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Maya Fujioka; Kristin Reimer; Eisuke Saito – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
The decline in foreign language learners in tertiary education is a concern in many countries. While factors influencing students' persistence in second language learning have been explored, there has been limited discussion on the potential of language programmes that develop students' self-formation alongside language learning. This study aimed…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bridget T. Kelly; Robyn Mieko Dahl; William T. Phelps; Mary L. Droser – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
An opportunity exists to attract students from historically underrepresented communities into the geosciences, the least diverse of the STEM fields. Home to a diverse population, Riverside County in Southern California supports several community colleges with thriving geoscience programs where students can take a range of geology courses in…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Student Interests, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Ahsan Ur Rehman; Muhammad Ilyas Khan; Uzma Dayan; Syed Munir Ahmad – Gender and Education, 2024
Women's empowerment is an important goal of the educational processes around the world. Women in developing countries need support and motivation for attaining higher education and empowerment. This qualitative-exploratory study sought to explore the perceptions of Pakistani female university academics living inside predominantly patriarchal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Motivation
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Qiao, Xiaoping; Huang, Jian-Hao – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2019
The aim of this study is to explore the relationship among college students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy, career adaptability, and entrepreneurial intention. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this study adopted the entrepreneurial self-efficacy scale, career adaptability scale and entrepreneurial intention scale to investigate 1039…
Descriptors: College Students, Entrepreneurship, Self Efficacy, Intention
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Lykkegaard, Eva; Ulriksen, L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
The metaphor of the leaking pipeline is sometimes used to suggest that some students are lost for STEM as they advance through the educational system. This paper follows a cohort of upper-secondary school students with an interest in STEM from 18 months before their completion of upper-secondary until three years after their completion. Adopting a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Secondary School Students, Career Choice, Science Careers
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Prescod, Diandra; Gilfillan, Beth; Belser, Christopher; Orndorff, Robert; Ishler, Matthew – College Quarterly, 2019
Many students face a number of challenges when they enter into their undergraduate years. Career planning courses allow students to explore various major and career of interests along with their decision-making skills. These kinds of courses can either be general or focused to a specific discipline. The current study examined career…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Decision Making, Career Planning, Intellectual Disciplines
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de Zordo, Lea; Hagenauer, Gerda; Hascher, Tina – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This study investigates student teachers' emotions about their upcoming team practicum. The theoretical foundation grounds in the FIT-Choice approach (Watt, H. M. G., and P. W. Richardson. 2008. "Motivations for Teaching: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings." "Learning and Instruction" 18: 405-98) and in…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Onoyeyan, Glory O.; Unegbu, Vincent – SAGE Open, 2019
Several career paths are open to law graduates. Many of them pursue careers in other fields without giving a thought to law librarianship. The fact that majority of law students do not consider law librarianship as a career option is undesirable for the future of law librarianship. The future of law librarianship profession may depend on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Law Libraries, Library Science
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Woolston, Debbie – Early Childhood Folio, 2019
Practicum is understood as a critical part of initial teacher education, and associate teachers play a vital and influential role for student teachers in their practicum experience. A substantial amount of research has focused on understanding the perspective of student teachers during their practicums, as well as the requirements of the associate…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Student Teachers, Teacher Motivation, Practicums
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Kreber, Carolin – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Recent years have witnessed a surge of studies examining the scope of professional responsibility. Building on these efforts, this conceptual inquiry explores whether Nussbaum's notion of a 'decent society', grounded in the premises of equal respect for persons and different conceptions of the good, and thus aspiring to afford all its members a…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Social Justice, Theories, Career Choice
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Norris, Norman Dale – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2019
This position paper is intended to examine an assessment dilemma that is problematic to adult teaching in general but particularly problematic for the non-traditional learner wishing to enter the nursing profession. It is the position of this report that such dilemma is particularly problematic for the adult/non-traditional learner who enters the…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nontraditional Students, Barriers, Adult Students
Dunn, Craig James – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation sought to use PhotoVoice, an arts-based research method, as a way for pre-college and college students to decide on an area of study and career path. This study called upon the aid of student-participants to carry out the research and academic professionals to help in examining the research. Using a framework set in Strength…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Research Methodology, College Students
Bagley, Katie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Understanding about the experience of underrepresented students making the decision to choose nursing as a career would improve the ability of nursing programs to recruit applicants from a more diverse background. The purpose of this research was to explore the experience of underrepresented students who are considering nursing as a career but…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, College Students, Diversity, Career Choice
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Athanasou, James A. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2017
This paper analyses the interest content of all 1016 Australian occupations. These were classified according to vocational interests (i.e. outdoor, practical, scientific, creative, business, office, people contact, health, community, and computing), educational qualifications, and skill level, as well as in terms of the six Holland (RIASEC) types.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Occupations, Vocational Interests, Career Choice
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Bowles, Terence V.; Brindle, Kimberley A. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2017
The first aim of the current article is to primarily propose a model to assist career counsellors in understanding and guiding adolescents towards career commitment. The second aim is to focus on the relationship between career identity and career certainty, and how these positively influence the achievement of ego identity and maturity. Finally,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Self Concept, Models
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