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Ho, Chun Sing Maxwell; Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin – Teacher Development, 2023
This study identifies how a teacher's entrepreneurial behavior (TEB) changed when promoted to higher positions in a school. It distills her experiences over time to uncover the symbiotic relationship between teaching and administrative entrepreneurial behaviors in promoting school innovation. Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teacher Behavior, Empowerment, Innovation
Reed Marshall, Tanji – ASCD, 2023
Explore the web of factors that influence your power as a teacher--and how you can better use that power to foster student agency and empowerment. What kind of power do teachers have? What influences their instructional decision making--and how does that affect students, particularly Black students and other students of color? How can educators…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Curriculum Development, Language Usage, Power Structure
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McStravock, Kevin – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2023
Students who serve on the governing body of UK and Irish higher education institutions often report challenges due to a perceived power dynamic. This study explored the perspectives of power among current and former student governors (n = 14). This research highlighted the importance of power and its role in determining the influence (or lack of)…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Governance, Higher Education, Student Participation
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W. James Potter – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2022
It has become a common practice to categorize the different perspectives on media education as following either a protectionist approach or an empowerment approach. However, the way scholars write about the distinction between these two approaches can be confusing and sometimes misleading. This article presents an examination into the ways media…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Literacy Education, Empowerment, Classification
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Andrea Baer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This article reports on findings of an online survey about academic instruction librarians' conceptions and experiences of teacher agency in relation to their instructional work, and, more specifically, on the role of librarian-faculty relationships in these conceptions and experiences. The research study is informed by an ecological model of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, College Faculty, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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Nikita Kalwani; Amanda Kelly Ferguson; Lori Goff; Kim Dej – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2024
This article presents the results of collaborative autoethnographical (CAE) research that investigated the group dynamics and processes of an undergraduate student, a post-doctoral fellow, and two senior administrators engaged in a students-as-partners (SaP) project. The CAE methodology allowed us to systematically, collaboratively, and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Group Dynamics, Student Participation
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Szadkowski, Krystian; Krzeski, Jakub – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
In this paper, we place the issue of university activism in the context of constituent and constituted power. By this we mean the ever-present danger that activists' demands will be co-opted and concurrently deactivated. To mitigate this risk, we develop a set of conceptual tools that enables thinking about the activist university in terms of…
Descriptors: College Students, Activism, Praxis, Universities
Ayestas Hernández, Jessy C. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore graduate student senates in higher education institutions to have a better understanding of their history, role, functions, power, influence, and effectiveness in addressing the needs of graduate students. The theoretical framework for this study draws on concepts from political science and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Governing Councils, Student Government, Advocacy
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Tarek Shal; Norma Ghamrawi; Abdullah Abu-Tineh; Yousef M. Al-Shaboul; Abdellatif Sellami – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study explored the development of teacher leadership in collaborative online spaces, also called virtual communities of practice (vCoP). Employing a phenomenological research design with semi-structured interviews as the primary data collection method, participants were drawn from a single vCoP. The findings underscored the pivotal role of…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Leadership Styles
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Bierdz, Brad – Power and Education, 2021
This exploration takes a look at how students in higher education are disempowered through regimes of social power that are always already extant and ubiquitous within educational regimes. Moreover, this exploration pays particular interest and attention to students in higher education because in many cases throughout relevant research, these…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Empowerment, Power Structure, Philosophy
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Desai, Karishma – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2023
Aspirations have gained significant attention within educational anthropology and yet the effects (and affects) of the imperative to aspire that undergird educational projects have been underexamined. This paper argues that aspirations within the context of material depravity often produce immaterial precarity, which I index as affective states of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Empowerment, Intervention
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Choi, Yoon Ha; Brunner, Megan; Traini, Haley – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
As three doctoral students, we conducted a collaborative autoethnography to explore how power dynamics in higher education played a role in our identity development as scholars. Through the lens of Wenger-Trayner and Wenger-Trayner's "Landscapes of Practice" and Foucault's notions of power, we specifically attended to how our attempts to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Power Structure, Self Concept, Communities of Practice
Cecilia Chavez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Undocumented students graduate from high school at 98,000 per year nationally (27,000 annually in California). School counselors are certificated campus professionals tasked with social, emotional, college, and career interventions for all students and also provide advocacy between students and any barriers interfering with school safety, mental…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Power Structure, Undocumented Immigrants, High School Students
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Anna Fabri; Anna Jobér – Educational Action Research, 2024
This paper reports on a two-year project focusing on health communicators working with refugees in Sweden. By employing participatory action research and the theory of practice architectures, the study examines a health information practice for newly arrived refugees and highlights its potentials and constraints. The joint meetings that occurred…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Fickling, Melissa J.; Graden, Matthew; Tangen, Jodi L. – Professional Counselor, 2022
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore how feminist-identified counselor educators understand and experience power in counselor education. Thirteen feminist women were interviewed. We utilized a loosely structured interview protocol to elicit participant experiences with the phenomenon of power in the context of counselor…
Descriptors: Reflection, Power Structure, Feminism, Counselor Educators
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