this behavior is considered as important in terms of learning peer relations of children and being adapted to in-group relations. The aim of this study is to analyze the effects of Accepting Diversity…

This article explores and compares the way in which Danish and Kenyan student-teachers achieve a professional identity while training to be teachers, drawing on conceptually-related theoretical approaches of critical psychology, social theory of learning, professional literature and literature about narratives and life history. Findings from…