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Cathryn van Kessel Ed.; Kimberly Edmondson Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
In this collection, scholars from the United States, Canada, and Australia examine the concepts of villainification and anti-villainification in social studies curriculum and popular culture, as well as within broader sociocultural contexts. Villainification is the process of identifying an individual or a small group of individuals as the sole…
Descriptors: Political Issues, Social Studies, Popular Culture, Cultural Influences
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Chinh Duc Nguyen; Thanh Nguyen Thao Tran; Nhu To Thi Pham; Mai Kha Ngoc Huynh – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
At a meso level, families have shown an imperative role in language policy in general and language education in particular. Predicated on the theories of family language policy and a transdisciplinary framework for L2 development, this study was undertaken to explore what three generations of a family did with the foreign languages they had…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Family Relationship
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Karyn Saunders – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2024
For partnerships between non-Maori teachers and Maori parents in English-medium education to productively support student learning, parents must first associate positive feelings with three layered interaction types involving their child's teacher. The first interaction type is the teacher with their teacher self; the second is teacher-student…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Parents, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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Duggan, Jennifer – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
The politics of children's literature and the actors surrounding it have never been more visible than they are now, in the digital age. As one of the first children's series to gain widespread popularity concurrently with the spread of the internet, the Harry Potter septet arrived on the global stage at the perfect moment to develop an avid,…
Descriptors: Politics, Childrens Literature, Authors, Novels
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Fu, Jun – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2022
This paper explores the citizenship learning of Chinese young adults through examining their participation on Weibo (the biggest micro-blogging service in China). Interview data collected from 31 young mainland Chinese adults contained their reflections on their everyday online participation on Weibo. Using the theory of communities of practice,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes
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Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Nketsia, William; Agyei-Okyere, Elvis; Oginni, Oyewole Simon; Torgbenu, Eric Lawer – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2022
The call to practise inclusive education in African countries has coincided with efforts to promote deeper cooperation in the education sector. Ghana and Nigeria have adopted a common curriculum to facilitate the development of people in the West African sub-region. In both countries, while much is known about the challenges faced by teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Parent Attitudes, Knowledge Level
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Maughan, Lizzie; Natalier, Kristin; Mulholland, Monique – Gender and Education, 2022
This paper develops and applies the emergent concept of institutional transphobia to explore the barriers to transgender research in early years education. It argues that institutional processes embed and disguise the logic of transphobia by drawing on dominant, taken-for-granted claims of the inappropriateness or irrelevance of gender-focused…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, LGBTQ People, Social Bias, Barriers
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Elliott, Rebecca; Smith, Everrett – College Student Journal, 2022
Student engagement has been studied by researchers for several decades. Though researchers have considered involvement with registered student organizations, academic orientation, and financial and family factors in their work, fewer studies have examined on-campus student employment as a mechanism for engagement. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Employment, Self Concept, Student Experience
Ana Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study addresses common assumptions about women of the borderlands while embracing a transformative consciousness in understanding, making, and reclaiming the meaning of citizenship for Mexican American women from the Rio Grande Valley. This critical ethnography recognizes Chicana Feminist epistemologies as a form of knowledge. Therefore, this…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Hispanic Americans, Females, Epistemology
Nathan T. T. Lau; Eric D. Wilkey; Mojtaba Soltanlou; Rebekka Lagacé Cusiac; Lien Peters; Paul Tremblay; Celia Goffin; Isabella Starling Alves; Andrew David Ribner; Clarissa Thompson; Jo Van Hoof; Julia Bahnmueller; Aymee Alvarez; Elien Bellon; Ilse Coolen; Fanny Ollivier; Daniel Ansari – Grantee Submission, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the globe have been exposed to large amounts of statistical data. Previous studies have shown that individuals' mathematical understanding of health-related information affects their attitudes and behaviours. Here, we investigate the relation between: (1) basic numeracy; (2) COVID-19 health numeracy; and…
Descriptors: Numeracy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Behavior
Shauna T. Landry – ProQuest LLC, 2022
First-generation college students are a population of students who are often under-served in higher education institutions. Previous research indicates their well-being is impacted by their experiences within the collegiate environment, which contributes to their lower retention and graduation rates. The purpose of this qualitative research study…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Well Being, College Environment, Self Efficacy
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Hyatt, Charles – Parenting for High Potential, 2018
Parents of gifted children are often faced with challenges as to how to process images, labels, and stereotypes of youth with special abilities. Just as books can provide healing for the troubled soul by reflecting on the stories of people experiencing similar challenges, cinema and video can help examine one's strengths and weaknesses while…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Mass Media Effects, Films, Television
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Sternberg, Robert; Kaufman, James C. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Creativity is an indispensable force in intellectual, social, cultural, and economic development. Yet societal forces conspire to erode it. Educators have despaired for many years over how schools often fail to encourage creativity, but society as a whole is just as guilty. But how do schools and society fail to encourage, or…
Descriptors: Creativity, Social Influences, Barriers, Theory Practice Relationship
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Leland, Andrew S. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2021
Purpose: This qualitative, phenomenological study explores gay fatherhood visibility in schools. The study was guided by prior research on families headed by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) parents, as well as the theoretical exploration of "doing family" for LGBTQ-headed households and queer families. Data Collection…
Descriptors: Fathers, Homosexuality, LGBTQ People, Place of Residence
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Alexandre, José Carlos; Aguiar-Conraria, Luís – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Previous studies have associated initiation practices, also known as hazing, with conformity, fear, apprehension, anxiety, submission, coercion, desire for group integration, and acceptance. Therefore, students undergo several types of influences or pressures. We argue that the social environment surrounding the hazing in Portuguese universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics
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