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Lee, Yew-Jin – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
Numerous challenges associated with the work of teaching have been reported around the globe, including from Singapore. Being a multi-dimensional problem, teachers' work has been investigated by diverse research methods especially through interviewing. However, educational studies that adopt constructionist approaches have been scarce in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Attitudes, Research Methodology
Peltoperä, Kaisu; Turja, Leena; Vehkakoski, Tanja; Poikonen, Pirjo-Liisa; Laakso, Marja-Leena – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
This article explores accounts given by Finnish educators (n = 31) on the topic of flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (i.e. childcare provided during non-standard as well as standard hours). Previous research has shown this to be a sensitive topic because of the contradiction between what is deemed in the interests of children…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes, Phenomenology
Kiplangat, Henry Kiptiony – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
University management and academic staff have a critical role to diligently play in fulfilling university's mandate. Effective and efficient governance and management of both private and public universities have a direct bearing on the overall quality of the institutions. With management operating under laid down governance structures, it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Styles, Correlation
Ramia, Gaby – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The scholarly literature in higher education has not dealt extensively with the responsibilities of institutions for servicing the rights of international students. This paper is a comparative analysis of legal frameworks which guide institutions in their handling of international student rights. Two national approaches, those of Australia and New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Higher Education, College Students
Keddie, Amanda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
This paper explores different conceptions of responsibility within and beyond neoliberal frames. Such exploration draws on the experiences and accounts of "Ashleigh," a head teacher at a primary school in outer London that is part of an academy chain. Ashleigh and her school were key participants in a study that explored matters of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Neoliberalism, Interviews
Angervall, Petra – Gender and Education, 2018
Changes in the higher education system have resulted in increased demands on effectiveness and marketisation. These demands have changed what it means to do academic work. In this study, 19 female academic lecturers have been interviewed in order to get them to reflect upon their opportunities and conditions in career. The aim is to analyse how…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, College Faculty, Careers, Gender Differences
Are We Ready to Have Teachers with Learning Disabilities? A Study of School Principals' Observations
Flavian, Heidi – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2016
For decades, lawmakers, parents, and educators have advocated for including students with learning disabilities (LD) and addressing their needs within the education system. However, LD-related challenges do not vanish with age; consequently, for college and university graduates with LD, the issue of inclusion begins again when they reach the job…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Learning Disabilities, Administrator Attitudes, Principals
Scager, Karin; Akkerman, Sanne F.; Pilot, Albert; Wubbels, Theo – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Students need to be challenged to stimulate their learning. Applying challenge in practice however is not straightforward. Challenging students may conflict with other teacher responsibilities, creating potential dilemmas for teachers. This study discloses dilemmas teachers encounter when challenging students as well as the considerations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Higher Education
Castolo, Carmencita L. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2016
Tutorial is one of the student support services often provided by open and distance teaching institutions. These are regularly scheduled meetings between a tutor and his/here students which may include individual consultation sessions, either face-to-face or through telephone; a more formal "lecture format;" optimal participation in…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Open Universities
Thornton, Kate; Walton, Jo; Wilson, Marc; Jones, Liz – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2018
Middle leadership roles in higher education have been identified as important for institutional effectiveness yet fraught with tensions, and those in middle leadership roles often feel unprepared and unsupported. This study of the responsibilities, skills and competencies, and support required for heads of school in a New Zealand university, drew…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Universities, Administrator Role, Department Heads
Shore, Kevin; Walshaw, Margaret – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
The roles and aspirations of Assistant/Deputy Principals (AP/DPs) have received attention for a number of decades. In contrast to much of the reported research that either highlights the administrative and management tasks or foregrounds principal succession, we explore levels of satisfaction that play into DP/APs' interpretations of the realities…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Administrator Role, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures
Vivanco, Borja – British Journal of Religious Education, 2018
A substantive and differentiating element of the Jesuits' university paradigm is the promotion of social justice. The results of a telephone poll conducted amongst professors and researchers convey the initiatives to further social justice that Jesuit universities in Spain have been carrying out primarily since the 1990s. Although still a limited…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Church Related Colleges, Christianity, Social Justice
Flanigan, Abraham E.; Kiewra, Kenneth A.; Luo, Linlin – Educational Psychology Review, 2018
Previous research (Kiewra & Creswell, "Educational Psychology Review" 12(1):135-161, 2000; Patterson-Hazley & Kiewra, "Educational Psychology Review" 25(1):19-45, 2013) has investigated the characteristics and work habits of highly productive educational psychologists. These investigations have focused exclusively on…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Qualitative Research, Interviews
Kataeva, Zumrad; DeYoung, Alan J. – European Education, 2018
This article investigates the current state of faculty research activity within Tajik higher education institutions (HEIs), where the level of research productivity has substantially decreased in the past three decades. As part of a larger ethnographic study on professional lives of Tajik faculty members, we investigated and found enormous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Barriers, Teacher Researchers
Sellar, Sam – Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
This paper examines the promises made in education policy regarding people's future education, employment and social mobility. Specifically, the paper analyses how the term "potential" functions in education policy texts and discourses to make tacit promises at an affective level. Contemporary education policies often invoke the need to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Human Capital, Equal Education, Economic Development