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Aiken, David – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research illustrates a personalized account of the unique transition from a third grade classroom directly to a superintendency in a public school located on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. This self-study is about me as the subject as well as the researcher in the cultural context of a school district with an 89% Native American student…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Autobiographies, Ethnography, School Administration
Becker, Brenda Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Background: Minimal research exists regarding professional identity in nursing faculty. The established literature from teaching, nursing, and medicine shows professional identity promotes resilience, collaboration, and positive practice outcomes. These factors would be beneficial in the recruitment, orientation, and retention of nursing faculty.…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Personal Narratives, Interviews, Nursing Education
Simsek, Ali – Online Submission, 2013
Professor Reigeluth emphasizes that the work of educational technology researchers should focus on advancing instructional design theories rather than investigating some trendy aspects of utilizing educational media in schools. He makes the point that such an orientation will provide a comprehensive framework for efforts toward improving education…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Educational Media, Educational Change
Palacio, Consuelo A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
For this qualitative study, I used the lens of the Social Cognitive Career Theory to investigate the lived experiences of Latina women navigating their career paths into the roles of public high school principals. Latina women are underrepresented and in some states they are not represented at all. Few Latina women have secured the position of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Career Development, Females, Hispanic Americans
Juuti, Sini; Littleton, Karen – Vocations and Learning, 2012
The classical music academy is a site dominated by traditional meanings of creative practice and an image of the professional creative career as solo performer that is fully available to only a very few students after graduating. The purpose of the study reported in this paper is to explore career-young professional pianists' talk about the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Creativity, Career Development
Kantor, Debra – Journal of Extension, 2012
Many communities are searching for ways to help youth identify successful career options and strengthen the local economy. Based in a rural community that reflects Maine's decline in jobs in manufacturing and natural resource-based industries, the project described here provided youth with an opportunity to increase their aspirations by…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Community Programs, Career Development, Rural Areas
St. Marthe, Tamara Jaslene Marcelle – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The advancement of women into academic leadership remains a problem facing public, high-research activity universities. While there are more women who are qualified to assume the position of department chair in research institutions today than there were 30 years ago, women still lag behind their male counterparts in holding these academic…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Women Administrators, Public Colleges, Research Universities
Wallin, Dawn C. – McGill Journal of Education, 2012
This paper conceptualizes queue theory (Tallerico & Blount, 2004) to discuss a mixed-methods study that determined the career patterns of senior educational administrators in public school divisions in Manitoba, Canada, compared by position, context and sex. Findings indicate that queue theory has merit for describing the career paths of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Foreign Countries, Career Development, Employment Opportunities
Coker, Jeffrey Scott; Porter, Desiree Jasmine – Journal of General Education, 2016
Understanding student motivations for participating in high-impact educational practices is important for improving learning experiences. This article explores student motivations across and within five forms of experiential learning at Elon University: study abroad, research, internships, service-learning, and leadership experiences. Surveys and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Experiential Learning, College Students, Study Abroad
Sheftel, Anya; Lindstrom, Lauren; McWhirter, Benedict – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2014
Youth with disabilities face both internal and external barriers to career development and often experience poor post school outcomes in comparison to their nondisabled peers. The purpose of this study was to design, implement, and evaluate a motivational interviewing-based group career intervention--Motivational Enhancement Group Intervention…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Barriers, Career Development, Self Determination
Zepeda, Sally J.; Parylo, Oksana; Bengtson, Ed – Professional Development in Education, 2014
This qualitative study sought to identify current principal professional development practices in four school systems in Georgia and to examine them by applying the principles of adult learning theory. The cross-case analysis of principal professional development initiatives in four school districts revealed nine common practices: connecting…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Neeganagwedgin, Erica – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2013
This paper focuses on the educational experiences and narratives of women of African ancestry in Canada, and is based on a number of women who were interviewed over a two-month period. The literature review examines the ways in which today's experiences of formal education, which were shared by the women, are shaped and circumscribed by much…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Studies, Womens Education, Blacks
Kilimnik, Zelia Miranda; de Oliveira, Luiz Claudio Vieira; Sant'anna, Anderson De Souza; Barros, Delba Teixeira Rodrigues – Qualitative Report, 2011
This article analyses career anchors changes associated to images and professionals trajectories. Its main question: Do anchors careers change through time? We conducted twelve interviews involving professionals from the Administration Area, applying Schein's Career Anchors Inventory (1993). We did the same two years later. In both of them, the…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Career Development, Career Planning, Foreign Countries
Sullivan, Megan – Science Teacher, 2011
Visualization is the art of turning information--concepts, processes, events, structures, and trends--into images that support our understanding. Carter Emmart is a visualizer of science. He is the director of astrovisualization for the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). In this interview, Emmart describes what it is like to be a…
Descriptors: Visualization, Museums, Science Education, Interviews
Conway, Colleen; Rawlings, Jared; Wolfgram, T. J. – Music Educators Journal, 2014
A trained music educator accepted a band paraprofessional position and discovered some of the challenges inherent in the role. Certified for K-12 music, he was hired part-time in a large suburban instrumental music program. The job, although interesting and challenging, did not pay enough to sustain him financially. Other music educators warned…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Teacher Certification, Music Teachers, Teacher Role