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Uncovering Emerging Identity Performances of Turkish Foreign Language Teaching Assistants
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Bursali, Nihan; Misir, Hülya – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The aim of the study is to show emerging identity performances of Turkish Fulbright foreign teaching language assistants (FLTAs) in social and academic contexts during their sojourn experiences in the US. The grant program brings institutional roles of being a teacher and a learner and social duties of culture transmission in the host country. The…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Self Concept, Interaction, Cultural Context
The Grant Game as Training Ground for Tractability? An Australian Early Career Researcher's Story
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Petersen, Eva B. – Research in Education, 2016
The future of education research is linked to what early career researchers in Education are doing and learning to do now. This paper presents a narrative of one early career researcher who works and lives in Australia. She tells the story about how she came to research and to an academic life, about what her doctoral work and education taught her…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Teacher Researchers
Paying the Piper: The Costs and Consequences of Academic Advancement
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Casey, Ashley; Fletcher, Tim – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
In many professions there are qualifications to gain and professional standards to achieve. Lawyers pass the bar and doctors pass their boards. In academic life the equivalent is a doctorate, closely followed by a profile of peer-reviewed publication. To hold a doctoral degree is the common requirement to become "academic" but does it…
Descriptors: Standards, Doctoral Degrees, College Faculty, Teacher Qualifications
Faculty Reflections on the Institute for Aging and Social Work Experience
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Bonifas, Robin P.; Mehrotra, Gita R. – Educational Gerontology, 2014
Considerable research highlights the value of mentorship to the professional development of early career faculty in academia, yet less research focuses on factors motivating individuals to provide formal guidance to junior colleagues. Given that new social work faculty, in particular, may not receive sufficient mentoring, understanding what…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Social Work, College Faculty, Mentors
Why Grants.gov Should Be Abolished
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Kolmertern, Carol – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
In this article, the author explains why Grants.gov, a web site for US Federal Government grants, should be abolished. Her recent attempt to submit a grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health is a case in point. She recounts how frustrating her experience was to the grant-submission process of Grants.gov. She points out that Grants.gov…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Grants, Federal Government, Faculty
Chronicle of Higher Education. Volume 51, Number 31, April 8, 2005
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2005
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This April 8, 2005 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Words Worth Their Weight in Cash" (Markin, Karen); (2) "Diary of a…
Descriptors: Grants, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Academic Freedom