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Direct linkChristensen, Chad – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
Institutions of higher education have been gradually employing more part-time faculty over the past several decades. Walsh estimates that part-time faculty employment across all types of institutions increased 79 percent from 1981 to 1999. The growth of part-time faculty at community colleges is equally astounding. It is now estimated that 67…
Descriptors: Employment, Community Colleges, Colleges, Outcomes of Education
Download full textWhitebook, Marcy; And Others – 1989
This national study explored the effects of teachers and their working conditions on the caliber of center-based child care in the United States. Study goals were to: (1) compare center-based child care services in 1988 with those of 1977; (2) examine relations among child care staff characteristics, adult work environments, and quality of child…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Whitebook, Marcy; And Others – 1989
The National Child Care Staffing Study (NCCSS) was designed to explore how child care teaching staff and their working conditions affect the caliber of center-based child care. Four major policy questions were addressed: (1) Who teaches in America's child care centers? (2) What do they contribute to the quality of care provided? (3) Do centers…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Fitzgerald, Louise F. – 1985
An enormous body of literature illuminates various facets of the relationship between education and employment. Views of the proper role of education have ranged from cultural transmission to societal transformation and individual development, to the current belief that it prepares for transition to adulthood, i.e., the movement from school to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Employment, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Ng, Roxana; Wong, Renita Yuk-Lin; Choi, Angela – 1999
The current conditions of home workers in the garment industry in Toronto, Canada, were examined through in-depth telephone interviews with 30 Chinese-speaking immigrant women who were employed as home workers in 1999. The paper dicusses the formal training and informal learning experiences of immigrant woman who are garment workers. A comparison…
Descriptors: Child Care, Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal), Consciousness Raising
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change
