This paper explores the joyful subjectivity of LGBTQ+ youth. The study analyzes It Gets Better videos for their evolving narratives of queer lives. Using feminist theories, I find complex manners in which the videos script and surveil queer subjects, articulate the transitions associated with coming out, and embrace joyous refusals of victim…

This study examines 523 student newspapers from Athens State University from 1901 through 2000. The result is the discovery of unique student voices as expressed through perennial themes such as race and women's roles. These voices are periodized into four eras in which dominant values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms vary over time. These four eras…

One in 59 children are diagnosed on the autism spectrum and approximately 728,000 autistic youth in the United States turned 18 years old in 2018. Although larger numbers of autistic students are entering postsecondary institutions, fewer than 40% completed their program. The literature suggests that academic challenges are often not the culprit…

This study examined experienced school district leaders' informal and formal mentoring perspectives in times of stressful educational reform. In order to accomplish this qualitative research study, I sought to (a) gain an understanding of how experienced school district leaders viewed the presence of educational reforms, (b) gauge whether…

This research aims to investigate the most frequent challenging behaviors faced by preschool teachers in their classrooms and the strategies and discipline approaches they adopt against these challenging behaviors. This research is conducted within case study design, which is a qualitative research method. The study group consists of 10 different…

Considering that most Institutions of higher education (IHEs) are predominately White institutional spaces, it is hardly surprising that race and Whiteness are ignored. The authors argue that a central part of the mechanisms that maintain White racial equilibrium and facilitate marginalization is discursive. White ways with words protect White…

Little is known about how children's value priorities develop over time. This study identifies children's value priority profiles and follows their development during middle childhood. Australian children (N = 609; ages 5-12 at Time 1) reported their values over 2 years. Latent Transition Analysis indicated four profiles: Social-Focus, Self-Focus,…

The core theme of this article is the emerging tension between the egalitarian discourse that increases the general aspiration of people to become more educated and actual admission constraints. A desire to attend a university and not being allowed to (i.e. non-admittance) is a loss that can potentially result in an anomic condition. Anomie theory…

Relying on data collected from a college social fraternity (n = 2,678) represented at 76 institutions, the study utilized hierarchical linear modeling to explore if collective fraternity chapter traditional masculine norm climates predict significant portions of the variance of members' endorsement of social dominance hazing. The findings indicate…

This international study compared motivational tendencies among pre-school children from Israel, Finland and the Netherlands. Teachers were asked to rate students' behaviours during semi-structured tasks using the Child Behaviour Motivational Scale (CBeMo) which measures task orientation, task avoidance, and social dependence. Motivational…

Survey-based experimental methods are increasingly used in the social sciences to study, among others, attitudes, norms, and fairness judgments. One of these methods is the factorial survey experiment (FSE or vignette experiment) in which respondents are confronted with various descriptions of situations that differ in a discrete number of…

Background: By defining what is "normal," appropriate, expected, and unacceptable, social norms shape human behavior. However, the individual-level mechanisms through which social norms impact population-level trends in health-relevant behaviors are not well understood. Aims: To test the ability of social norms mechanisms to predict…

Background: The Trickle-Down Engagement Model posits that instructor engagement promotes student engagement which, in turn, has positive implications for student learning. Objective: Our goal was to provide evidence-based practical recommendations for instructors to communicate their engagement with course material to students, activating the…

This study examined the factorial and construct validity of a multi-dimensional measure of motives for writing with middle school students. The Writing Motivation Questionnaire included 28 items assessing seven motives for writing. Two motives assessed intrinsic reasons for writing (curiosity, involvement); three motives addressed extrinsic…

This study examined preservice teachers' understanding of children's play in diverse cultures. Using digital photo essay methods, a total of 37 early childhood preservice teachers in Myanmar, Korea, and the U.S. engaged in a critical discussion on children's play in diverse cultures. The findings suggested that the participants typically showed…