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Direct linkHeng, Mary Anne; Fulmer, Gavin W.; Blau, Ina; Pereira, Andrew – Journal of Educational Change, 2020
Questions about purpose, life meaning, and life satisfaction drive central debates about what good education should look like in schools. This study compares adolescent purposes, life meaning, social support and life satisfaction in Singapore and Israel. Meaning in life refers to finding one's significance; purpose uses this significance in ways…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Social Support Groups, Adolescents
Heng, Mary Anne; Blau, Ina; Fulmer, Gavin W.; Bi, Xiaofang; Pereira, Andrew – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
Purpose is an intention over the long-term to have an effect on the world that is both meaningful to oneself and to others. What are schools doing to help students use the knowledge and skills they learn in school in their own lives and aspirations? This is the first study that compares adolescent purposes and life satisfaction in Singaporean and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Adolescent Attitudes, Moral Values
Download full textGorsky, Paul; Blau, Ina – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
Upon completion of a graduate level course at the Open University of Israel, one instructor received very high student ratings while the other received very low ratings. We utilized this exceptional situation to perform ad hoc analyses of their course forums. The objective of this study was to map the dialogic behavior that occurred and to create…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Online Courses, Foreign Countries, Best Practices
