Social mobility for girls born into poverty in Peoria, Illinois, seems nearly impossible. The social genome model suggests five strong starts and ten dimensions for children to achieve middle-class status. The dimensions are difficult and, in most cases, impossible for children …
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This applied research in education was undertaken within the context of a school mentoring programme, where my role as a mentor researcher is directed at promoting change in teacher pedagogy consistent with junior-high school educational reforms in Israel. The purpose of this st…
Many studies evidence the importance of metacognition in successful learning. Metacognitive skills improve the academic outcomes of learners. Additionally, metacognitive skills build lifelong learning skills, which are transferable to employment and other contexts. As such, deve…
Judgments of Learning (JOLs) are judgments of the likelihood of remembering recently studied material on a future test. Although JOLs have been extensively studied, particularly due to their important applications in education, relatively little is known about the cognitive and …
The concept of metamemory proposes that supplementary to typically measured memory abilities, memory monitoring and control processes are used to optimise learning. Accurate memory monitoring appears to be underpinned by a range of cognitive, and possibly affective, contribution…
Internal rhetoric describes how individuals engage in self-persuasion. Jean Nienkamp developed a theory of internal rhetoric by drawing on both the rhetorical tradition and the field of psychology. I build on Nienkamp's work by arguing that the Christian meditative practice outl…
Uluslararası çalışma alanlarının temel konularından biri olan kültürlerarası yönetim, Kültürel Zekâ kavramının ortaya çıkmasına sebep olmuştur. Kültürel farklılıklar gösteren ortamlarda bilgi sahibi olma, farkındalık ve bulunulan kültürlerarası ortama uyum sağlayarak etkin ileti…