Academic resilience is defined as the ability to effectively deal with setback, stress or pressure in the academic setting. Although there is a large body of research focusing on general or life resilience, there has been little research into the issue of academic resilience. This paper utilises the Student Motivation Wheel (Martin, 2003a, 2003b) as a basis for conceptualising academic resilien...

The Programme in International Student Assessment (PISA) has become the prominent method of international comparison achievement 15-year-old children reading, mathematics, and science. Recently, OECD, which administers PISA, devoted a great deal energy promoting notion “academic resilience”—which refers to capacity individuals prosper despite encountering adverse circumstances. Countries are co...

Currently, one of the loci communes economic history is that New Deal was right cocktail state-mandated policies to pull US economy out Great Depression begun in 1929. The relevance this interpretation has increased tremendously since crisis 2008 many compare with There a quasi-general demand for new Deal. This view contended by Austrian School Economics and other free-market oriented thinkers....

The absence of women among academic staff in physics is the focus our research. To explore causes this gender imbalance, we conducted a nationwide representative survey Ph.D. students and interviews with postdoctoral fellows. Studying both context factors agency, reveal multiple hidden ways which operates as power structure, putting up barriers to women's careers. This latent structure influenc...