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Álvarez-Aguado, Izaskun; Vega Córdova, Vanessa; Spencer González, Herbert; González Carrasco, Félix; Jarpa Azagra, Marcela; Exss Cid, Katherine – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Background: Self-determination is a key construct to guarantee the development of skills that allow people with disabilities to acquire control over their lives. However, people with intellectual disabilities may have premature ageing processes that make it difficult to exercise these skills. This study seeks to determine the self-determination…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Aging (Individuals), Intellectual Disability, Self Advocacy
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Elijah Takyi Mensah; Mingkun Chen; Seth Yeboah Ntim; Antoinette Gabrah – Discover Education, 2023
Aim: The aim of this article is to analyse Dewey's writing on vocational aspects of education in his book "Democracy and Education," An introduction to the philosophy of education to identify and to relate the main philosophical ideas to Maslow's theory of motivation and to establish the key similarities between the two theories to…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Vocational Education, Learning Theories
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Göçen, Ahmet – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021
Leaders' self-realization and their intra-group behaviors at work are influenced by elements such as a sense of meaningful purpose and intrinsic motivation. This study aims to construct a model of meaningful leadership, based on the values, aspirations, and attitudes of a leader and how these qualities help them develop positive organizational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Qualities
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Park, Hyewon – Adult Learning, 2021
Young adult North Korean defectors (hereafter, North Korean millennials [NKMs]) are a growing and distinctive group. Even though they constitute the majority of defectors and show different characteristics from previous generations, relatively little attention has been paid to NKMs in both academic and practical areas. Specifically, little is…
Descriptors: Career Development, Foreign Countries, Refugees, Barriers
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Björn Boman; Marie Wiberg – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The current study analysed the relationships between socio-economic status, migration background, and non-cognitive factors and PISA reading and mathematics achievement. The results from multi-level analyses on Sweden's PISA survey from 2018 indicate that both mathematics achievement and reading achievement are affected by SES, migration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
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Sha Shen; Tianqi Tang; Linjie Pu; Yunqing Mao; Zibin Wang; Saidi Wang – SAGE Open, 2024
Previous research has indicated that students' academic engagement is related to their emotional support from teachers. However, there is scarce evidence on how teacher emotional support relates to students' academic engagement. Given the potential role of positive academic emotions in learning, this study investigated the mediating role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Personnel Services
Karen Schragenheim – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic impacted educational systems globally. To prevent the spread of the virus, governments worldwide instituted stay-at-home mandates. Living rooms transformed into the hub of homelife activity, serving as classrooms, workspaces, and recreational activities for the family. The problem this basic qualitative…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Well Being, Leadership
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Elizabeth L. Jaeger – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022
The article considers the beliefs and practices of elementary-aged children who write for personal fulfillment. Mobilizing Lips-Wiersma's (Lips-Wiersma & Morris, 2011) notion of "meaningful work," I examine the ways in which these children experienced writing and sharing their work in a voluntary after school writing workshop and at…
Descriptors: Children, Writing (Composition), After School Education, Home Study
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Morgan, Rebekah – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2023
A recent UK study found that 28% of autistic children were diagnosed with autism after starting secondary school, a stage where self-concept and social identity are the main developmental tasks. This study uses Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to explore the discourses ten girls with a diagnosis of autism use in their constructions of self-concept…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Females, Self Concept
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Wouter Sanderse – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
This paper aims to offer a new perspective on role modelling by examining adolescents' own efforts to lead a morally virtuous life. While traditional approaches to moral education emphasize the importance of teachers as role models, this study proposes a shift in focus towards adolescents' own role models. Drawing on the philosophical concept of…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Role Models, Modeling (Psychology), Self Concept
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Aakash Kamble; Nitin Upadhyay; Nayna Abhang – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2024
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have gained popularity among sales professionals who use them for self-directed learning and upskilling. However, research related to their intentions to continue learning is scarce. Drawing from the social cognition theory, this research aimed to address this gap by investigating the role of task-technology…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Sales Occupations, Salesmanship, Independent Study
Sarah Klocke – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Individuals with a growth mindset believe they have the ability to learn (Dweck, 2006). The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to understand the shared lived experiences connected to growth mindset, self-efficacy, and grit in a population of undergraduate students at a private women's university in the Midwest who participate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Womens Education, Private Colleges, Single Sex Colleges
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Genevieve Thraves – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2024
Gifted education has been recognised as a fractured field that can be categorised using varying paradigmatic approaches. Over the past thirty years, Gagne's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talents (DMGT) has maintained a strong influence in Australia, which means that the paradigmatic assumptions that are present in this model have shaped…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gifted Education, Educational Policy, Web Sites
Christin Correll – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Available research discusses the first-generation undergraduate experience, graduate students' sense of belonging, and first-generation graduate students, but little research shows the themes that impact a first-generation graduate student's sense of belonging. Understanding the first-generation graduate students' experience as a marginalized…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Sense of Belonging, College Environment, Teacher Student Relationship
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Gary, Kevin; Chambers, Drew – Educational Theory, 2021
This essay focuses on epiphanies -- moments when an insight or revelation captures our attention and summons us to become a better version of ourselves. The role of epiphanies in moral transformation, however, raises a potentially troublesome question. Namely, is the cultivation of epiphanies yet another vexed attempt at moral education? Kevin…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Ethical Instruction, Self Actualization, Critical Theory
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