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Del M. N. Bharath; Karen D. Sweeting; Chevanese Samms Brown – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
Transgender (trans) rights are human rights; however, human resource management (HRM) policies often do not consider implications for non-binary gender equity. Instead, trans employees often face adverse working conditions, including discrimination, harassment, and marginalization--a critical HRM issue. As the workforce diversifies, HRM…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Sexuality, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Work Environment
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Maynard-Patrick, Stephanie; Higgins, Leslee N. – Management Teaching Review, 2019
This article presents the experiential, cross-curricular Gleam Lighting case exercise, which helps graduate students develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) needed to effectively work in a cross-functional team. In the exercise, students from two separate graduate accounting and human resource courses work together as a…
Descriptors: Deception, Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Wages
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Taylor, Maurice; Trumpower, David – Adult Literacy Education, 2021
In Canada, various studies investigating literacy learning have contributed to our understanding of the lives of the adult student. Through a consolidation of empirical evidence, a portrait of the adult learner is sketched, drawing upon pluralistic interpretations of the important life changes that have resulted from their participation in…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
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Decuypere, Mathias; Simons, Maarten – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
Is there (still) something specific about academic practice in contemporary neoliberal times? This article reports on a sociomaterial, ethnographic study informed by Deleuze's untimely empiricism conducted at two research centres of a research university. We unfold the specificity of 'the academic' by elaborating upon two central notions:…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Research Universities, Academic Aspiration, Neoliberalism
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Burch, Stuart; Dongxu, Chen; Jingjing, Fu; Zhiyi, Guan; Yu, Qi; Shuo, Tang; Yi, Tian; Senyang, Xie – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
This article demonstrates how a teaching case study approach can benefit museum studies courses. It takes as its focus the widely reported rescue of a boys' football team from a flooded cave in Thailand (2018). The success of this multinational effort led to immediate calls for the establishment of a "living museum" dedicated to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Museums, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Pickering, Kristin – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2018
This article applies identity construction concepts to a professional and technical communication student intern's use of agency as she negotiates a unique identity for herself within a state legislature. Following a literature review, the author highlights several of the intern's key efforts to become part of this new governmental and legal…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Self Concept, State Legislation, Work Environment
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Dentith, Audrey M.; Wright, Robin Redmon; Coryell, Joellen – Adult Learning, 2015
This article highlights the stories and experiences of three White women who were victims of bullying and mobbing in academic settings. Related literature grounds their experiences and offers insights related to the phenomena including definitions of mobbing and bullying, characteristics of bullies, the prevalence of bullying and mobbing, and the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Whites, College Faculty, Definitions
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Martin, Jennifer; Beese, Jane A. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2015
This case was developed for use in a learning-centered course with a focus on administrative leadership and ethical behavior. This case describes the experience of a new faculty member at Saint Ambrose University, as she discovers a wide range of ethical and management problems in her department. The case unfolds as we track her efforts to deal…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Ethics, Educational Administration, College Faculty
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Dhooge, Lucien J. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2016
This case study addresses the issue of factory safety in the garment industry through an examination of two recent catastrophic failures in Bangladesh. The case study was designed for students in Business Ethics in the MBA curriculum at the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The case study has also been adapted…
Descriptors: Safety, Manufacturing, Occupational Safety and Health, Foreign Countries
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Johnson-Bailey, Juanita – Adult Learning, 2015
The continuum of bad behavior within the academy, from incivility to aggressive bullying, is analyzed using examples that occurred over a two-decade career. The author posits that the cases, which involved both faculty and students, were significantly impacted by the participants' gender and race positionalities.
Descriptors: Bullying, Racial Relations, Behavior Problems, Antisocial Behavior
Wilkinson, Louise; McGinty, Sue; Lewthwaite, Brian – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2014
Australian schools are now under constant pressure to improve student results, particularly those of Indigenous students. To this end, successful school-community interrelationships are considered especially significant. This paper reports on a microcosm of one such relationship, that between Indigenous Education Workers (IEWs)/Community Education…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Educational Improvement, Instructional Leadership, School Community Relationship
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
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Kim, Youb; Erekson, James; Bunten, Bridget A.; Hinchey, Patricia – Theory Into Practice, 2014
Developing teachers' knowledge about assessing English language learners (ELLs) is critical for achieving intended policy outcomes of improving teaching under Race to the Top policy and Common Core State Standards. In addition to teachers' expressed concerns about teaching Common Core State Standards to ELLs in a national survey…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Sustainability, Faculty Development, Beginning Teachers
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van Meeuwen, Ludo W.; Brand-Gruwel, Saskia; Kirschner, Paul A.; de Bock, Jeano J. P. R.; Oprins, Esther; van Merriënboer, Jeroen J. G. – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2013
In the field of aviation, air traffic controllers must be able to adapt to and act upon continuing changes in a highly advanced technological work environment. This position paper claims that explicit training of self-directed learning skills (i.e. the ability to: formulate own learning needs, set own learning goals, and identify learning tasks…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Air Transportation, Traffic Safety, Employees
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Young, Robert B. – New Directions for Student Services, 2011
In this chapter, the author offers some themes that emerged from a set of conversations that he had with six student affairs leaders. The leaders faced an array of challenges involving athletics, academic discipline, cultural identity, institutional image, personal attributes, policy, residence life, and state politics. Their challengers were…
Descriptors: Integrity, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Case Studies
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