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Kaopua, Lana Sue – Health & Social Work, 2008
This article presents findings from research to develop the promotional component of a breast cancer screening program for Native Hawaiian women associated with historically Hawaiian churches in medically underserved communities. The literature on adherence to health recommendations and health promotions marketing guided inquiry on screening…
Descriptors: Females, Hawaiians, Churches, Focus Groups
Orozco, Graciela L. – School Community Journal, 2008
Schools often consider themselves experts in a child's education. While school personnel are trained to work with children and families and certainly have much experience in the matter, the perspective and values of low-income parents are not always understood nor incorporated into the school culture. Since parent involvement has been shown to…
Descriptors: School Culture, Income, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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Varlamova, Svetlana Nikolaevna; Noskova, Antonina Viacheslavovna; Sedova, Natal'ia Nikolaevna – Russian Education and Society, 2008
Specialists in the field of family research emphasize that the history of the family in Russia, as in all other countries of the world, is closely linked to the social, economic, and political processes of the modernization of society. The general vector of the development of the institution of the family, under the influence of processes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Life, Social Change, Social Values
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Resnick, David – Journal of Moral Education, 2008
This article analyses the film "Mean girls" (2004) as a window on popular notions of the moral life of American high schools, which straddles Kohlberg's Stage 2 and 3. The film presents loyalty to peer group cliques as a key value, even as it offers an individualist, relativist critique of that loyalty. Gossip is the main transgression in this…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Peer Groups, Moral Values, Grade 11
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Ladwig, James G. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
This chapter attempts to survey contemporary debates and research on outcomes of schooling that have been grouped together under the convenient label "nonacademic". This is not an affirmative labeling. As the nomenclature indicates, it is not a label that groups together things that share like properties. Rather, this is a label of…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Environmental Education, Democracy, Civics
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Pike, Mark A. – Educational Review, 2007
This article demonstrates that while the more obvious and visible forms of citizenship education (such as introducing it as a new subject on the timetable and a public examination option) are being endorsed and promoted in official discourse, less visible forms (such as attending to ethics and values across the curriculum or the impact of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Program Implementation
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Sullivan, Kevin – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2007
The real problem with teaching character is that, in order to teach it, the teacher has to have it. Students may or may not study lessons, but they certainly study the teacher. In this article, the author points out that process is what is needed to modeled, not perfection. By living honestly in front of their students, teachers provide them with…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Values Education, Ethical Instruction, Moral Values
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Stolte, John F.; Fender, Shanon – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2007
How and why does a given social value come to shape the way an individual thinks, feels, and acts in a specific social situation? This study links ideas from Goffman's frame analysis to other lines of research, proposing that dramatic narratives of variable content, vividness, and language-in-use produce variation in the accessibility of…
Descriptors: Social Values, Social Influences, Schemata (Cognition), Cues
Lamb, Penny – Adults Learning, 2007
The family is centre stage of many current policy agendas and this is an exciting time to expand the understanding of the wider benefits of learning as a family and in a family. This article aims to open up new discussions and debate on using the concept of "family capital". The author states that as the debate on the social value of…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Values, Social Capital, Social Influences
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Govekar, Michele A.; Rishi, Meenakshi – Journal of Education for Business, 2007
Service-learning pedagogy that supports community involvement values and promotes leadership development offers more effectiveness and efficiency for management educators interested in incorporating real-world learning into their courses than traditional internships and cooperative education (P. C. Godfrey & E. T. Grasso, 2000). In this article,…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Service Learning, Leadership Qualities, Work Experience Programs
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Dietz, Franziska; Hofer, Manfred; Fries, Stefan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: Academic procrastination, the tendency to postpone learning activities, is regarded as a consequence of postmodern values that are prominent in post-industrialized societies. When students strive for leisure goals and have no structured routines for academic tasks, delaying strenuous learning activities becomes probable. Aims: The…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Time Management
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Applebaum, Barbara – Educational Theory, 2007
In part of an ongoing study of white complicity, moral responsibility, and moral agency in social justice education, Barbara Applebaum asks in this essay what model or models of moral responsibility can help white students recognize their white complicity and which models of moral responsibility obscure such acknowledgment. To address this…
Descriptors: Social Change, Justice, White Students, Moral Values
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Al-Khaizaran, Huda – Journal of Moral Education, 2007
This article suggests three ideas. First, under the pressures of the Ottoman and Iraqi state modernity projects, two types of cultural traditions in Iraq, namely Islam and Arab tribal values, were negotiated and re-negotiated. Second, the concepts of merit based on these values changed over time and were institutionalised in education. Third,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Ethical Instruction, Values Education
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Bosley, Sara; Arnold, John; Cohen, Laurie – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
Research on the qualities and characteristics that individuals value in those from whom they seek "career help" is very limited. Existing studies provide little insight into the meaning behind the labels individuals use to identify valued qualities and characteristics. We address this neglected area using qualitative interviews based on life story…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Value Judgment, Social Values, Personality Traits
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Li, Ling; King, Mark E.; Winter, Sam – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
The December 2008 release of China's new "Guidelines for health education in primary and secondary schools" by the Ministry of Education addressed many of the concerns arising from the academic and popular discourse on Chinese adolescent sexuality and sexuality education. The focus of this reform, common with similar reforms elsewhere in…
Descriptors: Health Education, Adolescents, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
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