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Florence T. T. Phua; Gerard H. Dericks; Edmund R. Thompson; Jürgen Enders – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2024
We propose and test the proposition that innate personality differences in trait affect explain significant variance in student satisfaction. Using three standard measures of trait affect and data from a student sample (n = 409) of PhD candidates across science, social science and humanities in 63 universities from 20 countries, we find that 24%…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Psychological Patterns, Personality Traits, Doctoral Students
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
This paper argues that analyzing education policies through the lens of affect theory provides possibilities for understanding how particular concepts are associated with certain affective ideologies. To illustrate this, the paper analyzes the case of a recent publication by the Council of Europe titled "Reference Framework of Competences for…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Ideology, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
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Samuel P. Putnam; Ela Sehic; Brian F. French; Maria A. Gartstein; Benjamin Lira Luttges – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Data from 83,423 parent reports of temperament (surgency, negative affectivity, and regulatory capacity) in infants, toddlers, and children from 341 samples gathered in 59 countries were used to investigate the relations among culture, gender, and temperament. Between-nation differences in temperament were larger than those obtained in similar…
Descriptors: Personality, Infants, Toddlers, Children
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Zembylas, Michalinos – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
This paper brings attention to the notion of 'religious affects', namely, the affects, emotions and feelings related to religion and religious experience. It is argued that educators and students have a lot to gain from paying attention to and exploring the meaning and role of religious feelings in the context of controversies and debates…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Religious Factors, Islam, Social Attitudes
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Chi-Jen Lin; Kai-Yu Tang; Yun-Fang Tu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This research reviewed the publications in the Scopus database in the museum-based mobile learning field based on the technology-based learning review model from 2008 to 2019. The aim of this study was to investigate trends in the field of museum-based mobile learning from the main journals and papers, including countries and areas, participants,…
Descriptors: Museums, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
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Ulfah, Mutia; Suyanto, Slamet; Aminatun, Tien – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2020
Environmental literacy is indicated as one element of learning that is able to solve environmental problems. However, the extent to which the environmental literacy component is embedded in various levels of education has not been revealed much. This study aims to determine the environmental literacy of students in several countries, starting from…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Literacy, Cognitive Processes, Affective Behavior
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Blanchard, Charlotte; Haccoun, Robert R. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Support provided by the research advisor is understood to be one of the keys to success in higher-level studies. However, support remains a construct operationalised in many different ways, making it difficult to prescribe those behaviours supervisors should adopt or abandon to optimise support offered to students. This self-report study examines…
Descriptors: Faculty Advisers, Social Support Groups, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2020
This paper argues that it is important for educators in democratic education to understand how the rise of right-wing populism in Europe, the United States and around the world can never be viewed apart from the affective investments of populist leaders and their supporters to essentialist ideological visions of nationalism, racism, sexism and…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Democracy, Educational Philosophy, Nationalism
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Szakács-Behling, Simona – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
To what extent are differently 'Europeanising' school forms programmatically geared towards building transnational solidarities, as their ethoses might suggest? This study draws on an analysis of discursive constructions of solidarity in the curricula for social studies and humanities at secondary level of two forms of schooling promoting a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Social Studies, Humanities, Public Schools
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Holton, Mark – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017
This research, conducted with groups of undergraduate students before and after a European fieldwork exercise, critically examines the pedagogic value of fieldwork and its ability to provide students with transferable skills. This is achieved using Anderson and Erskine's lens of tropophilia--the aesthetic connection between people and place--to…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Affective Behavior
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Lasagabaster, David; Doiz, Aintzane – Applied Linguistics, 2017
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programmes are burgeoning in European school contexts due to the widespread belief that they help to significantly improve foreign language learning while content learning is not negatively affected. However, some of its purported benefits still need to be empirically confirmed. Thus, while this…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Course Content, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Bergil, Ayfer Su; Sariçoban, Arif – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
The current practices in the field of foreign language teacher education have a heavy inclination to make use of traditional means especially throughout the assessment process of student teachers at foreign language departments. Observing the world in terms of teacher education makes it urgent to include more reflective and objective tools in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bozkurt, Aras; Jung, Insung; Xiao, Junhong; Vladimirschi, Viviane; Schuwer, Robert; Egorov, Gennady; Lambert, Sarah R.; Al-Freih, Maha; Pete, Judith; Olcott, Don, Jr.; Rodes, Virginia; Aranciaga, Ignacio; Bali, Maha; Alvarez, Abel V., Jr.; Roberts, Jennifer; Pazurek, Angelica; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa; Panagiotou, Nikos; de Coëtlogon, Perrine; Shahadu, Sadik; Brown, Mark; Asino, Tutaleni I.; Tumwesige, Josephine; Reyes, Tzinti Ramírez; Ipenza, Emma Barrios; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Bond, Melissa; Belhamel, Kamel; Irvine, Valerie; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Adam, Taskeen; Janssen, Ben; Sklyarova, Tatiana; Olcott, Nicoleta; Ambrosino, Alejandra; Lazou, Chrysoula; Mocquet, Bertrand; Mano, Mattias; Paskevicius, Michael – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020
Uncertain times require prompt reflexes to survive and this study is a collaborative reflex to better understand uncertainty and navigate through it. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic hit hard and interrupted many dimensions of our lives, particularly education. As a response to interruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Elementary Secondary Education