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Hook, Courtney – Communication Teacher, 2021
Courses: Interpersonal Communication, Gender and Communication, Communication and Technology. Objective: This activity utilizes a modern dating application to bring lessons of identity constructions to life through an analysis of online dating profiles.
Descriptors: Social Media, Dating (Social), Identification (Psychology), Computer Mediated Communication
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Maguire, Alanna – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2021
Mathematics, when viewed as a subject to be studied, is a long-established polarising discipline; people's feelings are always passionate and deeply rooted in their identity. Self-identified 'maths people' may end up in careers driven by their fascination with numbers; engineers, architects, analysts, whilst those on the opposite end of the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Identification (Psychology), Mathematics Education, Elementary School Teachers
Arnold, Megan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The fraternity and sorority experience has been well-documented in the media, research, and popular culture. Proponents of membership insist upon its positive impact and value, while critics question the continued presence of fraternities and sororities on college campuses. Critical analysis of these organizations is essential to move them forward…
Descriptors: Fraternities, Sororities, Sexual Identity, Student Experience
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Hongrui Liu; Yuxuan Liu; Meiling Yao – School Mental Health, 2024
The purpose of this study was to address the role of social comparison in determining individual development by exploring the relationship of four types of social comparison with academic persistence-procrastination and subjective well-being among Chinese adolescents (n = 530, M[subscript age] = 14.59) from both variable- and person-centered…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Individual Development, Correlation
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Johanna S. Quinn; E. Danielle Roberts; Wei-Lin Chen; Rachael Doubledee; Jennifer Brown Urban; Miriam R. Linver – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
This paper focuses on data from a study of middle- to upper-middle class Scottish S2 ([approximately]seventh grade) students who participated in Inspiring Purpose, a school-based character development program, during the 2016 to 2017 school year. Directed by their teachers, participating youth reflected on values and future aspirations and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Middle School Students, Grade 7
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Marinica, Bianca V.; Negru-Subtirica, Oana – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2020
Volunteering can be a means of identity development in emerging adulthood and it can provide a protective environment for vocational identity formation. The aims of our study were two-fold: (1) to investigate vocational identity statuses of student emerging adult volunteers (N = 385, 75.1% females) and (2) to analyze how these statuses are linked…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Identification (Psychology), Professional Identity, Occupations
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Li, Citing; Li, Wendong – Frontiers of Education in China, 2020
This paper reports the results of a review of 33 journal articles chosen from 87 empirical studies on learner identity in Chinese as a foreign/second language (CFL/CSL) education, published during the years 2005-2019. By analyzing the co-occurrence of keywords in these Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journal articles, this review identifies…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Identification (Psychology), Social Influences
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Brockman, Amanda J.; Naphan-Kingery, Dara E.; Pitt, Richard N. – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2022
Purpose: While science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) postdoctoral scholars often enter their positions with strong science identities, racially marginalized scholars are often not treated as scientists, which can weaken their science identities. This study aims to examine how racial discrimination negatively affects their science…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Racial Discrimination, Postdoctoral Education, Identification (Psychology)
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Miller Marsh, Monica; Mariyam, Mustary; Durant, Kathleen; Zhulamanova, Ilfa – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2022
Preschool teachers have a responsibility to create a sense of belonging for all children and families in their classroom community. Utilizing a funds of identity approach, this study examines how one preschool teacher uncovered the resources emergent bilingual children brought with them from home into school. She used this knowledge to…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Bilingual Students, Sense of Community, Preschool Teachers
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Park, Eun Sung; Lee, Heekyeong – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Over the past two decades, a growing number of school-aged North Koreans have migrated to South Korea. Studies examining their adjustment to South Korean schools have shown that these students face numerous challenges, particularly due to their struggles with English. Such studies have mostly regarded North Korean students as an underprivileged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialects, Pronunciation, Refugees
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Curwood, Jen Scott; Jones, Katelyn – Literacy, 2022
Spoken word poetry encourages youth to engage in identity construction, resist oppression and construct counternarratives. Through participating in community-based slams, school workshops and online events, young people can take part in visible activism through exploring their own identity, power and agency and seeing themselves as change agents.…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Poetry, Activism, Identification (Psychology)
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Liu, Haoran; Sammons, Pamela – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
Marketisation has brought complex changes to the education sector that have become a concern both in the literature and among the public. However, few studies have empirically investigated how private school teachers' professional identities might differ from those of state school teachers. This study compares how 16 teachers in two state schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Professional Identity, Public Schools
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Park, Mi Yung – Language Awareness, 2022
This study explores how North Korean refugees in South Korea navigate different ideologies about language and construct their own language ideologies and identities while adjusting to and learning a new variety of Korean. Drawing on interviews with four North Korean refugees, the study finds that they have suffered from stigmatization because of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Ideology, Language Usage
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Rosenfeld, Itamar; Yemini, Miri; Mamlok, Dan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
In the context of global mobility research, this study explores agency and identity formation among mid-career teachers who travel abroad to experience teaching in a new country. We conducted in-depth interviews with 16 Israeli teachers and examined their retrospective narratives of their teaching experience. Our findings reveal a complex nexus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Itinerant Teachers, Foreign Workers, International Programs
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Fellus, Olga; Low, David E.; Guzman, Lynette D.; Kasman, Alex; Mason, Ralph – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2022
We use a multi-dimensional identity theory to examine how children's picturebooks present discourses about what mathematics is and what doing mathematics means. In our critical content analysis of twenty-four picturebooks, we found four recurring hidden messages that frame mathematical ability as preternatural; as having a magic eye; as doing…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Mathematics Instruction, Identification (Psychology), Stereotypes
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