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Dunlop, Lynda; Turkenburg-van Diepen, Maria; Knox, Kerry J.; Bennett, Judith – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Open-ended investigative work is important for science at the high school level because it provides students with experiences approaching the authentic practice of scientists. In England context, some teachers provide opportunities for open-ended investigation, even though at post-16 (pre-university) A-Level they are no longer required to do so.…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
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Brook, Cheryl; Abbott, Christine – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
This paper explores the learning and experience of Western action learning facilitators engaged in developing Chinese facilitators of action learning, all of whom were also managers, as part of a qualification programme based in China. The Western facilitators interviewed for this study had been specifically asked by their hosts to deliver a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Facilitators (Individuals), Organizational Development
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Arquisola, Maria Jacinta; Zutshi, Ambika; Rentschler, Ruth; Billsberry, Jon – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the mechanisms that explain the complexities Indonesian higher education (HE) academic leaders (ALs) experience in performing leadership roles. The research addresses the questions: How do Indonesian ALs perceive their roles in HE? What are the challenges facing Indonesian ALs in their roles in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Role, Role Perception, College Administration
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Seniuk Cicek, Jillian; Paul, Robyn; Sheridan, Patricia K.; Kuley, Liz – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2020
Four graduate students from four distinct Canadian institutions engaged in collaborative autoethnography to explore their dual roles as participant-researchers investigating the lived experience of graduate students studying engineering education research (EER) in Canada. Findings, oriented through the identity-trajectory framework, indicate that…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Graduate Students, Student Experience, Engineering Education
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Kyshtymova, Irina M.; Rozhkova, Natalia A. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
Public standing of a teacher is reflective of the customary social attitude towards the profession and associates with the efficiency of the professional practice. The dynamism of social processes determines the importance of defining modern criteria for the semantic categorization of teacher's public standing, differences in the perception of…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Reputation, High School Teachers, Teacher Evaluation
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Drysdale, Jason – Online Learning, 2019
Collaborating with faculty is an integral part of the instructional designer's role. However, faculty can be skeptical regarding the added value of the instructional designer's expertise and contribution in helping them (Intentional Futures, 2016). Additionally, instructional designers experience a high degree of job misperception and struggle to…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, College Faculty, Interprofessional Relationship, Role Perception
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Adiningrum, Tatum; Sturm, Sean; Kensington-Miller, Barbara – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
Employing part-time and casual academics is now a widely accepted practice in higher education globally. We explored the issue of the identity of part-time academics in Indonesian higher education through interviews with 14 part-time and 11 full-time academics. Both groups identified more strongly with their teaching roles than with other roles.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Clough, Cynthia – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2019
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the context of service delivery decision-making in school-based occupational therapy practice. Participants included 14 occupational therapists. The primary source of data came from semi-structured, open-ended interviews. Open inductive coding was used for in-vivo data analysis. Themes in the…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Personnel, Delivery Systems, Decision Making
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Lochmiller, Chad R. – Voices of Reform, 2018
Scholars have increasingly focused on the practice of central office administrators. Principal supervisors, who often work in central offices, have received attention as scholars view these administrators as an essential source of support for school principals. This study employed a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with 20…
Descriptors: Principals, Coaching (Performance), Central Office Administrators, Supervision
Shrader, Ralph D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Financial concerns and public scrutiny are causing many educational leaders and community stakeholders to study the district configurations of school corporations, academic preparation, and ideal school size. The purpose of this qualitative case-study research design was to identify and better understand successful small school districts as…
Descriptors: Small Schools, School Districts, School Community Relationship, Case Studies
Fitzmaurice, Stephen B. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Research on the role space of educational interpreters has historically focused on descriptions of tasks educational interpreters are engaged in during their work day. This case study uses role theory to examine the perceptions of administrators and teachers on the role space of educational interpreters. Through a series of qualitative interviews…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Deaf Interpreting, Role Perception
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Baron, Christine; Sklarwitz, Sherri; Coddington, Nicholas – Teacher Development, 2021
This article reports on Year 2 of a three-year project to assess historic site-based teacher professional development programs. The intended focus was assessing pre-post Q-sorts and interviews of 29 teachers regarding how they see their work at historic sites affecting their professional development. However, data analysis revealed exceptionally…
Descriptors: Museums, Historic Sites, United States History, Historical Interpretation
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Östlund, Daniel; Barow, Thomas; Dahlberg, Kajsa; Johansson, Anette – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2021
Based on street-level bureaucracy, this study investigates the paraprofessional role and assignments in self-contained classrooms for students with intellectual disabilities in Sweden. The research design contains a mixed method approach using a digital questionnaire for paraprofessionals (N = 60) and semi-structured interviews with four special…
Descriptors: Special Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Self Contained Classrooms, Work Environment
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Merga, Margaret K.; Ferguson, Catherine – Australian Journal of Education, 2021
Reading for pleasure is an undervalued but highly beneficial practice conferring a range of educative and socio-emotional advantages. School librarians may play a key role in supporting reading for pleasure and associated literature advocacy; however, relatively little is known about how reading for pleasure may be valued within the job…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Role Perception, Value Judgment
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Amiet, D.; Choate, J.; Hoskin, J.; Dart, J. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Career development is an essential component of graduate employability, particularly for students undertaking degree programs that are not aligned to a specific vocational outcome. For undergraduate career development to be effective, it should be embedded into the curriculum and involve the academic teaching staff. This approach enhances the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Health Sciences
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