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Marco Romito – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
Based on a qualitative study of school-to-university transition focused on working-class first-generation university students, the aim of this paper is twofold. First, it illustrates the multiple intertwining dimensions of the process of moving from school to university within an 'open-door' admission policy context such as the Italian one.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Working Class, First Generation College Students
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Pizarro Milian, Roger – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2018
Differentiation has gained widespread acceptance across the Ontario policy community as a mechanism that can improve the overall quality of the PSE system. Though much has been said locally about the supposed benefits of differentiation, including its ability to reduce programme duplication and boost institutional efficiency, little attention has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Organizational Theories, Universities
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Maughan, Lizzie; Natalier, Kristin; Mulholland, Monique – Gender and Education, 2022
This paper develops and applies the emergent concept of institutional transphobia to explore the barriers to transgender research in early years education. It argues that institutional processes embed and disguise the logic of transphobia by drawing on dominant, taken-for-granted claims of the inappropriateness or irrelevance of gender-focused…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, LGBTQ People, Social Bias, Barriers
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Liu, L. B.; Conner, J. M.; Li, Q. – Education Inquiry, 2023
Our global era invites research on teacher reflection that is grounded in local contexts and enriched by cross-regional collaborations. Teacher professionalism is a shared global interest that is shaped by unique cultural factors in local settings. This study examines Chinese and U.S. undergraduate teacher education student views on the criteria…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teacher Education, Professionalism
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Graham, Cameron W.; Moir, Zack – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2022
In a world characterised by supercomplexity, in which higher education (HE) is in the grip of neoliberal market forces (Barnett, 2000), it is incumbent upon participants in this sector to ask; what does it mean to belong, and to what? 'Belonging' has become a buzzword used by institutions to seemingly demonstrate how they seek to include students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Group Membership, Group Unity, Sense of Community
Melissa Lynne Neider – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to discover, from career services practitioners' perspective, their involvement working with faculty advisors on academic and career advising of collegiate visual and performing artists (VPA). Habley (1988, 2009) wrote about the importance of research in academic advising, to promote scholarly inquiry,…
Descriptors: Career Centers, School Personnel, Higher Education, Career Guidance
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De Santis, Jessica L.; O'Connor, Sarah P.; Pritchard, Kathleen; Franco, Zeno E.; Ahmed, Syed M.; Nelson, David A. – Innovative Higher Education, 2019
How we engage the community within our institutions, from higher education to social services, requires consistent reconceptualization. Many fields benefit from engaging the community; yet research around practical methods for engagement is limited. This study describes the process of using nominal group technique as a practical method for both…
Descriptors: Institutional Environment, Community Involvement, College Faculty, Participatory Research
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Kniess, Dena R. – New Directions for Student Services, 2019
This chapter explores the issues of transition from an administrator to faculty. This exploration includes considerations of various types of faculty positions available in higher education, institutional culture, and tenure and promotion expectations.
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Administrators, College Administration, College Faculty
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Shannon Giannitsopoulou; Jane A. Davis; Bismah Khalid; Ruheena Sangrar – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2023
Many workshops about identifying, understanding, and responding to microaggressions have been designed and delivered to learners within health education. However, few workshops implement an antiracist pedagogical approach, and none presented in the literature have been created specifically for occupational therapy students. Anti-racist pedagogical…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Foreign Countries, Racism, Power Structure
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Rotem, Nir; Yair, Gad; Shustak, Elad – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
While student attrition constitutes a major institutional concern at the undergraduate level, this topic is overlooked at the master's level. Dropout rates have been documented, but no solid predictive models are to be found. Likewise, little is known about students' decision to terminate their studies. With growing enrolment numbers in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Degrees, Student Attrition, Dropouts
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Mei Lai – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This paper focuses on an emerging group in Chinese higher education -- students in transnational higher education (TNHE). Recent research has documented much about students' motivations for attending TNHE institutions. However, the impact of such institutions on student outputs remains under-researched. This study conducted interviews with 78…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Global Approach, Higher Education
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Wilson, Rachel; Morieson, Lucy – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2022
Since 2011 the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University has been actively supporting an ethos of belonging throughout their learning and teaching. In 2017 'belonging' became a formal university priority, embedded in the institution's strategy and dispersed across Colleges and Schools through a range of activities and interventions.…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Group Unity, Interpersonal Relationship, Sense of Community
MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2021
To meet emerging needs of the mentoring field and inform funders and policymakers about how to strengthen the mentoring movement, MENTOR has developed a Research Agenda outlining four key areas for future mentoring research. Many researchers, practitioners, and thought-leaders collaborated on this agenda, providing expertise and insight into ways…
Descriptors: Mentors, Youth Programs, Research, Identification (Psychology)
Alexis Ann Palmer – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive research study was to explore and describe how non-LDS full-time faculty and staff describe working and living in a predominately Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) environment and whether the environment informs their social identity in the workplace at a public regional comprehensive…
Descriptors: College Faculty, School Personnel, Work Attitudes, Work Environment
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McKinnon-Crowley, Saralyn; Bukoski, Beth; Black, Victoria; Burmicky, Jorge; Molina, Veronica; Chacon, Krysta – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2022
In this instrumental case study, we explored the experiences of working mothers in student affairs and how their situated realities are shaped by institutional and professional norms, including commonly understood written and unwritten practices. We conducted interviews and focus groups with 21 mothers working full-time at a research-intensive…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Mothers, Student Personnel Workers, Work Environment
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