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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"professional lives"”.
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The Professional Lives of Higher Education Center Administrators
… window into the world of HECs is to examine the professional lives of administrators who work in the HEC environment. Professional life can be explored by eliciting data about work, relationships and rewards (Hirt, 2006; Hirt et al., 2006; Hirt et al., 2004).The purpose of this case study was to …
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The Impact of Working with Human Sex Trafficking Survivors on Clinicians' Personal and Professional Lives
… impacted the clinicians' personal, family, and professional lives. Limitations, clinical implications, and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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The illusion of autonomy: an ethnography of teachers’ professional lives in a primary academy in England
… and capture the changing nature of the teacher professionalism in the new educational setting that is a primary academy. Academies are independent schools that are funded by the state but are managed privately. In England, academies built upon the ideas of the City Technology Colleges project …
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Understanding the Professional Lives of Female Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: A Capability Perspective
… challenge to achieve Education for All: the professional lives of female teachers in rural communities in Sub Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provide a focus for exploring the relationship between official representations of …
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Continuity and change: the professional lives and culture of self-employed barristers in England and Wales
… in the last 25 years, to assess if and how their professional lives and perceptions of Bar identity and culture have changed as a result. The loss of its advocacy monopoly, cuts to legal aid, the liberalisation of the rules governing the Bar’s working structures and external regulation go to the …
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The Impact of Future-Focused Change on the Professional Lives of New Zealand Primary School Teachers
… ways is future-focused change influencing the professional lives of New Zealand primary school teachers?’. In the early-21st-century, proponents for future-focused learning have outlined a simple argument for the importance of instilling skills for ‘lifelong learning’. Skills that will prepare …
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Power, identity, and social positioning in the professional lives of Black counselling psychologists: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… of attention to the complex relationship between professional identity and racial identity for Black psychologists. This study addresses this gap by exploring how these identities intersect and what this means for the profession. Methodology and findings: The author conducted semi-structured …
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Recognising the constraints that affect professional women’s choices: how do Australian women develop and grow in their professional lives?
… experience development and growth in their professional lives and how they made sense of that development and growth. Narrative research methods were used to analyse the dialogue that the women in this study present as significant to their development and growth. Differences and similarities …
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Interior landscapes: Personal perspectives on professional lives: The first generation of librarians at the Illinois Library School, 1893-1907
From 1893 to 1907, 361 students comprised the first classes entering the Illinois Library School when Katharine Lucinda Sharp was director. Three hundred and forty-nine of these students were women. As the first generation of college-educated women seeking a career in the Progressive Era, they …
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Study of the Influences of a High School Career Exploration Program on the Adult Professional Lives of Former Program Participants
… Career Education (E.B.C.E.), on the professional lives of nine adults who are former program participants. E.B.C.E. was an experiencebased, student-centered program that helped students develop long-term career goals and then reassessed those goals based on community-based, externship …
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Stories from the inside: A narrative analysis investigating the professional lives of three New Zealand secondary school heads of English departments
… analysis based on an investigation into the professional lives of heads of English departments (HODs) in three New Zealand secondary schools. The main data collection methods of interviews and observations used in this study, fall within an interpretive paradigm. The research breaks through …
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Therapists’ experiences of helplessness; an interpretative phenomenological exploration of the experiences of Egyptian cognitive behavioral practitioners
… of helplessness in their personal and professional lives. • To explore how therapists experience any potential connection between the two sets of experiences. Interpretative Phenomenological analysis is used as the guiding methodology. 8 participants were recruited and interviewed. The …
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A qualitative exploration into the personal and professional experiences of having a long-term, daily practice of informal mindfulness for third wave therapists
… a qualitative exploration into the personal and professional experiences of having a long term, daily practice of informal mindfulness for third wave therapists. The humanistic, pluralistic and phenomenological focus of this study aims to appeal specifically to counselling psychologists who …
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Multidirectional relationships between chronic pain, cannabis use, sleep quality, and anxiety
… ability, as well as their social, personal, and professional lives. This study examines the relationships between chronic pain, cannabis use, sleep quality, and anxiety. A survey was conducted for chronic pain patients in which they reported various pain dimensions, sleep outcomes, cannabis use …
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What OBE did to us!' : the experiences of four Cape Town secondary school teachers
… Education) and C2005 (Curriculum 2005) on the professional lives and teaching of a select group of high school teachers. The research was a combination of a case study approach and reflective professional practice. It sought to identify and explain key aspects that had produced such a marked …
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Developing Higher Consciousness: The Effects of Mantra Meditation on the Development of Self-Actualizing Qualities in Teachers
… the effects of meditation on their personal and professional lives. The methodology of portraiture was chosen because according to Lawrence-Lightfoot, "with its focus on narrative, with its use of metaphor and symbol, portraiture intends to address wider, more eclectic audiences. The attempt is …
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One Stage of Therapist Development: A Longitudinal Study of Interns
… them any room to grow during the rest of their professional lives. Only the Skovholt and Ronnestad (1992) model allows for more growth. Further work should focus on the stages beyond the internship year, using this model to guide the development of surveys.
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Female Doctors and Educator in Sichuan 1900-1930s
This thesis explores the professional lives of missionary and local female doctors in Sichuan, China, from 1900 to 1930s. This thesis recovers the history of initiating gendered healthcare and medical education for local women by using archival sources, missionary reports and books, and personal …
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Women in Human Service Professions Elementary School Teachers and Public Health Nurses: A Comparative Analysis
… and nurses report similar problems in their professional lives. Lack of autonomy, tremendous workload, and lack of recognition cause stress and burnout. As a result, women in human service professions are dissatisfied with their careers and these professions experience high rates of …
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Navigating foreignness and non-nativeness in post-Brexit Britain: the lived experience of non-British counselling psychology and psychotherapy trainees
… of Brexit, its impact on their personal and professional lives, and any shifts, changes, or disruptions that have occurred as a result. Six participants were involved in the research, and semi-structured interviews were conducted to gather data. The transcribed data were analysed with …
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