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UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
New research from UNICEF Innocenti and Western Sydney University explores the question: what does well-being mean to children in a digital age? This first-phase report prioritises the voices of children, collected through workshops with over 300 children from 13 countries along with analysis of existing survey data from 34,000 children aged 9-17…
Descriptors: Well Being, Children, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Mokuria, Vicki G.; Wandix-White, Diana – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2020
This narrative inquiry highlights the experiences of self-identified Soka educators in a PreK-12th grade school in São Paulo, Brazil, as well as volunteers through a program called "Soka Education in Action." Through their narratives, the role of care in value-creating education is explored as a critical aspect of education that supports…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy

Soriano de Alencar, Eunice M. L.; Fleith, Denise de Souza; Martinez, Albertina Mitjans – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2003
A study investigated the personal obstacles to creativity cited by 385 Brazilian and 305 Mexican university students. Results indicate that lack of time/opportunity was the most frequently cited obstacle. Mexican students referred to motivation factors as barriers to their creativity more than Brazilian students. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: College Students, Creativity, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Cavalcanti, Marilda C. – Language and Education, 2004
School education among Rainforest native Brazilians is alien to their traditional indigenous education. At first, schooling was imposed by the dominant society, later it became their choice, today it is their right as entitled by the 1988 Brazilian Constitution. "En route" towards self-determination, some of these native peoples, i.e.…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Ethnocentrism, Literacy Education, Self Actualization
Taliuli, Nelma; Gama, Elizabeth M. P. – 1986
This investigation was designed (l) to assess to what causal factors Brazilian elementary students attribute their success or failure in achievement tasks; (2) to verify whether their attributions can be classified into the categories proposed by Weiner (1972): ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck; and (3) to assess the relationship between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attribution Theory, Educational Research
Fiske, Edward B. – 1997
Although the forces that are globalizing the economy, democratizing political life, and ushering in a knowledge society promise to improve humanity, they are also exacerbating the marginalization of individuals and the polarization of entire nations. Many individuals in developing nations are at risk of systematic exclusion from meaningful…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Case Studies
Birden, Susan – 2002
The experiences of the 12-woman Boston Women's Health Book Collective was examined in a case study that focused on the collective's activities from its formation in 1969 through its publication of the book "Our Bodies, Ourselves" in 1973 and its opening of a women's clinic in downtown Boston that is still in operation today. The case…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Case Studies

Stultz, Erma, Ed. – 1986
This report, written in popular education style and designed to be readable both by adult educators and by the people with whom they work, describes a week-long meeting of the World Assembly of Adult Education. Under the general themes "Where are we?""Where are we going?" and How to do it" the report provides synopses of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy