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Ladyshewsky, Richard K.; Flavell, Helen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
The higher education sector has increasingly begun to pay more attention to academic leadership. This qualitative study explores how such an investment in a 20-week leadership development program influenced the behaviour of 10 academic staff in the role of program coordinator 6 to 12 months following participation in the program. Otherwise known…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Leadership Training, Department Heads, Instructor Coordinators
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Peterson, Shira M. – NHSA Dialog, 2012
Researchers in the fields of humanistic psychology, counseling, organizational change, and implementation science have been asking a question that is at the heart of today's early care and education quality improvement efforts: When it comes to changing one's behavior, what makes a person ready to change? Although the concept of readiness to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Focus Groups, Behavior Change, Teacher Behavior
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Suniti, Nundoo-Ghoorah; Tara, Joyejob – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
This paper sets out to explore the paradigm shift in learning culture brought about by the advent of online learning in the mostly print-based ODL system at the Mauritius College of the Air (MCA). It delves into the perceptions of learners and MCA staff involved in a range of undergraduate to Master's programmes forming part of the Pan African…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Acculturation, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning
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Pruneau, Diane; Doyon, Andre; Langis, Joanne; Vasseur, Liette; Martin, Gilles; Ouellet, Eileen; Boudreau, Gaston – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2006
During a training program on climate change education, teachers were invited to experiment with environmental behaviors in their personal lives. They then created their own climate change education model, with which they experimented in their classroom. Through teachers' and students' work, individual interviews, and questionnaires, researchers…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Change, Climate, Experimental Curriculum
Hoekstra, Annemarieke – Online Submission, 2007
The aim of the research reported in this dissertation is to describe how experienced secondary school teachers learn at work in an informal environment. The study is part of a larger research project aimed at providing a conceptual framework of teacher learning in the workplace as it takes place both in informal and formal learning environments.…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Secondary School Teachers