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Chue, Shien; Säljö, Roger; Lee, Yew-Jin; Pang, Ethan Loke-Wee – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
We examine the challenges and emergent nature of learning during undergraduate internships. Much scholarly inquiry on the latter focuses on internship experiences within traditional professional domains such as medicine, teacher education, and other fields. There is less knowledge about undergraduate interns entering more fluid and recent work…
Descriptors: Barriers, Internship Programs, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
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Naukkarinen, Johanna; Bairoh, Susanna – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Formation of professional identity is a process where individuals attempt to bring together the social expectations set for them as professionals and their own interests and values. The cultural landscape of engineering is masculine in various ways, which can be challenging especially for female engineers who need to match the cultural…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Engineering Education, Engineering, Foreign Countries
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Sarja, Anneli; Arvaja, Maarit – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
This conceptual article deals with components and concepts of transformative learning, emphasizing the organization-level perspective on critical reflection. The discussion leans on the concept of transformative authorship and it is argued that it enables authoring processes through which professionals can recognize and recreate their routinized…
Descriptors: Authors, Dialogs (Language), Transformative Learning, Case Studies
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Albashiry, Nabeel M.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. – Curriculum Journal, 2015
Learning about curriculum development is critical for middle managers of technical vocational institutions in order to assume curriculum leadership in maintaining and enhancing the quality and relevance of their educational programs. This case study reports on the design and effects of a professional development arrangement (PDA), with such a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Community Colleges
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Sari, Eunice Ratna – Intercultural Education, 2012
This paper investigates the concept of online learning community (OLC) to address the issues of teacher professional development practice in twenty-first-century Indonesia. Teachers in Indonesia are trained in a "conventional way", hence, not ready to prepare the younger generations for entrance into the twenty-first-century complex life…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Socialization, Online Courses, Foreign Countries
Kezar, Adrianna, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
The nature of the higher education faculty workforce is radically and fundamentally changing from primarily full-time tenured faculty to non-tenure track faculty. This new faculty majority faces common challenges, including short-term contracts, limited support on campus, and lack of a professional career track. "Embracing Non-Tenure Track…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Tenure, Technical Institutes
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Urban, Mathias; Vandenbroeck, Michel; Van Laere, Katrien; Lazzari, Arianna; Peeters, Jan – European Journal of Education, 2012
The close connection between the quality of provision for young children and professionalisation of the field has long been supported by international research. That the two are inseparable aspects of one picture is beginning to become accepted at European policy level, as evident in recent high level EU policy documents. This article explores the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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Smith, Maria Jane – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
This article reports on research initiated by the trade union for lecturers and researchers in the UK, the University and College Union (UCU), which examined the pressures, concerns and positive aspects of being a member of research staff at one UK university. The findings are presented from the premise that university researchers are caught…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Researchers, Foreign Countries, Educational Research
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Triantafyllaki, Angeliki – British Journal of Music Education, 2010
This paper draws on the metaphor of "workplace landscape" to highlight the role of institutional values, evidenced within a Greek University Music Department and a Music Conservatoire, in the construction of musical performance teachers' professional identity. Underpinned by a social constructionist framework and within an ethnographic…
Descriptors: Role, Music, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
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Butt, Graham; Lance, Ann – Education 3-13, 2009
Remodelling the roles, responsibilities and working practices of all school staff has been central to the government's modernisation agenda for English state schools. This is typified by a determination to review and change the distribution of tasks undertaken by teachers and teaching assistants (TAs). Whilst there has been a substantial increase…
Descriptors: State Schools, Work Environment, Teaching Assistants, Elementary Education
Berry, Barnett; Daughtrey, Alesha; Wieder, Alan – Center for Teaching Quality, 2009
Over the last decade, policy and business leaders have come to know what parents have always known: teachers make the greatest difference to student achievement. With new statistical and analytical methods used by a wide range of researchers, evidence has been mounting that teacher quality can account for a large share of variance in student test…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement
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Garuba, Ayo – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2007
Institutional continuing education practices have received widespread attention in literature on adult and continuing education. However, the research community seems to restrict continuing education to universities. This paper reviews the contribution of non-university tertiary institutions to continuing education in Nigeria, using the Federal…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Carliner, Saul; Legassie, Regan; Belding, Shaun; MacDonald, Hugh; Ribeiro, Ofelia; Johnston, Lynn; MacDonald, Jane; Hehn, Heidi – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
In the growing body of research on the practice of training and development, several studies suggest that use of research-based findings in practice is low. The present study was designed to better understand the research-practice gap by exploring these questions: (1) Which published sources in the field are practicing professionals reading? How…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Theory Practice Relationship, Professional Development, Training
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Johnsson, Mary C.; Hager, Paul – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the nature of learning discovered by recent graduates participating in a symphony orchestra-initiated development program that is designed to nurture them through the transition to becoming professional orchestral musicians. Design/methodology/approach: Using a qualitative case study approach, the authors…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Young Adults, Transitional Programs
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Crouch, Margaret – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: The paper seeks to show the contextualisation of call centres as a work-specific ethnographically and culturally based community, which, in turn, influences pedagogical practices through the encoding and decoding of cultural texts in relation to two logics: cost-efficiency and customer-orientation. Design/methodology/approach: The paper…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Cost Effectiveness, Socialization, Human Resources
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