Goals of the Lilly Post-Doctoral Fellowships Program as defined by the Lilly Endowment and as perceived by the Fellows, campus program directors, and participants in the Lilly Conferences are considered. The Endowment offered small grants (a maximum of three years of support at a maximum of $50,000 each year) to institutions willing to examine how…

The attitudes and training and/or personnel directors within the Canadian business and health-area sectors towards nontraditional education in management and health services administration are reported, based on 173 surveys to business/government and health-care institutions. Following an introduction to the study, Part Two, "Nontraditional…

This followup study reports on the career patterns of 117 graduates from Ohio State University's College of Education, whether they were actively teaching or were in another job situation. Statistics are provided on demographic information and current occupations. Nonteachers were asked why they chose not to teach and how their present occupation…

A study examined the opinions of agriculture teachers, school administrators, students, and parents concerning females as agriculture students, teachers, and workers in agriculture. A survey instrument to collect respondent demographic data and a questionnaire to measure sex bias were completed by the following groups connected with Kansas…

Since 1972 Western Kentucky University has been evaluating graduates from the teacher education program via the Teacher Preparation Evaluation Program. Participants were identified during student teaching and followed for five years with extensive data collected during the first, third and fifth years. Part of these data included a new scale, the…

Factors influencing the employment tenure of men qualified to teach vocational agriculture were examined to determine the (1) causes of teachers leaving the vocational agriculture teaching profession, (2) relationships between years as a high school vocational agriculture student and tenure in teaching and (3) relationships between employment…

Contains 11 articles, including first-person accounts, on the work and work environment of teachers. Discusses the factors that make teaching satisfying or frustrating and offers suggestions for change in both the policy and organizational framework of the schools and the roles, relationships, and ethos knitting together individuals in particular…

Projected teacher shortages are due to an expanding need and teachers leaving the profession. With the extreme pressures on beginning teachers, a large percentage of them leave the profession within their first 5-6 years. Causes for leaving the profession include school staffing actions; personal reasons; pursuing another job; and dissatisfaction.…

This report is the second in a series that follows 1992-93 college graduates' progress through the teacher pipeline using data from the Second Follow-up of the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study. It examines academic characteristics and preparation for teaching of those who took various steps toward teaching and is organized by a…

Explores resistance to erasure in which women are either absent or represented as the objects rather than subjects of knowledge. The article interprets the narratives of women teachers, emphasizing passivity, resistance, life history narratives, and teaching as life's work. (SM)

A statewide survey examined health status, behaviors, and concerns of 446 randomly selected early childhood professionals--directors, teachers, and family day care providers. Found dramatic changes in perceived frequency of various symptoms and becoming ill since working with children. Found significant differences between groups for number of…

Survey data (1993-94) from 264 fourth-year medical students and 500 clinical faculty members at 59 medical schools found that schools that have primary care missions and have historically produced more generalists transmit higher levels of encouragement to their students about primary care. However, even at schools with strong primary care…

The issues of language, literacy, and numeracy (LL&N) in Aboriginal health worker (AHW) training in Australia were explored to determine how these issues interrelate, overlap, and influence the types of literacy practices required in indigenous contexts. Data were collected through two workshops and formal and informal discussions with a…

A four-stage model was tested to examine the processes by which new faculty became members of three academic departments within a higher education institution. Attention was directed to the ways in which different academic subcultures select and socialize new faculty and the degree to which identity and role orientation are carried over, or…

This paper explores the concept of reflection and reflective practice in teacher education. Teaching is a complex achievement that brings together a number of conceptual, practical, and physical resources in an individual's professional practice. Achievement in teaching is an amalgam of at least four different discourses--science, craft, art, and…