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MacKenzie, Michael D. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2022
While spirituality has emerged as a topic of interest in adult education, much of the current scholarship considers spirituality as distinct from religion. This literature review questions those conclusions, including the use of theistic terminology to describe a concept (spirituality) that many posit is non-theistic. Spirituality is also…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Religious Factors, Beliefs, Spiritual Development
Lee, Jeong-Kyu – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the happiness and education principles of St. Augustine and Mozi through the primary and the secondary language resources. To review the paper logically, three research questions are addressed. First, what are the happiness principles of Augustine and Mozi? Second, what are the educational principles of…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Content Analysis, Christianity, Educational Philosophy
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Hosian, Mohammad Akbar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Tranströmer was born and bred in Sweden, a remarkably Scandinavian country. Topographically, Scandinavian countries are locations of extreme cold and snowing. This distinguishing climatic condition has had a dominant influence and impact on almost all Scandinavian art and literature, including Tomas Tranströmer's…
Descriptors: Poetry, Poets, Climate, Content Analysis
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Fuhrman, Nicholas E.; Rubenstein, Eric D. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
Much is known about the benefits of interacting with animals for learners. However, little is known about the animals' potential influence on the communication ability of the presenter/educator. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the experience of undergraduate students who used live animals (baby chicks, turtles, salamanders,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Animals, Communication Skills, Environmental Education
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Hatzichristou, Chryse; Lianos, Panayiotis G. – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2016
This article portrays the ongoing and ever-expanding journey of the Center for Research and Practice of School Psychology (CRPSP) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Based on an integrative approach to school community well-being that includes positive psychology perspectives and systems interventions, all activities of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Development, Emotional Development, Prevention
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Goddard, Murray – Psychological Record, 2012
Selected writings of B. F. Skinner are compared to 5 current topics in mainstream psychology, including the role of the unconscious, human language, the role of dispositions in psychology, human perceptions of conformity and bias, and mindfulness. The striking similarities between Skinner's work and these 5 current topics support Richelle's (1993)…
Descriptors: Psychology, Psychologists, Publications, Comparative Analysis
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Woods, Charlotte – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
This article presents an original application of Q methodology in investigating the challenging arena of emotion in the Higher Education (HE) workplace. Q's strength lies in capturing holistic, subjective accounts of complex and contested phenomena but is unusual in employing a statistical procedure within an interpretivist framework. Here Q is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Data Analysis, Institutional Research
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Bachand, Sarah Caffrey – Religious Education, 2010
This article responds to sociologist Christian Smith's claim that many teenagers today have lost traditional religious faith and instead espouse a new and erroneous faith in God the "Cosmic Therapist." The author challenges this claim by comparing two of Smith's chief complaints vis-a-vis teen faith to established portraits of adolescent faith.…
Descriptors: Altruism, Religion, Religious Education, Sociology
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Ott, J. C. – Social Indicators Research, 2011
There are substantial differences in happiness in nations. Average happiness on scale 0-10 ranges in 2006 from 3.24 in Togo to 8.00 in Denmark and the inequality of happiness, as measured by the standard deviation, ranges from 0.85 in Laos to 3.02 in the Dominican Republic. Much of these differences are due to quality of governance and in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Governance
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Bedek, Michael; Seitlinger, Paul; Kopeinik, Simone; Albert, Dietrich – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
Digital educational games (DEGs) possess the potential of providing an appealing and intrinsically motivating learning context. Usually this potential is either taken for granted or examined through questionnaires or interviews in the course of evaluation studies. However, an "adaptive" game would increase the probability of a DEG being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer Simulation
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Rutter, Michael; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
In this monograph, the authors have brought the findings of the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) study up to age 15 years and, in so doing, have focused especially on the question of whether there are deprivation-specific psychological patterns (DSPs) that differ meaningfully from other forms of psychopathology. For this purpose, their main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption, Followup Studies, Young Children
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Knox, Michele S.; Burkhart, Kimberly; Hunter, Kimberly E. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The ACT Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids program (ACT-PRSK) is an interactive violence prevention program developed by the American Psychological Association for parents of young children. The program teaches and supports parents in the areas of child development, roots and consequences of violence, anger management for adults and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Intervention, Family Violence, Child Abuse
Jorgensen, Shirley; Ferraro, Vittoria; Fichten, Catherine; Havel, Alice – Online Submission, 2009
The relationship between student dropout and high school grades, demographic factors and psychosocial variables was examined for 40 682 full-time Dawson College students. Overall, low high school grades and older age were the best predictors of dropout. Male students, who generally had lower grades than females, were more likely to drop out than…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grades (Scholastic), Females, Graduation Rate
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Gold, Martin; Mann, David W. – Urban Review, 1982
Three alternative secondary education programs that emphasized individualized instruction and social support for students were found to be influential in reducing disruptive behavior and improving the academic performance of students who were about to be expelled or suspended from school. Social psychological processes that led to program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Delinquency, Discipline
McKinney, Bruce C. – 1985
Recent controversy in the treatment of communication apprehension and avoidance has centered around whether an individual's communicative difficulties are caused by communicative (skills) deficiency or psychological problems (anxiety). Such debates are not new; arguments about whether to treat communicative difficulties from a communicative or…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Communication Apprehension, Communication Problems, Communication Skills
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