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Leslie K. Wilcox – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Homelessness is a global social justice concern. Social work staff at homeless shelters have high turnover and burnout rates, and have little to no experience with the homeless population. In this study, a professional development training on self-awareness was given to social work staff using social justice theory, a disaster resilience education…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Social Work, Homeless People, Staff Development
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Paige Reeves; David McConnell; Shanon K. Phelan – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: Social inclusion focussed on belonging is increasingly emphasised by disability advocates and policymakers, yet belonging often remains absent for adults labelled with intellectual disabilities. People labelled with intellectual disabilities often rely on service providers to support their belonging. Methods: In this critically…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Professional Personnel, Services
Guarino, K.; Chagnon, E. – National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, 2018
The "Leading Trauma-Sensitive Schools" online module is designed for school and district administrators and other school staff helping to lead efforts to adopt a trauma-sensitive approach schoolwide. The module and companion action guide outline a multi-phased process for adopting a trauma-sensitive approach, including how and when to…
Descriptors: Trauma, Educational Environment, Training, School Personnel
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Delaney, Mary; Cleary, Ann; Cohen, Philip; Devlin, Brendan – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2020
In 2016 the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education funded three Irish academic libraries to review, implement and evaluate a new "National Professional Development Framework for All Staff who Teach in Higher Education" over two years. The Framework situates professional development as a process…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Staff Development, Academic Libraries
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Gibbs, Paul; Cartney, Patricia; Wilkinson, Kate; Parkinson, John; Cunningham, Sheila; James-Reynolds, Carl; Zoubir, Tarek; Brown, Venetia; Barter, Phil; Sumner, Pauline; MacDonald, Angus; Dayananda, Asanka; Pitt, Alexandra – Educational Action Research, 2017
This literature review considers the use of action research in higher education. The review specifically looks at two areas of higher education activity. The first concerns academic teaching practice and includes a discussion of research and pedagogy practice, and staff development. The second considers student engagement. In both of these core…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Action Research, Higher Education, Reflection
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Quinn, Lynn; Vorster, Jo-Anne – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Using the concepts of criticality, reflectivity and praxis, the paper presents an analysis of our reflections on participants' responses to the assessment requirements for a course for lecturers on teaching. The context in which the course is being taught has changed considerably in the last few years in terms of the mode of delivery, as well as…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Praxis
Guarino, K.; Chagnon, E. – National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, 2018
The "Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools" online module is intended for all school personnel, including administrators, instructional staff, and non-instructional staff. The module familiarizes school staff with the concept of trauma sensitivity and includes examples of trauma-sensitive strategies that can be employed schoolwide.…
Descriptors: Trauma, Educational Environment, Training, School Personnel
Guarino, K.; Chagnon, E. – National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, 2018
This Handout Packet includes all of the downloadable resources found throughout the Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools online module. Each of these handouts is available for individual download as staff work through the module together during professional development events. Most handouts are relevant to all school staff and two handouts are…
Descriptors: Trauma, Educational Environment, Training, School Personnel
Friedlaender, Diane – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2019
What does it take to transform a large, bureaucratic institution with a fractured culture and a compliance orientation into a nurturing, collaborative, vision-directed organization? This report and the accompanying research brief endeavor to answer that question by examining a humanistic and systems thinking approach to cultural change that took…
Descriptors: Humanism, Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Systems Approach