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Bajwa, Jaswant Kaur; Kidd, Sean; Abaim, Mulugeta; Knouzi, Ibtissem; Couto, Sidonia; McKenzie, Kwame – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2020
This paper describes how various community partners collaborated to design and implement a student-centred, trauma-informed educational program that addresses the personal and systemic barriers identified by refugees who are survivors of trauma as obstacles to accessing higher education, and consequently social inclusion, in Canada. This 14-week…
Descriptors: Trauma, Refugees, Student Centered Learning, Program Design
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Chow, Henry P.H. – Social Indicators Research, 2005
This article reports the findings from a questionnaire survey of university students' life satisfaction in Regina. The results demonstrated that a significant proportion of the 315 respondents were satisfied with their lives (N = 240, 76.2%). With regard to degree of satisfaction with different aspects of life, respondents expressed that they were…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Siblings, Multivariate Analysis, Life Satisfaction
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Michalos, Alex C. – 1981
After reviewing recent gerontological literature on satisfaction and happiness from the point of view of explanations by analysis of constituents, explanations by synthesis of correlates, and mixtures of these two types of explanations, the report describes results of a social survey of 392 Huron County (Ontario) rural residents over age 60. The…
Descriptors: Community Satisfaction, Economic Factors, Happiness, Health
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Schreiner, Laurie A. – About Campus, 2010
In the previous two issues of "About Campus," the author has described the national study of college-student thriving that she has conducted with her doctoral students at Azusa Pacific University over the past several years. Their validated and reliable 35-item Thriving Quotient has been administered to over 15,000 college students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
Knoop, Robert – 1987
Job dissatisfaction may manifest itself in frustration for the teacher and defense mechanisms for the employer. Previous research suggests that unfulfilled needs, goals, and value expectations, as well as the lack of achievement of outcomes, account for job dissatisfaction. Other variables include demography, disillusionment with life, lack of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction
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Ryan, Thomas G.; Schruder, Courtney R.; Robinson, Stephanie – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
Our investigation of axiology (study of values) allowed us to ascertain a hierarchy of values of pre-service education students concurrently enrolled in two degree programs. We discovered homogeneity which may be a consequence of the discipline (education) investigated and/or sampling, as 87% were female, which reflected the female dominance of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Values, Student Surveys