Search results for "academic"

The balancing act of combining school and football in the transition from a non-professional club into junior-elite academy football

2021

Football players in the transition from junior-to-senior are usually involved in dual careers, combining school and football – a process that makes them dependent on a holistic talent-development journey. The aim of the current study was to describe how male junior elite football players (N=10; 5=living at home, 5=living away from home) perceived stressors in the transition from a non-professional club into a junior elite academy. Furthermore, the school transition (between lower- and upper-secondary school) and social transition (based on the school and football transitions) as a consequence of the football transition into academy football. Based on Wylleman and Lavallee’s (2004) and Stamb…

La docencia de Estadística en el Grado de Psicología: una experiencia de colaboración interdisciplinar con la asignatura de Psicología Social del Tra…

2011

Se presenta una experiencia de innovación docente fundamentada en la colaboración interdisciplinar entre los estudiantes y profesores de dos asignaturas de la titulación de Psicología de la Universitat de València: Estadística y Psicología Social del Trabajo. De acuerdo a la valoración de los propios estudiantes y de los profesores, esta experiencia ha tenido un efecto positivo en el aprendizaje de los contenidos de ambas asignaturas, a la vez que un importante papel motivador para los estudiantes, estimulándoles a valorar la estadística como una parte integral del proceso de investigación y como un elemento importante de su formación.

Forms of Social Support and Foreign Language Attainment: The Mediating Effect of Gender

2013

This chapter analyzes the relationship between adolescents’ social support network and L2 achievement, as mediated by gender. The main sources of social support for teenagers are their families, peers and teachers, with whom they interact most frequently. These three groups play a buffering role between stress and psychological well-being by helping teenagers cope with adverse challenges (Demaray et al. 2009). Empirical studies on social support demonstrate that gender is an important factor, with female adolescents perceiving higher levels of support from the three groups (Bokhorst et al. 2010). Also, in the situation of stress caused by the necessity to learn a foreign language as a compu…

El macabro vodevil de Copenhague

2010

Cross-lagged associations between problem behaviors and teacher-student relationships in early adolescence

2017

This study investigated the cross-lagged associations between teacher-student relationships and problem behaviors in a sample of 440 Finnish students (half of them identified as being at risk of reading difficulties). The degree to which these associations were moderated by a child’s gender, academic performance, risk for reading difficulties, parental education, and having the same teacher over 2 years was examined. The teachers evaluated the students’ problem behaviors and reported closeness and conflict with a particular student. The results showed that the higher the students scored on externalizing problems in Grade 4, the more conflict teachers reported 2 years later. Moderator analy…

Assessing the previous economic knowledge of beginning students in Germany: Implications for teaching economics in basic courses

2016

Study-related prior knowledge plays a decisive role in business and economics degree courses. Prior knowledge has a significant influence on knowledge acquisition in higher education, and teachers need information on it to plan their introductory courses accordingly. Very few studies have been conducted of first-year students’ prior economic knowledge or differences among students in such knowledge. In this article, the prior economic knowledge and the influence of personal factors on first-year students’ prior economic knowledge are examined. For this purpose, an adaptation of the fourth, revised edition of the American Test of Economic Literacy was administered, which was adapted in 2014…

Towards a theory of transnational academic capitalism

2013

This article draws attention to the relative lack of theoretically and methodologically elaborated approaches to understand and explain the complex relations between transnationalization of higher education and globalization seen especially from the point of view of global capitalism. The main aim of this article is to contribute to the construction of a theory of transnational academic capitalism (TAC). A theory of TAC argues that those networks, practices and activities that are blurring the boundaries between higher education, markets and states are increasingly becoming transnational without supposing that this transformation implies that local and national levels are insignificant in s…

How Do French Junior Secondary Schools Operate ? Academic Achievement, Grading and Streaming of Students

1989

International audience; This paper is concerned with the operation of Junior Secondary Schools in France. Students' school careers have been analysed in three sequential and cumulative components: student progress in learning in the junior secondary school, student grading by teachers, and student streaming, i.e., admission, or not, into a general form 3. For each of the three mechanisms described above, the authors examine whether they are influenced by the schooling context, which schooling context (school and/or classroom), and which characteristics of those contexts it is relevant to consider. Finally, they focus on the process by which the large social inequalities visible after the pu…

Pour une écriture universitaire polymorphe : la transcription de héros ordinaires en héros de bande dessinée

2018

During a workshop dedicated to adapting academic articles in comic form, the authors teamed up to produce four pages based on an article written by Sebastien Laffage-Cosnier, which was published in Society and Leisure (Volume 38, 2015 – Issue 3) ntitled “The French Snow Class: How the Focus of a School Innovation Changed from Physical Education to Academic Learning (1953–1981)”. The drawings on the following pages are the result of this common work, the process of which is described by the creators. This experience was also an opportunity to further their reflections on the process of academic writing in comics, which, although marginal, is gathering more and more attention from academics a…

¿De las carreras organizacionales a las carreras “sin fronteras”? El caso del profesorado de la Universidad de Valencia

2018

Se aborda esta cuestión a partir del examen de las trayectorias individuales del profesorado de una universidad pública de España en los últimos cuarenta años desde una perspectiva neoinstitucional. Las investigaciones son insuficientes para dirimir si los inicios hasta la consecución de la permanencia han tenido lugar bajo vías ordenadas o bajo vías poco o nada organizadas y en este caso, si el fenómeno es reciente. La hipótesis es que los inicios se han hecho más indeterminados con la proliferación de vías, aunque siguen desarrollándose de manera pautada para la mayoría del profesorado. El examen se efectúa a partir de los datos disponibles del profesorado permanente que permiten identifi…