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Lee, Elida; Somers, Pat; Taylor, Zachary; Fry, Jessica – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
This exploratory study responds to the criticism that non-instructional faculty or "academic professionals" at American universities are the cause of "administrative bloat." The purpose of the study was to build from the work of Rhoades (1998) and Kane (2007) to examine whether academic professionals at an R-1 (very-high…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Research Universities, Professionalism, Educational Change
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Schaenen, Inda L. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2010
This teacher research inquiry is a critical discourse analysis of second grade classroom talk about racial identity and dialect difference within the theoretical framework of moral philosophy. Participants in the study, which took place in an urban public district in a Midwestern United States city, included ten African American students and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, African American Students, Urban Schools, Classroom Communication
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Edgoose, Julian – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2006
In contrast to Jean-Francois Lyotard's classic warning, postmodern society in the United States seems increasingly influenced by metanarratives--religious metanarratives. This article examines the implications of this religious resurgence for educational researchers. It offers a competing analysis of the postmodern that draws on Harold Bloom,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Religious Factors