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Joseph, Merlin; N.T., Sudhesh – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
This study uses a correlation, quantitative approach to understand the relationship between academic stress, adjustment, and social support. International students from various colleges and universities across India participated in the study. Analysis revealed significant relationships between academic stress, academic lifestyle, academic…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Social Support Groups, Adjustment (to Environment), International Studies
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Skrzypiec, Grace; Alinsug, Earvin; Amri Nasiruddin, Ulil; Andreou, Eleni; Brighi, Antonella; Didaskalou, Eleni; Guarini, Annalisa; Heiman, Tali; Kang, Soon-Won; Kwon, Soonjung; Olenik-Shemesh, Dorit; Ortega-Ruiz, Rosario; Romera, Eva M.; Roussi-Vergou, Christina; Sandhu, Damanjit; Sikorska, Iwona; Wyra, Mirella; Xi, Juzhe; Yang, Chih-Chien – Journal of School Violence, 2021
Research is sparse on who targets whom in peer aggression. In this study, we investigated the harm associated with the type of relationship between aggressed and aggressor with an international sample of over 5,000 students aged 11-16, living in 12 nations. Best friends and individuals with whom the respondent had no relationship were the least…
Descriptors: Aggression, Peer Relationship, Friendship, International Studies
Debbie Goss – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This interdisciplinary study examines faculty members' various understandings of writing pedagogies across the curriculum to foster global citizens from the perspective of "soka," or value creation. Broadly, value-creating global citizenship pedagogy develops students' skills and knowledge for the purpose of socioecological good.…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Global Approach, Citizenship Education
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Perry, Cody J.; Lausch, David W.; Weatherford, Jenny; Goeken, Ryan; Almendares, Maria – College Student Journal, 2017
International students provide economic, cultural, and academic benefits to universities throughout the nation. However, many international students lack the support necessary to be successful and satisfied with their education. In order to determine international students' perceptions of their university experience, an online survey was emailed…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Environment, Student Experience, Online Surveys
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Varghese, N. V. – Frontiers of Education in China, 2015
International cooperation and collaborations played an important role in the economic and educational development of several countries. In the 1950s and 1960s external aid was an important modality to establish cooperation between countries, especially between developing and developed countries. Cross-border activities in higher education used to…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation, Institutional Research
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Rose, Richard; Doveston, Mary – Support for Learning, 2015
In recent years a number of western universities have established professional development courses in international contexts. These have often involved tutors travelling to countries with which they may have previously had little contact, in order to deliver courses that have been long established in their own universities. This article discusses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Partnerships in Education, International Studies
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Molyneux, Paul; Tyler, Debra – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
Case studies of successful place-based education that involve international partnerships are rare. This article reports on an inclusive educational collaboration between pre-service teachers at an Australian university and primary and secondary school-aged children in a slum area of Delhi, India. Encouraged to undertake teaching that affirmed and…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Preservice Teachers, Case Studies, International Studies
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Wu, Kin Bing; Goldschmidt, Pete; Boscardin, Christy Kim; Sankar, Deepa – Education Economics, 2009
Evidence from cross-country studies suggests that the sustainability of India's rapid economic growth will be conditioned by the quality of its education. This paper analyzed a 2005 World Bank-sponsored survey of Grade Nine students in the states of Rajasthan and Orissa. The survey used internationally comparable items from the 1999 Trends of…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Letukas, Lynn; Barnshaw, John – Social Forces, 2008
As our understanding of disaster shifts from an event concentrated in time and space to a social occasion occurring across time and space, so too must our explanations of disaster shift from theories of the middle range to broader theoretical frameworks. We explore the world-system approach in an effort to understand the upper limits of theory for…
Descriptors: Social Change, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Crisis Management
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Teddlie, Charles; Creemers, Bert; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Muijs, Daniel; Yu, Fen – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
This article presents information on 2 international educational effectiveness studies, one completed and the other ongoing. The 2nd study is, to a large degree, a reaction to a methodological problem encountered in the 1st study, the lack of an internationally valid instrument measuring teacher effectiveness. This article presents 4 reasons for…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, International Studies
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Goode, Jackie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
There is in higher education a powerful discourse of "independent learning". While there may be pedagogical rationales to support the desirability of increased independence at the tertiary stage, it may also serve other institutional agendas, such as functioning as a way for academic staff to "manage" the frustrations…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Doctoral Programs, Learning Strategies, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Day, Frederick A. – North Carolina Journal for the Social Studies, 1988
Stating that superficial stereotypes hinder the understanding of people and places, Day presents several well-known over-generalizations about India. Attempts to update readers about recent changes within the country while dispelling some popular myths. Discusses India's large population, poverty, economic growth, women's roles, and culture, along…
Descriptors: Cultural Images, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Sharma, R. N., Ed. – 1993
Five speakers of international prominence from around the world presented a program dealing with the research efforts of academic librarians and the effect of research on academic libraries in Australia and New Zealand, India, Russia, Africa (with an emphasis on Kenya), and the United Kingdom. This proceedings includes the following papers…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Needs
Jacobson, Robert L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Evidence is accumulating around the world that greatly increased access to higher education over the past two decades has come at a tremendous price--a severe decline in academic quality. Brief reports on the quality-quantity question and other major issues facing higher education in the world are presented. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1993
This document reviews progress in the nine high-populations countries towards the goal of Education for All (EFA). The nine countries are Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Since the Thailand conference in 1990, most countries have shown improvement with primary education increasing by over 40…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy
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