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Professional Doctorates: A Pathway to Legitimacy for Non-Academic HE Professionals?
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Moran, Eamonn; Misra, Debananda – London Review of Education, 2018
This article discusses the current challenges faced by the two authors--both participants on a professional doctorate (PD) programme in education at a leading UK university--in gaining legitimacy as higher education (HE) professionals. By: (1) reflecting upon their own professional experiences in HE and as PD students; (2) utilizing…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Generational Change in the Argentine Academic Profession through the Analysis of "Life Courses"
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Marquina, Monica; Yuni, Jose; Ferreiro, Mariela – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The aim of this article is to analyze the effects of the socio-political processes on the academic profession in Argentina from the life course perspective. The analysis of differences in the individuals' life course was made by dividing them into three groups, representing different generations of academics: the novel, the intermediate, and the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Career Development, Teacher Attitudes, History
Content Analysis of "CDQ" from 1994-2003: Implications and Trends for Practitioners and Researchers from a Decade of Research
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Loveland, James M.; Buboltz, Walter C.; Schwartz, Jonathan; Gibson, Gina – Career Development Quarterly, 2006
A review of the content of "The Career Development Quarterly" ("CDQ") was conducted for the period between 1994 and 2003. In total, 297 articles were published in "CDQ" during this period. The content analysis was based on content, authorship, and institutional affiliation. The principal areas of research were career development: life-span…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Career Development, Research, Classification
A Markov Chain Analysis of the Movement of Young Men Using the Holland Occupational Classification.
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Nafziger, Dean H. – 1973
In order to describe and predict career patterns of young men, this report provides: (1) Markov chains of the career patterns for four groups of 5,225 young men divided according to race and age, (2) tests of the predictive validity of the chains, and (3) comparisons of the four race-groups using the Markov models. Using the Holland occupational…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, Career Education, Classification
The Evaluation Consultant's Life Cycle: Theory, Practice, and Implications for Learning
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Barrington, Gail V. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2006
The purpose of the study reported in this chapter was to determine if senior evaluation consultants experienced stages of growth in their practice similar to the small business development stages described by Bruce and Scott, to identify the stimuli that led to those changes, to determine what the consultants learned from these incidents, and to…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Career Development, Program Evaluation, Evaluators
Theories of Career Development. Fourth Edition.
Osipow, Samuel H.; Fitzgerald, Louise F. – 1996
This book describes and assesses the major theories of career choice and related research. The following are among the topics examined: history of vocational and career psychology (historical foundations; psychoanalytic conceptions of career choice; the Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, and Herma theory; Tiedeman's developmental theory; recent history…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education