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Safe Spaces or a Pedagogy of Discomfort? Senior High-School Teachers' Meta-Emotion Philosophies and Climate Change Education
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Ojala, Maria – Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
The aim of this study is to explore senior high-school teachers' beliefs about the role of emotions in climate change education and their perception of how they deal with emotional reactions in the classroom. The theoretical framework consists of meta-emotion philosophies, teachers' beliefs, and critical emotion theories. Sixteen Swedish teachers…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Climate, Change
Prefiguring Sustainable Futures? Young People's Strategies to Deal with Conflicts about Climate-Friendly Food Choices and Implications for Transformative Learning
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Ojala, Maria – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Transformative learning is important for handling climate change. How to include this kind of learning in formal education is, however, still debated. This article takes a bottom-up approach by learning from young people who make climate-friendly food choices to a high degree. Interviews were performed with Swedish adolescents. By focusing on…
Descriptors: Food, Climate, Transformative Learning, Decision Making
Knowledge about Treatment, Anxiety, and Depression in Association with Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents: Development and Initial Evaluation of a New Test
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Berg, Matilda; Andersson, Gerhard; Rozental, Alexander – SAGE Open, 2020
Evaluating knowledge and learning in psychotherapy is a growing field of research. Studies that develop and evaluate valid tests are lacking, however. Here, in the context of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) for adolescents, a new test was developed using subject matter experts, consensus among researchers, self-reports by…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Intervention, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
High School Students' Experiences in School Toilets or Restrooms
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Norling, Maja; Stenzelius, Karin; Ekman, Nina; Wennick, Anne – Journal of School Nursing, 2016
Previous research about school toilets is based on studies of children in elementary school. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore the experiences when using the school toilets reported by students aged 16-18 years. Qualitative interviews with 21 students were conducted and analyzed using content analysis. The data revealed that the toilets…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Experience, Sanitary Facilities, Interviews
Outcomes of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Based Skills Training Group for Students with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Quasi-Experimental Pilot Study
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Pahnke, Johan; Lundgren, Tobias; Hursti, Timo; Hirvikoski, Tatja – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Autism spectrum disorder is characterized by social impairments and behavioural inflexibility. In this pilot study, the feasibility and outcomes of a 6-week acceptance and commitment therapy-based skills training group were evaluated in a special school setting using a quasi-experimental design (acceptance and commitment therapy/school classes as…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Quasiexperimental Design, Program Effectiveness
Ability of Stress, Sense of Control, and Self-Theories to Predict Swedish High School Students' Final Grades
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Ollfors, Marianne; Andersson, Sven Ingmar – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
The aim of this study was to investigate self-theories (theories of intelligence, confidence in one's intelligence, internal attribution of failure, academic self-efficacy), specific control, and experiencing of stress by means of a questionnaire for 915 Swedish high school students. Factor analysis yielded 6 stress domains (Workload, Psychosocial…
Descriptors: High School Students, Physical Environment, Self Efficacy, Intelligence