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Sherif, Victoria – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
Although youth leadership has been well described within the literature, the dearth of theoretically derived models that specifically reflect ethics and comprehensive nature of youth development still remains. The purpose of this article is to synthesize the existing youth leadership research and theories of personality development to propose a…
Descriptors: Youth Leaders, Personality Development, Personality Theories, Ethics
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Geukes, Katharina; van Zalk, Maarten; Back, Mitja D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
While personality is relatively stable over time, it is also subject to change across the entire lifespan. On a macro-analytical level, empirical research has identified patterns of normative and differential development that are affected by biological and environmental factors, specific life events, and social role investments. On a…
Descriptors: Personality Development, Models, Individual Differences, Objectives
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Murray, Andrew – Schools: Studies in Education, 2016
Much of the professional development offered to school teachers centers on quantifiable aspects of teaching and learning that correlate to external inspection processes. Insufficient attention is given to the student-teacher relationship and the dynamics contained within; in more "challenging" schools, this is central to the progress of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Student Relationship, Reflective Teaching
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James, Chris; James, Jane; Potter, Ian – School Leadership & Management, 2017
An adult ego development (AED) perspective accepts that the way adults interpret and interact in the social world can change during their life-span. This article seeks to analyse the validity and potential of AED for enhancing understandings of educational leadership practice and development. We analysed the AED literature and interviewed 16…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership, Cognitive Structures, Personality Development
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White, Robert; Shin, Tae Seob – Multicultural Education Review, 2017
Character Education initiatives within schools have gained both proponents and opponents over recent years and continue to garner mixed reviews. Proponents argue that the need is urgent and the increasing level of school disruption, antisocial behavior and violence requires a focus on values/virtues/moral education and claim this is synonymous…
Descriptors: Values Education, Prosocial Behavior, Humanism, Humanistic Education
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Clark, Shelby; Seider, Scott – Journal of College and Character, 2014
In this article, the authors describe the experiences of five cadets and college students serving as camp leaders for the United States Air Force Academy's (USAFA) Leaders of Character Camp (LoCC). Additionally, they describe the work in which three other universities are engaged to adapt the LoCC model to their own university contexts. In so…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Values Education, Military Service, Student Leadership
Chatmon, Chris; Gray, Richard – Voices in Urban Education, 2015
African American males are three times more likely than their White male counterparts to be suspended or expelled in public schools. Changing these odds requires not only addressing disparities in discipline practices, but also lifting up a new narrative of hope, possibility, and brilliance so that young Black men can see and realize their…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, African American Achievement, Educational Change
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Mulvaney, Matthew Keefe – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
According to the narrative perspective on personality development, personality is constructed largely by interpreting and representing experience in story format (scripts) over the course of the lifespan. The focus of this paper is to describe briefly the narrative perspective on personality development during childhood and adolescence, to discuss…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Development, Child Development, Young Children
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Thompson, Carol C. – Educational Forum, 2012
Non-formal learning for urban youth has a long history in the United States; it remains a source of innovation. This essay draws on literature about organizations that use community ties to encourage cognitive development and identity formation. It then describes how one youth organization in Camden, New Jersey uses presentations to the community…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Cognitive Development, Nonformal Education, Personality Development
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Frengley-Vaipuna, Ingrid; Kupu-MacIntyre, Lesieli; Riley, Tracy – Kairaranga, 2011
This article outlines the use of Gagne's (2008) Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT) as applied to Tongan secondary school students in New Zealand. Two case studies of Tongan young women are shared with a particular emphasis on the influence of catalysts, the chance factor, and developmental processes upon the development of their…
Descriptors: Gifted, Talent, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Pearl, Joseph H. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1984
Suggests a resolution to the apparent conflict between the Freudian and humanistic/transpersonal views of human nature. Presents a model which allows for the fulfillment of Freud's desire to account for both the life and death instincts as manifestations of a tendency to restore an earlier state of things. (LLL)
Descriptors: Evolution, Humanism, Models, Personality Development
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Fredericks, Marcel; Odiet, Jeff A.; Miller, Steven I.; Fredericks, Janet – Education, 2004
In this research, we have demonstrated that a new subdiscipline in the field of Medical Sociology is urgently needed to integrate, interpret, and synthesize the interrelationships and implications of genetic discoveries, treatments, and prognoses upon societal behavior. That subdiscipline in our view is "Genetic Sociology."We applied the…
Descriptors: Personality Development, Personality, Sociology, Engineering
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Zender, M. A.; Zender, B. F. – Human Development, 1974
This translation of an article by Vygotsky traces the major theories of periodization and evaluates these views of child development. In addition, he advances his theory of periodization that is based upon the development of the child's personality. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Models
Herman, William E.; Herman, Bryan K.; Sanatullova-Allison, Elvira – Online Submission, 2007
This paper employed a psychological-historical framework for an analytical examination of the Russian identity during the Soviet period through the fall of the Soviet Union and the transitional period that led to an establishment of the Russian Federation. A theoretical model is provided for the analysis of Russian identity that can be generalized…
Descriptors: European History, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Values
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Haronian, Frank – Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1975
A psychosynthetic model of personality was presented as well as several inferences for an eclectic but systematic approach to psychotherapy which embraces a variety of methods, can be ordered in a reasonable sequence, and used within a therapist-client relationship which is existentially structured. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Definitions, Humanism, Models, Personality Development
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