Cultural values of American students in tertiary education

JANIK, Zdenek. Cultural values of American students in tertiary education. In McLennan Community College, Waco, Texas, USA. 2010.

Basic information

• Original name: Cultural values of American students in tertiary education
• Name in Czech: Kulturni hodnoty americkych studentu v tercialnim vzdelavani
• Authors: JANIK, Zdenek.
• Edition: McLennan Community College, Waco, Texas, USA, 2010.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Requested lectures
• Field of Study: 50300 5.3 Education
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Education
• Keywords in English: African-American; altruism; collectivism; cultural orientations; cultural perceptions; cultural values; ethnicity; Hispanic; individualism; industry; learning styles; race; self-interest.

Abstract

The lecture presents results of a survey conducted among students at McLennan Community College, Waco, Texas. Over 150 students participated in the survey by indicating their cultural values. The questions sought for the evaluative, cognitive, and motivational factors, i.e. how good an object of value is, how much one thinks about the object of value and how strongly is the object connected to ones goals. The data on the respondents cultural values were generated to yield the respondents preferences in value orientations (collectivism vs. individualism; altruism v. self-interest; industry vs. relaxation). The results were futher classified according to the respondents age, gender, ethnicity, and race.