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Download full textAyers, William – 1988
This paper demonstrates the use of the autobiographical method for understanding the complex personal perspectives of teachers as they reflect upon their lives as teachers and individuals. The perspective includes the intellectual, ethical, and emotional stance of the teacher who is engaged in, and reflecting upon teaching. The subjective…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Case Studies, Personal Narratives, Preschool Education
Ducharme, Edward R.; Kluender, Mary M. – 1987
This report describes characteristics of teacher education faculty who are teaching the introductory foundations courses, their background and preparation, scholarly productivity, field activity, professional activities and salaries. The study population was drawn from member institutions of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher…
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Employment Level, Foundations of Education
Raymond, Danielle; Surprenant, Marguerite – 1988
This paper describes the process of investigating a teacher's knowledge and pedagogical philosophy through using a biographical rendition of a teacher's knowledge grounded in a construction of present teaching practice, based on ethnographic data. A case study is presented demonstrating how a major component of one teacher's present knowledge of…
Descriptors: Biographies, Case Studies, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1979
The selected papers presented in this document include topics on normal schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota, George S. Counts, and segregated schooling in Kansas. "Wisconsin Normal Schools and the Educational Hierarchy, 1860-1890" (J. Wasserman) describes the struggle of normal schools to be perceived as teacher training institutions…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Education, Educational History, Family Characteristics
Blair, Billie G. – 1983
To determine whether the current concentration of funding awards to faculty at top ranked institutions is justifiable, the individual characteristics of faculty and productivity characteristics were analyzed by institutional type. Based on American Council on Education 1972-1973 data, a stratified sample of 2,530 faculty who held Ph.D.s and were…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Background, Grants, Higher Education
Wright, E. N.; And Others – 1978
Previous research on class size has serious limitations because factors such as the abilities of pupils or the experience and teaching style of teachers were not controlled, and because of inconsistent criteria for large and small classes and for criteria of success. A major two-year study was mounted with four class sizes, random assignment of…
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Research Design
Curtis, Willie M. J.; Bennett, Clifford T. – 1981
The purpose of this article is to examine preservice teacher beliefs about disciplinary situations in the classroom. The issues affecting the relationship between preservice teachers and classroom discipline are addressed through the following methods: (1) solicitation of major disciplinary problems encountered during the student teaching…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cultural Pluralism, Discipline Problems, Preservice Teacher Education
Stahl, Robert J.; And Others – 1978
This paper reports on a study which compared the background and teaching methodology of high school psychology teachers who label their courses either "humanistic" or "behavioristic." A sample of 154 humanistic and 119 behavioristic psychology teachers in Illinois provided data about variables including extent and kinds of professional and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Course Objectives, Differences
ECKERT, RUTH E.; STECKLEIN, JOHN E. – 1958
INFORMATION REGARDING A SELECTED GROUP OF COLLEGE STUDENTS WAS GATHERED TO HELP DETERMINE THE DECISIONS WHICH INFLUENCED THEIR CAREER CHOICE. A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS COMPLETED BY ABOUT 700 PERSONS, PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT FAMILY BACKGROUND, PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE, PRESENT POSITION, AND REASONS FOR ENTERING COLLEGE TEACHING. ABOUT 10 PERCENT OF THESE…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, College Instruction, Factor Analysis
HAMILL, ROBERT EUGENE – 1967
TO STUDY THE INFLUENCE OF REFERENCE GROUP BEHAVIOR ON THE SUPPORT OF ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS AND TO DISCOVER THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTITUDES IN SUPPORT OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE CONCEPT AND ATTITUDES ADOPTING SENIOR-INSTITUTION FACULTY AS PROFESSIONALLY SIGNIFICANT REFERENCE GROUPS, TWO QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT TO FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS AT THREE…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Faculty, Doctoral Dissertations, Group Behavior
YOUNG, J.E.M. – 1967
TO IDENTIFY FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE EITHER POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY TO TEACHER MENTAL HEALTH, 629 TEACHERS ENROLLED IN A COLLEGE COURSE ENTITLED "MENTAL HEALTH IN THE SCHOOL" (90 PERCENT FEMALE, MOST WITH 1-2 YEARS TEACHING EXPERIENCE) RESPONDED TO A "PERSONAL RELATIONS QUESTIONNAIRE" ASKING--(1) WHAT DO YOU MOST LIKE AND DISLIKE ABOUT TEACHING,…
Descriptors: Discipline, Principals, Questionnaires, Supervisors
von Zur-Muehlen, Max – 1977
The hiring of foreign teachers by Canadian universities is examined. The characteristics of newly appointed teachers at Canadian universities in the early seventies are presented, with particular emphasis on their citizenship, legal residence status, previous employment, and former country of residence. During the period 1962-1963 through…
Descriptors: Citizenship, College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Foreign Countries
Denton, Jon J.; And Others – 1977
A study to determine the relationship of a teacher's characteristics and experience to a learner's cognitive attainment of law-related content is discussed. Over 1,000 learners and 57 teachers who had participated in a Law in a Changing Society Workshop provided data for the study. The workshop provided participants with law-related materials and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Measurement, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning
Marliave, Richard S. – 1976
This document examines the implications of the Phase II report specifically for observation variables that might be used in future Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES) research, focusing on those variables and patterns of variables that showed the strongest and most consistent relationships with student learning in the Phase II report. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
MacNaughton, Dolores Elaine – 1972
This study surveyed the teaching practices of instructors of grade six language arts in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Teacher characteristics of (sex, number of university courses in language arts, length of teaching experience, and number of language arts inservice courses) were correlated with the frequency of use of selected teaching practices. One…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Language Arts
