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Floyd, Alan; Dimmock, Clive – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
This study investigates the experiences of academics who became department heads in a post-1992 UK university and explores the influence that being in the position has on their planned future academic career. Drawing on life history interviews undertaken with 17 male and female heads of department, the paper constitutes an in-depth study of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Careers, Department Heads
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Weber, Kirsten – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
This paper deals with the professionalization of human service work. It analyses learning processes and identity development in the emerging profession of child care with concrete examples from empirical research, based on a life history approach. It discusses examples of careers mainly based on students' life experience, pointing out that their…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Biographies, Child Care, Self Concept
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Nix, Maria – Science Teacher, 1994
Describes the contributions that three women geologists made to the field of geology. Closing remarks report current statistics of women geologists. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Biographies, Careers, Elementary Secondary Education, Geology
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Howe, Sondra Wieland – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1999
Explores the presidential leadership of the Music Supervisors National Conference/Music Educators National Conference during the past 90 years. Provides information on the lives of the female presidents, addressing topics such as their educational and teaching background and their accomplishments in office. (CMK)
Descriptors: Biographies, Careers, Educational History, Females