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Yao Shang; Shan-Ping Chen; Hao-Dong Xie – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Improving people's well-being is a key way to meet people's needs for a better life, and is of great importance in resolving the major contradictions in Chinese society. In this study, we evaluated peer relationships and self-actualization as potential mediators between physical exercise and subjective well-being in a sample of Chinese middle…
Descriptors: Exercise, Well Being, Middle School Students, Self Actualization
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Jinghui Si – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Connecting teachers' professional well-being and managerialism, this study explored how teachers experience their professional well-being in navigating challenging working conditions. Supported by the well-being theory, document analyses were carried out and open-ended questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were conducted with teachers at…
Descriptors: Well Being, College Faculty, Administrative Organization, Sustainable Development
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Sha Shen; Tianqi Tang; Linjie Pu; Yunqing Mao; Zibin Wang; Saidi Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Previous research has indicated that students' academic engagement is related to their emotional support from teachers. However, there is scarce evidence on how teacher emotional support relates to students' academic engagement. Given the potential role of positive academic emotions in learning, this study investigated the mediating role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Personnel Services
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Na Li; Erick Purwanto; Xiaojun Zhang; Feng Cao; Kok Hoe Wong; Xiangru Chen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
To address the problem of poor efficacy in hybrid learning in higher education, this study conducted a mix-method explanatory case study with structural equation modelling to examine a new construct, "perceived pedagogical value" (PPV), and its relationship with the core constructs of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Interaction, Blended Learning, College Students
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Shi, Yuewei; Lin, Xi – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
Maslow's hierarchical needs theory has a unique approach to classifying human needs into five different levels. Some researchers agree that Maslow's need theory followed a "low-high" order and that there is a dominance level for five needs in a hierarchical structure. At the same time, some researchers argue that Maslow's needs are…
Descriptors: Self Actualization, Needs, Classification, Adult Learning
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Hizi, Gil – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2021
Despite recent socioeconomic transformations, young adults in China construe local social norms as inhibiting their individualized selfhood. Based on a study of pedagogies of interpersonal "soft" skills, this article describes an apparatus of self-improvement where self- and social critique play a pivotal role. Through comparison with…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Change, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards
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Wu, Bin; Devine, Nesta – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2018
A revival of Confucianism in post-Mao China helped the government legitimate its power in the face of a new socio-political and economic situation. This paper specifically explores the role of Confucian self-cultivation in China's governance. Drawing on Beetham's theory of legitimation of power and Weber's tri-typology of authority, we argue that…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Educational Philosophy, Self Actualization, Foreign Countries
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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
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Zhang, Meng-Run; Ng, Florrie Fei-Yin – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
This research examined ethnic and gender variations in early adolescents' reports of parental socialization goals among the majority Han and two Muslim ethnic minority groups (Hui and Kazakhs) in China. 1584 adolescents (mean age = 13.49; 54.6% girls) listed and ranked the five most important goals from parents. Achievement outcomes were…
Descriptors: Socialization, Parent Child Relationship, Gender Differences, Ethnic Groups
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Zhong, Libo; Craig, Cheryl – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2020
This narrative inquiry involved a vibrant online knowledge community of Chinese novice teachers in colleges and universities. The teachers engaged in conversations with their me/ntor and peers, sharing life experiences and exchanging teaching puzzles. Through capturing the evolution (formation, development, sustainability) of the online knowledge…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity
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Xiang, Xin – Harvard Educational Review, 2018
In this article, Xin Xiang investigates what dushu, or "schooling," means for rural senior secondary school students in a high-poverty county in southwestern China. With the persistence of China's rural-urban education inequality and alarming reports about secondary school dropout rates, rural students' and their families' attitudes…
Descriptors: Freedom, Poverty, Rural Areas, Rural Urban Differences
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Liu, Xiaoqin – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
The paper finds out poor engagement in business English training program prevents adult learners at College of Continuing Education of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies from improving their communication skills. PBL (Project-Based Learning) is proposed to motivate adult learners to get involved with learning a lot. Based on the perspective…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Active Learning, Student Projects, Business English
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Ye, Lily; Edwards, Viv – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
The present study explores a topic which has been under-studied to date, namely the identity formation of Chinese PhD students in relation to study abroad. Underpinned by Giddens' "reflexive project of the self," which privileges agency and reflexivity, and using a narrative inquiry approach, it presents four students "stories"…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Doctoral Programs, Study Abroad, Focus Groups
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Brown, Samuel D.; Hallam, Pamela R.; Tang, Huili – Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
This study explored the modern environment in Chinese higher education and trust development with faculty and students within the Chinese educational setting. Qualitative methods were used to conduct semi-structured interviews at two large universities in China. Findings showed that Chinese faculty members viewed trust with their students in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Higher Education, Trust (Psychology)
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Li, Fengjuan; Chen, Junjun; Baker, Miles – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2014
While there have been many studies into students' attitudes toward Physical Education at the school level, far fewer studies have been conducted at the university level, especially in China. This study explored 949 students' attitudes toward their university Physical Education experiences in four Chinese universities. An intercorrelated model of…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Physical Education Teachers, College Students
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