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Lidia Daza-Pérez; Juan Llanes-Ordóñez; Pilar Figuera-Gazo – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2024
One of the most worrying issues in Spanish education is the high school dropout rate, especially for those students who leave compulsory secondary education with no qualifications. Some of these students re-enter the system via adult education centres (AECs), where they can obtain the minimum qualification required by the labour market (the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, High School Equivalency Programs, Adult Students, Adult Education
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Daniel Mateos-Moreno; Ernst Erlanson – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
'Simultaneous Learning' (SL) is a pedagogical approach aimed at fostering enjoyable and proactive music teaching. Developed by the British educationalist Paul Harris, SL has been taught worldwide for the past two decades but has not yet been investigated by a scholarly publication. We thus focused our research on the first usage of SL in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Empowerment, Music Education, Foreign Countries
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Mara, Liviu-Catalin; Cascón-Pereira, Rosalía; Brunet Icart, Ignasi – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The focus of this study is to explore the perceptions of motivation for further training and empowerment in future jobs of participants in different training activities under a public programme implemented in Catalonia (Spain), which delivers continuing vocational education and training (CVET) courses for unemployed and for active workers…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Empowerment, Student Motivation, Outcomes of Education
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Goenechea, Cristina; Gallego-Noche, Beatriz; Amores Fernández, Francisco Javier – Intercultural Education, 2022
Among the strategies developed by members of ethnic minorities in an attempt to fight racism, the invisibility strategy of 'playing white' has been particularly noted and seems to be more frequent among those who achieve university studies or have upward social mobility. Invisibility is also a form of structural discrimination since, in Spain,…
Descriptors: Migrants, Minority Group Students, Ethnic Groups, College Students
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Xose Picatoste; Diana Mihaela Tirca; Isabel Novo-Corti – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to analyse the positioning of young people in the face of the challenges posed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focuses on the case of Erasmus+ students at a Spanish university and tries to evaluate the importance of each of the SDGs for them. Design/methodology/approach: Based on primary data obtained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Sustainable Development, Developed Nations
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Curran, Ross; Arroteia, Nuno; Blesa, Andreu; Musteen, Martina; Ripollés, Maria – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2021
Enhancing individuals' preparedness to work across borders is of growing importance. This study explores the role of Cultural Intelligence and Psychological Empowerment in enhancing Task Performance among students engaged in an international experiential game-based learning project: The Global Game Challenge (GGC). Data collected from the delivery…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Student Empowerment, Game Based Learning, Experiential Learning
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Antonio Granero-Gallegos; Antonio Baena-Extremera; María del Mar Ortiz-Camacho; Rafael Burgueño – Educational Review, 2024
Guided by the bright and dark side described in Self-Determination Theory, and following hierarchical and integrative conceptualisation of motivational climates, the primary objective of this research was to test the predictive relationships between pre-service teachers' perceptions of educator-created (dis-)empowering climates and need-based and…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Student Motivation, Self Concept, STEM Education
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Benítez-Sillero, J. D.; Corredor-Corredor, D.; Córdoba-Alcaide, F.; Calmaestra, J. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: Bullying is a social problem where there is a phenomenon of intentional aggression that occurs in all schools. It has multiple negative consequences for the victim's psychological health. As school is a context for learning about life in society, strategies to prevent such attitudes and behaviours should be encouraged. Although some…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Intervention, Prevention
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Ibarra-Sáiz, María Soledad; Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregorio; Boud, David – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
Learning is not just determined by the curriculum, but by how it is assessed. This article focuses on the analysis of the role played by the quality of assessment tasks on learning in undergraduate courses. During two successive academic years, information was collected on the views of students on the assessment activities and practices that they…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation, Learning, Student Attitudes
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Messiou, Kyriaki – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
Despite the progress that has been made over the 25 years since the Salamanca Statement, there is still room for improvements in order that schools can be developed that include all students. Drawing on a programme of research carried out over a period of 20 years in various European countries, this paper argues that children and young people…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Inclusion, Children, Childrens Rights
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Hachem, Hany; Manninen, Jyri – Educational Gerontology, 2020
The humanist and critical principles of educational gerontology attribute different goals to education in later life. Self-Actualization is the goal of humanist educational gerontology, while empowerment, emancipation, and social change are the goals of critical educational gerontology. Liberal arts education is dominant in later-life learning.…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Educational Principles, Liberal Arts, Adult Learning
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Sales, Auxiliadora; Moliner, Odet; Traver, Joan – Research Papers in Education, 2021
Participatory Action Research (PAR) in the educational context is a coherent methodology to accompany processes of school democratisation focusing on the key elements of collaborative culture, a sense of belonging and social transformation from an inclusive and intercultural approach. The present case study of a rural school in the Valencian…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Inclusion, School Culture
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Fernandez-Rio, Javier; Morales-Sallés, Pablo – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The goal was to gain a deeper understanding of the extended use of student-designed games. 207 students (grades: eight, nine, eleven) from one school participated. They were randomly divided in Experimental (student-designed games) and Equivalent group (traditional instruction). Both experienced the same learning units (two, 12 sessions) over the…
Descriptors: Games, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Student Developed Materials
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Messiou, Kyriaki – Educational Action Research, 2019
This paper explores the ways in which collaborative action research can facilitate the development of inclusive practices and thinking in schools. The paper uses examples from a study that involved three countries and eight secondary schools to illustrate how the process of collaborative action research promoted inclusive thinking and practices.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperation, Inclusion, Secondary Schools
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Ordoñez, Daniela; Siqués, Carina; Esteban-Guitart, Moisés – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The aim of this paper is to describe the process of designing and implementing a teaching unit that links a curricular subject -- in this case, Spanish language -- with the identity of students as a strategy aimed at improving engagement and learning. The teaching unit was implemented in a Shared Education Unit in Catalonia (Spain) for at-risk…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Self Concept
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