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Ryder, Denise R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
As the Millennial generation (individuals born 1982-2004) of leaders emerge in the educational setting, it is important to consider how these individuals may lead or work alongside a more veteran generation of teachers and administrators. While most of the evidence on leadership focuses on the characteristics of Baby Boomer and Generation X…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Generational Differences, Correlation, Gender Differences
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Lovett, Trevor – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
This retrospective narrative investigation challenges aspects of structural determinism. The biographical data generated in the study revealed that the baby-boomer, male participants were not academically constrained by their working class identities. Interpersonal relationships experienced within an individual's unique communities of practice…
Descriptors: Working Class, Baby Boomers, Gender Differences, Interpersonal Relationship
Wilson, Franklin D. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2016
This paper analyzes age and cohort changes in the occupational attainment of Blacks and Whites born in successive decades from 1910 to 1979. Occupational attainment is operationalized as "occupational returns to education" and "earnings returns to occupation." The primary objective is to determine whether the relative…
Descriptors: African Americans, Whites, Racial Differences, Generational Differences
Slonka, Kevin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
With the rapid growth of Facebook, the social networking website is becoming a lucrative target for malicious activity. Users of Facebook therefore should be aware of various malicious attacks and know how to identify them. This research analyzed Facebook users' level of understanding in the domain of malicious social engineering on Facebook. The…
Descriptors: Social Media, Web Sites, Ethics, Deception
Pena, Andrew M., Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Given the state of the economy, lack of competitive jobs and decreasing number of voluntary retirements, by the year 2018 many institutions of higher education may see five generations working side by side. This study examined three of the four generations working at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP): Baby Boomers, who are those employees…
Descriptors: Colleges, Employees, Employee Attitudes, Generational Differences
Baxter, Linda; Stephens, Carrie; Thayer-Bacon, Barbara J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2011
The purpose of this descriptive study was to discover the perceptions and barriers of four female agriculture educators across generations in a non-traditional field of agriculture. The United States Department of Labor (2006b) defined a non-traditional job as any occupation where one gender comprises 25% or less of the total employment. Four…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Baby Boomers, Foreign Countries, Agriculture