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Charlotte Corran; Mayesha Khan; Stephanie Gallant; Uri Shalev; Roisin M. O'Connor – Journal of American College Health, 2024
The association between restrained eating and alcohol use remains poorly understood among undergraduates. Consistent with tension reduction theory, individuals with disordered eating may be motivated to drink alcohol to cope with negative emotionality. Perhaps what pushes them to drink despite restriction goals is impulsivity. The combined impact…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Eating Disorders, Alcohol Abuse, Coping
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Hunter Knight – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
How do assumptions about where children naturally belong reinforce colonial productions of the human? This paper presents research from a study examining how North American Waldorf educators navigated the colonial legacies of common-sense understandings of childhood. I focus on the ideas about childhood that emerge in a belief that Waldorf…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods, North Americans
Paver, Barbara E. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Foreign language lyric diction is a compulsory subject in all undergraduate vocal performance degrees in universities. However, the effectiveness of its teaching depends on the capacity of students to absorb the material, for which many are largely unprepared, due to their lack of previous language study. Further, native speakers of North American…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, Articulation (Speech), Textbooks
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Bastick, Tony – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2004
British Commonwealth universities inherited the class system for classifying degrees. However, increasing global marketization has brought with it increasing demands for student exchanges, particularly with universities in North America. Hence, Commonwealth universities are considering adopting grade point averages (GPAs) for degree classification…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Grade Inflation, Economic Climate, North Americans