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Direct linkLara Lesch; Katrin Scharfenkamp; Pamela Wicker – Sport Management Education Journal, 2024
This study investigated the perception of role model attributes of women and men sport professors, how these attributes influence the choice of academic role models, and how such role models affect career objectives. The study draws on social cognitive (career) theory. Data were collected with a quantitative online survey (N = 792) targeted at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role Models, Sex, Career Choice
Download full textCivera, Alice; Lehmann, Erik E.; Meoli, Michele; Paleari, Stefano – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The academic professoriate is a determinant of successful higher education systems. Yet, recently, worsening conditions of employment, deteriorating salaries, and threats to job security have made the academic profession less attractive, especially to young scholars, in several countries. This paper investigates the salaries as well as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Career Choice, College Faculty
McDowell, Joanne; Klattenberg, Revert – Gender and Education, 2019
Fewer than 15% of primary school teachers in both Germany and the UK are male. With the on-going international debate about educational performance highlighting the widening gender achievement gap between girl and boy pupils, the demand for more male teachers has become prevalent in educational discourse. Concerns have frequently been raised about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Gender Differences, Elementary School Students
Hofer, Andrea-Rosalinde; Zhivkovikj, Aleksandra; Smyth, Roger – OECD Publishing, 2020
Governments recognise that careers guidance, underpinned by accurate labour market information, can help learners make post-secondary education choices that match their interests, aptitudes and abilities, and lead to rewarding employment. For this reason, they have invested in building linked education/employment information systems and other…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Educational Research, Access to Education, Access to Information
Behle, Heike – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: Using the example of an amalgamated secondary school qualification (International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme--IBCP), in which both vocational education and training (VET) and academic subjects are taught, the paper aims to discuss the use of skills and knowledge gained during the IBCP for post-secondary school activities.…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Secondary Education, Vocational Education, Academic Education
Paseka, Angelika, Ed.; Byrne, Delma, Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2019
This book addresses central questions regarding parental involvement across European educational systems; exploring the commonalities and differences across European countries and the extent to which current policy and practice pertaining to parental involvement is inclusive of diversity. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that draws from the…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Policy, Diversity
Salonen, Anssi; Hartikainen-Ahia, Anu; Keinonen, Tuula; Direito, Inês; Connolly, John; Scheersoi, Annette; Weiser, Lara – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2019
High achievers with low self-efficacy in science lack interest in choosing science studies and careers. Wide-ranging knowledge of specific working life skills in science-related careers can help students identify their own strengths in science. This improves their self-efficacy beliefs in science and further promotes interest in pursuing science…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, High Achievement, Self Efficacy, Science Education
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2019
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education
van der Vleuten, Maaike; Jaspers, Eva; Maas, Ineke; van der Lippe, Tanja – Educational Studies, 2016
This study aims to explain why boys and girls in secondary education choose different educational tracks. We argue that adolescents internalise gender expectations as to what is "appropriate" male and female behaviour in their gender ideology. Gender ideology can affect educational choices by influencing (1) how adolescents evaluate…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Track System (Education), Longitudinal Studies, Career Choice
Obschonka, Martin; Duckworth, Kathryn; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Schoon, Ingrid – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2012
Contributing to the literature on early precursors of entrepreneurship, this study investigated the role of early social competencies for an entrepreneurial career choice and entrepreneurial success in young adulthood.We utilized data from the British Cohort Study and the Thuringian Founder Study (Germany), thereby comparing results across…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Children, Adolescents, Entrepreneurship
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Hamer, Rebecca; Frinking, Erik J.; Horlings, Edwin – RAND Corporation, 2005
RAND Europe has performed a study for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. This study aims to increase the understanding regarding the influence of societal developments and policy initiatives on the attractiveness and uptake of science and technology (S&T) in higher education. This study consists of an international…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Science Education
Hamer, Rebecca; Frinking, Erik J.; Horlings, Edwin – RAND Corporation, 2005
RAND Europe has performed a study for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. This study aims to increase the understanding regarding the influence of societal developments and policy initiatives on the attractiveness and uptake of science and technology (S&T) in higher education. This study consists of an international…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Science Education
Ross, Gladys G., Ed. – 1980
This monograph presents 26 papers addressed to workshop sessions representing thought and innovation in employment counseling and vocational guidance. Two papers are written in German, one in French, and 23 in English. Abstracts preceding each paper appear in the two languages other than that used for the paper itself. Topics covered include…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Career Change, Career Choice
