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Liu, Ngar-Fun; Littlewood, William – System, 1997
Discusses two surveys conducted at the University of Hong Kong that measured students' willingness to adopt active speech roles in second-language classrooms. Findings reveal that students expressed a liking for communicative work at school and a preference for classes permitting students to do most of the talking, but that they had a low…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, College Students
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Street, Sue; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1996
A survey of 2,990 students, 520 faculty, and 270 administrators at 1 university investigated gender role preferences for "ideal woman,""ideal man," and perceptions of "most women,""most men," and "self". All groups preferred an androgynous "ideal woman" and a largely masculine sex-typed "ideal man". All described sex-typed perceptions of "most…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Androgyny, College Administration, College Faculty
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Newsome, Clarence G. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1997
The dean of a divinity school reflects that the dean's role is to move the center of a school to its heart, safeguarding, promoting, and capitalizing on the school's collective intellectual intelligence and reconciling it with the school's collective emotional intelligence. Creating a climate for growth in the current environment of contraction is…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Deans
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Whitt, Elizabeth J. – Review of Higher Education, 1991
A study examined the experiences of three male and three female newly employed full-time education faculty at a research university and compared them with administrator expectations and perceptions. Five recurring themes emerged: collegiality, school expectations of new faculty, the department chair's role, workload, and feelings of new faculty…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Faculty, Collegiality
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Dambrot, Faye H.; And Others – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1988
Investigates the viewer perceptions of female and male television characters as a result of viewer sex and sex role orientation, based on the responses of 677 young adults to the Personal Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ). Viewer gender had an impact on the rating of female characters. (FMW)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Audiences, Characterization, Commercial Television
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Lewis, Ellen T.; McCarthy, Patricia R. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1988
Analyzes the responses of 160 male and female undergraduates with either an androgynous, masculine, or feminine sex role orientation who judged the intimacy and commonness of masculine and feminine self-disclosures attributed to either men or women. Gender, but not sexual orientation, influenced ratings. (FMW)
Descriptors: Androgyny, College Students, Females, Identification (Psychology)
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Frank, Ellen J. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1988
Surveys 202 undergraduate business majors regarding their perceptions of women in management. Concludes that perceptual stereotypes have not radically changed when compared to research reported in the 1970s. (FMW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Change, Business Education, Business Skills
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Barr, Robert B.; Tagg, John – Change, 1995
Two alternative paradigms for undergraduate education are compared; one holds teaching as its purpose, the other learning. The natures of the two paradigms are examined on the following dimensions: mission and purposes, criteria for success, teaching and learning structures, underlying learning theory, concepts of productivity and methods of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Role, Educational Objectives
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Welch, Marshall; Hardman, Michael L. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 1991
This article describes the University of Utah's approach to preparing teachers of students with disabilities for change in the schools. The discussion addresses coursework and field experiences which stress the process of change, through the examination of professional roles, socio-technical systems analysis, cultural perspectives, and ongoing…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Course Content, Cultural Influences, Disabilities
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Friend, Marilyn; And Others – Preventing School Failure, 1993
The development and current status of coteaching to meet the needs of students with disabilities in mainstream settings are reviewed. Issues are identified concerning resources (finances, time, and space); participants (role clarification of both professionals and paraprofessionals); and implementation (the need for documentation of coteaching…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Walker, Charles J. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1991
Classroom assessment techniques were used in a large survey college course in psychology to monitor student performance and collect other forms of student feedback. As a result, student-teacher role relations changed, the teacher adopted the role of learning coach and reduced lecture content, and the classroom environment was enlivened. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Course Content
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Snyder, David W. – Music Educators Journal, 1998
Conveys the importance of student teaching for developing and further exploring preconceived beliefs about classroom management. Recognizes role identity and the cooperating teacher as having the most impact on student teachers. Stresses that when placing the student teacher with a cooperating teacher, the university should attempt to match their…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Standards, Beliefs, Classroom Techniques
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MacNeil, Carole; Krensky, Beth – Education and Urban Society, 1996
Discusses Project YES, a model of urban programming that provides youth with a support structure wherein their voices about pressing social issues can be heard by a wider audience. Youths participate in project-based workshops in which they develop critical-thinking, problem-solving, leadership, and consensus-building skills. (GR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Cooperation, Experiential Learning
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Burroughs-Lange, Sue G. – Higher Education Research and Development, 1996
A study examined the role perceptions and beliefs about learning of 20 lecturers in 10 schools at a large Australian university. It identified a perceptual framework within which teachers' intentions are formulated, and which drive the strategies they adopt. Responses focused on their concepts of the nature of learning, perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Philosophy
Davis, Janice K.; Dunn, Merrily S.; Davis, J. Shay – College Student Affairs Journal, 2004
This qualitative study compared and contrasted the perceptions of roles, support, and mission of campus ministers at a large public and a small private institution in the southeastern United States. Semi-structured interviews of campus ministers, representing a variety of faith traditions, were conducted and analyzed.
Descriptors: Clergy, Interviews, Institutional Mission, Church Role
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