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Aldrovandi, Silvio; Wood, Alex M.; Maltby, John; Brown, Gordon D. A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper describes a new model of students' concern about indebtedness within a rank-based social norms framework. Study 1 found that students hold highly variable beliefs about how much other students will owe at the end of their degree. Students' concern about their own anticipated debt--and their intention of taking on a part-time job during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Debt (Financial), Student Attitudes, Context Effect
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Phillips, Hannah – Research in Drama Education, 2016
This article responds to intermediality through a case study of an intermedial applied performance for young people. "Heterophobia," a hybrid fusion of live performance, digital technology, social media and urban street art, aimed to challenge homophobia in schools and online. Intermediality was used as a tool to enhance young people's…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Cultural Influences, Homosexuality, Social Bias
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Mujtaba, Tamjid; Reiss, Michael J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
This paper investigates the characteristics of 15-year-old girls who express an intention to study physics post-16. This paper unpacks issues around within-girl group differences and similarities between boys and girls in survey responses about physics. The analysis is based on the year 10 (age 15 years) responses of 5,034 students from 137 UK…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Physics, Academic Aspiration
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Francis, Leslie J.; Croft, Jennifer S.; Pyke, Alice; Robbins, Mandy – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2012
This essay discusses the design of the quantitative component of the "Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity" project, conceived by Professor Robert Jackson within the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, and presents some preliminary findings from the data. The quantitative component followed and built on the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Philosophy, Foreign Countries, Social Psychology
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Petalas, Michael A.; Hastings, Richard P.; Nash, Susie; Dowey, Alan; Reilly, Deirdre – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2009
Semi-structured interviews were used to explore the perceptions and experiences of eight typically developing siblings in middle childhood who had a brother with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The interviews were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The analysis yielded five main themes: (i) siblings' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Autism, Interviews, Statistical Analysis