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Relationships Between Self-Processes And Group Processes With Friends And Acquaintances, Jose Hanham, John M. Mccormick
Relationships Between Self-Processes And Group Processes With Friends And Acquaintances, Jose Hanham, John M. Mccormick
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
This preliminary study explored relationships between key self-processes, specifically, independent vs. interdependent self-construal and self-efficacy, with students' attitudes toward group work with friends and acquaintances. The sample comprised 188 students from two Independent high schools in metropolitan Sydney, Australia. Data were collected using a self-report questionnaire, and analysed using exploratory factor analysis and multiple regression analysis. Of the two sets of self-beliefs, self-construal and selfefficacy, the latter was more strongly related to students' attitudes toward cooperation. Furthermore, there was support for a "flow-on" effect in which self-efficacy developed in the friendship context generalised to the acquaintance context.
Using A Sensemaking Approach To Explore Interrelationships Between Policy And Practice, Barbra Mckenzie
Using A Sensemaking Approach To Explore Interrelationships Between Policy And Practice, Barbra Mckenzie
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Increasingly the literature concerning change to schooling systems tends to use language more readily associated with that of business. Several researchers (Vinson, 2001; Hargreaves & Fullan, 1998; Fullan, 1999) warn of the shift from earlier views of education, towards a more recent perception that appears to consider education as a type of marketable commodity. Increasingly we are moving into a climate where schools are compared to business organizations, where the language of business and terms like knowledge economy (DEST, 2003:1) and middle managers (Fullan, 1999:16) are becoming more commonplace to describe the role of the modern school in society. This …