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Exploring the Factors Relating to Academic Resilience among Students with Socioeconomic Disadvantages: Factors from Individual, School, and Family Domains
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Cui, Tianxue; Kam, Chester Chun Seng; Cheng, Emily Hongzhen; Liu, Qimeng – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study aimed to explore factors related to academic success (resilience) for students with socioeconomic disadvantages (SED) from the individual, school, and family domains. We also compared such factors with the results for students with socioeconomic advantages (SEA). A sample of 1767 eighth-graders (851 students with SEA and 916 students…
Descriptors: Success, Resilience (Psychology), At Risk Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Food Insecurity and School Performance among the Left-Behind Children in Rural China: Depression and Educational Expectation as Mediators
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Zhang, Lufa; Yang, Fan – School Psychology International, 2019
The present study aims to explore the associations between food insecurity and school performance, and the serial mediation of depression and educational expectation on the focal association, among Chinese rural left-behind children. This study conducted a cross-sectional survey on 2128 students (Grades 5-9, mean age = 13.21 years) who reported…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Security (Psychology), Depression (Psychology)
A Bilingual Education Professional Development Project for Primary Tibetan Teachers in China: The Experience and Lessons Learned
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Gouleta, Eirini – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This paper examines bilingual education policies and practices in China and the interconnection and influences of the west in the new developments in bilingual education in this country. It focuses on bilingual education in Tibetan areas considering the sociopolitical context, the Tibetan tradition, and the current developments and new knowledge…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Bilingual Teachers