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Gür, Faik; Seggie, Fatma Nevra; Basgürboga, Gülsah Kisabacak – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2021
This study examines the visual and verbal content of advertisements in women's magazines published between 1980 and 1990 in Turkey. Based on content analysis, we established the categories of products and services, age, body parts, women's roles, clothes, and locations. We determined the five most frequent words employed in all grammatical or…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Learning, Advertising, Periodicals
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Migliorini, Paola; Wezel, Alexander; Veromann, Eve; Strassner, Carola; Srednicka-Tober, Dominika; Kahl, Johannes; Bügel, Susanne; Briz, Teresa; Kazimierczak, Renata; Brives, Hélène; Ploeger, Angelika; Gilles, Ute; Lüder, Vanessa; Schleicher-Deis, Olesa; Rastorgueva, Natalia; Tuccillo, Fabio; Talgre, Liina; Kaart, Tanel; Ismael, Diana; Rembialkowska, Ewa – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: To clarify needs and requests of the young generation to the contemporary and future education on food systems, this paper aims to examine the following issues: students' background knowledge, students' behaviour as consumers and food citizenship, most interesting topics of SFS for students and students' preferences and expectations in…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Expectation, Sustainable Development, Food
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Partington, Angela – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2019
This paper addresses issues associated with leadership in Higher Education (HE), by drawing on research and debate in relation to the role of education in reproducing social inequalities, and on expertise developed through academic leadership roles in British art schools. It seeks to stimulate discussion about the commodification of HE, which is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Commercialization, Inclusion, Equal Education
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Edo, Concha; Yunquera, Juan; Bastos, Helder – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2019
The growing expansion of Internet access and mass-scale usage of social networking platforms and search engines have forced digital newspapers to deal with challenges, amongst which are the need to constantly update news, the increasing complexity of sources, the difficulty of exercising their function as gatekeepers in a fragmented environment in…
Descriptors: Journalism, Professionalism, Social Media, News Media
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Sevgili, Fatma; Cesur, Sevim – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
The main aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between values and consumption, and to adduce the mediating roles of materialism in this association. Values have been investigated through Schwartz's main value dimensions in his Theory of Human Values: Self-Enhancement, Self-Transcendence, Openness to Change and Conservation. Through…
Descriptors: Values, Consumer Economics, Adults, Surveys
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Kalafatis, Stavros; Ledden, Lesley – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
The marketisation of higher education has led to the need for universities to apply marketing concepts normally associated with commercial markets to the educational context. Consumer value, which considers how consumers perceive the outcomes of their consumption experiences, is one such concept. This study examines the impact that students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Benefits, Commercialization
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van Andel, Jeroen; Botas, Paulo Charles Pimentel; Huisman, Jeroen – Higher Education Review, 2012
There has been much debate on the concept of student as customer/consumer in higher education but little empirical research, most of which lacks a solid theoretical framework. This article summarises the key arguments in the literature and their shortcomings, proposes a framework to analyse student perceptions and behaviour, and reports research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Commercialization
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Rebhun, Uzi – Social Indicators Research, 2009
This study applies two different complementary statistical techniques to examine the structure and determinants of homeownership and consumption of household goods among immigrants in Israel. Findings from partial-order analysis (POSAC) reveal significant differences between immigrant groups by type, rather than level, of household…
Descriptors: Housing, Classification, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Kuhlemeier, Hans; van den Bergh, Huub; Lagerweij, Nijs – Journal of Environmental Education, 1999
In a national assessment program, 57% of Dutch ninth-grade students had a positive attitude towards the environment and 35% were prepared to make sacrifices for the environment. Student knowledge about environmental problems, however, was fragmentary and often incorrect. Environmentally responsible behavior was more strongly connected with the…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Educational Research, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Molnar, Alex; Garcia, David R. – Commercialism in Education Research Unit, 2005
This year's Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends report finds that schools continue to be a prime target of a wide variety of corporate advertising efforts and criticism of marketing to children in schools is mounting. Most of this criticism is directed at marketing activities that are thought to have a negative impact on children's health. Public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Purchasing, Critical Thinking
Thorelli, Hans B.; And Others – 1977
The paper presents the text of a business and economics session at a conference on recent sociopolitical and socioeconomic developments in West Germany and the United States. Intended as a contribution to the dialogue between the two societies, the paper focuses on differences between average and sophisticated consumers within each country and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Conferences