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Exploring the Impact of Serious Leisure on Well-Being and Self-Perceived Employability: The Mediating Role of Career Adaptability amongst Chinese Undergraduates
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Yin Ma; P. M. Nimmi; Maria Mouratidou; William E. Donald – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the impact of engaging in serious leisure (SL) on the well-being (WB) and self-perceived employability (PE) of university students while also considering the role of career adaptability (CA) as a mediator. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 905 domestic undergraduate students from China completed an online…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Well Being, Employment Potential, Career Development
Making of Epistemologically Sophisticated Physics Teachers: A Cross-Sequential Study of Epistemological Progression from Preservice to In-Service Teachers
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Ding, Lin; Zhang, Ping – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Previous literature on learners' epistemological beliefs about physics has almost exclusively focused on analysis of university classroom instruction and its effects on students' views. However, little is known about other populations or factors other than classroom instruction on learners' epistemologies. In this study, we used a cross-sequential…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Physics, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Special Class for the Gifted Young: A 34-Year Experimentation with Early College Entrance Programs in China
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Dai, David Yun; Steenbergen-Hu, Saiying – Roeper Review, 2015
This article introduces the Special Class for the Gifted Young (SCGY), an early college entrance program in mathematics and science in China, which has been a focus for media coverage and public discussion of accelerated education in China. We first describe the admission policy and academic programming of SCGY and delineate its distinct features.…
Descriptors: Special Programs, Acceleration (Education), College Admission, Admission Criteria
Biochemical Education in Chinese Universities. Report on Workshop Held at Shanghai Medical University, China, May 12-14, 1986.
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Biochemical Education, 1987
Presents an overview of biochemical education in China, including a description of the overall Chinese educational system. Summarizes workshop sessions which dealt with teaching objectives, teaching methods, self-instruction, and the education of graduate students (including the use of "dry" laboratory exercises and research…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, College Science, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Science, Technology & Society, 1991-1992.
Cutcliffe, Stephen H., Ed. – Science, Technology & Society, 1991
This document contains issues 83-93 of the curriculum newsletter of Lehigh University's Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program. Each issue contains articles addressing issues relative to STS, course syllabi, reader responses, and announcements. Issue No. 83 discusses establishing an interdisciplinary minor in technology studies at…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Cultural Influences, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Chemical Education in China: Lanzhou University.
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Shi, Qizhen; Basolo, Fred – Journal of Chemical Education, 1986
Contrasts the elementary and secondary education of students in the People's Republic of China with that of the United States. Describes the chemistry program at Lanzhou University. Lists the required and elective courses taken for a bachelor's degree along with the instruments and equipment available to students, and the careers the graduates…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Chinese Culture, College Science, Elementary Secondary Education