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Peat, Jo – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2015
The current national and institutional focus on teaching and learning in higher education (HE) in the UK has led to a growing credentialisation of those teaching in this sector. There is now more emphasis on being recognised as being qualified to teach in HE and this information is being included in statistical reports, marketing documentation and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Human Resources, Standards
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McCarthy, Dermot; Dragouni, Mina – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Recent decades have seen the evolution of UK business schools into international mass education providers. This transformation has developed against a background of institutional changes that jeopardise work conditions in academia. As few studies have examined the relationships between organisational, social and psychological aspects of academic…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Educational Change, Mass Instruction, Organizational Change
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Singer, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Early childhood education changed in the twentieth century, from mother-at-home-care in the 1950s, to professional early education today. Theoretical and social-political choices of pioneers in ECE had a profound impact on the way children's education is conceptualized. We argue from a social constructivist perspective. The oral history method is…
Descriptors: Oral History, Child Development, Learning Theories, Neoliberalism
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Wilkinson, Samantha – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
This paper offers an autoethnographic account of my first academic year as a Human Geography lecturer at a 'new' public university in the North West of England. This research is timely and much needed, since teaching at universities in England has recently come under increasing scrutiny. The Teaching Excellence Framework is a new scheme, which…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Teacher Attitudes, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty
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Hardy, Ian; Rönnerman, Karin; Beach, Dennis – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
This paper analyses recent educational reforms on teachers' work in Sweden following the 2010 Education Act, and up to the School Commission Report released in April 2017. We draw upon key policy texts and associated documents from the Ministry of Education, and the Swedish National Agency for Education ("Skolverket"). We consider the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
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Faisal, Farida; Noor, Nadia; Khair, Amtul – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2019
The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of workplace stress and its impact on the performance of faculty members working in Pakistani universities. Data were collected from five public and private sector universities in two phases based on mixed method design. In the interview phase, 10 university teachers were asked open ended…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Stress Variables, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Moller, Karla J. – Journal of Children's Literature, 2016
For the author's final Master Teacher article, she wishes to pay tribute to a scholar whose work in the field of children's literature has inspired her for years. Throughout her long and distinguished career, Rudine Sims Bishop, professor emerita from The Ohio State University, has shared extensive knowledge and numerous insights on issues related…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Figurative Language, College Faculty, Professional Recognition
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Parks-Leduc, Laura; Rutherford, Matthew A.; Becker, Karen L.; Shahzad, Ali M. – Journal of Management Education, 2018
This study explores the state of undergraduate human resource management (HRM) curricula worldwide in an effort to understand the extent to which there is an agreed-upon body of knowledge underpinning the field of HRM. We reviewed the undergraduate curricula for all business schools that were accredited by either the Association to Advance…
Descriptors: Occupations, Professional Recognition, Human Resources, Personnel Management
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Robertson, Susan L.; Sorensen, Tore – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
This paper presents and engages with Basil Bernstein's rich conceptual grammar in order to generate a sociological account of the outcomes for teachers' work, identity and social class, of strategic shifts in governance to the global scale. Our aim is to develop a two-way conversation between Bernstein's conceptual grammar and how best to theorise…
Descriptors: Governance, Constructivism (Learning), Social Class, Professional Recognition
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Beigel, Fernanda; Gallardo, Osvaldo; Bekerman, Fabiana – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2018
The relationship between "marginal" and "mainstream" science has, in recent decades, become a matter of discussion. Traditional perspectives must be reexamined in the wake of transformations in the international circulation of knowledge and the subsequent diversification of scientific "peripherality". Argentina…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Foreign Countries, International Education, Professional Recognition
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Knoerr, Hélène – European Journal of Higher Education, 2019
As an officially bilingual institution, the University of Ottawa, the world's largest bilingual French/English university, requires that some of its professors teach in their second language. Although the needs of students studying in their second language are well documented, very little is known about the experience of professors who teach in…
Descriptors: French, English, Language of Instruction, College Faculty
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Foster, Ian – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2019
A greater level of informal language learning is now taking place than at any time in human history. Much of that learning is linked to unprecedented levels of migration across the globe. This poses challenges to the identity of higher education language teachers, particularly in the UK, where numbers of modern language students have stagnated,…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Modern Languages
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Taylor Huber, Mary – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
From 1981 to 2015, the US Professors of the Year program recognized 101 college and university teachers as national winners in its annual competition for faculty who demonstrated "extraordinary dedication to undergraduate teaching." Their dossiers provide a window onto the leading edge of teaching and educational leadership over a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational History, Competition, Undergraduate Students
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Polenghi, Simonetta – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
Italy opened the doors of its universities to female students in 1875. The general view was that very few women were clever enough to obtain a degree, so they would not threaten social stability. Female professors would be even rarer -- a few exceptional "male" women. Access to the professions was impossible in the case of the legal…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, College Faculty, Women Faculty, Females
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Donnelly, Roisin; Maguire, Terry – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2020
Digital Badge design and practice at a national level is a relatively new field of scrutiny and this study reports on a sector-wide initiative for building digital capacity with the design, and implementation of an ecosystem of 15 open courses in teaching and learning with digital badges to recognise the professional development of teachers in…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Technological Literacy, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
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