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Thompson, Greg; Mockler, Nicole; Hogan, Anna – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
This paper explores perceptions of work intensification around the world. Underpinning this analysis is C. Wright Mills' (1959) argument that many personal troubles are public issues, and the notion that a significant dimension of the privatisation of public education, a concern of public education advocates worldwide, is the ways in which school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Privatization, Public Education, Governance
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Häkkinen, Miira; Mikkilä-Erdmann, Mirjamaija – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This study investigates the work of second language teachers in two institutional settings responsible for integration training. By exploring teachers' accounts in Finland and Germany, we seek to deepen the understanding of the daily practice of second language education. Bridging conceptual and practical approaches, the aim is to contribute to…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Teaching Methods
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Heijstra, Thamar M.; Einarsdóttir, Þorgerður; Pétursdóttir, Gyða M.; Steinþórsdóttir, Finnborg S. – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
In the labour market women's jobs have frequently been conceptually and literally tied to housework and hence thought of as unskilled and therefore undervalued. Although academic institutions have undergone changes, the fact that women still carry the main responsibility for domestic and caring tasks continues to follow them into the academic work…
Descriptors: Housework, Labor Market, Gender Differences, Caring
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Fusulier, Bernard; Barbier, Pascal; Dubois-Shaik, Farah – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
Men and women remain in unequal positions in coping with their scientific and academic careers. Several of the mechanisms dissuading or preventing women from pursuing scientific careers have already been described in the literature: women getting stuck with paltry, undervalued tasks, thus manufacturing a "sticky floor"; structuring the…
Descriptors: Science Careers, Gender Differences, Family Work Relationship, College Faculty
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Baader, Meike Sophia; Böhringer, Daniela; Korff, Svea; Roman, Navina – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
This paper discusses results of a research project on equal opportunities between women and men in the postdoctoral phase in German universities. It illustrates how the funding system is organized and whether this contributes to more equal opportunities for men and women, especially concerning the work-life interference. Although the system loses…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Graduate Study
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Bianchetti, Lucidio; Quartiero, Elisa Maria – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
This article presents some data from the literature and opinions from responses to interviews with 74 Brazilian and 15 European researchers. They were questioned about their work and the consequences to their lives caused by the changes imposed by the Coordinating Agency for Improvement in Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) in Brazil and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Higher Education, Educational Research