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Nicole Philippczyck; Jan Grundmann; Simon Oertel – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2024
We analyze the role of institutional founding conditions and institutional legacy for universities' self-representation in terms of diversity. Based on 374 universities located in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland, we can differentiate between a more idealistic understanding (logic of inclusion and equality) and a…
Descriptors: Diversity, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment
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Nicole Messi – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
This study explores the establishment of communities of practice within teaching and learning centres (TLC) as strategies for advancing faculty development in higher education, examining their implementation in the US and Europe, with a specific focus on Italy. Utilising organisational benchmarking, we employed an explanatory, comparative, and…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Communities of Practice, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Valentina Grion; Juliana Raffaghelli; Beatrice Doria; Anna Serbati – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
Feedback is crucial for improving student learning. In this regard, overcoming the transmissive conception of feedback in favour of its dialogic function introduces new reflections concerning the internal generative feedback process. In this regard, Nicol [(2020). The power of internal feedback: Exploiting natural comparator processes.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Feedback (Response), Individual Differences
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Eva Maria Aranda Vega; Maria Tome Fernandez; Jose Manuel Ortiz Marcos – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2024
This study examined the most common social skills among elementary school students in an intercultural environment with contextual diversity, taking age, gender and place of birth into consideration. A total of 803 students (aged 6 to 12) were assessed using the previously validated "social skills questionnaire for intercultural students in…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Cultural Awareness
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Padilla-Walker, Laura M.; Van der Graaff, Jolien; Workman, Katey; Carlo, Gustavo; Branje, Susan; Carrizales, Alexia; Gerbino, Maria; Gülseven, Zehra; Hawk, Skyler T.; Luengo Kanacri, Paula; Mesurado, Belén; Samper-García, Paula; Shen, Yuh-Ling; Taylor, Laura K.; Trach, Jessica; van Zalk, Maarten H. W.; Žukauskiene, Rita – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Evidence suggests an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, particularly among emerging adults. However, theories on altruism born of suffering or adversarial growth suggest that we might also see prosocial behavior as a function of the pandemic, which may protect against mental health challenges. Because cultural values are central in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Mental Health, Prosocial Behavior, Cultural Influences
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Lishuai Jia; Run Tan; Marina Santi – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
In recent years, inclusive education has become a major challenge for school systems in both Western and Eastern countries, and many countries have been putting considerable efforts into making their education more inclusive. The present study was undertaken to investigate Chinese and Italian teachers' understanding of inclusive education based on…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities
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Ida Gran Andersen; Emil Smith – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
Although women's representation in STEM fields and occupations has increased, science and math continue to be stereotyped as male domains. This paper links psychological and sociological explanations for gendered disparities in STEM by examining the relationship between the local "micro-situational" female learning environment and the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Educational Environment
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Gottardello, Debora; Karabag, Solmaz Filiz – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Unethical behaviour has become an increasingly controversial issue in Higher Education institutes. There have been debates about the reasons for the increase in unethical behaviour. But many of those debates contain problems. A key problem has been the lack of empirical results about faculty members' perceptions of their role in the phenomenon,…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, College Faculty, Integrity, Ethics
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Costanza Tortú; Irene Crimaldi; Fabrizia Mealli; Laura Forastiere – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Policy evaluation studies, which assess the effect of an intervention, face statistical challenges: in real-world settings treatments are not randomly assigned and the analysis might be complicated by the presence of interference among units. Researchers have started to develop methods that allow to manage spillovers in observational studies;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Foreign Policy, Causal Models
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Biying Wen; Qian Wang; Floriana Grasso; Qing Chen; Juming Shen – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
The problem of gender disparity in computer science and engineering has persisted despite longstanding efforts made in higher education. This study drew data from ten female computer science and engineering faculty in China and Italy to demonstrate the gender-specific challenges they face. The researcher applied positioning theory to analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Barriers, Women Faculty
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Florio, Eleonora; Caso, Letizia; Castelli, Ilaria – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
In a complex and systemic view of human development, the educational relationship is conceived as the keystone of development (Pianta, 1999; Pianta, 2001). However, harsh discipline practices may still be culturally rooted, thus affecting children's well-being. Two constructs that may provide useful insights on this topic are Adultcentrism (AD)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Discipline, Educational History
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Demattè, Adriano; Furinghetti, Fulvia – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
In this paper, we describe an experiment in using history to work on problem-solving and the relationship between arithmetic and algebra. The students involved attended the first year of the Italian upper secondary school (grade 9). The original sources we used are problems from Italian treatises on arithmetic and algebra that appeared in the…
Descriptors: History, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic
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James, Sigrid; Wilczek, Lucas; Kilian, Juri; Timonen-Kallio, Eeva; Bravo, Amaia; del Valle, Jorge F.; Formenti, Laura; Petrauskiene, Alina; Pivoriene, Jolanta; Rigamonti, Alessandra – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Despite a global policy push toward the advancement of family- and community-based care, residential care for children and youth remains a relevant and highly utilized out-of-home care option in many countries, fulfilling functions of care and accommodation as well as education and treatment. Objective: As part of a larger project…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Residential Care, Barriers
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Eichler, Andreas; Ferretti, Federica; Maffia, Andrea – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
International literature is increasingly disclosing the relevance of cultural aspects within the processes of teaching and learning mathematics. Knowledge is inextricably linked to the activities in which the subjects engage, and must be considered in relation to the socio-cultural context wherein the activity takes place. Literature reveals the…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers
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Zhang, Leticia-Tian; Zhao, Sumin – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
Diaspora vloggers--migrants who produce video blogs in the language of their home countries for a transnational diaspora community--have been a largely overlooked group in the studies of social media. This paper focuses on the unique role of Chinese diaspora vloggers during an unprecedented global event--the COVID-19 pandemic. Using manual keyword…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Media, Video Technology
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