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Following 4 Months of Social Distancing during COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil Did Not Change Aspects of Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities: A Longitudinal Study
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Beatriz Helena Brugnaro; Gesica Fernandes; Fabiana Nascimento Vieira; Silvia Letícia Pavão; Nelci Adriana Cicuto Ferreira Rocha – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic and its demands of social distancing have created challenges in the lives of children/adolescents with developmental disabilities and their families, which would change aspects of children's functioning. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in some components of functioning of children/adolescents with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Distance
Learning about Culture(s) via Intercultural Digital Exchange: Opportunities, Challenges, and Grey Areas
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Dawes Duraisingh, Liz; Blair, Susannah; Aguiar, Anastasia – Intercultural Education, 2021
Twenty-six participants aged 12-18 living in four countries were interviewed about their experiences participating in a digital exchange programme and learning about cultures. Abductive analysis of the transcripts suggests that social media-type learning formats offer particular opportunities for young people to: (1) engage with different cultures…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, International Educational Exchange, Social Media, Adolescents
Social Fragmentation and the Public-Private School Divide: The Case of High-Achieving High Schools in Mexico City
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Azaola, Marta Cristina – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
This study explores views on social fragmentation amongst participants from public and private high-achieving high schools in Mexico City. Whilst issues relating to social fragmentation have recently received more attention in Mexico, there is a lack of research in relation to the existing divisions amongst both school types. The paper aims to…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Middle Class
Global Competences of Hungarian Young People in the Light of New Nationalism
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Fekete, Marianna – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2020
Introduction: In the context of national and global events of the last few years (wave of refugees in 2015, terrorist attacks, climate change, strengthening of far-right and radical parties, fake news and manipulation, etc.), the ability of making an independent opinion, making resolutions based on facts and knowledge, being able to see through…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Global Approach, Nationalism, Information Literacy
Between Silence and Speech: Autoethnography as an Otherness-Resisting Practice
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Tsalach, Calanit – Qualitative Inquiry, 2013
In this article I wish to trace three everyday moments in which my Mizrahi Ethnic Identity intersects with the academic one, and then extract experiences of ethnic otherness that are built within those moments. Exploring these moments while considering Mizrahi identity construction, practices of otherness, and terms of silences enables a more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ethnicity, Social Distance, Cultural Influences
Mitigating E-Mail Requests in Teenagers' First and Second Language Academic Cyber-Consultation
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Alcón Soler, Eva – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The study analyses teenagers' e-mail requests during academic cyber-consultation, exploring how the performance of request modifiers is influenced by participants' perceptions of the degree of imposition of the speech act and social distance with the recipient. A total of 295 e-mail requests, 145 produced by British English speakers (BES) and 150…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning