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Social Roles and Meaningful Lives
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Aaron Yarmel – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
Many educators are also academic researchers and activists. This diversity can enrich our lives in important ways, allowing us to experience distinct domains of life and apply insights across them. Nevertheless, the responsibilities connected to these roles sometimes conflict in ways that undermine the meaningfulness of an educator's life by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Role, Teacher Responsibility
The Dynamics of the Life Values of Rural Youth
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Mikheev, P. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
What kind of impact have the last decade's radical changes in types of economic systems, property ownership, and opportunities for employment had on the rural youth of Russia? This paper examines this topic by presenting a survey of upper-grade students in rural schools in a region of Saratov Oblast in 1994, 1997, and 2004, using the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Youth, Social Values, Employment Opportunities
A Social and Psychological Portrait of the College and University Educator.
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Dobruskin, M. E. – Russian Education and Society, 1996
Paints a discouraging picture of the teaching conditions in higher education in the Ukraine. Salaries are about one-quarter of their previous levels, and often are not paid for months at a time, workers in science and education rank forty-fifth out of forty-eight pay categories, and publishing opportunities have declined. (MJP)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Faculty, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
The Teaching Profession in a Situation of Social and Political Change. Part 1. The Teaching Profession As a Socio-Occupational Stratum.
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Tumalev, Vladimir Vladimirovich – Russian Education and Society, 1997
Presents the results of a major study that attempts to define the occupational characteristics of the teaching profession in post-Soviet Russia. Compiles and summarizes a wide array of information concerning educational background, salaries, certification, professional attitudes, prestige, and other factors among Russian teachers. Includes…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Policy
Gender and Job Values.
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Marini, Margaret Mooney; And Others – Sociology of Education, 1996
Discovers distinct differences and a few similarities between men and women concerning values and expectations associated with employment. Women attach greater importance to intrinsic, altruistic, and social rewards. Earlier research suggested significant gender differences regarding extrinsic rewards; however, this category revealed no…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Economic Factors, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR.
Beder, Sharon – 2000
This book provides an account and critique of the work ethic, a central aspect of modern capitalist society. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 considers social changes in Europe in the 16th-17th centuries, maintaining that work was imbued with moral qualities and wealth seeking acquired social legitimacy through religious sanction. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advantaged, Behavior Standards, Capitalism