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Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The seven papers in this issue address a variety of challenges that parents in several different cultural places encounter as they do their best to ensure their children's safe, happy, and successful development from infancy through middle childhood: infant sleep, developmental agendas, temperament, preschools, academic success, and learning to be…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Barriers, Cultural Differences, Child Development
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Modica, Erasmo – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 2011
This article describes an activity that can be carried out in one of the final classes of Italian secondary schools. The aim of the activity is to stimulate pupil curiosity, demonstrating that Mathematics is not a barren subject and allowing the students, according to an interdisciplinary point of view, to investigate some literary works and the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
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Nota, Laura; Soresi, Salvatore – Career Development Quarterly, 2003
Indecisive students often present with social skills problems, which may make academic and vocational decision-making tasks difficult and complex for them. This article presents a training program devised to augment assertive competencies in indecisive students choosing a university course of study. Intended aims and the analyses to assess the…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, College Students, Counseling Techniques, Decision Making
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Gobbo, Francesca – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
The article presents the life story of a young Roma cultural mediator who narrates (1) her life and professional decisions, still rather uncommon among young Roma women, and (2) the impact of her education and work experiences and achievements on her self perception. The narratives, from which the life story emerges, express the young Roma's…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Personal Narratives, Self Concept