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The Global Teaching Profession: How Treating Teachers as Knowledge Workers Improves the Esteem of the Teaching Profession
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Price, Heather E.; Weatherby, Kristen – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2018
To better understand the status of the teaching profession, we present a conceptual framework outlining the 4 domains of knowledge-worker professionals: professional benchmarks, professional discretion, room for promotion, and workplace conditions and use the TALIS 2013 survey data to show that these domains exist globally and vary within…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Employees, Professional Services, Knowledge Management
Local/Global Cognitive Interfaces within Industrial Districts: An Italian Case Study
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Grandinetti, Roberto – Learning Organization, 2011
Purpose: With the advance of globalization the competitive chances of industrial districts depends increasingly on their ability to connect to the cognitive circuits of the global economy. This challenge demands the presence of local actors capable of acting as cognitive interfaces between the district context and the global environment. The paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Case Studies, Global Approach
Managing Student Learning: Schools as Multipliers of Intangible Resources
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Paletta, Angelo – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
The conceptual categories that underlie the business analysis of intellectual capital are relevant to providing an explanation of school performance. By gathering data on student learning, this research provides empirical evidence for the use of school results as an accurate indicator of the effectiveness of the management of public education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Accountability, Public Education