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Jennifer L. Richardson; Mariam Konaté; Staci Perryman-Clark; Olivia Marie McLaughlin; Keiondra Grace – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
The Black Feminist Coup: Black Women's Lived Experiences in White Supremacist Feminist Academic Spaces is a collective narrative of how three Black women faculty at a large Midwestern PWI, and two of their former students and allies build alliances to collaboratively disrupt white supremacist feminist spaces. Themes of what it means to be a…
Descriptors: Blacks, African Americans, Females, Women Faculty
Burke, Patty Rowland; Simmons, Kelly – Center for Creative Leadership, 2020
Aiming to inspire and empower, "Beating the Odds" highlights real-life success stories of technical women who made it. This book explores critical turning points that make or break careers and provides tools for putting insight into action -- both for women and organizations supporting them. "Beating the Odds" shares the…
Descriptors: Success, Barriers, Work Environment, Women Scientists
Col, Lee Del; Stahl, Garth – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2023
"Working in a Survival School" documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research traces the everyday work and experience of educators within an all-boys Catholic college suffering an unprecedented decline in enrolment numbers. In short, it…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Single Sex Schools, Males, Catholic Schools
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Larsen, Ellen; Allen, Jeanne Maree – Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Drawing upon data from an Australian study, this book gives voice to beginning teachers navigating their way through their first year of teaching and discovering what it means to be professional learners. The chapters within provide rich insights into the ways in which beginning teachers make sense of the new and challenging experiences they face…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes
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Nicolaides, Aliki – Myers Education Press, 2022
"Generative Knowing" explores the mystery of learning from the unknown in ways that reveal that learning is a dynamic phenomenon, encompassing both personal and societal contexts. Dewey defines learning in terms of experience, reflection, continuity, and interactivity. When learning happens, it eventually solidifies into reliable truths…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Mastery Learning, Learning Processes
Quinn, Therese – Teachers College Press, 2020
Museums are public resources that can offer rich extensions to classroom educational experiences, from tours through botanical gardens to searching for family records in the archives of a local historical society. With clarity and a touch of humor, Quinn presents ideas and examples of ways that teachers can use museums to support student…
Descriptors: Museums, Discovery Learning, Social Justice, Inclusion
Childress, Herb – University of Chicago Press, 2019
Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are factored in, barely reaches…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Institutional Mission, Adjunct Faculty, Educational Change
Talan, Teri N.; Bloom, Paula Jorde – Teachers College Press, 2018
The "Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care" (BAS) is the first valid and reliable tool for measuring and improving the overall quality of business and professional practices in family child care settings. It is applicable for multiple uses, including program self-improvement, technical assistance and monitoring, training,…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Child Care, Rating Scales, Qualifications
Hoefling, Trina – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2017
Remote working is the new reality, and transactional work--provided by freelancers, contract employees or consultants--has increased exponentially. It is forecast that as much as half the labor force will be working independently and virtually by 2020. Most organizations are still grappling with how to effectively manage their virtual staff and…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Teamwork, Computer Mediated Communication, Communications
Baroutsis, Aspa, Ed.; McGregor, Glenda, Ed.; Mills, Martin, Ed.; TeRiele, Kitty, Ed – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
Alternative and flexible education settings may come in different forms, but they generally have in common a focus on young people who have been disengaged from conventional schooling. One challenge of these settings, therefore, is to change the way education is offered in order to better engage these students. Much of the onus for this changed…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Role, Teacher Attitudes
Casey, Catherine – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections" addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education. The book elaborates key aspects and problems of generalized policy models of knowledge-based economies and learning societies in contexts of liberalized firm action, accelerated competitiveness and labor market…
Descriptors: Economics, Education, Labor Market, Social Systems
Whitaker, Todd – Eye on Education, 2012
Inspire yourself and others with the second edition of this best-selling book. With heartfelt advice, practical wisdom, and examples from the field, Todd Whitaker explains the qualities and practices that distinguish great principals. New features include: (1) Developing an accurate sense of self; (2) Understanding the dynamics of change; and (3)…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Principals, Administrator Qualifications, Self Concept
Hardy, Ian – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
"The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research and Practice" provides innovative insights into teachers' continuing development and learning in contemporary western contexts. Rather than providing a list of "how-tos" and "must dos," this volume is premised on the understanding that by learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Policy
Houck, Emily E. – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2012
When you're in a leadership position and can't control paychecks, what can you do to increase morale and lower staff turnover? Get this book and use the many practical ideas for motivating educators and creating a more positive work climate in schools. Author and experienced school leader Emily E. Houck explains: (1) Why recognizing and cheering…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Ceremonies, Elementary Secondary Education, Rewards
Trower, Cathy Ann – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012
Landing a tenure-track position is no easy task. Achieving tenure is even more difficult. Under what policies and practices do faculty find greater clarity about tenure and experience higher levels of job satisfaction? And what makes an institution a great place to work? In 2005-2006, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education…
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Higher Education, Collegiality, College Faculty
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