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Download full textPyram, Marie J.; Roth, Steven I. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2018
A qualitative single case study design encompassing constructivist theory was used to explore the affiliation need of nine career college adjuncts and the influence that their working conditions have on their professional growth, motivation, commitment, sense of loyalty, and connectivity to the institutions they serve. Also examined were the…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Adjunct Faculty, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Direct linkKhalil, Lina; Kelly, Anthony – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
This paper presents findings from a recent study on choice-making among teachers, school leaders and parents in a for-profit British international school in Kuwait. Using a Bourdieusian field analysis, the choice-making of the various stakeholders is investigated to reveal their positionality within the school's social space, to examine the…
Descriptors: International Schools, Proprietary Schools, Foreign Countries, School Choice
Verger, Antoni; Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; Lubienski, Christopher – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
This paper addresses the rise and consequences of an emerging global education industry (GEI), which represents new forms of private, for profit involvement in education across the globe. The paper explores the emergence within the GEI of new and varied, largely transnational, markets in education by focusing on three examples of the GEI at work.…
Descriptors: Global Education, Private Education, Charter Schools, Standards
Valentine, Dorothy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This case study was conducted to gain more knowledge from citizens in the four city area of Virginia which included Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach concerning the emergence of proprietary colleges in these areas. It was a qualitative study designed to gain more insight into the feelings and regard that citizens in these areas…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Colleges, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Castagnera, James Ottavio – Industry and Higher Education, 2017
The fortunes of the for-profit higher education industry rise and fall with the political tides in the United States. During the 8 years of the George W Bush Administration (Republican), the for-profit sector of US higher education prospered. The following two terms of the Obama Administration (Democrat) resulted in the loss of all the ground…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Proprietary Schools, Federal Regulation, Federal Government
Komljenovic, Janja; Robertson, Susan L. – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This paper examines what to some is a well-worked furrow; the processes and outcomes involved in what is typically referred to as "marketization" in the higher education sector. We do this through a case study of Newton University, where we reveal a rapid proliferation of market exchanges involving the administrative division of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Marketing, Commercialization
