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Direct linkTeiser, Johanna; Lamm, Bettina; Böning, Mirjam; Graf, Frauke; Gudi, Helene; Goertz, Claudia; Fassbender, Ina; Freitag, Claudia; Spangler, Sibylle; Teubert, Manuel; Lohaus, Arnold; Schwarzer, Gudrun; Knopf, Monika; Keller, Heidi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Studies investigating imitation are usually conducted with adult models in Western contexts; therefore, the influence of cultural context and the model's age on infants' imitation is largely unknown. This study assessed deferred imitation in 9-month-old infants from the German middle-class ("N" = 44) and the ethnic group of Nso in rural…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Infants, Infant Behavior, Imitation
Park, Hyunjoon; Byun, Soo-Yong – Comparative Education Review, 2015
Using data from 37,570 students in 23 OECD countries in PISA 2006, we examine how national contexts shape the expectation of being a teacher at age 30 among high achieving students in secondary schools. Our results show considerable between-country differences in the degree of students' expectation of a teaching job. To address sources of this…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, High Achievement, Social Status
Magson, Natasha R.; Craven, Rhonda G.; Nelson, Genevieve F.; Yeung, Alexander S.; Bodkin-Andrews, Gawaian H.; McInerney, Dennis M. – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2014
This research explored gender and cross-cultural similarities and differences in the motivational profiles of Indigenous Papua New Guinean (PNG) and Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Secondary students (N = 1,792) completed self-report motivational measures. Invariance testing demonstrated that the Inventory of School Motivation…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Student Motivation, Mastery Learning, Foreign Countries
Wang, Bingxin; Greenwood, Kenneth Mark – Educational Psychology, 2013
This paper applies the Four C Model of Creativity ("Big-C, little-c, mini-c and Pro-c") to determine Chinese students' perceptions of their own creativity and their perceptions of Western students' creativity. By surveying 100 Chinese students and interviewing 10 of them, this paper discovered that Chinese students generally perceived…
Descriptors: Creativity, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Asians
The Foreign Language Teaching Profession in Finnish and Japanese Society: A Sociocultural Comparison
Sarja, Anneli; Nyman, Tarja; Ito, Harumi; Jaatinen, Riitta – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
The social basis of a teaching profession is created through behavioural and cultural patterns, specific artefacts, and their connection to certain institutional practices. The purpose of this study is to discover the conditions that structure the teaching profession in a cultural context and to find out what it is to be a foreign language (FL)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Cross Cultural Studies
Retna, Kala S.; Jones, Deborah – Learning Organization, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore practitioner and post-colonial perspectives on the implementation of learning organisation theory and practice in a non-Western setting. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative interpretive study, using in-depth interviews and participant observation, was conducted in two public organisations in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Learning, Cultural Context, Non Western Civilization
Chernyshenko, Oleksandr S.; Kankaraš, Miloš; Drasgow, Fritz – OECD Publishing, 2018
In an increasingly fast-changing, complex and diverse world, social and emotional skills are becoming ever more important. In this paper we present an overview of literature on social and emotional skills, describing the nature and structure of these skills, their development, malleability and factors that influence them, their cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Emotional Development, Emotional Intelligence, Academic Achievement
Ni, Hong; Li, Chieh; Wang, Cixin – School Psychology International, 2016
The current study first examined the applicability of the ClassMaps Survey (CMS)--a measurement of resilience in classroom/school settings developed in the US with Chinese middle school students and then compared the group differences on student perceptions of the resilience factors in the CMS across the two cultures. The findings suggest that the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Self Determination, Self Control
Download full textYob, Iris M. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2016
The writers of the UNESCO document, "Rethinking education: Towards a global common good?" challenge educators to address their efforts to meet the current threats to sustainable life for all who share this planet. One way that higher education has been attempting to do this is through campus-community partnerships working to solve social…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Higher Education, Social Problems, School Community Relationship
Danielsson, Kristina; Selander, Staffan – Designs for Learning, 2016
The re-conceptualisation of texts over the last 20 years, as well as the development of a multimodal understanding of communication and representation of knowledge, has profound consequences for the reading and understanding of multimodal texts, not least in educational contexts. However, if teachers and students are given tools to…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Tittle, Charles R.; Antonaccio, Olena; Botchkovar, Ekaterina – Social Forces, 2012
This study reports a cross-cultural test of Social Learning Theory using direct measures of social learning constructs and focusing on the causal structure implied by the theory. Overall, the results strongly confirm the main thrust of the theory. Prior criminal reinforcement and current crime-favorable definitions are highly related in all three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Crime, Reinforcement
Jackson, Liz – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This paper examines the development of multicultural curriculum in Hong Kong and Taiwan over the last two few decades. Though both societies are broadly Chinese cultural contexts, differences in their political histories, cultures, and demographics nonetheless reflect disparate approaches to the development of multiculturalism in curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Multicultural Education, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries
Jiménez, Juan E.; Rodríguez, Cristina; Suárez, Natalia; O'Shanahan, Isabel; Villadiego, Yalov; Uribe, Claudia; Villalobos, Jose Angel; Rodas, Patricia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The main goal of this study was to explore the nature and structure of implicit theories of Spanish-speaking in-service teachers on learning to read. The study sample consisted of 591 in-service teachers from various Ibero-American countries (Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and Ecuador). The study analyzed attributional structure or teacher…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Teacher Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Spanish Speaking
Benjamin Hedrick – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study examines successful and internationally renowned mathematics teacher training programs in Japan, the United States, and Finland. Using interview data from program instructors, prospective mathematics teachers, and program directors, as well as from my own experiences as a teacher and researcher in each of these countries, I examine…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Education, Teacher Education Programs, Cultural Context
Lam, Shui-fong; Jimerson, Shane; Shin, Hyeonsook; Cefai, Carmel; Veiga, Feliciano H.; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Polychroni, Fotini; Kikas, Eve; Wong, Bernard P. H.; Stanculescu, Elena; Basnett, Julie; Duck, Robert; Farrell, Peter; Liu, Yi; Negovan, Valeria; Nelson, Brett; Yang, Hongfei; Zollneritsch, Josef – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Background: A comprehensive understanding of the contextual factors that are linked to student engagement requires research that includes cross-cultural perspectives. Aims: This study investigated how student engagement in school is associated with grade, gender, and contextual factors across 12 countries. It also investigated whether these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Learner Engagement, Cross Cultural Studies
