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Sharma, Poonam – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
It is well known that teachers are central to education reforms and to providing high-quality instruction. The National Curriculum Framework 2005 identifies the need for professionally qualified teachers and the need to enhance the professional identity of schoolteachers. Low-fee private schools are often presented as a solution to the supposedly…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity, Private Schools, Institutional Characteristics
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Stewart, Nicole K.; Rahman, Anis; Adams, Philippa R.; Hughes, John – Communication Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic amplified existing inequities in higher education. This paper documents the stories of four precariously employed communication instructors in their transition to emergency remote teaching in March 2020. Through collaborative autoethnography, the instructors share their stories of reliance and compliance within the gig…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Higher Education
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Alberto Sanmiguel-Rodríguez; Raquel Leirós-Rodríguez; Víctor Arufe-Giráldez; Andrea García-Fernández; José Luis García-Soidán; Rubén Navarro-Patón – Online Submission, 2023
Introduction: At the beginning of the 2020-2021 academic year, the government, health organizations, and educational institutions had to face the implementation of protocols and action plans within the classrooms to prevent COVID-19. Aim. This study aimed to analyze the thoughts and concerns of Spanish teachers during the academic year 2020-2021.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences
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Heil, John-Paul; McGinley, Stephen – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2021
As higher education emerges from COVID-19 restrictions, the post-pandemic transitional moment provides Catholic institutions the opportunity to reconsider their reliance on adjuncts in core curricula. As tenure-track positions decline nationwide and universities increasingly source out coursework to temporary or part-time adjuncts and other…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Factors, Religious Colleges, College Faculty
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Naidoo-Chetty, Mineshree; du Plessis, Marieta – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The Higher Education sector has been through an array of changes, such as globalisation, massification, lack of job security, decolonisation and a number of technological advancements. These changes have impacted academic workload and have increased work pressure with resultant effects on family and work life balance. A review of the existing…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Job Security, Higher Education
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Washburn, Micki; Crutchfield, Jandel; Roper, De'An O.; Smith, Dawnetta; Padilla, Yesenia – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
As a result of the health and safety concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, in Spring 2020 social work programs nationwide were required to make significant shifts in their instructional methods and field placements. These changes often resulted in faculty members taking on new or additional responsibilities related to teaching and field.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Faculty Workload, Masters Programs, Social Work
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Flores, Maria Assunção – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2020
This paper reports on a three-year research project aimed at examining experiences of being a teacher in a context of school reform and adverse times. A mixed-method research design was devised, including a national survey, semi-structured interviews, focus groups and a professional development programme. Findings suggest that teachers face old…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Resistance (Psychology), Teaching Conditions, Professionalism
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Maguire, Meg; Gewirtz, Sharon; Towers, Emma; Neumann, Eszter – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
This paper explores the implications of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) for secondary school physical education (PE) departments and their teachers. The EBacc is a key performance measure that is published annually for each school, which privileges a particular set of traditional academic subjects, and in doing so, marginalises other subjects,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Physical Education, Secondary Schools
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Piazza, Peter – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
In recent years, a new breed of political organizations has had remarkable influence in American educational policymaking. Proponents of neoliberal reform, these groups have been labeled as Education Reform Advocacy Organizations, or ERAOs. I situate these organizations within the larger network of Intermediary Organizations (IOs). To understand…
Descriptors: Role, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Change
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Piazza, Peter – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
This paper explores changes to the educational policy-making arena through case study analysis of a Massachusetts law passed in 2012 that limits seniority-based job protections for public K-12 teachers. I use data from interviews with policy stakeholders, observations of public meetings, and policy artifacts to explore struggles over democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Case Studies
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Rodríguez Fernández, Juan R.; Díez Gutiérrez, Enrique J. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
The neoliberal capitalist crisis of 2008 brought to light poverty and destitution in our societies. In Spain, 13 million people live in poverty, structural unemployment is over 20% and levels of insecurity have risen in all sectors and social groups. In the EU, 120 million live in poverty, while globally, wealth is increasingly concentrated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Neoliberalism, Poverty Programs
Matthew A. Kraft; Eric J. Brunner; Shaun M. Dougherty; David J. Schwegman – Grantee Submission, 2020
In recent years, states have sought to increase accountability for public school teachers by implementing a package of reforms centered on high-stakes evaluation systems. We examine the effect of these reforms on the supply and quality of new teachers. Leveraging variation across states and time, we find that accountability reforms reduced the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Supply and Demand, Job Satisfaction, Job Security
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Crawford, Tina; Germov, John – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
Casual and sessional academic staff have traditionally been on the margins of institutional life despite the expansion of this cohort across the university sector. This paper details a project to address this lack of recognition through a workforce strategy to engage, support and effectively manage this often neglected cohort of the academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force, College Faculty, Part Time Employment
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Kunene, Maureen Fikile; Barnes, Neil – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Advances in technology are classified as one of the external factors that trigger organisational change, even for Higher Education Institutions. The transition to e-learning presents new challenges as expectations and roles of employees and students evolve. The primary objective of this study was to investigate employee perceptions of the Open…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Universities, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change
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Finkelstein, Martin J.; Conley, Valerie Martin; Schuster, Jack H. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
In the past few decades, especially since the 2008-09 economic downturn, the faculty of American colleges and universities has undergone a far-reaching transformation. Multiple factors, mainly extraneous to the campus itself, are reshaping higher education, and as a result a reprioritizing of the internal allocation of resources is occurring. The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Teacher Role, Socialization
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