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Anne Suryani; A. Bukhori Muslim – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2024
This book presents a detailed discussion of Indonesian future teachers' experience of religious diversity, tolerance and intolerance, their level of intellectual humility, and intentions to foster religious tolerance. Drawing from large-scale mixed methods research conducted in Indonesian universities involving over one thousand three hundred…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Religion, Religious Factors
Brown, Nicole, Ed.; Leigh, Jennifer, Ed. – UCL Press, 2020
Rather than embracing difference as a reflection of wider society, academic ecosystems seek to normalise and homogenise ways of working and of being a researcher. As a consequence, ableism in academia is endemic. However, to date no attempt has been made to theorise experiences of ableism in academia. "Ableism in Academia" provides an…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Chronic Illness, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Mellin, Elizabeth A. – ADULTSPAN Journal, 2012
The Rejection Sensitivity Model is used to examine the social antecedents to expectations of rejection among adults. College students (N = 314) completed measures of relational victimization and rejection sensitivity. Results indicate that relational victimization is significantly related to rejection sensitivity for women. Implications for…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Rejection (Psychology), Social Attitudes, College Students
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Dowse, Leanne – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2009
This paper introduces key debates in the contemporary practice of disability research and examines how these apply to conceptualising, designing and conducting research with people with intellectual disability. Specifically, it describes a collaborative action-oriented reflexive approach to researching the lived experience of people with…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Self Advocacy, Action Research, Cooperation
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Tatum, Jerry L.; Foubert, John D. – Journal of College Student Development, 2009
Male perpetrated sexual aggression has long been recognized as a serious problem on college campuses. The purpose of this multiple regression correlation study was to assess the relationship between levels of moral development (measured by the Defining Issues Test) and the degree to which first-year college men (N = 161) ascribed to rape…
Descriptors: Campuses, Rape, Misconceptions, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Atkinson, Elizabeth; DePalma, Renee – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper focuses on the operation of heteronormativity in online and face-to-face dialogues about sexualities and schooling, and seeks to tease out the means through which this operation is enacted. The data arise from two linked research projects focusing on participants' perceptions and concerns about addressing issues related to sexual…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Social Change, Justice, Homosexuality
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Mears, Daniel P.; Mancini, Christina; Gertz, Marc; Bratton, Jake – Crime & Delinquency, 2008
"Get tough" approaches for responding to sex crimes have proliferated during the past decade. Child pornography in particular has garnered attention in recent years. Policy makers increasingly have emphasized incarceration as a response to such crime, including accessing child pornography. Juxtaposed against such efforts is a dearth of knowledge…
Descriptors: Telephone Surveys, Crime, Adults, Pornography
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Evans, John; Davies, Brian – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: At the heart of this polemic lies the view that contemporary research in PE and Health (PEH) has largely overlooked one of the key determinants of social behaviour, social class and its expression in and outside schools; an omission that has quite serious consequences for how we (researchers and teachers) think about and conceptualise…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Class, Educational Research, Health Promotion
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Intons-Peterson, Margaret Jean; Reddel, Michelle – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Sixty primiparous parents recorded the questions asked when they telephoned others to announce their baby's birth. Eighty percent of the initial questions were about the baby's gender. Questions about mother's health and baby's characteristics typically were second and third, respectively. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Neonates, Sex Bias, Social Attitudes
Pinto, Teresa Almeida; Marreel, Iris; Hatton-Yeo, Alan – Online Submission, 2009
"Guide of Ideas for Planning and Implementing Intergenerational Projects," is for all professionals that are or wish to be enrolled in the development of intergenerational activities. This "Guide" is the main product of the Project MATES--Mainstreaming Intergenerational Solidarity, co-financed by the Lifelong Learning…
Descriptors: Program Development, Guides, Employment Potential, Housing
Pinto, Teresa Almeida; Marreel, Iris; Hatton-Yeo, Alan – Online Submission, 2009
This version of "Guide of Ideas for Planning and Implementing Intergenerational Projects," written in Portuguese, is for all professionals that are or wish to be enrolled in the development of intergenerational activities. This "Guide" is the main product of the Project MATES--Mainstreaming Intergenerational Solidarity,…
Descriptors: Program Development, Guides, Employment Potential, Housing
Pinto, Teresa Almeida; Marreel, Iris; Hatton-Yeo, Alan – Online Submission, 2009
This version of "Guide of Ideas for Planning and Implementing Intergenerational Projects," written in Spanish, is for all professionals that are or wish to be enrolled in the development of intergenerational activities. This "Guide" is the main product of the Project MATES--Mainstreaming Intergenerational Solidarity,…
Descriptors: Program Development, Guides, Employment Potential, Housing
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Reynolds-Dobbs, Wendy; Thomas, Kecia M.; Harrison, Matthew S. – Journal of Career Development, 2008
Black women, like other women of color, find themselves at the intersection of both racism and sexism in the workplace. Due to their unique dual status as racial and gender minorities, they encounter unique and unexplored barriers that inhibit their career as well as leadership development. The goal of this article is to highlight the emerging…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Career Development
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Greenberg, Jerald; Ashton-James, Claire E.; Ashkanasy, Neal M. – Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2007
We systematically analyze the role of social comparison processes in organizations. Specifically, we describe how social comparison processes have been used to explain six key areas of organizational inquiry: (1) organizational justice, (2) performance appraisal, (3) virtual work environments, (4) affective behavior in the workplace, (5) stress,…
Descriptors: Role, Social Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Organizational Communication
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Halderman, Brent L.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985
Examined fantasy frequency and content in relation to gender and the social attitude of liberalism/conservatism (N=304). Confirmed that males were more liberal and engaged in sexual fantasy more frequently. Subjects engaged in less sexual and bizarre-improbable fantasies as age increased. (JAC)
Descriptors: Conservatism, Fantasy, Liberalism, Sex Differences
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