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Promoting Instructional Improvement or Resistance? A Comparative Study of Teachers' Perceptions of Teacher Evaluation Policy in Korea and the USA
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Kim, Jihyun; Youngs, Peter – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
This study draws on institutional theory to examine teachers' and principals' perceptions of new teacher evaluation policies, factors that influence such perceptions and how such perceptions shape the implementation of the policies in Seoul (Korea) and Michigan (USA). The study featured in-depth interviews of 11 elementary school teachers and 4…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Comparative Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation
A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Practitioner Perspectives on Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice in Special Education
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Hudson, Roxanne F.; Davis, Carol A.; Blum, Grace; Greenway, Rosanne; Hackett, Jacob; Kidwell, James; Liberty, Lisa; McCollow, Megan; Patish, Yelena; Pierce, Jennifer; Schulze, Maggie; Smith, Maya M.; Peck, Charles A. – Journal of Special Education, 2016
Despite the central role "evidence-based practice" (EBP) plays in special education agendas for both research and policy, it is widely recognized that achieving "implementation" of EBPs remains an elusive goal. In an effort to better understand this problem, we interviewed special education practitioners in four school…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Special Education, Program Implementation, Sociocultural Patterns
Do Not Enter: What Are the Risks of Gatekeeping Child and Youth Care?
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Vachon, Wolfgang – Child & Youth Services, 2013
There are multiple organizations striving to professionalize child and youth care (CYC) across North America. Two voices that appear to have been excluded from this dialogue are the young people CYCs work with and those who come to work in the field outside of formal training. This article asks who defines CYC practice, what the implications are…
Descriptors: Youth, Comparative Education, Educational Objectives, Definitions
Distributed but Undefined: New Teacher Leader Roles to Change Schools
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Margolis, Jason; Huggins, Kristin Shawn – Journal of School Leadership, 2012
This article examines teacher leader role development and definition by looking at one emergent model of distributed leadership: the hybrid teacher leader (HTL). HTLs are teachers whose official schedule includes both teaching K-12 students and leading teachers in some capacity. Participants included six HTLs across four school districts over 2…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Elementary Secondary Education, Definitions, Teacher Leadership
The Community Leadership Educator's Perspective on Program Sustainability
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Stoecker, Randy; Willis, Catherine; Lersch, Art – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
Those who work to develop and manage community-based leadership programs have long been concerned with how to sustain them--to keep them healthy and useful. But focusing on how to sustain programs requires exploring what sustainability means. This paper reports on interviews with 41 community-based leadership education program coordinators. In…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Community Leaders, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews
Career, Life, Work Habits & Insights of Successful Lives.
Lo, Lusa; Eliot, Michael – 2003
The careers, lives, and work habits of successful individuals were examined to identify factors that might explain their success. Each researcher selected one successful individual to interview. The researchers attempted to select a diverse group of interviewees from the general population, taking special effort to include females and nonwhites.…
Descriptors: Career Development, Definitions, Educational Theories, Employed Women