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Pankhuri Aggarwal; Erica Szkody; Eleni Kapoulea; Katharine Daniel; Kirsten Bootes; Jennifer Boland; Jason Washburn; Amy Peterman – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to examine the unique lived experiences of international graduate students in light of COVID-19 and the recent sociopolitical climate in the USA (e.g. Black Lives Matter movement, protests against anti-Asian hate crimes and gun violence). Design/methodology/approach: The authors used an exploratory qualitative design…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Experience, Graduate Students, COVID-19
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Geidne, Susanna; Kokko, Sami; Lane, Aoife; Ooms, Linda; Vuillemin, Anne; Seghers, Jan; Koski, Pasi; Kudlacek, Michal; Johnson, Stacey; Van Hoye, Aurélie – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Many researchers and authorities have recognized the important role that sports clubs can play in public health. In spite of attempts to create a theoretical framework in the early 2000s, a thorough understanding of sports clubs as a setting for health promotion (HP) is lacking. Despite calls for more effective, sustainable, and theoretically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Intervention, Athletics
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Embregts, Petri J. C. M.; Nijs, Sara L. P.; van Oorsouw, Wietske M. W. J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2021
Background: One would assume that infection outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic have a deleterious effect upon the physical, mental, and/or social functioning of people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Methods: A systematic search of four databases produced 18 articles. General information pertaining to the topics under consideration,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Communicable Diseases, COVID-19, Pandemics
Campbell Collaboration, 2022
This review aims to explore the effects of placing children with special needs in inclusive educational settings, compared with segregated placement on measures of academic achievement and psychosocial adjustment. A secondary aim is to explore how different child or setting characteristics (gender, age, type and severity of special need, part- or…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusion, Learning
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Fakiroglu, Gözde Demirel; Topraksoy, Abdullah – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
Bilingualism has been the subject of a lot of research in the last century. Bilingualism is having the competence to speak two languages. The reasons for bilingualism of individuals may differ. Some of them may have parents from different languages, some may be children of ethnic minority or immigrants. In daily life it is possible to encounter…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, News Reporting, Newspapers, Cultural Differences
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Macdougall, Alex I.; van der Veen, Jaap; Feddes, Allard R.; Nickolson, Lars; Doosje, Bertjan – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2018
Radicalising individuals gradually accept violence as legitimate to instigate political and/or societal changes. In two studies, we investigate the beginning phase of the radicalisation process. We examine whether different trajectories into radicalism can be distinguished based on underlying needs, related to identity, injustice, sensation, or…
Descriptors: Ideology, Violence, Political Attitudes, Social Influences
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Singer, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
We discuss oral history interviews with academics who laid the foundation of research and pedagogies in daycare for under three-year-olds in Europe and North and South America since the 1970s. Their work is clearly embedded in the social-political context of their country: the left-wing programmes for disadvantaged families in the U.S.A.;…
Descriptors: Oral History, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Neoliberalism
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Rescorla, Leslie A.; Ginzburg, Sofia; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Ivanova, Masha Y.; Almqvist, Fredrik; Begovac, Ivan; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Chahed, Myriam; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael C.; Leung, Patrick W. L.; Minaei, Asghar; Novik, Torunn S.; Oh, Kyung-Ja; Petot, Djaouida; Petot, Jean-Michel; Pomalima, Rolando; Rudan, Vlasta; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Valverde, Jose; van der Ende, Jan; Weintraub, Sheila; Metzke, Christa Winkler; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Zhang, Eugene Yuqing; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2013
We used population sample data from 25 societies to answer the following questions: (a) How consistently across societies do adolescents report more problems than their parents report about them? (b) Do levels of parent-adolescent agreement vary among societies for different kinds of problems? (c) How well do parents and adolescents in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Parents, Reliability
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Cheng, Cecilia; Cheung, Shu-fai; Chio, Jasmine Hin-man; Chan, Man-pui Sally – Psychological Bulletin, 2013
Integrating more than 40 years of studies on locus of control (LOC), this meta-analysis investigated whether (a) the magnitude of the relationship between LOC and psychological symptoms differed among cultures with distinct individualist orientations and (b) depression and anxiety symptoms yielded different patterns of cultural findings with LOC.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Locus of Control, Meta Analysis, Adults
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Chmielewski, Anna K.; Reardon, Sean F. – AERA Open, 2016
In a recent paper, Reardon found that the relationship between family income and children's academic achievement grew substantially stronger in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. We provide an international context for these results by examining the income-achievement association in 19 other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…
Descriptors: Income, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Family Income
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Sommer, Friederike; Leuschner, Vincenz; Scheithauer, Herbert – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2014
A plethora of studies have appeared which argue that, prior to their attack, the perpetrators of school shootings had experienced intense conflicts and problematic relations (e.g. bullying) with peers and teachers, and were on the periphery of the schools' social life. This in turn resulted in the perpetrators' view of themselves as marginalized…
Descriptors: Bullying, Violence, School Safety, Antisocial Behavior
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Robinson, Sally; Howatson-Jones, Lioba – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
Worldwide demographic change means that the responsibility for an aging population will fall to younger generations. This narrative literature review comprises an international examination of what has been published about children's views of older people between 1980 and 2011. Sixty-nine academic articles were inductively analyzed, and the…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Older Adults, Literature Reviews, History
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Aronowitz, Teri; Fawcett, Jacqueline – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2015
The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of the philosophical, historical, sociological, political, and economic perspectives reflected in the public policies about lifespan sexuality education of Germany and The Netherlands. A new conceptual framework for analysis and evaluation of sexuality education policies that integrates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Semi Structured Interviews
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Gerrits, Joanne H.; O'Hara, Ross E.; Piko, Bettina F.; Gibbons, Frederick X.; de Ridder, Denise T. D.; Keresztes, Noemi; Kamble, Shanmukh V.; de Wit, John B. F. – Health Education Research, 2010
As adolescent overweight has become a widespread problem in the developed world, it is timely to understand commonalities underlying dietary practices across countries. This study examines whether consumption of fruits and vegetables and fatty foods among adolescents in different countries is related to the same individual difference and social…
Descriptors: Obesity, Adolescents, Dietetics, Eating Habits
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Perry, Laura – European Education, 2009
This article examines equity in national systems of education in terms of differences in student outcomes, as measured by mathematics achievement scores on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003. The author uses four measures for assessing equity in student outcomes: (1) the strength of the relationship between student…
Descriptors: Privatization, Equal Education, School Choice, Mathematics Achievement
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