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Reichenberg, Monica; Berhanu, Girma – International Journal of Special Education, 2017
The overall aim was to identify predictors of adult immigrant students' job expectations after they have finished the language training program. We studied both socio-demographic predictors (sex,family status, socio-economic status, and level of education) and experience predictors (age at arrival, teacher, and language exposure). To get a more…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Work Attitudes, Expectation, Predictor Variables
Rogers, John Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Internships, externships, apprenticeships and co-operative education programs are all forms of experiential learning in a workplace setting that community colleges sponsor to enhance learning and career outcomes for their graduates. Previous studies have examined wage gains associated with co-op participation at the baccalaureate level, but no…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Community Colleges, Apprenticeships, Qualitative Research
Changjun, Yue – Chinese Education & Society, 2014
This study used nationwide, randomly sampled data from the Peking University Institute of Economics of Education 2011 survey of college graduates to conduct an empirical analysis of their job satisfaction. The results indicate that work-related factors have a significant effect on the job satisfaction of college graduates, while nonwork factors…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Surveys
Campbell-Barr, Verity; Nygård, Mikael – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2014
The international interest in early childhood education and care (ECEC) by supranational organisations, including the European Union, has grown considerably due to its dual function of sustaining parental employment and fostering child development. Focussing primarily on child development debates around ECEC, this article argues that human capital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Employed Parents
Othman, Nooraini; Mohamad, Khairul Azmi – International Education Studies, 2014
This paper intends to highlight the issues in thinking skills development and efforts made in addressing these issues in Malaysia. The education system in Malaysia has undergone a huge transformational progress particularly in the field related to the development of thinking skill. Traditionally, thinking skill was not specifically cultivated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Educational Development, Educational Change
Soydan, Tarik; Abali, Hüseyin Gürkan – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2014
In today's world characterized by increasingly effective neoliberal policies, not only the sphere of public services is being constricted but also the concept of "public service" --which traditionally has been pointing at a responsible state providing public services based on social principles and methods-- is being transformed. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Neoliberalism, Public Policy
Murray, Jean – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This article addresses an under-researched area of teacher education by analysing teacher educators' constructions of their professionalism and the constituent professional resources and senses of identity on which that professionalism draws. The research is an embedded case study of 36 teacher educators in two Schools of Education in England,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Professional Identity
McKenzie, William – Education Next, 2014
This article presents an interview with Terry Grier, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), Texas's largest district. Before taking this post, he had been a principal or superintendent for most of three decades and remains a reformer five years into his leadership. Grier has maintained his passion for improving schools…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Interviews, Profiles, Superintendents
Tsatsaroni, Anna; Evans, Jeff – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2014
This paper aims to discuss the emergence, form and likely effects of international surveys of adults' skills by locating them in the global context of policies on education and Life Long Learning (LLL). It focuses on adults' numeracy and discusses its conceptualisation and assessment in the Project for the International Assessment of Adult…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Numeracy
Stuart, G. Rob; Rios-Aguilar, Cecilia; Deil-Amen, Regina – Community College Review, 2014
Community colleges play a key role in educating the large number of non-traditional, low-income, and under-prepared students who have entered higher education in the past several decades. Despite increased access, community colleges are struggling to graduate students. Most, if not all, strategies provided by scholars to improve college completion…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence, Employment Opportunities
Mockler, Nicole – Review of Education, 2014
Education is increasingly conceptualised by governments and policymakers in western democracies in terms of productivity and human capital, emphasising elements of individualism and competition over concerns around democracy and equity. More and more, solutions to intransigent educational problems related to equity are seen in terms of quality and…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Human Capital, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Bessant, Judith – Critical Studies in Education, 2014
This article begins by observing how education is currently appreciated primarily for its utility value, a view informed by utilitarianism and neoclassical economic theory. A critique of that framing is offered and an alternative way of valuing education informed by a Capabilities Approach is presented. In doing so, I also observe that while key…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Educational Theories, Neoliberalism, Individual Development
Smarick, Andy; Squire, Juliet – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
Never before has more been asked of State Education Agencies (SEAs), commonly known as state departments of education. In recent years, policymakers at the state and federal level have viewed the SEA as the default entity for implementing new and sweeping K-12 initiatives--everything from Race to the Top grants and SEA waivers to teacher…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Educational History
Kalkbrenner, Erin Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Researchers have calculated the relationship between human capital development and economic output by various means of econometric modeling and by use of numerous indicators under the context of an assortment of human capital theory. This study was conducted to identify new interpretations of the expansion of human capital in the form of tertiary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Human Capital, Economic Development
O'Neill, Anne-Marie – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This policy chronology traces the institution of globalised school curriculum and assessment discourses, as a vernacular and specific form of public rationalisation and educational governmentality in Aotearoa New Zealand. Without functional national standards or national testing, official discourses constructed an assessment-driven framework as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Based Assessment, Global Approach, Cultural Capital