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Lee, Moosung – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
This article explores and explains the subjectivity of self-helping adult learners, as depicted in contemporary, best-selling self-help books. It interrogates how those self-help texts embody particular features of self-helping subjectivity by appropriating neoliberalist perspectives on self and the world. It illuminates four salient features of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Bias, Self Help Programs, Help Seeking
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Zeleke, Waganesh A.; Chitiyo, Morgan; Hughes, Tammy L. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2018
Autism has begun to attract both media and research attention across many developing countries. In Ethiopia, where there is limited attention to diagnostic processes and therapeutic interventions for children, the treatment for autism is widely misunderstood. This study examines the available behavioral and educational interventions currently…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Intervention
Fenwick, Tara; Parsons, Jim – 1995
This paper adopts a Christian perspective in a self-reflexive analysis of Steven Covey and his popular self-help book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People." It opens by giving a brief overview of the author, describes his guiding idea of "principle-centered learning," and then discusses the book's spiritual foundations.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Christianity, Critical Reading, Criticism