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Ciuciu, Jessica; Robertson, Natalie – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
This article explores the experiences of four individuals who changed careers into early childhood teaching in Victoria, Australia and later left the profession. The study was conducted with a narrative inquiry approach and reveals insight into motivations for becoming an early childhood teacher (ECT), experiences of being an ECT and factors that…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Career Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
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Nicholson, Julie; Maniates, Helen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2016
Current interest in the development of leadership capacity within the early childhood profession provides an important opportunity to critically examine our field's conceptualizations of leadership. Modernist binary leader/follower conceptions are not reflective of contemporary scholarship describing identities as multiple, dynamic, socially…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Leadership, Postmodernism, Professional Development
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Retter, Hein – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
With the reunification of Germany, a Jenaplan School was founded in 1991 in the city of Jena, Thuringia. Since then one place of the city carried Petersen's name. The University School at Jena, refounded by Petersen as Life Community School in 1924 (the traditional purpose as a mere teacher training school goes back to the year 1844) and received…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Community Schools, Educational History, Foreign Policy
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Sadeghi, Karim – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2017
John I. Liontas, Ph.D. is an associate professor of foreign languages, English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), and technology in education and second language acquisition (TESLA), and director and faculty of the TESLA doctoral program at the University of South Florida. Dr. Liontas is a distinguished thought leader, author, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Faculty
Tyler, Mark; Dymock, Darryl – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
This occasional paper provides a stocktake of recent developments in continuing professional development for VET practitioners. It explores issues such as industry currency, the debate around a professional association for VET and the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment as the minimum qualification for VET practitioners. Through synthesising…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development, Vocational Education Teachers
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Hyater-Adams, Simone; Fracchiolla, Claudia; Williams, Tamia; Finkelstein, Noah; Hinko, Kathleen – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Understanding the ways in which Black folks identify as physicists can provide useful information about the facets of the physics discipline that perpetuate systems of oppression. In prior work, we developed the critical physics identity (CPI) framework to identify the structures and systems that impact the ways that people identify with the…
Descriptors: Physics, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Moore, Keith – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
This study investigates the "educational borrowing" of Pestalozzi's and Fellenberg's reforms by James Bonwick, an Australian schoolmaster and inspector in the 1840s and 1850s. The article initially examines Pestalozzi's and Fellenberg's teaching methods and philosophies. Adopting a biographical approach, it then explores the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Inspection, Institutional Evaluation
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Roeper, George A.; Ruff, Marcia – Roeper Review, 2016
Creativity was an enduring interest for George Roeper. For him, gifted children represented the divergent thinkers who could change the trajectory of the world. In this 1962 presentation to parents at the school, he discussed his findings about the differences between intelligence and creativity--how they overlap, how they differ, and how they are…
Descriptors: Creativity, Intelligence, Gifted, Early Childhood Education
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Dalal, Jyoti – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2016
Pierre Bourdieu had modest, peasant roots. He was born in 1930, in a rural family in the Béarn province of south-western France. He was the first one in his family to finish high school. His father, the son of a sharecropper, was a postal worker. Bourdieu, being a "scholarship boy," made his way to the elite École Normale Supérieure.…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Philosophy, Biographies, College Faculty
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Martinez, Magdalena; Sá, Creso – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
For researchers in the global South, international recognition in science arguably involves engaging with the norms, ideas, and people leading research activity in the global North. This article explores the relationship between international research collaboration and the publication activity of highly cited researchers in Brazil, a country that…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Professional Recognition, Correlation
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Li, Shengru; Yamaguchi, Shinobu; Sukhbaatar, Javzan; Takada, Jun-ichi – Education Sciences, 2019
This paper examines the influences of professional development activities on important teacher-level factors that are important for the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education for primary school teachers in Mongolia. The study utilizes the survey data collected in 2012 (n = 826) and 2016 (n = 1161) to identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Technology Integration, Elementary School Teachers
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Hackmann, Donald G.; Malin, Joel R. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2019
This article presents findings from a study of Jay D. Scribner Award recipients. The purposes were to learn why professors engage in mentoring and to identify activities and supports provided to mentees. Interviews were held with the 12 recipients and 24 mentees who submitted letters in support of their nominations, with Mertz's conceptual model…
Descriptors: Mentors, Awards, Professional Recognition, Instructional Leadership
Berg, Jill Harrison; Horn, Peter; Supovitz, Jonathan A.; Margolis, Jason – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2019
Education leaders are perennially seeking new ways to build the capacity of teachers to enhance learning experiences for all students. Teacher leadership, which we define as teachers' support of the improvement of teaching and learning beyond their own classroom, has long been a source of interest and experimentation (Wenner & Campbell, 2017;…
Descriptors: Classification, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Role, Awards
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Arthur, Lore; Crossley, Michael – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
This paper reflects upon Peter Jarvis's contribution to comparative scholarship and the linked fields of comparative education and comparative adult education. Both have their own historical developments, literatures, issues and concerns; both have been influenced by Peter's substantial works for close to fifty years--a period in time when the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Adult Education, Scholarship, Lifelong Learning
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Pursell, Carroll; Iiyoshi, Toru – History of Education Quarterly, 2021
The rise of online learning over the past few decades has raised fundamental questions about the kinds of "spaces" and "places" this mode of education creates. Do they support meaningful exchanges? Can they advance educational equity, access, and community-building? Are they comparable to in-person classroom experiences? The…
Descriptors: Educational History, Distance Education, Equal Education, COVID-19
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