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Download full textNguyen-Voges, Shelbee – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
The purpose of this literature review is to critically examine over two decades of research concerned with study abroad participation in the United States. Research questions framing the investigation are: 1) What methodological shortcomings can be identified in assessing influences on study abroad participation for adult and higher education…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Study Abroad, Higher Education, Adult Education
Cornford, Ian – 1994
There is a strong international trend for governments to move teacher training away from the universities into the schools. In effect, this is a challenge to the expertise and effectiveness of university-based teacher educators. This paper examines the role of fashions in research in the destruction of teacher educator credibility. Reflective…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHolmes, Tyrone A. – New Directions for Student Services, 1996
Critically examines Total Quality Management (TQM). Analyzes the concepts and practices of TQM and its failure to live up to expectations in higher education. Emphasizes the problems inherent with TQM initiatives in an educational environment and outlines ways that student affairs officials can proactively apply TQM to support universities'…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Byers, Joe L. – 1984
Two recent studies imply that there is a negative selection process at work which systematically attracts and then holds in the teaching profession young people with modest verbal and quantitative abilities. The Vance & Schlecty study compared "recruits"--those who had: (1) majored in education; (2) taught school; or (3) obtained a certificate to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Career Choice, Higher Education, Predictor Variables
McNett, Ian, Ed.; And Others – 1981
This booklet describes the networking function of the Far West Teacher Corps Network, one of 12 networks set up in 1974 to share information on Teacher Corps projects and practices. In the first section, Teacher Corps networks are defined. Section 2 outlines the background and growth of the Far West Network in terms of its goals and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Cooperation, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Peer reviewedRoth, Robert A. – Teacher Educator, 1981
The issue is no longer whether control of teacher education will shift away from institutions of higher education, but to what extent, and to which of the interest groups now vying for control of major program components it will shift to. The impact of potential changes in preservice and inservice teacher education, field experiences,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
