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Seifert, Roger; Li, Yingfei – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2014
This paper presents detailed qualitative evidence from a case study of teachers in five Chinese schools in one city. It explicitly seeks to show how developments in government policy towards education have altered the management of teacher labour inside schools as well as the teacher labour process as expressed by the teachers themselves in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Professionalism
Hill, W. Leland – 1979
A questionnaire was sent to the chief academic office of 20 universities to determine a fair and uniform workload for faculty at Central Missouri State University (CMSU). The mean undergraduate teaching load reported by the 18 responding institutions was 11.89 contact hours/week, as compared with 15.6 contact hours/week reported by CMSU faculty.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Faculty Workload, Higher Education
Nevada Univ. and Community Coll. System, Reno. Office of the Chancellor. – 1993
In response to declining state resources, institutions often increase faculty/student ratios and teaching loads to help balance budgets. In order to gain a clearer sense of the consequences of such courses of action, the University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN) undertook a survey of the total workload of all full-time…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Faculty Workload
Campbell, R. J.; Neill, S. R. St. J. – 1992
This report, the second of two follow-up studies, compares time usage of 105 infant teachers in England and Wales with the workloads of teachers surveyed in 1990 (the pilot study) and 1991. The report presents findings about the nature of the sample, working conditions, and teacher perceptions; time spent on work overall and time spent on…
Descriptors: British Infant Schools, British National Curriculum, Elementary School Teachers, Employee Attitudes
Campbell, R. J.; Neill, S. R. St. J. – 1991
This study investigated the amount of time secondary school teachers spent working and the types of work activities, based on records and survey forms from 348 teachers in secondary schools in England and Wales. Findings include: (1) the weekly mean time spent on work was 54.4 hours; (2) teachers spent an average of 16.9 hours teaching, 12.9 hours…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Curriculum, Educational Policy, Elementary School Teachers
Lacy, Larry W.; And Others – 1981
National estimates of activities of science and engineering faculty in universities and four-year colleges for 1978-1979 are examined, based on a National Science Foundation survey of faculty members in 20 science and engineering (S/E) fields. Individual respondents provided information for only one 7-day period; however, the survey sample was…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Consultants