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Magalhaes, Antonio; Veiga, Amelia; Ribeiro, Filipa; Amaral, Alberto – Higher Education Policy, 2013
This paper aims at looking at governance instruments beyond managerial technicality. It intends to do so by analysing the impact of governance reforms on the universities autonomy assumed as a regulation instrument to politically steer systems and institutions. The regulation efforts undertaken at the European and national levels reflect a trend…
Descriptors: Governance, Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Walker, Christopher; White, Melanie – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
When student plagiarism occurs, academic interest and institutional policy generally assume the fault rests with the student. This paper questions this assumption. We claim that plagiarism is a shared responsibility and a complex phenomenon that requires an ongoing calibration of the relative skills and experiences of students and staff in…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Prevention, Role, Guidelines
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Hemmings, Brian; Hill, Doug; Sharp, John G. – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
This study was aimed at identifying the critical interactions within work environments that support the development of early career academics as researchers in institutions with lower order research profiles, that is, environments that differ from research-intensive universities. Ten early career academics, five from Australia and five from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Institutional Environment, Researchers
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Breit, Rhonda; Obijiofor, Levi; Fitzgerald, Richard – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2013
Internationalization of the curriculum points to the interdependent and interconnected (globalized) world in which higher education operates. However, while international awareness is crucial to the study of journalism, in practice this often means an Anglo-American curriculum based around Western principles of journalism education and training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Journalism, Journalism Education, International Education
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Migdadi, Fathi; Badarneh, Muhammad A.; Momani, Kawakib – Applied Linguistics, 2012
This study investigates complaints and complaint responses in interactions between local citizens and the hosts of a live two-hour radio phone-in in Jordan devoted to receiving and handling complaints of a public nature. Using Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness model, the study examines the functions and patterns of complaints and the types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Radio, Programming (Broadcast), Telecommunications
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McAnulty, Joseph; Cuenca, Alexander – Studying Teacher Education, 2014
This self-study explores the emerging identity of a first-time teacher educator using a framework that views identity as natural, institutional, discursive, and affinity. This framework provided an opportunity to unpack empirically how these various strands of identity intersected within the classroom of a novice teacher educator. Situated in the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Professional Identity, Teacher Educators, Power Structure
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Yan, Fengqiao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2013
Through experiencing and reviewing multiple-country endeavors in academic profession study and participating in a new project regarding the academic profession in Asia, the author pinpoints and anticipates the shortcomings of study alone or dominantly questionnaire-based and ignoring the broader social context. The author proposes a new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Questionnaires, College Faculty
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Smith, Justin M. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2013
This study explores the climate for teaching at a major Midwest research university. Teaching climate is generally defined as the shared perceptions of current organizational processes that affect the institutional environment for teaching (Peterson et al., 1991; Tagiuri, 1968). Three types of distinguished teaching awards were used to select…
Descriptors: Awards, Teacher Attitudes, Institutional Environment, Semi Structured Interviews
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Lemke-Westcott, Tracey; Johnson, Brad – Journal of Research in International Education, 2013
Transnational branch campuses of universities are a growing phenomenon, particularly in the Middle-East. The cultures of home institutions and host countries are often foreign to each other. The result is a cultural and learning style gap between faculty and students impacting students' learning and teachers' effectiveness. A pilot study of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries
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King, LaGarrett J.; Womac, Patrick – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2014
This article explores the discourse on Black Founding Fathers through Glenn Beck's television show, "Founders' Fridays". According to Beck, this 2010 summer television special was an opportunity to present Black American history in a more nuanced and truthful way. The theoretical framework, silencing the past, is used to…
Descriptors: African Americans, Television, African American History, Racial Relations
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Aurini, Janice Danielle – Sociology of Education, 2012
The concept of coupling--the relationship between the environment, administrative goals, and instructional practices of education organizations--is a staple in New Institutional research. Yet processes of coupling have remained elusive. Drawing on ethnographic research of the "Ontario Learning Center" (OLC) franchise, along with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Proprietary Schools, Business, Institutional Environment
Pelletier, Stephen – Trusteeship, 2012
The stately collegiate gothic buildings that define the iconic West Campus at Duke University evoke a strong sense of stability and the status quo. Like all institutions of higher learning, Duke faces many potential challenges to campus equilibrium--some of which could prove devastating to the university. Risk is inherent in academe, yet colleges…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Governing Boards, Trustees, Universities
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Puchner, Laurel; Markowitz, Linda – Multicultural Education, 2015
In this article Puchner and Markowitz illustrate a major problem in education and in teacher education, the underlying dynamics of which are a national problem. The problem of negative beliefs about African American families in schools is not a new idea but actually stems from unfounded and untested assumptions about the way the world works and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Racial Bias
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Li, Long; Lin, Canchu; Lai, Guolin – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2016
Applying Weick's (1995) sensemaking theory to analyze technology sensemaking by university administrators and faculty and staff, this study found that there is both unity and divergence in their sensemaking about an information technology. Administrators attempted to discursively construct a pro-technology organizational culture, which gained…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, School Culture
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Coryell, Joellen Elizabeth; Durodoye, Beth A.; Wright, Robin Redmon; Pate, P. Elizabeth; Nguyen, Shelbee – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2012
This report outlines a method for learning about the internationalization processes at institutions of adult and higher education and then provides the analysis of data gathered from the researchers' own institution and from site visits to three additional universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was found that campus…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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