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Clark, Rory McDowall; Baylis, Sue – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
Although frameworks now exist for quality provision for under-threes, discourses underpinning policy remain conflicted. The split between care and education is still firmly entrenched in provision and a gap remains between rhetoric and practice. This paper explores how Early Years Professional Status, which requires practitioners to engage…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, Females, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Trimbur, John – Writing Center Journal, 2010
In this article, the author mentions his experience at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) because he thinks it is fairly indicative of recent trends in writing center theory and practice to see literacy as a multimodal activity in which oral, written, and visual communication intertwine and interact. He says this notion of multiliteracies has…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Professional Recognition, Laboratories, Writing (Composition)
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Cook, Stephen W.; Vacha-Haase, Tammi – Counseling Psychologist, 2010
The Legacies & Traditions Forum has a rich past of documenting individual contributions to the profession of counseling psychology. The history of this forum, as well as early contributors and journal articles, are identified. Themes that emerged from a review of past oral biographies include changes in the work setting for counseling…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Documentation, Professional Recognition, Counseling Psychology
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Tracey, Terence J. G. – Counseling Psychologist, 2010
"Context matters" is an alternative title to this article. All moderation is about context; the surrounding matter that defines and affects most everything. Moderation refers to one entity associated with a change in the relation between two other entities or variables. Moderators are examples of the "third variable" issue that pertains to the…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, Counseling Psychology, Context Effect, Vocational Interests
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Crawford, Karin – International Journal for Academic Development, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative case study research was to explore faculty-based academics' views on what influences their behaviours and attitudes towards their development. Informed by critical realist ontology, the data collection was carried out through narrative interviews with academics in two contrasting English universities. Findings, or…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, College Faculty, Case Studies, Data Collection
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Riley, Shirley – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2009
This is the appropriate time in the evolution of the profession of art therapy to re-create its image and explore a new model of the profession responsive to the postmodern mental health climate. To that end, the author would like to take the reader on a fantasy trip and hypothesize what it would be like to move the birth of this profession…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Professional Recognition, Mental Health, Psychotherapy
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Fuller, C.; Goodwyn, A.; Francis-Brophy, E. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2013
The teaching profession continues to struggle with defining itself in relation to other professions. Even though public opinion positions teachers second only to doctors and nurses in terms of their professional status and prestige research in the UK suggests that teachers still believe that they have much lower status than other professions. With…
Descriptors: Teaching Skills, Professional Identity, Social Status, Foreign Countries
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Carless, David; Salter, Diane; Yang, Min; Lam, Joy – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Feedback is central to the development of student learning, but within the constraints of modularized learning in higher education it is increasingly difficult to handle effectively. This article makes a case for sustainable feedback as a contribution to the reconceptualization of feedback processes. The data derive from the Student Assessment and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Professional Recognition
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Moore, Matthew J. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2011
The article reports the results of a 2008 national survey of political theorists concerning what and how they teach. The results are based on 1,086 responses from professors at accredited, four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The responses include information about which thinkers are currently being taught, the status of…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Political Science, National Surveys, Higher Education
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Reynolds, Cecil R. – Psychology in the Schools, 2011
School psychology is a professional practice specialty in the broader field of the profession of psychology. As such, the discipline of school psychology must meet certain standards and criteria to retain its identity and official designation as a professional specialty. Likewise, practitioners of school psychology are professionals themselves and…
Descriptors: Professional Recognition, School Psychologists, Specialization, School Psychology
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Szekeres, Judy – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
A 2004 paper, "The invisible workers" by Szekeres, lamented the "invisibility" of professional staff in Australian higher education. Even then, professional staff constituted more than half the university workforce, but they were defined by what they were not (non-academic) and they experienced a high level of frustration in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Professional Personnel, School Personnel
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Cheng, Ming – Quality in Higher Education, 2011
Pressures to enhance the quality of university teaching have led to increased emphasis on recognising and rewarding good teaching practice in England. Institutional awards for teaching excellence have grown in response to this agenda. This paper is based on a project that investigates the teaching experience of Teaching Excellence Award winners at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Improvement, Teacher Effectiveness
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Floris, Flora Debora – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2012
Three productive TESOL scholars from Indonesia: Nugrahenny T. Zacharias of Satya Wacana Christian University, Handoyo Puji Widodo of Politeknik Negeri Jember, and Willy A. Renandya, who currently works at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, were interviewed to not only showcase their work, but also…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interviews
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Mausethagen, Solvi; Granlund, Lise – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
This article addresses constructions and redefinitions of teacher professionalism by focusing on the discursive negotiations between the government and the teachers' union in Norway. Based on an examination of three white papers on teacher education from the past 15 years and policy documents put forth by the Union of Education Norway during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Recognition
Hunter, Bruce – School Administrator, 2012
On Dec. 1, Nick Penning, a longtime fixture on the advocacy team at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), retired as the association's senior legislative analyst. In his 26 years with the association, Penning played many roles relating to advocacy, but the one he relished the most was serving as the principal communicator with…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, School Administration, Advocacy, Social Networks
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