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Direct linkWilliams, Robert V. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
The early life and professional career of Dr. Satoru Takeuchi, a noted Japanese librarian, educator, and author, are explored here within the context of Japanese library education since World War II. Professor Takeuchi, now retired from the University of Library and Information Science (ULIS) in Tsukuba, Japan, has been an influential educator,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Library Education, Librarians
Boburka, Reneé R.; Wesp, Richard K.; Eshun, Sussie; Drago, Anthony L. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2014
Many agree that educational systems should instill in students the value of lifelong learning (LLL), but few have suggested how to accomplish that or how to measure the effectiveness of those curricular initiatives. We developed a technique intended to strengthen students' beliefs about the value of LLL and piloted use of a recently developed…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Student Attitudes, Quasiexperimental Design, College Faculty
Rinke, Carol R.; Mawhinney, Lynnette; Park, Gloria – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
This article extends the literature on teachers' career paths by attending to the experiences of educators when they were students in secondary classrooms. Grounded in the perspective that biography is central to teaching, we investigate undergraduate pre-service teachers' educational experiences, views on teaching and learning, and professional…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Student Attitudes, Interviews, Preservice Teachers
Heath, Shirley Brice – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2011
Heath takes readers back to Hymes's years as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. She recalls, in particular, his relentless passion for introducing public school administrators to ethnography's potential for seeing what could be done to increase equity and social justice within public education. She contrasts this…
Descriptors: Social Justice, American Indians, Ethnography, Intimacy
McGonigal, Kathryn; Galliher, John F. – American Sociologist, 2008
Sociologist Mabel Agnes Elliott was elected the fourth president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1956-1957 and was the first woman to hold this position. She was an anti-war activist, a feminist and a creative and diligent writer. Yet she experienced many challenges. The Federal Bureau of Investigation kept an active file on…
Descriptors: Females, Sociology, Social Scientists, Biographies
Herdlein, Richard J., III – NASPA Journal, 2004
The scholarship of student affairs has neglected to carefully review its contextual past and, in the process, failed to fully integrate historical research into practice. The story of Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos and the history of the Dean of Women's Program at the University of Pittsburgh, 1919-41, helps us to reflect on the true reality of our work in…
Descriptors: Deans, Biographies, Higher Education, Womens Education
