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Experiencing the Workplace: Shaping Worker Identities through Assessment, Work and Learning
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Timma, Hilary – Studies in Continuing Education, 2007
This paper explores how worker identities are shaped (and reshaped) in the workplace through the interconnected experiences of assessment, work and learning. Drawing on a study conducted at three food production companies in regional Victoria, the paper locates these workplace experiences as social constructions and considers the significance of…
Descriptors: Food Processing Occupations, Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Industrial Psychology
The Relationship between Perceived Family Health and Personality Functioning among Australian Adolescents.
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Heaven, Patrick; Searight, H. Russell; Chastain, Julie; Skitka, Linda J. – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1996
Focuses on the relationship between family climate and personality structure, as well as the relationship between family of origin and self-esteem. Results indicate that sociability was positively and moderately related to healthy family functioning. Life satisfaction and self-esteem were much more strongly associated with perceived family…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Family Characteristics
A Non-Kohlbergian Approach to the Development of Justifications for Moral Judgments.
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Langford, Peter E.; Claydon, Leslie F. – Educational Studies, 1989
Reports on the results of 2 studies that use a non-Kohlbergian approach to categorizing justifications for moral judgments by Australian subjects from 7 to 15 and from 7 to 21 years. These studies support the view that moral reasoning up to late adolescence is largely a product of socialization. (KO)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Research, Ethics, Foreign Countries