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Curry, Jennifer R.; Webb, Angela W.; Latham, Samantha J. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2016
The powerful nature of novice teachers' experiences in their first years of teaching has been well documented. However, the variance in novices' initial immersion in the school environment is largely dependent on perceived personal and professional support as well as the environmental inducements that lend to novice teachers' success in the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Beginning Teacher Induction, Alternative Teacher Certification, Work Environment
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Friberg, Torbjörn – Critical Studies in Education, 2015
In the light of some recent transformations in higher education, a moral governance of university teachers is starting to emerge, suggesting a decrease of professional autonomy. By drawing on the idea of Gilles Deleuze's "clinical analysis", the aim of this article is to re-problematize the increasingly common moral image of students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Victims of Crime
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van Schoor, W. A.; Potgieter, D. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Throughput and retention are important issues in higher education in South Africa mainly due to the stronger emphasis on accountability from funding agencies like the Department of Education. This study, which is set in a distance education institution, was aimed at understanding why students cancel courses early on in the academic year. A…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Financial Problems, Distance Education, Course Selection (Students)
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Heppner, P. Paul; Neal, Gary W. – Counseling Psychologist, 1983
Reviews research on roles and functions of counseling centers. Examines studies in four time periods, the problems students experience and present to counseling centers, types of services provided, and those writings which have appeared in the literature which describe role and function. A substantial bibliography is appended. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Accountability, Counseling Services, Counselor Role, Delivery Systems
Fitzgerald, Brian; Harmon, Lisa – 1988
Beginning in October 1987, Pelavin Associates conducted an exploratory study of consumer rights and accountability in postsecondary vocational-technical (PVT) programs for the U.S. Department of Education. The study focused on how effectively the governance structure--accreditation and federal and state regulation--ensures that consumer rights are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Agency Role
Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2002
Given the range of student learning, behavior, and emotional problems experienced each day by teachers and families, meeting the challenge of supplying appropriate support is complex. Efforts to do so may be handicapped by the way in which student support interventions currently are conceived, organized, and implemented. Student supports are…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Intervention, Educational Change, Accountability