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Smith, Karen – International Journal for Academic Development, 2016
Academic developers are important interpreters of policy, yet little research has focussed on the interplay of policy and academic development practice. Using methods from critical discourse analysis, this article analyses a national learning and teaching policy, charts its development, and explores its interpretation by the academic development…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Leadership Role, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Commodore, Felecia; Freeman, Sydney, Jr.; Gasman, Marybeth; Carter, Courtney M. – Education Sciences, 2016
The college and university presidency is one of the most coveted positions in academe. Due to the projected retirements of current Historically Black College and University (HBCU) presidents, the researchers interviewed 21 current presidents, institutional board members, and presidential search firm personnel to explore what current HBCU…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Presidents, Mentors, Trustees
West, Nicole M. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
The African American Women's Summit (AAWS) is a professional development program in the United States created by and for African American women in student affairs. This article reviews the evolution and structure of the AAWS. A discussion, grounded in Black feminist thought, is included relative to the impact of the AAWS on African American women…
Descriptors: Females, Conferences (Gatherings), Professional Development, Case Studies
Yayli, Derya – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Purpose: Pre-service and in-service teachers experience conflicts between the requirements of teaching and their own personal desires, which might lead to serious tensions with negative consequences. Teachers, especially pre-service teachers, try to cope with tensions by developing strategies accompanied by actions teachers take to modify the…
Descriptors: Coping, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education
Yanchar, Stephen C.; Hawkley, Melissa N. – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
This qualitative study explored the nature of informal learning in professional instructional designers' everyday work activities. Based on intensive interviews with six full-time practitioners, and using a hermeneutic form of data analysis, this study produced seven themes concerning the practices, tensions, and ironies associated with this…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Informal Education, Educational Practices, Qualitative Research
Khasanzyanova, Albina – International Review of Education, 2017
It is widely recognised that tertiary education does not provide all of the knowledge and skills required to succeed in modern societies. Personal and interpersonal skills--so-called "soft skills"--are also needed to complement professional skills and expertise, and become an essential part of an individual's personality. One way of…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Volunteers, Questionnaires, Semi Structured Interviews
Amador, Julie; Wallin, Abraham; Amador, Paul – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2015
A mentorship professional development model was provided to a group of educators at various stages in their career paths, ranging from pre-service teachers to in-service teachers to teacher leaders. We were interested in exploring how participants' interactions during a book study influenced their perceptions of practice, with a specific aim at…
Descriptors: Mentors, Professional Development, Interaction, Books
Kahraman, Mehmet; Kuzu, Abdullah – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2016
This study focused on supporting the professional development of information technologies pre-service teachers with e-mentoring approach. The e-mentoring program was conducted in four basic phases; preparation, matching, interaction and finalizing. In the study, the data were collected via researcher journals, semi-structured interviews held with…
Descriptors: Mentors, Preservice Teachers, Electronic Learning, Semi Structured Interviews
Albertyn, Ruth M; Machika, Pauline; Troskie-de Bruin, Christel – Africa Education Review, 2016
Teaching large classes poses many challenges to lecturers where massification is a reality in higher education. There are implications for both teaching and effective learning in this context. The need for accountability to learners in education provision served as motivation for a study of large classes in the largest faculty of one university…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, College Faculty, Semi Structured Interviews, Teaching Experience
Martzoukou, Konstantina; Elliott, Joanneke – Communications in Information Literacy, 2016
This paper examines the extent to which public librarians are successfully prepared to engage the community in digital literacy and inclusion. A qualitative, multiple case study research design was chosen, using an analysis of policy documents and existing training programs offered by the libraries together with semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Librarians, Public Libraries, Semi Structured Interviews
Tenenberg, Josh – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Learning through peer observation in higher education is most frequently investigated from the perspective of the teacher who is observed. What is under-examined is "how" learning arises for the observer by watching a peer in practice. This paper provides insight into this question through an interpretive-phenomenological analysis of a…
Descriptors: Observational Learning, Higher Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Phenomenology
Allan, Graham; Moffett, Janet – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2016
This paper explores the extent to which students on a vocational postgraduate programme identify with characteristics and competences that define a professional career guidance and counselling practitioner. Literature suggests professionalism in careers work is characterised by a focus on the needs of the client with the practitioner in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Career Guidance, Career Counseling
zareie, Mohammad Hossein; Nasr, Ahmad Reza; Mirshahjafari, Seyyed Ebrahim; Liaghatdar, Mohammad Javad – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
Professional development of educators, especially in preschool years has been neglected in Iran. The purpose of this study was to investigate the viewpoints of experts and teachers about the purposes and content of the professional development plan for preschool teachers. This research is a descriptive-analytic study conducted through both…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews
Ritter, Gary W.; Barnett, Joshua H. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Since 2010, there has been much policy activity on teacher evaluation. Many education policy makers have embraced the idea that improved teacher evaluation can cultivate genuine improvements in the teaching force and improved student outcomes. Can genuine evaluation actually enhance the effectiveness of those evaluated? Using structured interviews…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Evaluation, On the Job Training, Teacher Effectiveness
Ssempebwa, Jude; Teferra, Damtew; Bakkabulindi, Fred Edward K. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Conducted as part of a multi-country study of the teaching-related experiences and expectations of early career academics (ECAs) in Africa, this study investigated the major influences on the teaching practice of ECAs at Makerere University; the mechanisms by which these academics learn to teach; the teaching-related challenges they experience;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Orientation, Teaching Methods