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Skovhus, Randi Boelskifte; Thomsen, Rie – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2022
In this article we introduce key concepts from critical psychology to explore their potential when operationalised in qualitative, empirically-based analyses of career guidance and counselling. Critical psychology is particularly concerned with understanding the concrete lines of action that can support generalised human agency -- a focus that is…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Counseling, Psychology, Personal Autonomy
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Oliveira, Alandeom W.; Cook, Kristin; Buck, Gayle A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
This study examines how a first-year biology teacher facilitates a series of whole-class discussions about evolution during the implementation of a problem-based unit. A communicative theoretical perspective is adopted wherein evolution discussions are viewed as social events that the teacher can frame intellectually (i.e., present or organize as…
Descriptors: Evolution, Social Structure, Biology, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Sobkin, V. S.; Nikolashina, E. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
An adolescent's attitude toward school government clearly reflects certain negative aspects that have to do with his/her alienation from the social life of the school. This article has been based on materials of a 2005 sociological survey of students in the ninth and eleventh grades of schools in the city of Moscow (n = 2,105). The aim of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, Educational Sociology
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Wiltse, Lynne – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2006
This article examines community practices, in particular oral discourse practices, in a junior high school classroom in an urban area of Western Canada. The purpose of the research was to determine what contribution a "community of practice" (COP) framework could make to the study of social interaction in a classroom setting. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Urban Areas, Social Structure