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Huo, Yan; Xie, Jin; Althof, Wolfgang – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
This explorative study is concerned with the issue of establishing a two-dimensional "mechanism" of moral education, relating to: (1) connections and continuity from primary to high school (vertical dimension); and (2) collaborations between parents-teachers-community-government (horizontal dimension). We use a primary school and a high…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Values Education, Elementary School Students
Yu, Patricia; Chen, Yu-Chieh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
After higher education expansion in the private sector and technical college system starting in 1985, students' opportunities to attend four-year institutions in Taiwan are increasing. This study extends Cabrera and La Nasa's model of student college choice to examine not only choices of institutional types but choices of college pathways after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Choice, Social Class, Social Bias
Cheung, Chau-Kiu; Yue, Xiao Dong – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
As youth's national identity or adopting the nation as the identity is a public concern, arranging them to study in school and know about national culture and history is a supposed strategy. However, critics contend that the study is boring, unintellectual, and thus detrimental. To resolve the controversy over the study, this empirical study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Self Concept, Self Esteem
Wang, Jing; Rao, Nirmala – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Although differences in academic motivation may exist across cultures, research on academic motivational goals has been Western-focused and relied on Western originated questionnaire. There is a dearth of studies adopting bottom-up, emic, and in-depth approaches to explore East Asian students' academic motivation. This study describes Chinese…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes, Social Status
Liu, Dongfang; Ku, Heng-Yu; Morgan, Thomas Lee – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
The condition of poverty is pervasive worldwide and is multifaceted in its ability to have a deleterious generational impact. Although China has greatly reduced the proportion of people living in abject poverty over the past three decades, there are still millions of families living in extreme poverty. This study investigated the influences of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Environment, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement
Howard, Jocelyn – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
As New Zealand has become increasingly pluralistic, the teaching profession has become progressively less reflective of the wider population. This paper reviews the literature on impediments to teaching for minority students, and reports on a case study exploring factors that deter Asian New Zealanders from pursuing teaching as a career. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, Foreign Countries
Koirala-Azad, Shabnam – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2008
This paper is based on a participatory research project with four Nepali high school students. This study provides analyses and perspectives of the "insiders", unlike most research on higher education, which is produced through the government. These student testimonies not only expose some of the deep inequalities in educational quality…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities