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Page, Tiffany – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
This article draws upon the 2020 review commissioned by the University of Strathclyde in the UK into the sexual misconduct of an academic staff member, Kevin O'Gorman, to examine competing and multi-varied forms of precarity in UK higher education. It considers how precarity as a political condition has the ability to shift and attach to different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, College Faculty, Crime
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Yeh, Yi-Fen; Hsu, Ying-Shao; Wu, Hsin-Kai; Hwang, Fu-Kwun; Lin, Tzu-Chiang – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Technological pedagogical content knowledge TPACK refers to the knowledge set that teachers currently use to further improve the quality of their teaching and assist their students in learning. Several TPACK models have been proposed, either for discussing TPACK's possible composition or its practical applications. Considering that…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Competencies, Models
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Schimmel, David; Militello, Matthew – Harvard Educational Review, 2007
In this article, David Schimmel and Matthew Militello document the legal knowledge and training of teachers based on a survey of more than thirteen hundred K-12 respondents in seventeen states. The findings from this study suggest that most educators (1) are uninformed or misinformed about student and teacher rights; (2) have taken no course in…
Descriptors: Teacher Rights, Elementary Secondary Education, School Law, Teacher Certification
Buchmann, Margret – 1983
The concept of knowledge utilization and the nature of practical decisions are analyzed to investigate how research knowledge and effective teaching practice are related. It is argued that the personal commitments of teachers, common sense, and normative requirements can also be valid bases for action. The author points out that an over-reliance…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Decision Making, Educational Research, Higher Education
Edwards, Sara – 1981
Participants in a working conference on changing teacher practice made recommendations for future research. Two broad classes of recommendations were sought: findings from research on teaching most amenable to translation into staff development activities, and how that translation might occur so as to be most useful in bringing about desired…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Craig, Cheryl J. – 2003
This book explores the embodied narrative knowledge that educators hold and express in context and call forth in situations. It is about teachers and principals living and telling and reliving and retelling stories intuitively developed around metaphors borrowed from classical literature, music, drama, mythology, and children's literature to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies