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Understanding Foreign Future and Deconstructing Polish Past: The Experiences of Schooling under a Communist Rule Recollected by Contemporary Polish Migrants
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Pustulka, Paula; Slusarczyk, Magdalena – European Education, 2016
The article elaborates on the recollections of schooling under the communist rule in Poland as presented in biographical interviews with contemporary Polish migrants living in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway. An analysis of childhood and schooling nexus is elicited on two platforms, specifically as (1) interviewees' first-hand experiences…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries, Interviews, Immigrants
Teacher Change in an Era of Neo-Liberal Policies: A Neoinstitutional Analysis of Teachers' Perceptions of Their Professional Change
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Ramberg, Magnus Rye – European Educational Research Journal, 2014
The aim of this article is to explore how neo-institutional theory may be applied as an analytical framework to investigate the relationships between teachers' perceptions on their professional change on the one hand, and the numerous change efforts embedded in recent neo-liberal educational policies in Norway on the other. Based on biographical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Neoliberalism
Personal Narratives in Life History Research
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Germeten, Sidsel – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
In this article I discuss how to create personal narratives in life history research methodology. People tell stories of their lives, and the researchers make these stories into life histories. Based on theoretical perspectives on "discourse" inspired by Michel Foucault, narratives are seen as ways of positioning oneself as a…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Biographies, Research Methodology, Questioning Techniques
The Role of Career Adaptabilities for Mid-Career Changers
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Brown, Alan; Bimrose, Jenny; Barnes, Sally-Anne; Hughes, Deirdre – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
Career adaptability is mediated by personality factors and socio-psychological processes, with learning playing an important role. Using a five-fold career adapt-abilities competency framework (defined here as control, curiosity, commitment, confidence and concern), which was developed from the international quantitative study that is the focus of…
Descriptors: Career Change, Vocational Adjustment, Personality Traits, Biographies
Men Who Teach Young Children: An International Perspective
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Brody, David – Trentham Books, 2014
Few men around the world work in daycare settings, nursery schools or kindergartens. Yet wherever they are found, men who are perceived to have crossed the gender boundary in their choice of profession are widely acclaimed as gifted educators and excellent caregivers. Policy makers who care about providing quality education for young children need…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Gender Issues, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
European Religious Education Teachers' Perceptions of and Responses to Classroom Diversity and Their Relationship to Personal and Professional Biographies
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Everington, Judith; ter Avest, Ina; Bakker, Cok; van der Want, Anna – British Journal of Religious Education, 2011
This paper focuses on teachers of secondary level religious education in England, Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. It presents a study of the teachers' perceptions of and responses to the diversity within their classes, in relation to their professional role and their personal and professional biographies. The study employed…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Religion, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism