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Luna, Diego – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper summarizes a qualitative study conducted to better understand the experiences of men of color in peer-to-peer anti-violence college organizations. Male privilege benefits all men, yet this privilege is mitigated and/or augmented by sociopolitical factors that whitestream curriculums rarely take into account. How then, do men of color…
Descriptors: Males, Minority Groups, Peer Groups, Social Support Groups
Ngammuk, Patariya – Online Submission, 2016
This study aims to examine the twelve core values of Thai people found in Thai university students. The twelve values consist of the following attributes: 1.Upholding the nation, the religions and the Monarchy 2. Being honest, sacrificial and patient with positive attitude for the common good of the public 3. Being grateful to the parents,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Values, Social Attitudes, Nationalism
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Dishkova, Maria – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
There is so much information about autistic children in educational theory. And there is not so much know-how in educational practice. This statute is about science research which main goal is to prove that autistic children and their families shouldn't be isolate by society because it is the worst way to be supported. There are many options now…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Social Attitudes, Student Needs
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Futaba, Yasuko – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2016
This paper addresses how inclusive education under collective culture is possible. Inclusive education, which more-or-less involves changing the current schools, has been denied, doubted or distorted by both policy-makers and practitioners of general and special education in Japan. Main reason for the setback in inclusive education can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Cultural Influences, Asian Culture
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Matthews, Paul – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2015
Introduction: This study looked at the effect of community peripheral cues (specifically voting score and answerer's reputation) on the user's credibility rating of answers. Method: Students in technology and philosophy were asked to assess the credibility of answers to questions posted on a social question-answering platform. Through the use of a…
Descriptors: Credibility, Heuristics, College Students, Computer Science Education
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Staley, Sara – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Framed by a queer theoretical perspective on the problem of heteronormativity in schools, this qualitative case study traces one teacher's journey of cultivating and enacting commitments to affirming gender and sexual diversity as she moved across contexts of teacher preparation and in-service teaching. Data informing analysis were collected over…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Social Bias, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation
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Chrostek, Anna; Sonik, Janina; Krzyzanowska-Zbucka, Joanna; Switaj, Piotr; Nowak, Izabela; Anczewska, Marta – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
Social stigma is widely recognized as a major barrier to recovery from mental illness. In Poland, as in other countries, the society perceives mental illnesses as an intimidating problem, while the people affected are often treated with reservation and a sense of distance. One of the first Polish organizations addressing stigmatization and social…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Mental Disorders, Barriers, Foreign Countries
Baker, Lisa – Independent School, 2013
The article is a reprint of an address delivered by the author to students at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts, in Fall 2012. It addresses the author's belief in the important role of schools in promoting gender equality, the gender gap in educational attainment, and the social construction of gender. The author stresses the importance of…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Social Justice, Social Attitudes
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Potgieter, Ferdinand J. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
This paper investigates religion education (RE) in Mexico and Thailand -- two countries from different parts of the world with vastly different populations and cultures. We wanted to learn whether they had tackled similar problems regarding the provision of RE in their schools, particularly with respect to the matter of tolerance in diverse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Social Attitudes, Individual Differences
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van der Walt, Johannes L. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
The question that prompted this investigation into religion education (RE) in Estonia and in South Africa was whether two countries from such totally different parts of the world, with such vastly different populations and cultures though with somewhat parallel histories, had tackled the same or similar problems regarding the provision of RE in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
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Burkholdt, Sebastian; Logan, Kimberly R.; Zhao, Xiaoying – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This pilot study investigates the role of anxiety for early childhood pre-service social studies teachers as they learn methods to teach curriculum on slavery and associated issues such as racism or White privilege. The findings indicate that a variety of aspects cause pre-service teachers to experience anxiety around the thought of having to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Anxiety, Early Childhood Teachers
Shishigu, Aweke – Online Submission, 2016
There is no question that Ethiopia registered an extraordinary achievement in terms of increasing student enrolment, but quality education still remains a challenge and is becoming a bottleneck for the country. The efforts made to improve quality through Education Sector Development Plan (ESDP) are promising. But those changes are worse doing if…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Educational Quality, Elementary School Teachers
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Johnson, Angela – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Women are under-represented in physics, math and computer science. Intersectional analyses show why: Because the norms of typical departments fit the cultural skills of affluent White male students. This project, an ethnography of a liberal arts college with lots of women in these majors, is grounded in the activist roots of intersectionality. The…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Females, African American Students
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Rashidi, Hamid; Arani, Abbas Madandar; Kakia, Lida – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
E-learning has provided men with new opportunities in teaching-learning procedures. A historical review of educational systems literature reveals that e-learning has spread out among people much faster than any other learning methods. E-learning as a state-of-the-art technology, has caused great innovations in materials development in those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
Soholt, Polli – NAMTA Journal, 2015
Polli Soholt points to normalization in the first plane as leading to the successful realization of the human personality, which is the basis of social development. Children who have cultivated concentration and purposeful work at an early age develop the virtues to become world citizens. Normalization can be assisted by certain practices: 1)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Social Attitudes, Social Development, Citizenship Education
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