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Academic Professionalism in the Era of Change: Role Subidentities and Transformation of Time Budgets
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Abramov, Roman Nikolaevich; Gruzdev, Ivan Andreevich; Terentyev, Evgeny Andreevich – Russian Education & Society, 2016
This article is based on a case study conducted within the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE) that examined the identity fragmentation of academic professionals in the context of current educational and academic reforms in Russia. Seven hundred and five professors were surveyed for the study, which focused on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Educational Change, Professional Identity
Teacher Perceptions and Principal Leadership Behaviors on Teacher Morale in High and Low-Performing Elementary Schools in South Carolina
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Hughes, Brenda C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative research study employed a correlational research method. Two survey instruments were used in this study. The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), which is a 30-item Likert scale questionnaire which measures 5 areas of leadership behaviors: (1) Model the Way; (2) Inspire a Shared Vision; (3) Challenge the Process; (4) Enable…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Administrator Behavior, Principals
Implementing a Physical Education Curriculum: Two Teachers' Experiences
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Fraser-Thomas, Jessica L.; Beaudoin, Charlotte – Canadian Journal of Education, 2002
In this article, we present a case study of two teachers' experiences implementing a junior-high school physical education curriculum. Using interviews, observations, and document analysis, we organized our data around Brunelle et al.'s (1988) conceptual framework. Our results noted several constraining factors to implementation: lack of time to…
Descriptors: Teaching Load, Physical Education, Curriculum, Case Studies
Class Size and College Teaching: Attitudes and Preferences.
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Clark, Michal C. – 1976
What effect would the manipulation of class size have on students, faculty, and institutional productivity? By providing each student with a class schedule of varying sized classes (at least one very large and at least one small class per student per semester), the student would derive educational benefits and maintain feelings of community in…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Environment, College Environment, College Instruction
Work on the Margins: The Experience of Vocational Teachers in Comprehensive Schools.
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Little, Judith Warren; Threatt, Susan M. – 1992
As experienced by vocational teachers in five California comprehensive high schools, the peripheral nature of vocational education results from two dimensions of school context. First, the purposes and priorities of these comprehensive high schools tend to be ordered in ways that concentrate symbolic acclaim and material resources on academic…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Enrollment, High Schools
Teaching Faculty in Academe, 1972-1973 [machine-readable data file].
Bayer, Alan E. – 1973
The "Teaching Faculty in Academe, 1972-1973" machine-readable data file (MRDF) resulted from a mail survey of faculty members in 301 institutions of higher education in the United States and represents a replication or follow-up of a previous survey conducted in 1968-1969. The purpose of the survey was to reassess college and university faculty in…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic)