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Petty, Gregory C. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2013
This was an investigation of the work ethic of K-12 educators from Generation X and Baby Boomer generations. Teachers of the baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964, and many are beginning to retire. There is an impending teacher shortage due to the large numbers of this group retiring or leaving the profession. School administrators…
Descriptors: Work Ethic, Educational Practices, Age Groups, Generational Differences
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Russo, Tracy – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
This project reports exploration of the expectations of the students in my large public Midwestern university about learning processes and their teachers. Its objective was to help ground my own reflections on whether and how the pedagogical changes proposed to accommodate the Millennial generation are appropriate for my students and for me. Data…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Generational Differences, Student Surveys, Focus Groups
Schild, Susie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Knowledge management thinking has resulted in the perception that the organization is the relevant beneficiary of knowledge. Individual approaches to and experiences with personal knowledge management are not well documented in empirical studies, which uncovered the specific problem that the situatedness of knowledge worker contemporaries within…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Social Networks, Cultural Capital, Social Capital
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Jolly, Kim; Archibald, Cynthia; Liehr, Patricia – Journal of School Nursing, 2013
School nurses are well positioned to address risk-taking behaviors for adolescents in their care. The purpose of this mixed-method exploratory study was to explore risk taking in Afro-Caribbean adolescents in South Florida, comparing first- to second-generation adolescents. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from an immigrant group…
Descriptors: Risk, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Generational Differences
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Rosen, Larry D. – Educational Leadership, 2011
Children and teens today are immersed in technology. Just as we don't think about the existence of air, they don't think about technology and media. Individualized mobile devices have given them the expectation that if they conceive of something, they will be able to make it happen. Yet schools still expect these members of the iGeneration to…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Generational Differences, Mass Media Use
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Bush, H. Francis; Walsh, Vonda K. – American Journal of Business Education, 2014
Today colleges and universities are working with students who are younger than the Internet. They were born at the end of the last century, and are referred to as millennials or the Net Generation. Their learning style and time management preferences may respond better to continuous tasks and constant feedback. This paper examines the statistical…
Descriptors: Accounting, College Students, Age Groups, Generational Differences
Weeks, William A.; Rutherford, Brian; Boles, James; Loe, Terry – Journal of Marketing Education, 2014
This study examines the perceptions of students, recruiters, and faculty regarding the importance of various workplace attributes to students who are entering the job market. Furthermore, this study discusses the important role that faculty can play as a knowledge broker with both students and recruiters. Looking at students' Top 10…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Recruitment, College Faculty
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Ng, Irene Y. H. – Educational Review, 2014
International research on the effects of educational regimes on intergenerational mobility suggests that Singapore's education system possesses characteristics that tend to decrease intergenerational mobility. These characteristics include ability-based and school-based streaming, privatization of basic and tertiary education, expansion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Generational Differences, Educational Mobility, Social Mobility
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Saczuk, Jerzy; Wasiluk, Agnieszka; Zalech, Miroslaw – Biomedical Human Kinetics, 2012
Study aim: To assess the size of secular trends in the physical fitness of boys from eastern Poland taking into consideration stages of education. Material and methods: The physical fitness results of boys aged 7-19 years living in eastern regions of Poland were analyzed: 3188 students were examined in 1986 while in 2006 the research included 10…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Fitness, Males, Children
Hanson, Lea – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With four generations in today's workforce, roles are being redefined to include a growing number of younger supervisor/older subordinate relationships, referred to as the intergenerational dyad. What current and limited literature exists about the intergenerational dyad exclusively addresses the issues of generational workplace differences…
Descriptors: Supervision, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Novices, Qualitative Research
Kuhn, Matthew Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this descriptive quantitative study was to investigate possible differences in school leadership within a change process, as perceived by teachers. Grouped by generation, this study investigated principals' perceptions of change order and that of their teachers, as well as how their teachers perceived their principal's leadership…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Change Agents, Educational Change
Abdul-Alim, Jamaal – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
When researchers at the Public Religion Research Institute and Georgetown University set out earlier this year to sketch a portrait of college-age millennials, they expected to find a lot of diversity. What they did not anticipate was so much division. While the Millennial Generation--today's 18 to 29-year-olds--is often thought of as more diverse…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Generational Differences, Racial Differences, Political Attitudes
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Johansson, Barbro – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2012
Since age and generation first started to be problematized, the focus has been on childhood, while adulthood has attracted less attention. In this article four examples are presented of how adulthood is constructed within the specific context of childhood research. Taking the departure in Deleuzian and actor network theories, four examples are…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Power Structure, Research Methodology
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Keengwe, Jared; Georgina, David – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2013
Majority of learners in our classrooms are digital natives or Millennials--a category of learners who tend toward independence and autonomy in their learning styles. The primary challenges then facing instructors include: How do digital natives learn and how do you teach them? The answers to these questions will help instructors to: (a) identify…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Learning Strategies, Appropriate Technology
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Merriweather, Lisa R.; Morgan, Alberta J. – Qualitative Report, 2013
Cross-cultural mentoring relationships between younger mentors and older mentees are increasing in frequency across all levels of post-secondary education. Generational cultural differences can result in conflict and misunderstanding and therefore should be considered in non-traditional inter-generational mentoring relationships. Through…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Faculty, Graduate Students, Generational Differences
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