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From Old to New Learning: Global Imperatives, Exemplary Asian Dilemmas and ICT as a Key to Cultural Change in Education
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Richards, Cameron – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2004
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) represent a crucial force for cultural change in both education and society and possible transitions between old and new learning as well as social values. This is especially so in East Asia, where the young have informally embraced ICTs but learn in formal contexts often still dominated by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Communications, Teaching Methods
Conservative Orientation as a Determinant of Hopelessness.
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Cheung, Chau-Kiu; Kwok, Siu-Tong – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Hypothesizes that a conservative and individualistic orientation results in the fatalistic, alienated, and helpless outlook known as hopelessness. Provides extensive references to studies and theories characterizing conservatism and a work ethic belief as manifestations of an a maladaptive stage of psychological development. (MJP)
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Beliefs, College Students, Conservatism