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On the Other Side of the Wall: The Miscategorization of Educational Developers in the United States?
Green, David A.; Little, Deandra – To Improve the Academy, 2017
Educational developers around the world are employed in a range of settings and under different working conditions, including academic (faculty) positions and administrative (professional staff) roles. Curiously, in a survey of 1,000 developers from 38 countries, the authors find that a full 51% of developers in the United States are on…
Descriptors: Educational Development, College Faculty, Professional Personnel, Classification
MacMillan, Karen; Komar, Jennifer – Journal of Management Education, 2018
This article describes a classroom exercise that is designed to help students understand the basic tenets of population ecology (also known as organizational ecology). The macro-level, longitudinal approach to understanding organizations can be difficult for students to conceptualize as it involves systems thinking. This exercise makes the theory…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Class Activities, Systems Approach, Institutional Environment
Haynes, Abby; Butow, Phyllis; Brennan, Sue; Williamson, Anna; Redman, Sally; Carter, Stacy; Gallego, Gisselle; Rudge, Sian – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2018
This paper explores the enormous variation in views, championing behaviours and impacts of liaison people: staff nominated to facilitate, tailor and promote SPIRIT (a research utilisation intervention trial in six Australian health policy agencies). Liaison people made cost/benefit analyses: they weighed the value of participation against its…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Public Agencies, Public Policy, Intervention
Hladchenko, Myroslava – Tertiary Education and Management, 2016
After the Revolution of Dignity (2014), Ukraine signed an Association Agreement with the European Union. In the context of European integration, new legislation on higher education has been adopted. Changes in the institutional environment expect responses from higher education institutions, in particular changes in the organizational identities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Institutional Mission, Organizational Culture
Klink, Max – ProQuest LLC, 2019
School based leadership is an increasingly complex task that requires leaders to find ways to spread responsibility throughout organizations to achieve goals. This dissertation research is an exploratory study in the field of sustainability of distributed leadership at Capital High School, a large urban high school. Exploring the sustainability of…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Sustainability, School Administration, High Schools
Wang, Ming-Te; Degol, Jessica L. – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
The construct of school climate has received attention as a way to enhance student achievement and reduce problem behaviors. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the existing literature on school climate and to bring to light the strengths, weakness, and gaps in the ways researchers have approached the construct. The central information in…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Measurement, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Khumalo, Shuti Steph – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The present study contributes to the growing body of research on abusive supervision in school settings, particularly by principals. School leadership (principal) behavior has been a topical issue for decades in educational research. This paper attempts to add to scholarly knowledge in the area of school leadership and specifically the…
Descriptors: School Administration, Principals, Social Justice, Administrator Behavior
Tarabini, Aina; Curran, Marta; Montes, Alejandro; Parcerisa, Lluís – Educational Studies, 2019
There is growing evidence that school engagement, or more specifically disengagement, is a key indicator for predicting Early School Leaving. The aim of this article is to explore the impact of secondary schools in student (dis)engagement and subsequent opportunities to succeed in school. Drawing on data from a qualitative study in five secondary…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries, School Holding Power
Shivali Tukdeo – Qualitative Research Journal, 2018
Purpose: Submergence, dislocation, rehabilitation and reform are the terms that crowd out most discussions on Adivasi/indigenous communities. They also fit in aptly with the Adivasi experiences of education and their relationship with knowledge construction, for them but not necessarily with them. Over the course of the last century, the Adivasi…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Institutional Environment
Payet, Jean-Paul; Deshayes, Fabien – Ethnography and Education, 2019
This article, based on a deep ethnography in schools located in a disadvantaged multicultural context in Geneva (Switzerland), questions the way in which the local school system and teachers comprehend the cultural diversity of students and their parents. Oscillating between recognition and assimilation, teachers publicly adhere to discourses that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Ethnocentrism, Disadvantaged Schools
Ji, Jiao; Anderson, David; Wu, Xinchun – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2016
Conceptualized by the self-determination theory, this interpretive study examined 23 museum educators' perspectives from five Chinese science museums to understand their work motivation in relation to their professional practice of working in museums. Research outcomes showed that, Chinese science museum educators' work motivation followed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Motivation, Influences, Career Choice
Stevenson, John F.; Finan, Elaine; Martel, Michael – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2017
Externally imposed assessment requirements in higher education call for documented attention to using assessment results for program improvement. Although this systematic process promises to lead to better learning outcomes it has also been challenged as ineffective and even harmful. What can make assessment truly meaningful and move beyond the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Outcomes Assessment, Capacity Building, Measurement
Murphy, Susan; Shilla, Dativa; Chua, Consolata; Raphael, Christina; O'Rourke, Niamh; Middlehurst-Schwartz, Molly – Comparative Education, 2019
Gender norms and learned practices of student teachers can influence their performance in practice, either fixing or challenging, gendered social norms and expectations. This paper shares the findings of a multi-year mixed-methods research project that explored the understandings of gender norms and experiences of students and staff within a large…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Social Attitudes, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries
Vuori, Johanna – Tertiary Education and Management, 2015
This paper examines how institutional positioning has emerged in the meaning-making activities between Finnish higher education institutions and the Ministry of Education and Culture. The study is based on a qualitative analysis of the performance agreement documents of all higher education institutions filed with the ministry for contract periods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Profiles
Brooks, Jeffrey S.; Watson, Terri N. – Urban Education, 2019
This article reports results from a single-school case study that explored the ways racism influences (and is influenced by) racism. The study examined the ways racism is manifest at different levels of the system: individual, dyadic, subcultural, institutional, and societal. In doing so, the authors sought to understand how racism influences…
Descriptors: School Administration, Racial Bias, School Culture, Institutional Environment