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European Education and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2025
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a basic right for all children and a foundation for lifelong learning. It plays a critical role in reducing inequalities and enhancing women's participation in the workforce. This third edition of Key data on early childhood education and care in Europe aims to help build accessible, inclusive and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Krille, Claudia – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2020
This book presents a systematic literature review focusing on studies examining teachers' participation in professional development (PD) within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland since 1990. It has identified 81 relevant studies and summarizes the results while answering the following research questions: What are teachers' self-reported reasons…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Barriers
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Khanare, Fumane Portia, Ed.; Marina, Brenda L. H., Ed. – IGI Global, 2023
A grassroots understanding of well-being can be an effective approach to meeting the needs of children in low-resource settings. Due to this, evidence on how to sustain such approaches is needed. "Successful Pathways for the Well-Being of Black Students" addresses a long-standing need for a book that focuses more on strength over…
Descriptors: Well Being, African American Students, Student Needs, At Risk Students
Nguyen, Hanh thi, Ed.; Malabarba, Taiane, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This edited volume brings together 10 cutting-edge empirical studies on the realities of English language learning, teaching and testing in a wide range of global contexts where English is an additional language. It covers three themes: learners' development of interactional competence, the organization of teaching and testing practices, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
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Harteis, Christian, Ed. – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2018
This edited volume brings together researchers from various disciplines (i.e. education, psychology, sociology, economy, information technology, engineering) discussing elementary changes at workplaces occurring through digitalization, and reflecting on educational challenges for individuals, organizations, and society. The latest developments in…
Descriptors: Computer Use, Change, Work Environment, Information Technology
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Prescott, Julie, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
Diversity in the workforce can be attributed to both a popular, cultural shift and legislative intervention. Despite these forces, discrimination endures in all aspects of Western society from education to employment. Unequal pay and opportunities for promotion are symptoms of a systematic discrimination of individuals based on race and gender.…
Descriptors: Diversity, Racial Discrimination, Gender Discrimination, Social Change
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Kenny, John – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2009
This paper is a reflection on my journey in a work-based (WB) research project while completing my PhD at a large Australian university. The paper explores issues that arose as I studied strategic change in the university and my role evolved from that of a "change agent" working as part of a project team to that of a researcher. A case…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Research, Change Agents, Researchers
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Wong, Rose H. C.; Westwood, Robert – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2010
The environment for scientific research in public organisations is undergoing radical change, particularly with commercialisation pressures and blurring of the distinction between public and private research. The commercialisation pressures are reflected in government policy frameworks and institutional contexts for scientific work which are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Research, Public Sector, Organizations (Groups)
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Hartley, Nicole; Dobele, Angela – Australian Educational Researcher, 2009
This paper discusses research examining the attitudes and behaviours of researching women in academia and considers the effect of these factors on successful researching outcomes. The results of this exploratory research highlight in particular, a number of interesting environmental influencers which contribute to enhancing successful work…
Descriptors: Productivity, Women Faculty, Females, Cultural Background
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Grollmann, Philipp; Rauner, Felix – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show that the quality of learning in German apprenticeships can be increased without raising costs under certain conditions. It starts with a contextual description of apprenticeship in the dual system, showing that this insight is of central importance, since employers in Germany are increasingly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Costs, Apprenticeships, Innovation
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Abramson, Zelda – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2007
Data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey (1997) reveal that relatively few mid-life women offer ill health as a reason for leaving their job or downshifting to part-time employment, implying that the role of ill health may be inconsequential in effecting changing patterns in mid-life women's labour force activity. In contrast, interviews with 30…
Descriptors: Part Time Employment, Females, Physical Health, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Cinamon, Rachel Gali; Hellman, Shoshana – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2004
This study explores stages of professional development among Israeli school counsellors by investigating their attitudes toward evolving professional identity and professional patterns across the career span. We interviewed 15 school counsellors from different age groups, seniority levels, and school types (elementary, middle, high). A consensual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmental Stages, Career Development, Professional Development
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Birnbaum, Philip H.; Wong, Gilbert Y. Y. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1985
This study examines culture-free and culture-bound hypotheses used to explain organizational structures. A survey of Hong Kong Chinese managerial employees in 20 multinational banks examined work satisfaction with relation to organizational structure, controlling for job structure and individual attributes. Findings generally supported the…
Descriptors: Centralization, Foreign Countries, Horizontal Organization, Job Satisfaction
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Popova, Anna; Daniels, Harry – Educational Review, 2004
This article provides a theoretical discussion of the concept 'object' within Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). It also introduces some of the methodological considerations that are raised in the study of the formation and transformation of objects of activity. A research project is described in which a theoretical discussion concerning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Research Projects, Teaching Methods
van Hout, Hans – 1991
This study examined the problems of postgraduate research assistants in the Netherlands. The study was conducted as a result of Government plans to introduce a new educational system for obtraining a doctorate equivalent to a Ph.D.--the "assistants-in-training system" (aio system). On the basis of a literature study on the American and…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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