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Leading service-learning in management education: a framework

The adoption of Service-Learning in higher education institutions has emerged as one of the contemporary teaching and learning methodologies. In these contexts, cooperation processes implemented between institutions of higher education and non-profit organizations turn out to be mutually beneficial. Despite the high volume of research on the adoption of Service-Learning, research is scarce on the role of Servic...

Leading service-learning in management education: a framework

The adoption of Service-Learning in higher education institutions has emerged as one of the contemporary teaching and learning methodologies. In these contexts, cooperation processes implemented between institutions of higher education and non-profit organizations turn out to be mutually beneficial. Despite the high volume of research on the adoption of Service-Learning, research is scarce on the role of Servic...

Happiness in school organizations: the role of leadership (a scoping review)

Introduction: Educational organizations are increasingly concerned with students’ well-being and happiness in order to improve the quality of learning and promote the sustainability of teaching. Literature has shown that teacher happiness is related to students’ happiness and contributes to better academic performance, greater motivation and psychological well-being. In an increasingly uncertain, unpredictable ...

Teachers’ and parents’ perceptions on desired and practised school mission: ali...

School leadership models emphasize the importance of leadership devoting time to the creation of a shared school mission, as a strategy for school effectiveness. This paper focuses on teachers’ and parents’ perceptions of the desired and practised school mission, considering the following dimensions: i) scientific and technological; ii) civic; iii) social and emotional; iv) vocational; v) physical. 3284 teacher...

Can motivation and intentions of parental support predict musical achievement b...

Admission procedures to elementary school in Music Conservatoires in Portugal consist in the assessment of aural aptitude. This investigation aims at assessing the power of aural aptitude at predicting future musical achievement as well as the assessment of two other variables for the same purpose: motivation and intentions of parental support. For that matter, our sample includes the cohort of the admitted can...

Significados e impacto das experiências de aprendizagem-serviço: perspetivas de...

Creating mindful heroes: a case study with ninth grade students

The Heroic Imagination Project (HIP) aims to redefine heroism as a set of habits that anyone can achieve. Research findings on the psychological foundations of negative forms of social influence that can lead to bystander behavior are translated into tools that individuals can use in their daily lives. Habits of wise and effective helping behavior are learned, modeled, and encouraged through the training of the...

Mapping pilgrims’ experience of walking the Saint James way through the lens of...

The Way of St. James is a very well-known and ancient pilgrimage, with various routes leading pilgrims to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where the remains of Saint James are buried. Over the last few years, the experience of the pilgrimage and the growing number of pilgrims walking the Saint James Way have been attracting researchers’ attention. However, studies attempting to understand the p...

Educating for the sustainable development goals through service-learning: unive...

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived impact of a Service-Learning (SL) experience titled “Educating for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” at the Porto campus of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), in which 15 university students from different programs were challenged to train other students about the SDGs. The main aim of the SL project was to raise awareness about the SDGs among the...

Musical achievement during a lockdown: the parental support miracle

The quality of parental support is recognized as a crucial factor in the early stages of a student’s development, and particularly in instrumental music education. At the start of 2020, the outbreak of a global pandemic crisis posed new and unprecedented challenges to education, forcing families to stay at home to prevent contagion. This investigation was conducted during the period of a COVID pandemic lockdown...