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Beverley Morris; Jon Thedham – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
Resilience training for Further Education (FE) managers has become an increasingly familiar aspect of management development. This paper challenges the accepted orthodoxies underpinning resilience as a 'learnable' skill required to succeed as a manager. In particular, it addresses the concepts of toxic positivity, growth mindset (Dweck) and Grit…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Postsecondary Education, Neoliberalism, Cooperation
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Retna, Kala S. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
A body of literature asserts that group work can be beneficial in enhancing learning and in developing specific skills among students. This research builds on the literature and on Gardner's (2006a) five notions of mindsets: disciplined, synthesising, creation, ethical and respectful, as a descriptive framework to explore and understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics, Part Time Students, Student Attitudes
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Busch, Carsten; Conrad, Florian; Steinicke, Martin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
Joseph Campbell's Monomyth not only provides a well-proven pattern for successful storytelling, it may also help to guide teams and team leaders through the challenges of change and innovation processes. In project "HELD: Innovationsdramaturgie nach dem Heldenprinzip" researchers of the University of the Arts Berlin and the Berlin…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Games, Creative Activities, Systems Approach
Harper, Nevin – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2007
A study of outdoor adventure risk management education was conducted in the fall of 2003 following the devastating avalanche season of winter 2002-2003, which took close to 50 lives in North America. The study was guided by the desire to better understand effective risk management training of outdoor adventure leaders in postsecondary…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Curriculum Design, Risk Management, Management Development
Howse, Jo – 2000
In the early 1990s, New Zealand attempted a comprehensive reform of educational administration in early childhood, primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. Polytechnic universities were included in calls for proposals. A comparative study of analogous Australian, American, Canadian, European, and Chilean institutions and interviews with managers…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Management Development
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Goss, David – Management Education and Development, 1989
Small business education in Britain is underdeveloped in relation to other areas of management education. The underdevelopment is a product of the oversimplified stereotype of the small business manager held by many trainers and educators. (JOW)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Management Development
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Tanton, Morgan – Management Education and Development, 1989
A survey of 59 business schools in 28 countries and case studies of 10 European institutions revealed current trends in management education and faculty development; faculty development policies, practices, and needs; and human resource issues. One conclusion was that many schools teach staff development policies and practices that they do not…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
McLean, Gary N. – 1989
This final report describes the conduct of a project that produced a workshop on developing management case studies relevant to public administration in Pakistan from which six publishable cases with teaching notes resulted. The terminal objective for the workshop (that each workshop team would develop at least one extended case study plus a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Management Development
McLean, Gary N., Ed. – 1989
A compilation of management case studies concerning public administration in Pakistan and accompanying teaching notes, this document is intended to foster discussion in classes such as the advanced management course in public administration at the National Institute of Public Administration in Lahore, Pakistan. Included are case studies entitled…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Management Development
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Mackay, Fiona; Etienne, Jan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2006
This article reports on an exploratory study of black managers in Further Education colleges and records their individual views and experiences. The premise of this article is that, contrary to rhetoric about equal opportunities, black managers are experiencing barriers in progressing their careers. With examples from participants on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Management Development, Blacks, Administrators
Musella, Donald – 1981
The Ontario (Canada) Council for Leadership in Educational Administration (OCLEA) was established in 1973 to meet the need of the province's educational administrators for inservice professional development. Its objectives include meeting these professional development needs, developing recommendations for professional preparation programs, and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination
Finlayson, Jean, Ed. – 1980
Twenty-five short papers discuss educational management training in England and West Germany. The papers outline current provisions for training educational administrators, compare training needs with the training provided, and note training trends and problems common to the two countries. After a brief foreword, the first paper explains the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Administration, Educational Needs
Sloper, D. W. – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1984
The deficient preparation of Australian college faculty for participation in college administration is contrasted with evidence of increased administrator participation in professional development activities. The use of films to trigger opportunities for administrative development in peer group situations is discussed and evaluated by…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Decision Making, Films
Mageean, Pauline – 1987
A study assessed the continuing education needs of Australia's Technical and Further Education (TAFE) senior staff (who were defined as spending 50 percent or more of their time on college administration as opposed to teaching). A literature search, interviews, and submissions were the principal sources of data for the needs assessment. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, College Faculty, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
Leslie, A. N. – 1992
This presentation describes a collaborative distance education project between the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Caribbean Labor Administration Center (CLAC) which resulted in CLAC using the UWI Distance Teaching Enterprise (UWIDITE) network to offer a training course for labor administrators in the Caribbean region. In addition, UWI…
Descriptors: Administrators, Business Administration Education, Computer Networks, Distance Education
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