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Birgit Althans; Cynthia Dyre – Ethics and Education, 2024
This paper informs about a specific German concept in Pedagogy, the concept of "tact". Following an initial discussion of the particularities of the concept of (socio-) pedagogical tact, including its ethical and moral self-positioning and current demands for its operationality (1); will come the presentation of an empirical examination…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Foreign Countries, Social Work, Family Programs
Thorn, William; Vincent-Lancrin, Stéphan – OECD Publishing, 2021
This report offers an initial overview of the available information regarding the circumstances, nature and outcomes of the education of schoolchildren during the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns of March-April 2020. Its purpose is primarily descriptive: it presents information from high quality quantitative studies on the experience of learning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Experience, Outcomes of Education
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Gisevius, Annette; Weber, Robin A. – Intercultural Education, 2009
The Transatlantic Orientation Exchange/Multiplikatorenschulung im transatlan-tischen Austausch is a collaboration between volunteers and staff in both the US and German AFS organizations. The goal of the project is to increase the level of intercultural learning of German and US secondary education exchange participants and their host families.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, German, Volunteers
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Wild, Elke – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 2003
Examines a survey among high school teachers that focuses on their attitudes, convictions, and assessment of external factors and conditions that effect the goal of parent cooperation in homework supervision. Concludes teachers are open minded. Offers clues to optimizing the cooperation between parents and teachers. (CAJ)
Descriptors: Family Environment, Foreign Countries, Homework, Parent Participation
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Marks, Gary; Cresswell, John; Ainley, John – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
This paper examines the extent that material, social, and cultural resources and schools account for the relationship between socioeconomic background and student achievement among 15-year-olds in 30 countries. Generally, cultural factors play a more important role in most countries although in a small minority of countries, material resources…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Background, Family School Relationship
Human Resources Development Canada, 2003
When Canadian parents look back on their own lives and the lives of their parents, they see changes across a generation that have profoundly affected their parenting experience, compared to when they themselves were young children. Supports for today's parents must take into consideration these changes that affect the care and nurturing of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Age Differences, Young Children