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Shin, Hyunjung – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Neoliberal transformation of self, learning, and teaching constructs individuals as bundles of skills (or human capital) and subordinates learning to skill production characterized by an ethic of entrepreneurial self-management [Urciuoli, Bonnie. 2010. "Neoliberal Education: Preparing the Student for the New Workplace." In…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Neoliberalism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Akresh, Richard – Future of Children, 2016
We have good reason to predict that a warming climate will produce more conflict and violence. A growing contingent of researchers has been examining the relationship in recent years, and they've found that hotter temperatures and reduced rainfall are linked to increases in conflict at all scales, from interpersonal violence to war. Children are…
Descriptors: Children, Climate, Conflict, War
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Davis, Ashley; Livingstone, Allyson – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2016
Across-racial group of social work doctoral students engaged in an Anti-Racism Project. Through shared journaling and group discussions, participants explored and interrogated experiences of racism related to doctoral education. A thematic analysis of qualitative data surfaced several themes: experiences with racism as a doctoral student, noticing…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Racial Bias, Social Work
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Grissom, Jason A.; Mitani, Hajime – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: Superintendent retention is an important goal for many school districts, yet the factors contributing to superintendent turnover are poorly understood. Most prior quantitative studies of superintendent turnover have relied on small, cross-sectional samples, limiting the evidence base. Utilizing longitudinal administrative records from…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Labor Turnover, Salaries, School Districts
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Hoven, Hanno; Ford, Rebecca; Willmot, Anne; Hagan, Stephanie; Siegrist, Johannes – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: People who are homeless experience many barriers that affect their ability to gain and sustain work. In this study, we investigate whether personal job coaching support contributes toward employment success. Methods: The short- and long-term employment outcomes of 2,480 clients participating in a labor market program were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Success, Homeless People, Employment Potential, Employment Services
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Dougherty, Shaun M.; Lombardi, Allison R. – Review of Research in Education, 2016
A long-standing debate has been waged over the past century or more about the purpose of education. Is the primary purpose to provide for the general edification of the individual, or must education have a pragmatic application that relates to one's intended role in the workforce? Public education's focus on these ends has evolved over time, often…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Career Readiness, Vocational Education, Scholarship
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Milley, Peter – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2016
The last 3 decades have witnessed the rise of reforms aimed at conjoining Canadian universities to the economic system. Critics have pointed out how reforms have emphasized economic utility in universities to the detriment of their sociocultural mission, producing negative effects. One curricular innovation that has spread in tandem with reforms…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Higher Education, Case Studies, Educational Change
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Luttrell-Rowland, Mikaela – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper examines the importance of "self-determination" and "hard work" found within interviews with a group of young people in Manchester, England. The author suggests that moments of apparent contradiction within the interviews have much to offer, particularly when analysed in relation to discussions of inequality and…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Social Mobility, Intervention, Interviews
OECD Publishing, 2016
The series Investing in Youth builds on the expertise of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on youth employment, social support and skills. It covers both OECD countries and countries in the process of accession to the OECD, as well as some emerging economies. The present report on Lithuania is the fourth of a new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Labor Market, Vocational Education
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Bendixen, Carsten; Jacobsen, Jens Christian – Quality in Higher Education, 2017
The increasing dominance of educational markets means that quality of higher education has the character of open signifiers of periodic occurrence, embedded institutionally as ways of consensual communication on how to go on as smoothly as possible. This promotes the growth of context dependent and local interpretations of how to meet in agreement…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Benchmarking, Outcomes of Education
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Tarlea, Silvana – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
This paper seeks to answer the question of what motivates governments to introduce and implement reforms in higher education (HE). The political and economic reasons why some governments in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), for the period 1990 and 2015, have invested resources in order to facilitate cooperation between employers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Houle, Jason N.; Warner, Cody – Sociology of Education, 2017
Rising student debt has sparked concerns about its impact on the transition to adulthood. In this paper, we examine the claim that student debt is leading to a rise in "boomeranging," or returning home, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort and discrete time-event history models. We have four findings.…
Descriptors: College Students, Debt (Financial), Student Financial Aid, Paying for College
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Deaconu, Adela; Nistor, Cristina Silvia – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This research study particularizes the general descriptions of the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning, as compiled and developed within the Romanian qualification framework, to the business and economics field in general and to the property economic analysis and valuation field in particular. By means of an empirical analysis,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competency Based Education, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
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Dutta, Bipasha; Islam, Kazi Maruful – Higher Education for the Future, 2017
Bangladesh economy has been transforming towards a market-based economy from a state-dominated centrally planned economy since the early 1980s, the pace of transformation has been slow though. The aim of this article is to see how the higher education system responds to the changes in the structure of the economy. The article argues that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Labor Market, Economic Change
Bailey, Thomas; Belfield, Clive R. – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017
Stackable credentials--sequential postsecondary awards that allow individuals to progress on a career path--have been suggested as a way to enhance the labor market prospects of middle-skill workers. Yet, thus far, little evidence has been provided on the economic value of these credentials. Here, we report a series of estimates on the association…
Descriptors: Awards, Labor Market, Job Skills, Cost Effectiveness
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