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Drewery, David; Nevison, Colleen; Pretti, T. Judene – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the relative effects of participation in cooperative education (co-op) and engagement in reflection upon previous work experiences on undergraduate students' vocational self-concept (VSC) at graduation. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional survey of graduating students (n = 1,483) from a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Work Experience, Reflection, Self Concept
Cormier-MacBurnie, Paulette; Doyle, Wendy; Mombourquette, Peter; Young, Jeffrey D. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the formal and informal workplace learning of professional chefs. In particular, it considers chefs' learning strategies and outcomes as well as the barriers to and facilitators of their workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology is based on in-depth, face-to-face, semi-structured…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, Informal Education
Babushko, Svitlana – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
Today Ukraine is in the process of establishing an integral base for adult education and the system of employees' professional development. Hence, the research of the experience of the countries with a fixed, ramified, but integral system of normative and juridical documents in the above-mentioned fields can be of great use. Addressing to the USA…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Tourism, Employee Attitudes, Laws
Kwan, Covina Y. W. – Frontiers of Education in China, 2014
This paper is based on a study of three Confucius Institutes in Canada. The research aims to explore the nature of operations at Confucius Institutes, ranging from the selection of partnering Chinese universities, to the program planning at each individual site. Specifically, it focuses on the perceived impacts of the Confucius Institute…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
Seifert, Tricia A. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
This study examined student affairs and services staff members' perceptions of their work relative to items developed from the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services' (CACUSS's) mission statement (CACUSS, 1989). Using data collected from student affairs and services staff members at English-speaking postsecondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Bedard, George J.; Mombourquette, Carmen P. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2015
We interviewed 45 district-level staff, principals, and trustees in two high-performing and one rapidly improving Alberta school districts. We asked interviewees to detail the what and the how of key leadership practices to promote and sustain student achievement and how they had changed over the last five to ten years. The cross-case findings are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Educational Practices, Interviews
Seifert, Tricia A.; Burrow, Jeff – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Student affairs and services divisions and the partnerships and collaborations in which they engage with faculty, students, and the community form the structural centre of institutions' approaches to student support. Although past research has identified areas typically associated with the student affairs and services portfolio and factors that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Personnel Workers, Postsecondary Education, Organizational Theories
Valois, Robert F.; Lewallen, Theresa C.; Slade, Sean; Tasco, Adriane N. – Health Education, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report the formative evaluation results from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Healthy School Communities (HSC) pilot project. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilized 11 HSC pilot sites in the USA (eight sites) and Canada (three sites). The evaluation question was…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Pilot Projects, Best Practices, Program Implementation
Hensel, J. M.; Lunsky, Y.; Dewa, C. S. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2012
Background: Studies have shown that staff who support adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) are exposed to challenging behaviour in their work including client aggression. Exposure to aggressive behaviour has been associated with staff stress and burnout. Study samples have been small however, and there has been very little data exploring…
Descriptors: Human Services, Mental Retardation, Burnout, Foreign Countries
Yap, Margaret; Holmes, Mark Robert; Hannan, Charity-Ann; Cukier, Wendy – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between employees' perceptions of diversity training (DT) existence and effectiveness with organizational commitment (OC), and career satisfaction (CS). Design/methodology/approach: The analyses in this paper utilize survey data collected between 2006 and 2007 from over 11,000…
Descriptors: Employees, Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Investigations
Shimoni, Rena; Barrington, Gail; Wilde, Russ; Henwood, Scott – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Two interrelated studies were undertaken to assist Alberta post-secondary institutions with meeting challenges associated with providing services to diverse distributed students that are of similar quality to services provided to traditional classroom students. The first study identified and assessed best practices in distributed learning; the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Special Needs Students, Student Diversity, Best Practices
Wright, Alexandra; Hiebert-Murphy, Diane; Trute, Barry – Journal of Family Social Work, 2010
This article presents findings from an exploratory, qualitative study whose objective was to identify professionals' perceptions of organizational factors that support or hinder the implementation of family-centered practice (FCP). Two disability services organizations in Manitoba, Canada, were selected as the research sites. In 2002, all staff…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Organizational Culture, Social Work, Disabilities
Tougas, Francine; Lagace, Martine; Laplante, Joelle; Bellehumeur, Christian – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2008
The fact that Canada's working population is aging and will continue to do so is no surprise to anyone. What is surprising though is what many of these aging workers are experiencing in the late years of their career: They continue to be the target of negative stereotypes which in turn, reinforce discrimination and marginalization practices. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Older Workers, Self Esteem
Fournier, Genevieve; Lachance, Lise; Bujold, Charles – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2009
The career paths (ascending, interesting, uninteresting, descending) of 124 White Canadian francophones (62 men, 62 women) who had experienced nonstandard and precarious work for the last three years were examined in relation to the participants' profiles of commitment to three life roles (work, family, and duality, that is, investment in both…
Descriptors: Profiles, Content Analysis, Career Counseling, Anxiety
Fahy, Patrick J.; Steel, Nancy – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2008
This paper reports results to date of a three-year project by Athabasca University, intended to determine the education and training needs and interests of employees in a work camp in northern Alberta's oil sands. (Future reports will address results of efforts to provide programming suiting the needs identified, and the uptake, satisfaction,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employee Attitudes, Educational Needs, Access to Education