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'Friends and grades': Peer preference and attachment predict academic success among Naskapi youth 5 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
The primary findings of this study are preliminary support for the promotive effects of positive peer relations in an educational context with a specific group of First Nations adolescents. Eighty-one...
Coping with natural disasters in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A study of elementary school teachers 5 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
The nation of Indonesia is in an area of geological instability, resulting in repeated and severe natural disasters including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Teachers, as adult authorit...
Self-concepts and educational outcomes of Indigenous Australian students in urban and rural school settings 5 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
Indigenous Australians have been known to be disadvantaged in many ways although higher art and physical self-concepts have been reported with Indigenous samples. Given recent research demonstrating t...
Bi-cultural Aotearoa/New Zealand: Provision of psychological services to the Maori population of rural New Zealand: Combining best practice with cultu... 5 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
New Zealand is considered a bi-cultural country with both the majority European and the minority/indigenous Maori cultures are supposedly given equal weight within the psyche and policies of the count...
Cultural models of education and academic performance for Native American and European American students 5 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
We examined the role of cultural representations of self (i.e., interdependence and independence) and positive relationships (i.e., trust for teachers) in academic performance (i.e., self-reported gra...
They own this: Mother tongue instruction for indigenous Kuku Children in Southern Sudan 5 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
This article details a pilot program of mother tongue instruction in five primary schools for classes one through three, in Kajokeji County, Central Equatoria State, South Sudan. The program was launc...
Correlates of teachers' ways of handling bullying 22 May 2013 | 04:23 pm
Aggressive behaviors in schools and bullying behaviors amongst children are a serious problem in the school context. As a consequence of an aggressive atmosphere in the classroom, learning processes a...
Parental involvement and the academic achievement and social functioning of Cuban school children 22 May 2013 | 04:23 pm
The goal of the current study was to investigate whether parental involvement is an important predictor of student outcomes within the Cuban school system, where extensive support for pupils’ progress...
The effects of autonomy support versus psychological control and work engagement versus academic burnout on adolescents' use of avoidance strategies 22 May 2013 | 04:23 pm
This study examines the relationships among Taiwanese ninth graders’ perceptions of autonomy support versus psychological control in the classroom context, work engagement versus academic burnout, and...
Characteristics of effective schools in facing and reducing bullying 22 May 2013 | 04:23 pm
This article examines whether variation in school effectiveness in terms of reducing bullying can be attributed to differences in their classroom and school learning environment. All 6th grade student...
