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Empathy for others' suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Empathy is a complex cognitive and affective process that allows humans to experience concern for others, comprehend their emotions, and eventually help them.
Báez Buitrago, Sandra Jimena   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

Pathways to employment: Subject choice, job requirements, and early employment outcomes for UK undergraduates

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions ...
Sarah Pemberton
wiley   +1 more source

Food banks in schools in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country.
William Baker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

School corporal punishment in global perspective: prevalence, outcomes, and efforts at intervention

open access: yesPsychology, Health & Medicine, 2017
School corporal punishment continues to be a legal means of disciplining children in a third of the world’s countries. Although much is known about parents’ use of corporal punishment, there is less research about school corporal punishment. This article
E. Gershoff
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How does dialogic teaching facilitate students' creative thinking? Evidence from a sequential analysis of teacher–student dialogue in primary language classrooms

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Dialogic teaching has been shown to be beneficial for students' learning and achievement. However, few studies have investigated how dialogic teaching may foster students' creative thinking in the classroom. This study examined the sequential patterns of classroom dialogue associated with students' creative thinking.
Yang Tao, Deliang Wang, Gaowei Chen
wiley   +1 more source

How can welfare regime and production regime theories explain differences in schools’ ability grouping policies? A comparative study using the PISA school survey

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Criminality and its Psychological Features

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2012
Preventing and fighting crime preoccupied and concerned humanity along its history. This concernis fully justified because the crime is serious harm of the human interests, endangering fundamental valuesand it is affecting the proper functioning of the ...
George Dorel Popa, Carmen Mariana Neagu
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The Historical, Jurisprudential, and Empirical Wisdom of Parental Responsibility Laws [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The parent-child relationship is woven deep within historical and contemporary culture, but strong retributive ideals have led to blaming parents because of their presumed vicarious role in juvenile crime.
Brank, Eve M., Scott, Leroy
core   +1 more source

To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

New Zealand families: Child-rearing practices and attitudes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Traditionally, the study of families has been the domain of sociology rather than of psychology. For sociologists the family is an important ‘institution’ because it is a key social structure that shapes the way society is organised.
Ritchie, Jane
core   +1 more source

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