Roger Boshier
Biographic Data
| ID | 5167230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Boshier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Boshier |
| SIGNATURE | BOSHIER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Learning cities: Fake news or the real deal
An increasing number of mayors are adding ‘learning’ to traditional city responsibility for sewers, roads, parks, garbage and dog-catching. However, just like in the 1970s, there is uncertainty about what is meant by ‘learning’ and considerable variance embedded in the notion of ‘city’. Some Learning City advocates look to UNESCO’s Faure and Delors reports for advice on how to interest citizens in learning in informal, nonformal and formal settin…
Chinese students speak about their favourite teachers and university reform
China is trying to develop better outcomes for students, build world-class institutions and ascend global university rankings. Beijing also wants to jettison the notion it is the workshop of the world and embrace a culture of innovation. Peter Jarvis thinks the world would be a better place if ordinary people were given convivial spaces wherein they can learn and play together. But discourse constructing Chinese universities hardly ever concerns …
More Important Than Guns: Chinese Adult Education After the Long March
Without adult education, there would have been no Communist government in China. Once the Long March arrived in Yan’an, Mao and Communist leaders used adult education in informal and nonformal settings to build momentum for revolution. This article analyzes the theory and practice of adult education during the Yan’an “golden years” (1936—1939) of Chinese communism. Data were derived from interviews in Yan’an and close analysis of writings by fore…
Building for the future by expatiating the past: High drama from the summit of China’s learning mountain
As part of a large‐scale learning initiative, the Chinese Communist Party has declared Lushan to be a ‘learning mountain’. There have been people learning at Lushan Mountain for 2000 years. In 1959 there was a Central Committee meeting at Lushan, where Mao Zedong purged his widely respected comrade Peng Dehuai for daring to say people were starving because of the Great Leap Forward. Everyone knew Peng spoke the truth but few dared antagonize the …
How Much Do Multicultural Residents of Greater Vancouver Know About the Internet
Vancouver high school honors and university award lists are crowded with Asian names. But do these abilities in face-to-face settings extend to the Internet, which is the centerpiece of distributed learning? The purpose of this study was to measure the extent to which Internet knowledge varied as a function of age, sex, and language spoken at home. An Internet Quiz was administered to 3,537 residents in Greater Vancouver. Those who spoke English …
Lifelong learning as bungy jumping: In New Zealand what goes down doesn't always come up
From 1984 until 1999, New Zealand's economic ‘reforms’ were a model for others, particularly Canadians. At the centre of this model was lifelong learning which bore little relationship to the social democratic ethos embedded in Faure Report conceptions of lifelong education. In New Zealand, lifelong learning slept in the same bed as the ‘marketization’ of education. The radical excesses of the New Zealand Experiment might have ended with the Dece…
Lifelong education and the World Wide Web: American hegemony or diverse utopia
The notion of network lay at the centre of Illich's and Faure's 1970s proposals concerning lifelong education. Today, the World Wide Web dramatically exemplifies many features of lifelong education and is a metaphor for the learning society. The problem is that most sites are in the US and Web course architects are prone to include a large number of links back to the US Cultural ideas about what is good and bad and the way the world should be org…
Futuristic Metropolis or Second-rate Port? Adult education in Hong Kong before and after 1997
Despite China's assurances about 'one country, two systems', adult education in Hong Kong is in for some big changes. This paper maps the present adult education landscape, reviews research, posits four scenarios concerning the future and identifies challenges to be faced by adult educators in Hong Kong after 1997. Returning Hong Kong to the bosom of a Maoist, MarxistLeninist state is not necessarily good news for Marxist adult educators. Functio…
Socio‐psychological factors in electronic networking
(1990). Socio‐psychological factors in electronic networking. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 49-64
Proaction for a change: Some guidelines for the future
Education Participation Scale Factor Structure and Socio‐Demographic Correlates for 12 000 Learners
(1983). Education Participation Scale Factor Structure and Socio‐Demographic Correlates for 12 000 Learners. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 163-177
Relationship between Motives for Participation in and Dropout from Adult Education
The relationship between motives for participation in and dropout from adult education courses was examined by relating factorially derived motivation scores to an index of dropout-persistence. Of the eight motivation factors identified only one was significantly associated with dropout. It was argued that dropout from adult education stems from a complex interaction of psychological and environmental variables and that single-variable correlatio…
Does Conviction Affect Employment Opportunities
ROGER BOSHIER, DEREK JOHNSON; DOES CONVICTION AFFECT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES?, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 14, Issue 3, 1 July 1974, Pages
Do Conservative Parents Nurture Conservative Children
To test the notion (derived from early studies with the F -scale and the TFI scale) that conservative parents nurture conservative offspring (and that liberal parents nurture liberal offspring) the modified Conservatism scale was administered to a sample of New Zealand• schoolchildren and their parents. Conservatism/liberalism in parents is associated with the presence of similar attitudes in their children. The greatest attitudinal similarities …
Pervasive Nature of Conservative Social Attitudes
With a random sample of New Zealand adults, conservatives were in general not more or less inclined than liberals to like/dislike a number of food and other stimulus objects that had previously been linked to the possession of high and low self-esteem. The results provide construct validation of the Conservatism scale
Do Conservative Parents Use Harsh Child-Rearing Practices
Authoritarian personality researchers (1 ) hypothesized that the way in which parents attempt to control child behaviour is both an antecedent and consequent of authoritarianism. Previously established correlations between the Parental Attitude Research Inventory and Fscale scores ( 6 ) are now in doubt because of criticisms levelled at the F-scale concerning acquiescence response set ( 4 ) . The present study was designed to re-test the relation…
Birth Order and Conservatism: An Adlerian Myth
To test Adler's suggestion that firstborn people are more conservative than later borns, a sample of Teachers' College students, and a second sample of adult education participants, completed a valid and reliable measure of conservatism. Adler's contention was not borne out
Self-Regarding Attitudes: A Bibliography
The notion of self and self concept, after a demise for part of this century in the behaviourist graveyard, has resumed a prominent place in psychology. This is apparent from the frequency of research reports using some notion of self appearing in psychological and education journals, from reviews of research literature such as Wylie (1961), the advancement of theoretical notions (such as Diggory, 1966) and the use by people outside of academia o…
Semantic Differential Response Bias in Psychopathic, Delinquent, and Normal Boys
To test the notion that extreme responding on Semantic Differential scales is related to maladjustment 3 groups of 12-yr.-old boys rated socially meaningful Semantic Differential Concepts. A psychopathic delinquent and non-psychopathic delinquent group checked the neutral space more frequently than a control “normal” group
Changes in Semantic Differential Responses over Two Years
Semantic differential scales with high loadings on the evaluation, activity and potency factors were administered twice to 54 12- to 15-yr.-old boys with an interval of 2 yr. between administrations. Semantic ratings varied in a negative direction at a significant level but variability of responses did not diminish to the degree found previously in younger children
Factor Scores and Reliabilities of Some Semantic Differential Concepts High in n Achievement or n Affiliation Motivational Content
Reliability, motivational content, and factor score data on 18 frequently used Semantic Differential concepts were obtained and are presented
Academic Success and Self Concept
To test a suggestion that academic success is related to self concept, product-moment correlations between ‘final’ exam marks and Bills Index of Adjustment scores were obtained. The IAV did not differentiate between superior, average, and failing students
Self Esteem and First Names in Children
The view that people who dislike their first names tend to be less self accepting than people who like their first names has been expressed in a number of publications (1, 6). One writer (3 ) suggests that the importance assigned to one's name declines with the end of school. But because of a paucity of self-esteem measures for children and a lack of equivalence between existing measures, the relationship is by no means certain. Coopersmith ( 2 )…
Does Conviction Affect Employment Opportunities
ROGER BOSHIER, DEREK JOHNSON; DOES CONVICTION AFFECT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES?, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 14, Issue 3, 1 July 1974, Pages
Education Participation Scale Factor Structure and Socio‐Demographic Correlates for 12 000 Learners
(1983). Education Participation Scale Factor Structure and Socio‐Demographic Correlates for 12 000 Learners. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 163-177
Lifelong learning as bungy jumping: In New Zealand what goes down doesn't always come up
From 1984 until 1999, New Zealand's economic ‘reforms’ were a model for others, particularly Canadians. At the centre of this model was lifelong learning which bore little relationship to the social democratic ethos embedded in Faure Report conceptions of lifelong education. In New Zealand, lifelong learning slept in the same bed as the ‘marketization’ of education. The radical excesses of the New Zealand Experiment might have ended with the Dece…
Socio‐psychological factors in electronic networking
(1990). Socio‐psychological factors in electronic networking. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 49-64
Proaction for a change: Some guidelines for the future
Learning cities: Fake news or the real deal
An increasing number of mayors are adding ‘learning’ to traditional city responsibility for sewers, roads, parks, garbage and dog-catching. However, just like in the 1970s, there is uncertainty about what is meant by ‘learning’ and considerable variance embedded in the notion of ‘city’. Some Learning City advocates look to UNESCO’s Faure and Delors reports for advice on how to interest citizens in learning in informal, nonformal and formal settin…
Chinese students speak about their favourite teachers and university reform
China is trying to develop better outcomes for students, build world-class institutions and ascend global university rankings. Beijing also wants to jettison the notion it is the workshop of the world and embrace a culture of innovation. Peter Jarvis thinks the world would be a better place if ordinary people were given convivial spaces wherein they can learn and play together. But discourse constructing Chinese universities hardly ever concerns …
Building for the future by expatiating the past: High drama from the summit of China’s learning mountain
As part of a large‐scale learning initiative, the Chinese Communist Party has declared Lushan to be a ‘learning mountain’. There have been people learning at Lushan Mountain for 2000 years. In 1959 there was a Central Committee meeting at Lushan, where Mao Zedong purged his widely respected comrade Peng Dehuai for daring to say people were starving because of the Great Leap Forward. Everyone knew Peng spoke the truth but few dared antagonize the …
Lifelong education and the World Wide Web: American hegemony or diverse utopia
The notion of network lay at the centre of Illich's and Faure's 1970s proposals concerning lifelong education. Today, the World Wide Web dramatically exemplifies many features of lifelong education and is a metaphor for the learning society. The problem is that most sites are in the US and Web course architects are prone to include a large number of links back to the US Cultural ideas about what is good and bad and the way the world should be org…
Academic Success and Self Concept
To test a suggestion that academic success is related to self concept, product-moment correlations between ‘final’ exam marks and Bills Index of Adjustment scores were obtained. The IAV did not differentiate between superior, average, and failing students
Self Esteem and First Names in Children
The view that people who dislike their first names tend to be less self accepting than people who like their first names has been expressed in a number of publications (1, 6). One writer (3 ) suggests that the importance assigned to one's name declines with the end of school. But because of a paucity of self-esteem measures for children and a lack of equivalence between existing measures, the relationship is by no means certain. Coopersmith ( 2 )…
Semantic Differential Response Bias in Psychopathic, Delinquent, and Normal Boys
To test the notion that extreme responding on Semantic Differential scales is related to maladjustment 3 groups of 12-yr.-old boys rated socially meaningful Semantic Differential Concepts. A psychopathic delinquent and non-psychopathic delinquent group checked the neutral space more frequently than a control “normal” group
Changes in Semantic Differential Responses over Two Years
Semantic differential scales with high loadings on the evaluation, activity and potency factors were administered twice to 54 12- to 15-yr.-old boys with an interval of 2 yr. between administrations. Semantic ratings varied in a negative direction at a significant level but variability of responses did not diminish to the degree found previously in younger children
Factor Scores and Reliabilities of Some Semantic Differential Concepts High in n Achievement or n Affiliation Motivational Content
Reliability, motivational content, and factor score data on 18 frequently used Semantic Differential concepts were obtained and are presented
Self-Regarding Attitudes: A Bibliography
The notion of self and self concept, after a demise for part of this century in the behaviourist graveyard, has resumed a prominent place in psychology. This is apparent from the frequency of research reports using some notion of self appearing in psychological and education journals, from reviews of research literature such as Wylie (1961), the advancement of theoretical notions (such as Diggory, 1966) and the use by people outside of academia o…
Birth Order and Conservatism: An Adlerian Myth
To test Adler's suggestion that firstborn people are more conservative than later borns, a sample of Teachers' College students, and a second sample of adult education participants, completed a valid and reliable measure of conservatism. Adler's contention was not borne out
Pervasive Nature of Conservative Social Attitudes
With a random sample of New Zealand adults, conservatives were in general not more or less inclined than liberals to like/dislike a number of food and other stimulus objects that had previously been linked to the possession of high and low self-esteem. The results provide construct validation of the Conservatism scale
Do Conservative Parents Use Harsh Child-Rearing Practices
Authoritarian personality researchers (1 ) hypothesized that the way in which parents attempt to control child behaviour is both an antecedent and consequent of authoritarianism. Previously established correlations between the Parental Attitude Research Inventory and Fscale scores ( 6 ) are now in doubt because of criticisms levelled at the F-scale concerning acquiescence response set ( 4 ) . The present study was designed to re-test the relation…
Do Conservative Parents Nurture Conservative Children
To test the notion (derived from early studies with the F -scale and the TFI scale) that conservative parents nurture conservative offspring (and that liberal parents nurture liberal offspring) the modified Conservatism scale was administered to a sample of New Zealand• schoolchildren and their parents. Conservatism/liberalism in parents is associated with the presence of similar attitudes in their children. The greatest attitudinal similarities …
Does Conviction Affect Employment Opportunities
ROGER BOSHIER, DEREK JOHNSON; DOES CONVICTION AFFECT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES?, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 14, Issue 3, 1 July 1974, Pages
Relationship between Motives for Participation in and Dropout from Adult Education
The relationship between motives for participation in and dropout from adult education courses was examined by relating factorially derived motivation scores to an index of dropout-persistence. Of the eight motivation factors identified only one was significantly associated with dropout. It was argued that dropout from adult education stems from a complex interaction of psychological and environmental variables and that single-variable correlatio…
Education Participation Scale Factor Structure and Socio‐Demographic Correlates for 12 000 Learners
(1983). Education Participation Scale Factor Structure and Socio‐Demographic Correlates for 12 000 Learners. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 163-177
Proaction for a change: Some guidelines for the future
Socio‐psychological factors in electronic networking
(1990). Socio‐psychological factors in electronic networking. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 49-64
Futuristic Metropolis or Second-rate Port? Adult education in Hong Kong before and after 1997
Despite China's assurances about 'one country, two systems', adult education in Hong Kong is in for some big changes. This paper maps the present adult education landscape, reviews research, posits four scenarios concerning the future and identifies challenges to be faced by adult educators in Hong Kong after 1997. Returning Hong Kong to the bosom of a Maoist, MarxistLeninist state is not necessarily good news for Marxist adult educators. Functio…
Lifelong education and the World Wide Web: American hegemony or diverse utopia
The notion of network lay at the centre of Illich's and Faure's 1970s proposals concerning lifelong education. Today, the World Wide Web dramatically exemplifies many features of lifelong education and is a metaphor for the learning society. The problem is that most sites are in the US and Web course architects are prone to include a large number of links back to the US Cultural ideas about what is good and bad and the way the world should be org…
Lifelong learning as bungy jumping: In New Zealand what goes down doesn't always come up
From 1984 until 1999, New Zealand's economic ‘reforms’ were a model for others, particularly Canadians. At the centre of this model was lifelong learning which bore little relationship to the social democratic ethos embedded in Faure Report conceptions of lifelong education. In New Zealand, lifelong learning slept in the same bed as the ‘marketization’ of education. The radical excesses of the New Zealand Experiment might have ended with the Dece…
Building for the future by expatiating the past: High drama from the summit of China’s learning mountain
As part of a large‐scale learning initiative, the Chinese Communist Party has declared Lushan to be a ‘learning mountain’. There have been people learning at Lushan Mountain for 2000 years. In 1959 there was a Central Committee meeting at Lushan, where Mao Zedong purged his widely respected comrade Peng Dehuai for daring to say people were starving because of the Great Leap Forward. Everyone knew Peng spoke the truth but few dared antagonize the …
How Much Do Multicultural Residents of Greater Vancouver Know About the Internet
Vancouver high school honors and university award lists are crowded with Asian names. But do these abilities in face-to-face settings extend to the Internet, which is the centerpiece of distributed learning? The purpose of this study was to measure the extent to which Internet knowledge varied as a function of age, sex, and language spoken at home. An Internet Quiz was administered to 3,537 residents in Greater Vancouver. Those who spoke English …
More Important Than Guns: Chinese Adult Education After the Long March
Without adult education, there would have been no Communist government in China. Once the Long March arrived in Yan’an, Mao and Communist leaders used adult education in informal and nonformal settings to build momentum for revolution. This article analyzes the theory and practice of adult education during the Yan’an “golden years” (1936—1939) of Chinese communism. Data were derived from interviews in Yan’an and close analysis of writings by fore…
Chinese students speak about their favourite teachers and university reform
China is trying to develop better outcomes for students, build world-class institutions and ascend global university rankings. Beijing also wants to jettison the notion it is the workshop of the world and embrace a culture of innovation. Peter Jarvis thinks the world would be a better place if ordinary people were given convivial spaces wherein they can learn and play together. But discourse constructing Chinese universities hardly ever concerns …
Learning cities: Fake news or the real deal
An increasing number of mayors are adding ‘learning’ to traditional city responsibility for sewers, roads, parks, garbage and dog-catching. However, just like in the 1970s, there is uncertainty about what is meant by ‘learning’ and considerable variance embedded in the notion of ‘city’. Some Learning City advocates look to UNESCO’s Faure and Delors reports for advice on how to interest citizens in learning in informal, nonformal and formal settin…
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