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Migrant Grandparents in Australia: English Learning and Well-Being
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Alice Chik; Jill Murray – ELT Journal, 2024
Migrant families often invite grandparents to move to Australia when babies are born. In order to provide support to their families, many of these grandparents have to retire from their own professional careers and migrate to Australia to start new lives. Some speak English as an additional language, with or without formal education, prior to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Grandparents, Parent Child Relationship, Quality of Life
Raising a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of the Literature Investigating Parenting Stress
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Enea, V.; Rusu, D. M. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Introduction: This systematic literature review aims to (a) identify how the parenting stress was used in the empirical studies as an independent, outcome, moderator and mediator variable, (b) identify the predictors of parenting stress in parents of children with ASD, (c) identify how parenting stress relates with mental health, and (d) make…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Stress Variables
Comparing Career Identities and Choices of Pre-Service Early Childhood Teachers between Australia and China
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Liu, Ying; Boyd, Wendy – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2020
Australia and China are experiencing increasing need for trained early childhood teachers. Career identity and work choices are critical ingredients for achievement in career outcomes. This study reports on a survey undertaken by early childhood pre-service teachers from China and Australia regarding identity and choices for early childhood…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Career Choice, Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education
American Faculty and Their Institutions: The Global View
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Finkelstein, Martin; Cummings, William – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
This study focuses on aspects of the Changing Academic Profession survey of 2007-08 that describe the place of faculty in their institutions. The authors examine the following aspects of institutional life: (1) the faculty role in institutional governance; (2) who evaluates their teaching and research; (3) the locus of their loyalties as between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Teaching Conditions
An International Perspective on Quality of Life: Measurement and Use.
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Schalock, Robert L.; And Others – 1990
The study obtained cross-cultural measures of quality of life (QOL), based upon perceptions of individuals with mental retardation/developmental disabilities (MR/DD) of their degree of satisfaction, productivity, independence, and community integration. The Quality of Life Questionnaire was administered to 92 persons in MR/DD programs in…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Developmental Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Literacy for Peace and Human Rights.
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ASPBAE Courier, 1990
This publication contains 11 papers, all of which reflect the emphasis on literacy that continues to dominate adult education at the end of International Literacy Year. The papers include four presentations from conferences related to literacy held in 1990, one on literacy and peace held in Indonesia and one on literacy in China held in Macao. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills