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Samantha Chen; Donald H. Saklofske; Gordon L. Flett; Paul L. Hewitt – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
The current research evaluates the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model (PSDM) by considering the links between measures of trait perfectionism and perfectionistic self-presentation and measures of social support, loneliness, and distress in cross-sectional research. A particular focus is on perfectionism and levels of social support as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Law Students, Medical Students
Morgan, Rebekah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2023
A recent UK study found that 28% of autistic children were diagnosed with autism after starting secondary school, a stage where self-concept and social identity are the main developmental tasks. This study uses Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to explore the discourses ten girls with a diagnosis of autism use in their constructions of self-concept…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Females, Self Concept
Victor Brar – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2024
This paper reflects my journey, as a racialized settler and K-12 practitioner in British Columbia, Canada, towards developing a pedagogical understanding of how to transform the experience of inherited colonial shame among settler children in my classroom. Canada has a shameful history of colonialism, the progressive revelations of which provoke…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Elementary School Students, High School Students
Kanar, Adam M.; Bouckenooghe, Dave – Journal of Career Development, 2022
This study aimed to understand the role of regulatory focus for influencing self-directed learning activities during a job search. The authors surveyed 185 job-searching university students at two time points to explore the conditions under which regulatory focus (promotion and prevention foci) impacts self-directed learning activities and the…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Job Search Methods, Job Applicants, Objectives
Du, Xujia; Jackson, Jane – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
In many theorizations of L2 motivation, the discrepancy between actual and possible L2 selves has been closely associated with motivation generation, and L2 selves are considered as highly interactive with the context. This article centres on the interplay between L2 self-discrepancy, motivation, and context by following two Chinese university…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Self Concept
Hansen, Dion Rüsselbaek; Phelan, Anne M. – Research in Education, 2019
In this article we argue for the need to rethink the crisis of democracy both within and beyond education (Toft and Rüsselbaek Hansen, 2017). This crisis can be explained variously, depending on how it is understood and on what basis. From our point of view, and with inspiration from thinkers as Nietzsche, Arendt, Agamben and Rancière, we argue…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Philosophy, Aesthetics, Evidence Based Practice
Terenko, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
Types of non-formal adult education in the USA and Canada are singled out. Non-formal adult education in the United States and Canada is subdivided into basic adult education, education for professional development, education for personal development, specialized adult education, education for the development of civil society (constituents of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Adult Education, Professional Development
Lavrysh, Yuliana – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
The characteristics of transformative learning as a factor of life-long learning have been presented in the article. The paper offers analysis of foreign theorists and practitioners' views on transformative learning at Canadian universities. A special attention has been paid to the exploration of transformative learning methods and techniques…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Lifelong Learning, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
Little, J. N.; Walker, M. – Child & Youth Services, 2012
The authors come together as student and instructor to explore the limitations of learning and teaching multicultural practice in Child and Youth Care. Specifically, they posit that models available to undergraduate students are limited in their foci on norm-centric orientation and static singularity. In response, they conceptualize a…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Maps
Vander Kloet, Marie; Aspenlieder, Erin – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
In this article, we examine how our work in educational development, specifically in graduate student training, enacts the logic of neoliberalism in higher education in Canada. We approach this examination through a collaborative autoethnographic consideration of and reflection on our practices and experiences as educational developers, the design…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
Dare, Lynn; Nowicki, Elizabeth – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
Research shows that carefully planned acceleration offers academic benefits with little social or emotional risk to high-ability learners. However, acceleration is underutilized and little is known about students' motivations to accelerate. In this study, 21 high-ability high school students in Grades 11 and 12 took part in a structured…
Descriptors: Gifted, High Achievement, High School Students, Grade 11
Hunter-Johnson, Yvonne, Ed.; Cherrstrom, Catherine, Ed.; McGinty, Jacqueline, Ed.; Rhodes, Christy, Ed. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) was founded in 1982 as the result of a merger between the National Association for Public and Continuing Adult Education (NAPCAE) and the Adult Education Association (AEA). This prestigious association is dedicated to the belief that lifelong learning contributes to human…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Adult Education, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning
Scott, Daniel G.; Evans, Jessica – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2010
This paper emerges from the continued analysis of data collected in a series of international studies concerning Childhood Peak Experiences (CPEs) based on developments in understanding peak experiences in Maslow's hierarchy of needs initiated by Dr Edward Hoffman. Bridging from the series of studies, Canadian researchers explore collected…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cross Cultural Studies, Researchers, Foreign Countries
McGregor, Catherine – Teacher Development, 2007
This self-reflexive personal narrative charts the autoethnographic journey of an adult educator, exploring her own practices, values and beliefs about teaching. Drawing upon postmodern scholarship in reflexive literary methodologies, the author uses personal memoirs as a research text for engaging in a process of interpretation and…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Adult Educators, Writing Instruction, Biographies

Osborne, John W.; Steeves, Liliane – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Uses 12 subscale scores on the Personal Orientation Inventory to assess effects of a practicum experience upon self-actualization of 79 University of Alberta graduate students (counseling students with and without practicum, and noncounseling students). Results indicate a facilitative effect of practicum upon self-actualization. (AH)
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Practicums