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Munroe, Elizabeth – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2014
Teachers who have held leadership roles at the school, district, or provincial level have the potential to contribute to student and school success when they return to classroom teaching. The contrasting experiences of two teacher leaders who returned voluntarily to classroom teaching are analyzed using Owens's (2004) social constructivist theory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Leadership, Social Influences, Career Development
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Shan, Hongxia – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2015
A core mode of governance in the era of neoliberalism is through the production of "entrepreneurial self". This paper explores how the "entrepreneurial self" is produced for 21 Chinese immigrant women in Canada. The women displayed extraordinary entrepreneurialism by investing in Canadian education. Becoming entrepreneurial,…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Asians, Females, High Achievement
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Chen, Charles P.; Wong, Joyce – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2013
Despite their high intellectual caliber, gifted high school students may experience very unique barriers and challenges in their career exploration and planning. As such, this group of students need much help when it comes to career guidance and counseling in the school setting. Being cognizant of this reality, the current article attempts to…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Academically Gifted, High School Students, Career Development
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Driedger-Enns, Lynnette M. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2014
This article, which comes out of a research project exploring teaching as intellectual work, focuses specifically on a young woman who worked as a substitute teacher after she graduated from a two-year teacher education program at her local university. For Penny, substitute teaching was an interruption as she shaped a professional life moving…
Descriptors: Substitute Teachers, Professional Identity, Teaching (Occupation), Career Development
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Li, Xuemei; Que, Hua – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2016
Faced with a labor shortage and low profile of diversity, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada has been making an effort to attract and retain newcomers. Guided by Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological systems theory, this qualitative study investigates the challenges faced by newcomer youth, including permanent residents coming as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Opportunities, Migrants, Qualitative Research
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Taylor, Alison; Hamm, Zane; Raykov, Milosh – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2015
This paper provides a view of the experiences of former high school apprentices in Canada. Conceptually, we draw on the work of Bourdieu with particular attention to vocational habitus, as well as feminist writers who discuss the gendered construction of skill and gender relations in the workplace and family. Empirically, we present our analysis…
Descriptors: Females, Apprenticeships, Learning Experience, High School Students
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Ferguson, Jill – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2014
In 2014, the provincial government of Manitoba announced new initiatives to encourage young women to explore a career in non-traditional trades. While new government funding programs and job opportunities are laudable, there will not be a significant increase of female enrolment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Females, Womens Education
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Vermeylen, Laurie; McLean, Scott – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2014
Conventional wisdom in adult education suggests that processes of life cycle change make for differences in the learning experiences of younger and older adults. Popular demographers argue that generational differences exist between those born in different historical periods. Outside the realm of higher education, there are relatively few…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Age Differences, Learning Processes, Adult Learning
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Gouthro, Patricia A. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
This article explores the learning pathways of 15 Canadian and American female crime fiction authors. Using a critical feminist perspective, it argues that despite the neoliberal rhetoric of individual choice, as in most careers, there are social-structural factors that create opportunities and barriers for women mystery writers. The article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authors, Females, Fiction
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Miller, Marilyn; Plessis, Judith – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2014
For this study, we interviewed eight Canadian and American continuing education deans and directors to explore how their personal accounts or "stories" about leadership high-light the dynamic nature of their leadership roles. This article focuses on the potential impact of these stories to better integrate and serve the adult learner…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Leadership, Interviews, Deans
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Norris, Joe; Sawyer, Richard – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2014
"Some are born great; some achieve greatness; and some have greatness thrust upon them." "Twelfth Night," Act 3 Scene 4. This article examines the differences and similarities between two faculty members as they discuss their entry into the academy after successfully teaching in secondary schools. Both brought with them the…
Descriptors: Researchers, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
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Wallace, Janice; Wallin, Dawn; Viczko, Melody; Anderson, Heather – McGill Journal of Education, 2014
Our research situates, contextualizes, and analyzes the lived experiences of ten female academics who were among the first women in the academic discipline of educational administration in seven of the ten provinces in Canada. Using institutional ethnography and life history to inform our analysis, this article explores three of the themes that…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Females, Women Faculty, Womens Studies
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Chen, Charles P. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2013
In addressing the significant role of career counselling as a key element for the entire counselling profession, this article points to the need of strengthening career counselling training in counsellor education. It argues that counsellor training programs and counsellor educators should draw more attention to the career counselling component in…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselor Training, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Enrichment
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Arthur, Nancy; Collins, Sandra; Marshall, Catherine; McMahon, Mary – Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2013
The recent focus on social justice issues in career development is primarily conceptual in nature and few resources account for the challenges or successes experienced by career development practitioners. The purpose of this article is to report the results of a research study of career practitioners in Canada regarding the competencies they use…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Career Development, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Pannapacker, William – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Academics can be too snug in their institutional silos. They sometimes think of one another as competitors for students, and as a result they duplicate scarce resources in mutually damaging ways. In this article, the author wants to argue that teaching-focused institutions have much to gain from partnerships with research universities on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Attitudes
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