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Watkins, Ryan; Leigh, Doug; Kaufman, Roger – Performance Improvement, 2000
Presents a preliminary code of professional conduct for the performance technology professional. Discusses the changing focus and role of organizations within our society; responsibilities and ideals of professionals, customers, clients, and society; and the need for a different label for the field of human performance technology. (Contains 19…
Descriptors: Organizational Theories, Performance Technology, Social Theories
Kyburz, Bonnie Lenore – College English, 2004
The explanatory power provided by the chaos theory is explored. A dynamic and reciprocal relationship between culture and chaos theory indicates that the progressive cultural work may be formed by the cross-disciplinary resonance of chaos theory.
Descriptors: Culture, Social Studies, Physics, Social Theories
Vanderstraeten, Raf – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2004
In the course of the long eighteenth century, ways of thinking in the Western world transformed in fundamental ways; even words that remained the same took on new meanings. In the field of the history of ideas, the period 1700-1850 is also called the saddle-period. Philosophers of history have argued that the new basic concepts that emerged at…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Social Theories
Dillabough, Jo-Anne – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2004
This paper seeks to outline and evaluate Pierre Bourdieu's work as it has appeared most recently in feminist studies and the field of gender and education. In particular, it suggests ways in which Bourdieu's theoretical insights could be seen to more effectively contribute to cutting edge debates in both social theory and feminist thought…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Educational Sociology, Social Theories, Feminism
MacDonald, John M.; Haviland, Amelia; Morral, Andrew R. – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2009
Understanding the progression of violent and nonviolent criminal activity remains a matter of theoretical debate. In the present study, the authors build on criminological theory and assess the extent to which the progression of violent and nonviolent criminal behaviors follows different trajectories. The authors rely on semiparametric mixture…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Criminals, At Risk Persons, Violence
Peters, Michael A., Ed.; Bulut, Ergin, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2011
Cognitive capitalism--sometimes referred to as "third capitalism," after mercantilism and industrial capitalism--is an increasingly significant theory, given its focus on the socio-economic changes caused by Internet and Web 2.0 technologies that have transformed the mode of production and the nature of labor. The theory of cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Academic Freedom, Global Approach
Hargreaves, Andy; Shirley, Dennis; Harris, Alma; Boyle, Alan – Principal, 2010
Teachers might be working significantly more with one another, but principals are not. Superintendents might bring principals together for district meetings or even to expose their performance results to colleagues in public, but principal collaboration is too often trumped by district control. Even worse, more and more schools and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Collegiality
Mahmood, Sehba – School Community Journal, 2013
The significance of relationships between the parents and teachers of preschool and kindergarten children is well established. Teachers and schools are presumed to be responsible for lack of parent-teacher collaboration. Internationally, early childhood teacher education programs recognize this and offer courses related to parents and families.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Barriers
Caruccio, Julie Innes – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As higher education struggles to prove its ongoing relevance within the broader society in the face of increasing costs and little visible accountability, community engagement has emerged as one strategy to demonstrate that relevance. Such engagement is difficult and often messy, however, and structural differences among universities and the…
Descriptors: School Community Programs, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, College Programs
Eaton, Sarah Elaine – Online Submission, 2008
This paper explores the difficulties of finding an appropriate theoretical framework for a doctoral dissertation examining revenue-generating language programs at post-secondary institutions. It briefly examines the history of language programs in higher education in the developed English-speaking world and the current situation of many…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Doctoral Dissertations, Best Practices
Mueller, Julia; Renzl, Birgit; Kaar, Alexandra – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2008
The availability of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has led organisations to implement different kinds of electronic knowledge networks and communities. While the technological infrastructure connects employees in different locations and allows for learning and the flow of knowledge across traditional organisational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Computer Mediated Communication
Wang, Greg G.; Swanson, Richard A. – Human Resource Development Review, 2008
Recent human resource development (HRD) literature focuses attention on national HRD (NHRD) research and represents problems in both HRD identity and research methodology. Based on a review of development economics and international development literature, this study analyzes the existing NHRD literature with respect to the theory development…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Research Problems
Li, Xiaoming; Stanton, Bonita; Wang, Bo; Mao, Rong; Zhang, Hongshia; Qu, Minfeng; Sun, Zhifeng; Wang, Jing – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2008
This pilot study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of cultural adaptation of a social cognitive theory-based HIV risk reduction program delivered among college students in China. Three hundred eighty students from four universities in Nanjing, China, were assigned by classroom to either an intervention group receiving the culturally adapted…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Program Effectiveness, Health Education, Culturally Relevant Education
McDonald, Morva A. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2008
This article examines the pedagogy of assignments in social justice teacher education programs. Employing a programmatic view, this study aims to understand the collective representation of social justice provided by assignments across multiple courses. Findings come from a qualitative case study of two social justice programs. Drawing on concepts…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Teacher Education, Assignments, Teacher Education Programs
Printy, Susan M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Purpose: The study is a two-stage inquiry into the influence of high school principals and department chairpersons on the nature of science and mathematics teachers' community of practice participation. Of particular interest is the extent to which formal leaders influence the formation of productive communities of practice and the extent to which…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Instructional Leadership, Principals