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Achinewhu-Nworgu, Elizabeth; Azaiki, Steve; Babalola, Shade; Achinewhu, Chinuru – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
The level of youth unemployment in Nigeria has always been an issue of concern for Focus Learning Support team, particularly in our interactions with foreign students studying in the UK; and also with our dedication in "Making Education Count for the Youths". This paper examines some of the difficulties experienced by young people in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Unemployment
Veraldo, Cynthia Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Women are underrepresented in the most senior level administrative positions in intercollegiate athletics. This qualitative study is an analysis of the professional lives of nine women who hold Senior Associate AD positions in Division I intercollegiate athletics. They were interviewed about their career experiences and their intentions to pursue…
Descriptors: Intention, Females, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Athletics
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Geller, Anne Ellen; Denny, Harry – Writing Center Journal, 2013
Upon arriving on their first day of work, new writing center professionals (WCPs) may be pleased to find they have inherited well-furnished tutorial spaces or established peer-tutoring courses. be welcomed by supportive, cross-disciplinary writing committees or invested deans. Those who start in their positions as their institutions' first…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, School Personnel, Professional Personnel
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Inglis, Loretta; Cray, David – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2012
In this article we examine the career paths of top-level managers in the arts. By analysing the training and work history of 23 managers in a variety of arts organisations we evaluate the utility of several existing theories for understanding careers that are characterised by low levels of initial knowledge, the absence of a clear method of entry…
Descriptors: Career Development, Art Education, Training Methods, Training Objectives
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Eggerth, Donald E.; Flynn, Michael A. – Journal of Career Development, 2012
Blustein mapped career decision making onto Maslow's model of motivation and personality and concluded that most models of career development assume opportunities and decision-making latitude that do not exist for many individuals from low income or otherwise disadvantaged backgrounds. Consequently, Blustein argued that these models may be of…
Descriptors: Vocational Adjustment, Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Work Experience
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Woodside, Marianne; Gibbons, Melinda M.; Davison, John; Hannon, Christine; Sweeney, Jeffrey R. – Qualitative Report, 2012
A dearth of research exists exploring the career and work development of adult men and the influence of family-of-origin on that development. In this qualitative study, the researchers used a phenomenological approach to examine the career and work experiences of men whose parents have no education beyond high school and the influences of family…
Descriptors: Males, Phenomenology, Family Influence, Gender Differences
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Taylor, Alison; Servage, Laura; Hamm, Zane – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2014
This article examines two Canadian high school work experience programs that focus on rural youth. The first encourages students to consider work in skilled trades, while the second encourages them to become qualified as healthcare aides. Both programs were designed to encourage high school students to explore careers in fields where labor market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Work Experience Programs, Rural Education
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Henshon, Suzanna E. – Roeper Review, 2010
Bruce M. Shore is in his 39th year as a Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Associate Director (McGill) of the multi-campus Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance. For 21 years he was jointly appointed as a member of the…
Descriptors: Gifted, Foreign Countries, Profiles, Change Agents
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Barnett, Kathy – Business Communication Quarterly, 2012
New employees, including college students, often experience expectation-reality gaps about work, making the assimilation process more difficult for all. This qualitative study explores the role of the internship in narrowing the work expectation-reality gap. This article addresses two research questions: (a) What do students learn about work…
Descriptors: Expectation, Student Attitudes, Career Development, Achievement Gap
Winchester, Geoffrey; Culver, Diane; Camire, Martin – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
Jarvis' (2006) theory of human learning framed the analysis of qualitative interviews conducted with 31 high school teacher-coaches. Using composite narratives, we present three profiles as an innovative way to explain the social context within which the teacher-coaches have developed and also, to provide insight into the needs of teacher-coaches…
Descriptors: Athletes, Biographies, Profiles, Social Environment
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Stebleton, Michael J. – Journal of Career Development, 2012
The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of work for Black, sub-Saharan African immigrant adult students pursuing a 4-year college degree. Career development practitioners are in a unique position to help these students make significant life-career decisions. Seven students enrolled at an urban university located in the Midwest were…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Urban Universities, Adult Students
Simsek, Ali – Online Submission, 2010
M. David Merrill is a leading figure in the field of educational technology and instructional design. He has been contributing to our field for about half a century. His contributions have particularly focused on instructional strategies and fundamental learning principles more than the use of educational media and their influences. He has devised…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Instructional Design, Foreign Countries, Educational Media
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Kanagui-Munoz, Marlen; Garriott, Patton O.; Flores, Lisa Y.; Cho, Seonghee; Groves, James – Journal of Career Development, 2012
The present study explored the work experiences, job satisfaction, and work behaviors of Latina/o restaurant workers. A total of 10 semistructured focus group (N = 75) interviews were conducted in the Midwest and Southwest. Data were analyzed using a combination of Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR; Hill et al., 2005; Hill, Thompson, &…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Job Satisfaction, Focus Groups, Values
Krejci, Katherine T. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe the learning outcomes of the cooperative-education experience from an Information Technology student's perspective at a large Fortune 500 manufacturing/sales company located in the Midwest United States. Open-ended interview questions were developed based on the four-component model…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Work Experience, Cooperative Education, Career Development
Lee, Yu-Jin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
What is the meaning of Korean women's career-leaving experience? To answer this question, this study adopted a hermeneutic phenomenology approach. My intention was to search for the deeper meaning of Korean women's career-leaving experience from their perspective. Ten Korean women who had left their careers due to their domestic roles in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Employed Women, Stopouts
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