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Direct linkCunningham, David S., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2015
Seeking to deepen current scholarly engagement with vocational exploration in both theory and practice, "At This Time and In This Place" champions the themes of calling and vocation as key elements of effective undergraduate education. Growing out of a year-long seminar sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges and its Network for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Occupations, Undergraduate Study, Reflection
Watt, Helen M. G., Ed.; Richardson, Paul W., Ed.; Smith, Kari, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
Many studies of teacher motivation have been conducted in different contexts over time. However, until fairly recently there has not been a reliable measure available to allow comparisons across samples and settings. This has resulted in an abundance of findings which cannot be directly compared or synthesised. The FIT-Choice instrument offers the…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Career Choice, Global Approach, Student Teachers
Dunn, Dana – 1997
The following papers are included: "Foreword" (Paula England); "Introduction to the Study of Women and Work" (Dana Dunn); "Gender Culture and Socialization" (Rita Mae Kelly); "Parental Influence and Women's Careers" (Sue Joan Mendelson Freeman); "Shortchanging Girls: Gender Socialization in…
Descriptors: Blacks, Blue Collar Occupations, Career Choice, Case Studies
Radford, John, Ed. – 1998
Nine chapters present cutting-edge research on "brainsex" and its effects on personality, education, and choice. It targets concepts such as job attributes, work flexibility, long-term life planning, home-work conflict, prestige versus occupational interest, and intrinsic motivational mechanisms to explain the relative failure of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Biological Influences, Career Choice, Career Education
Parks, Janet B., Ed.; Zanger, Beverly R. K., Ed. – 1990
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of sport management. An introductory chapter gives the definition and direction of sport and fitness management. Part 1 describes sport and fitness management careers. The 12 chapters deal with the professional options: intercollegiate athletics, professional sport, facility…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Athletics, Career Choice, Career Development
Kirby, Alan F., Ed.; Woodard, Dudley, Ed. – 1984
A discussion among student personnel administrators of how they had come to careers in student affairs, of the complexities of making choices for personal and professional development, and of advice they wished they had received from, or would like to give to, others in the field led to the development of this monograph. Articles include: (1)…
Descriptors: Administration, Career Choice, Career Development, College Programs
Lipka, Richard P., Ed.; Brinthaupt, Thomas M., Ed. – 1999
This book addresses the question of becoming a teacher from the perspective of the teacher's self and identity concerns. A common theme among all of the papers in the book is the importance of balancing the personal development of teachers with their professional development. There are eight papers in four parts. Part 1, "Selecting Teaching…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Career Choice, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Lambert, Roger, Ed.; Rodenstein, Judith, Ed. – 1982
This handbook was designed to help counselors and career development personnel to adopt and adapt to using microcomputers. The 18 papers included in the handbook were written by a cross section of career and counseling professionals as well as experts in microcomputer applications. In the first section of the handbook, the authors examine the…
Descriptors: Administration, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Education
Costigan, Arthur T.; Crocco, Margaret Smith – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2004
This book documents the "brave new world" of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years. Its particular vantage point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make their way through their first months and years working in schools in the New York City…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Accountability, Global Approach, Decision Making
Moon, Bob, Ed.; Vlasceanu, Lazar, Ed.; Barrows, Leland Conley, Ed. – 2003
These 15 papers include: (1) "Current Models and New Developments in Teacher Education in Austria" (Michael Schratz and Paul Josef Resinger); (2) "Teacher Education in Canada: Renewing Scholarly, Pedagogical, and Organizational Practices" (Therese LaFerriere, Nancy Sheehan, and Tom Russell); (3) "Current Models and New…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Policy
North Carolina State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Raleigh. – 1990
This is the first of five volumes of essays in the form of recommendations for the improvement of programs, services, and activities offered through vocational-technical education in North Carolina. The volume explains the rationale for, and comments on, 17 recommendations prepared by the State Advisory Council on Vocational Education for fiscal…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning
Download full textEuropean Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, Thessaloniki (Greece). – 1998
This document contains 12 papers on vocational education and training (VET) and related research that were developed for a 1998 European research report titled "Training for a Changing Society." The following papers are included: "Foreword" (Stavros Stavrou, Manfred Tessaring); "Institutional Framework Conditions and…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
Card, David E., Ed.; Blank, Rebecca M., Ed. – 2000
This book contains 13 papers on labor market and welfare reform, with special emphasis on the demand for low-wage workers, wages and job characteristics in the less skilled labor market, public politics to increase employment and earnings of less skilled workers, and the impact of welfare reform. The following papers are included: "The Labor…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Day Care, Economic Climate
