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Ying Shan Doris Zhang; Kimberly A. Noels – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the inherently meaningful nature of Chinese names, Chinese international students often adopt an English name, particularly when they pursue education in English-speaking countries. Most empirical research on name anglicisation has examined the psychological impact of name change among ethnolinguistic minorities, as well as their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Chinese, Labeling (of Persons)
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Piggot-Irvine, Eileen – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2015
The paper reports on an action research (AR) project with six public high school leaders (reviewers) who volunteered to engage in an 18 month project to overcome their own defensiveness in addressing concerns with teachers (reviewees) whose performance they were evaluating. In the paper I outline how I acted as a coach in a long-term development…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Action Research, Public School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Tougas, Francine; Lagace, Martine; Laplante, Joelle; Bellehumeur, Christian – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2008
The fact that Canada's working population is aging and will continue to do so is no surprise to anyone. What is surprising though is what many of these aging workers are experiencing in the late years of their career: They continue to be the target of negative stereotypes which in turn, reinforce discrimination and marginalization practices. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Older Workers, Self Esteem
Masten, Ann S. – Education Canada, 2009
Resilience researchers are intrigued with the challenge of understanding how people overcome risk or adversity to succeed in life. The study of resilience emerged about 40 years ago when a group of scientists studying the origins of behaviour problems and mental illness were surprised to find that many children in "high risk" groups were…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Systems, Theory Practice Relationship, Predictor Variables
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Perry, Barbara – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2010
Shifts in the demographics in North American colleges and universities over the past decades have created much more diverse and multiethnic campuses. Some praise these trends for creating more dynamic environments. However, not all are happy with the "infiltration" of traditionally white, male enclaves, such that newcomers are met with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Campuses, College Environment, Student Diversity
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Cohen-Almagor, Raphael – American Journal of Education, 2008
This article is concerned with a specific type of hate speech: Holocaust denial. It is concerned with the expression of this idea by educators. Should we allow Holocaust deniers to teach in schools? This article attempts to answer this question through a close look at the Canadian experience. First, I will establish that Holocaust denial is a…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Ethnicity, Case Studies, Defense Mechanisms
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Heinrichs, Terry – American Journal of Education, 2008
Raphael Cohen-Almagor's article "Hate in the Classroom: Free Expression, Holocaust Denial, and Liberal Education" (2008) calls for sanctions on those K-12 public school teachers whose deployment of "hate speech"--and/or associations with others who deploy it--creates a "poisoned environment" in the classroom. While…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Public School Teachers
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Leclerc, Chantal; Maranda, Marie-France – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2002
Presents a study on the psychodynamics of work in order to analyze students' relationship to their work organization in an economic context characterized by competition, job insecurity, and anxiety about the future. Collective defense mechanisms were identified, including silence, individualism, isolation, and endurance. (Contains 27 references.)…
Descriptors: College Students, Defense Mechanisms, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries
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Nimier, Jaques – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1993
Students (n=1420) from Belgium and Quebec and students (n=614) of the Marne department were questioned to study the different defense mechanisms they employed against mathematics. Six main ways of grouping the responses were identified: (1) phobic avoidance; (2) repression; (3) projection; (4) reparation; (5) introjection; and (6) reversal into…
Descriptors: Defense Mechanisms, Elementary Secondary Education, Fantasy, Foreign Countries
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Bilsker, Dan; Marcia, James E. – Journal of Adolescence, 1991
College students (n=71) completed inventory of adaptively regressive experiences and Identity Status Interview. Found that Moratorium status students (actively engaged in identity formation) showed greater disposition to adaptive regression than did individuals in other statuses. Findings support view that adaptive regression may serve function in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, College Students, Coping
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Kuokkanen, Rauna – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
Educational institutions have played a central role in colonizing Indigenous peoples. The colonial school system has also been a very effective tool in implementing racist theories and indoctrinating them in children (Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike) worldwide. In this paper, the author demonstrates how, despite the vast differences in actual…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Boarding Schools, Coping, Novels