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Lock, Theresa F. – Educational Perspectives, 2017
The author has been working for over four decades in the field of early childhood education (ECE). She is currently entering her fifth year as an early childhood teacher educator with the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) College of Education. In her role, the author is teaching future professionals in a dual degree program with a preschool…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Early Childhood Education, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees
Tuitt, Frank; Hanna, Michele; Martinez, Lisa M.; Salazar, Maria del Carmen; Griffin, Rachel – Thought & Action, 2009
Historically, faculty of color have been woefully underrepresented in higher education. Since the 1980s, though, numbers for these academics have begun to increase. To bring attention to the some of the struggles that faculty of color face, the authors created a counternarrative by drawing on their collective experience to deconstruct and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, Disproportionate Representation
Kobayashi, Miyoko; Negishi, Masashi – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2008
This article presents an interview with Professor Kenji Ohtomo who retired in March 2006 from the post of Dean, College of Applied International Studies, Tokiwa University, Mito, in Japan. Professor Ohtomo is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Honorary President of the Japan Language Testing Association, of which he…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Interviews
Faircloth, Susan C. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2009
In "Learning to Leave," Michael Corbett argues that: (1) education has served as a tool to disassociate students--both physically and culturally--from the places from which they come, particularly if they are from rural places, in effect creating an ambivalence toward education; (2) the ways in which individuals express this ambivalence…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, American Indian Education, Global Approach, Migration
Garcia, Veronica – Harvard Educational Review, 2006
In this article, four urban high school students and their student leadership and social justice class advisor address the question, "What are high school students' perspectives on the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act's (NCLB) definition of a highly qualified teacher?" As the advisor to the course, Garcia challenged her students to examine…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, High School Students, High Schools, Personal Narratives
Mattucci, Robert – Journal of Correctional Education, 2006
The purpose of this article is to connect theories Austin MacCormick discussed in his 1931 book "The Education of Adult Prisoners" with examples from modern correctional education practice. The author began teaching an institutional plumbing class in 2000, equipped with an undergraduate degree in elementary education and a master's…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Vocational Education, Adults, Institutionalized Persons
Nash, Robert J. – About Campus, 2008
The major premise of this article is inspired by Viktor Frankl's words: "The truth is that as the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged--survival for what? Ever more people today have the "means" to live, but no "meaning" to live for." Thousands of students who have come through the author's college courses during the last…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), College Students, Self Concept, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Evelyn, Debra – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2004
Experimental narrative forms of writing research can offer empowering representations for adult education and feminist researchers. This article presents a selection of academic storytelling in the form of scanned transcript poems or "Learning stories," produced through interviews with women who participated in a special access program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Research, Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse
Kazemek, Francis E. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2004
This article presents the personal literacy journey of the author that originated while driving through Scotland. The journey serves as one touchstone of his own personal and professional life. The author shares what he finds on "this" particular journey: (1) Particular (and often peculiar) interest; (2) Active engagement of the four…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Personal Narratives