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Adrian Leis, Editor; Åsta Haukås, Editor; Nigel Mantou Lou, Editor; Sachiko Nakamura, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book is the first volume devoted to mindset theory and practice in language education, offering interdisciplinary investigations into the motivation, competencies, emotions and wellbeing of language learners and teachers. Presenting studies from a vast array of language learning environments, the chapters explore topics such as students'…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Motivation, Competence
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Yao, Esther Lee; Kierstead, Fred D. – NASSP Bulletin, 1984
Reviews current Asian educational systems, pointing out that comparison with the United States system is not possible. The educational systems reflect the societies' needs, which differ from culture to culture. (MD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Burstein, Leigh; Hawkings, John – 1986
A review and conceptual analysis of the literature on the characteristics of students in Japan and of the factors influencing those characteristics was conducted. Information from both English and Japanese sources about cognitive, non-cognitive, and behavioral characteristics of students and factors influencing them was sought regarding students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Area Studies, Cognitive Structures
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Ohbuchi, Ken-ichi; Sato, Kobun – Journal of Social Psychology, 1994
Reports on a study of student perceptions of harmdoers among 164 second and fifth-grade Japanese students. Finds that older children perceived the harmdoer who apologized as less intentional and more remorseful than the harmdoer who made excuses and accepted the harmdoer's excuses only when they believed that the harm was not intended. (CFR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Standards
Shimoda, Koichi, Ed.; Ryu, Tae, Ed. – 1986
Organized by the International Commission on Physics Education (ICPE) and the Physics Education Society of Japan, the conference reported here, the first of its kind held in Asia, was designed to inform teachers of results of prior ICPE conferences as well as to explore desirable directions for physics education, and was attended by nearly 450…
Descriptors: College Science, Computer Uses in Education, Demonstrations (Educational), Foreign Countries