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Direct linkMcIntosh, Megan; Lakey, Elizabeth – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This analysis employs the concept of gratitude to trace key 'moments' in students' global service learning placements. We problematise the uncritical promotion of interculturality as an outcome of such placements. We analyse common narratives of gratitude that emerge from students before, during and after international placements in the Global…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Student Attitudes, Power Structure, Social Influences
Borgonovi, Francesca; Han, Seong Won; Greiff, Samuel – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Effective collaborative problem solving comprises cognitive dimensions, in which men tend to outperform women, and social dimensions in which women tend to outperform men. We extend research on between-country differences in gender gaps by considering collaborative problem solving and its association with two indicators of societal-level gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Problem Solving, Cooperation, Cultural Differences
Mills, Martin; Pini, Barbara – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
This paper is concerned with the rise of 'the boot camp' as a means of addressing "the problem of troubled youth" in contemporary industrialised nations such as Australia and the UK. Drawing on a corpus of publicly available material including press releases and policy documents, media reports, and programme websites, the paper explores…
Descriptors: Punishment, Behavior Problems, Documentation, Social Influences
Chan, Man Ching Esther; Clarke, David; Cao, Yiming – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2018
Interactive problem solving and learning are priorities in contemporary education, but these complex processes have proved difficult to research. This project addresses the question "How do we optimise social interaction for the promotion of learning in a mathematics classroom?" Employing the logic of multi-theoretic research design,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Interaction, Mathematics Instruction
Maher, Judith; Burkhart, Sarah – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe students' self-reported learning from engaging in an experiential learning task designed to develop their understanding of sustainable food systems and dietary practices. Design/methodology/approach: In all, 143 first-year students enrolled in an entry level food and nutrition subject undertook a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Nutrition Instruction, Experiential Learning, Sustainability
Download full textRogers, Bev; Thambi, Melinda; Shifana, Mariyam – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2015
Whilst deficit discourses in classrooms and staff rooms are pervasive and dominant, there is some research which supports teachers disrupting deficit thinking and reconnecting with student "funds of knowledge". Processes for disrupting deficit knowledges tend to assume individual teacher construction of deficit views in conversation with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Inquiry, Teacher Attitudes
Rescorla, Leslie A.; Ginzburg, Sofia; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Ivanova, Masha Y.; Almqvist, Fredrik; Begovac, Ivan; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Chahed, Myriam; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael C.; Leung, Patrick W. L.; Minaei, Asghar; Novik, Torunn S.; Oh, Kyung-Ja; Petot, Djaouida; Petot, Jean-Michel; Pomalima, Rolando; Rudan, Vlasta; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Valverde, Jose; van der Ende, Jan; Weintraub, Sheila; Metzke, Christa Winkler; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Zhang, Eugene Yuqing; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2013
We used population sample data from 25 societies to answer the following questions: (a) How consistently across societies do adolescents report more problems than their parents report about them? (b) Do levels of parent-adolescent agreement vary among societies for different kinds of problems? (c) How well do parents and adolescents in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Parents, Reliability
Sanjakdar, Fida – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2013
Homosexuality is widely perceived among many Muslims as a "western disease", a natural outcome of the West's secularity and cultural degeneracy. In spite of the emergence of more liberal attitudes towards sexual differences in modern times, moral issues have not lost their relevance in polemical discourse against homosexuality among many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Homosexuality, Muslims
Fleer, Marilyn – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2015
As schools become living sites of evidence-based practice, teachers increasingly accumulate large quantities of observations and records. In these times of an overabundance of documentation, there is a need to find the "unit of analysis" that determines the essence of what matters for assessment. In drawing upon cultural-historical…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Theories, Elementary School Teachers, Social Influences
Athanasou, James A. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
This paper examines the performance of the eight major occupational categories across the four skill areas of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey. The results indicated that some 38-64% of employed Australians were below minimal competence (at Level 1 or Level 2) in one of the four skill areas of prose literacy, document literacy, numeracy…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Occupations, Numeracy, Problem Solving
Leal Filho, Walter, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2011
It is widely acknowledged that sustainable development is a long-term goal, which both individuals and institutions (and countries!) need to pursue. This important theme is characterized by an intrinsic complexity, since it encompasses ecological or environmental considerations on the one hand, and economic matters, social influences and political…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Architectural Education, Higher Education, Environmental Education
Bang, Hyeyoung – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore empathy and prosocial behaviors within real-world issues among Korean middle-childhood children living in Australia. Using a qualitative approach, seven students were engaged in six sessions of group or individual activities including five sessions of responding to video vignettes which demonstrated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean Culture, Empathy, Prosocial Behavior
Andrews, Trish; Tynan, Belinda – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
In recent years the student experience of higher education in general and distance education in particular has been strongly influenced by the wide scale uptake of Internet based learning approaches and an expanding distance education market, amongst many other trends. As competition within the sector increases because of access to the WWW and…
Descriptors: Political Influences, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Learning Experience
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work, social participation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Hours, Life Satisfaction, Well Being
Letcher, Primrose; Sanson, Ann; Smart, Diana; Toumbourou, John W. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2012
The present research employed a prospective, multi-informant design to examine precursors and correlates of differing anxiety profiles from late childhood to late adolescence. The sample consisted of 626 boys and 667 girls who are participants in the Australian Temperament Project, a large, longitudinal, community-based study that has followed…
Descriptors: Prevention, Behavior Problems, Adolescents, Late Adolescents
