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Knowles, Anne L.; Smith, Thomas R. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2021
This work focused on increasing Year 3 students' use of critical thinking and taking the "second-person perspective" (2ndPP) when interpreting and resolving life issues. Previous research indicated the Personal Viewpoints Pedagogy (PVP) elicited social thinking that exhibited strong perspective-taking and precursors to critical thinking…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Colgate, Orla; Ginns, Paul – Educational Psychology, 2016
Currently, parental involvement research considers parents as individuals, and gives little consideration to them as a collective body, including how, as a group, they might influence each other. This study examined the influence of parent social norms on parents' home reading behaviour with their child. Two quasi-experiments conducted in two…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Reading Habits, Reading Aloud to Others, Social Attitudes
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Hickey, Chris – Sport, Education and Society, 2008
Among widening social anxieties about practices and performances of contemporary masculinity are questions about the place of hyper-masculine (contact) sports, such as games of football. Foremost are concerns about some of the values and attitudes that appear to circulate within such contexts. With their historical leaning towards character…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Masculinity, Team Sports