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Bauer, Steven – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
Recent trends have made the transition from business professional to academic increasingly popular as a move to a second career. This article offers a personal perspective on a critical component of a successful transition--the fruitful leveraging of different university communities. The recommendations are in line with studies showing the…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Career Change, Professional Personnel, College Faculty
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Barroso-Osuna, Julio; Gutiérrez-Castillo, Juan Jesús; Llorente-Cejudo, Mª del Carmen; Ortiz, Rubicelia Valencia – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2019
"Augmented reality" (AR) is presented as technology that harmonizes, in real time and with user collaboration, digital information with physical information through different technological supports. Such are AR possibilities, that when it is incorporated into teaching, students show high satisfaction rates and positive attitudes for its…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Expertise, Technology Integration, Barriers
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Baroutsis, Aspa – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This paper explores the 'media mentalities' about teachers and their work in the Australian print media. The notion of media mentalities draws on the theoretical concepts of discourse, mentalities, and mediatisation. This refers to the constructed realities and forms of thought in media coverage that circulate particular accounts. These are linked…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Mass Media, Journalism, Newspapers
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Oladele, Ogunniran Moses; Funmi, Komolafe Blessing; Ruth, Ogundele Atinuke – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2019
Education is an essential tool for human, economical, societal and technological development. When education is properly utilized and financed, learning outcomes with higher quality are achieved. Under-funding is the critical challenge facing the Nigerian higher education (NHE) system. There is considerable increase in the demand for NHE and…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
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Harper, Rowena; Bretag, T.; Ellis, C.; Newton, P.; Rozenberg, P.; Saddiqui, S.; van Haeringen, K. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
If media reports are to be believed, Australian universities are facing a significant and growing problem of students outsourcing their assessment to third parties, a behaviour commonly known as 'contract cheating'. Teaching staff are integral to preventing and managing this emerging form of cheating, yet there has been little evidence-based…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Universities, Foreign Countries, Cheating
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Wollscheid, Sabine; Stensaker, Bjørn; Bugge, Markus M. – European Education, 2019
Evidence-informed policy and practice has been a trend as part of an effort to increase the use of research to improve education at all levels. In many countries, knowledge-brokering initiatives were established to stimulate links between research, policy, and practice. Drawing on a mapping of initiatives in seven countries, this article describes…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Research
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Drescher, Nuala McGann; Scheuerman, William E.; Steen, Ivan D. – SUNY Press, 2019
Public education, from pre-K through higher education, and labor unions, particularly those representing public sector workers, are today under attack from those who question the very need to have such basic institutions. "United University Professions" is a history of United University Professions (UUP), which grew from humble…
Descriptors: Unions, Higher Education, School Personnel, College Faculty
Sandoval-Hernandez, Andres; Miranda, Daniel; Treviño, Ernesto; Schmelkes, Sylvia – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2019
Results from ICCS 2016 show that more than two-thirds of the students in the participating Latin American countries reported that they would support a dictatorship as a form of government if it brought order and security, or if it brought economic benefits. This brief looks closer at these findings in order to identify possible explanations and…
Descriptors: Democracy, Authoritarianism, Student Attitudes, Political Attitudes
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Akbayrak, Melike; Kaya, Ebru – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study is based on the Reconceptualised Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science (Kaya & Erduran, 2016), which explains science as a cognitive, epistemic, and social-institutional system. A content analysis of Turkish science curricula shows that the social context of science is underemphasised (Kaya & Erduran, 2016).…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Scientific Principles
Kapua Lililehua Chandler – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Indigenous students are in "a state of emergency" comprising less than 1 percent of all students enrolled in college and the lowest graduation rates of all racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. (Brayboy et al., 2012). Attempts to address these low participation and completion rates often ignore the fact that state-sponsored education systems…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Minority Serving Institutions
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Natsumi Ueda; Adrianna Kezar; Elizabeth Holcombe; Darsella Vigil; Jordan Harper – AERA Open, 2024
Leaders from marginalized groups disproportionately shoulder emotional labor resulting from the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education. This emotional burden can lead to stress and mental health consequences. Institutions bear the responsibility of addressing the emotional burden. This multiple-case qualitative study…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Diversity, Inclusion, Institutional Role
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van Zanten, Agnès – Comparative Education, 2019
This article focuses on the interplay between institutional arrangements, family strategies, and market devices in the transition to higher education (HE) in France with a view to documenting both persistent features of the French 'conservative' educational regime and recent changes, in particular those related to neo-liberal influences. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Politics of Education, Institutional Characteristics
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Garriott, Patton O.; Nisle, Stephanie – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2018
This study examined stress, coping, and perceived academic goal progress among first- (n = 363) and continuing-generation (n = 325) college students. Stress was significantly related to institutional supports for first- but not continuing-generation students. In addition, institutional supports explained the relation between stress and perceived…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Coping, Academic Achievement, Student Educational Objectives
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Daniels, Kevin; Connolly, Sara; Ogbonnaya, Chidiebere; Tregaskis, Olga; Bryan, Mark L.; Robinson-Pant, Anna; Street, John – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2018
Recent policy initiatives in the UK have heightened the degree to which wellbeing can be considered a political construct: The acceptance of different policy options for wellbeing depends on the extent to which those options are responsive to popular wellbeing concerns. Drawing on the views of over 400 people gathered through a variety of methods…
Descriptors: Well Being, Employment, Adult Learning, Stakeholders
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Harford, Judith – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2018
Examining the historiography of women's education, the issue which dominates is understandably that of access. Access, or lack thereof, is a transnational construct which forms an over-arching framework through which the issue of historical gender equality in higher education can be interpreted and interrogated. Each of the seminal texts which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, College Admission, Teacher Associations
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