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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"professional isolation"”.
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Telework and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Underexplored Roles of Social Identity and Professional Isolation
… were investigated: teleworkers' perceptions of professional isolation, and their identification with their work group and their organization. Individual differences in proactive personality and need to belong were also assessed. Hypotheses positioning professional isolation and identification as …
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Forgotten Leaders: An Examination Of Professional Learning Needs Of California's Rural Superintendent-Principals
<p>Professional isolation and lack of relevant professional growth opportunities are common challenges for California’s rural school administrators. More than 27% of California’s 1,026 public school districts employ superintendent–principals as their sole administrator. The problem examined in this …
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The Relationship Between Job Demands and Social Well-Being Among Remote Workers in South Africa: The Moderating Role of Employee Resilience
… is workload pressure, task interdependence, professional isolation, family-to-work conflict, social well-being and employee resilience). Participants included employees from various organisations based in South Africa. The Pearson correlation analysis demonstrated a negative relationship …
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Novice foreign language teachers' teaching efficacy beliefs and perceptions of professional support : a mixed-methods study
… and are believed to form early in teachers’ professional careers. While studies on teachers’ sense of efficacy have examined content areas such as math and science (Mulholland & Wallace, 2001; Riggs & Enochs, 1990), very little research has been conducted to explore the perceived efficacy …
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Professional Learning Communities As A Framework For School Counselor Collaboration And Data Use: An Action Research Study
… of practice. School counselors experience professional isolation leading to underperformance (Elliot et al., 2004; Stone-Johnson, 2015). School structures that lack collaborative experiences for school counselors leads to isolation (Bardhoshi et al., 2014). The purpose of this action …
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Leveraging digital transformation to address women's challenges in the technology industry
… 15 in-depth interviews were conducted with women professionals across various technology sectors of New Zealand and Australia. Participants, with an average of ten years of experience, offer nuanced insights into their stories, providing a comprehensive understanding of how digital transformations …
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The challenges and complexities of initiating a professional learning community of teachers
… the challenges and complexities of initiating a professional learning community of teachers. Situated in a school in the British West Indies, this study draws on the experiences of seven teachers initiating a professional learning community (PLC) over a 12-week term in 2007. Individual …
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Collaborative Lesson Study: A Qualitative Case Study of Elementary Teachers’ Professional Learning Experience
… impacted how teachers work together to prevent professional isolation. The mandate of collaborative practices has resulted in some teachers expressing frustration and a lack of benefit from their current experiences. The purpose of this qualitative case study, conducted in the Southeast region …
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Is there a role for workplace based postgraduate diplomas in the development of community pharmacists?
… practice including improved confidence and inter-professional relationships. The diploma scaffolded learning and a reduction in the potential barriers to CPD was demonstrated. The opportunities for interacting with peers and other healthcare professionals were important. Workload pressures were …
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"I don't know anybody else": an oral history of Latine mathematics teachers in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area from 1980 to 2020
… criticisms, alterations, and influences, through professional mathematics organizations, government organizations, and grassroots efforts. These shifts manifested through unique regional efforts, such as the participation of various school districts in the Mathematics and Physics Institute, as …
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Impact of Technology on Rural Appalachian Health Care Providers: Assessment of Technological Infrastructure, Behaviors, and Attitudes.
<p>The Internet offers potential for reducing professional isolation of Appalachian health care providers by enhancing access to medical information and facilitating contact with colleagues. However, there is a gap in the knowledge of current computer and Internet access in Appalachia, and in the …
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An investigation of the structures and processes of pharmacist prescribing in Great Britain: a mixed methods approach.
… in the community setting, and also the issue of professional isolation may have negatively impacted on prescribing implementation. Notably, a perceived lack of clarity and definition of the pharmacist prescribing role was a key theme in hindering prescribing practice of pharmacists, irrespective …
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An exploration of the potential for analytic autonetnography as an emerging eResearch methodology, to examine my networked learning teaching praxis
… the classroom to online teaching, geographic and professional isolation from others’ teaching in the field of NL, and a desire to extend from practice towards praxis caused me to examine my own networked learning teaching praxis (NLTP). Despite evidence reporting the potential for autonetnography …
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Staying Engaged During the Remote Work Revolution: An Integrated Job Crafting Perspective
… time, hindering remote work demands, such as professional isolation and technology overload, should be minimized to avoid the preponderance of prevention-focused job crafting behaviors associated with decreased engagement. Managers can help employees break out of self-sabotaging loss spirals …
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UNDERSTANDING INFORMAL LEARNING IN VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES OF TEACHERS IN KAZAKHSTAN
… context of educational improvement, teachers’ professional networks, as a source of social capital, have been conceptualised as an integral part of teacher professionalism, as well as an essential element of successful educational change, and in the context of what Van Dijck, Poell and De Waal …
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What are the experiences of Internationally Qualified Nurses transitioning into aged residential care in the New Zealand health care system?
… to reduced job satisfaction, and personal and professional isolation. However, the participants identified that most clinical nurse leaders and senior nurses supported IQNs during their transition. Generally, the IQNs have a deep-seated drive to be successful, appear to have positive …