Understanding the Educational and Career Pathways of Engineers

Understanding the Educational and Career Pathways of Engineers
Author: National Academy of Engineering
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2019-01-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309485606

Engineering skills and knowledge are foundational to technological innovation and development that drive long-term economic growth and help solve societal challenges. Therefore, to ensure national competitiveness and quality of life it is important to understand and to continuously adapt and improve the educational and career pathways of engineers in the United States. To gather this understanding it is necessary to study the people with the engineering skills and knowledge as well as the evolving system of institutions, policies, markets, people, and other resources that together prepare, deploy, and replenish the nation's engineering workforce. This report explores the characteristics and career choices of engineering graduates, particularly those with a BS or MS degree, who constitute the vast majority of degreed engineers, as well as the characteristics of those with non-engineering degrees who are employed as engineers in the United States. It provides insight into their educational and career pathways and related decision making, the forces that influence their decisions, and the implications for major elements of engineering education-to-workforce pathways.

Identity-Trajectories of Early Career Researchers

Identity-Trajectories of Early Career Researchers
Author: Lynn McAlpine
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2017-12-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1349952877

The book asks how we can make sense of career paths for PhD graduates, something that has rarely been systematically studied. It offers a coherent synthesis of the empirically-based insights that arose from the experiences of 48 early career researchers, who were participants in a 10-year qualitative longitudinal research program. The book has the power to inform other researchers’ conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of post-PhD career trajectories. The authors draw on the conceptual lens of ‘identity-trajectory’, which emerged from their research program, to examine the decision-making processes underpinning the careers of PhD graduates, whether contingent researchers and teachers, assistant professors within the academy or professionals elsewhere. The book highlights the role of personal agency in negotiating academic and non-academic work and careers within broader personal lives. It will be compelling reading for researchers and students working in the areas of Education and Sociology, particularly those with an interest in examining career development and decision-making.

College of Engineering

College of Engineering
Author: University of Michigan. College of Engineering
Publisher: UM Libraries
Total Pages: 806
Release: 1983
Genre: Engineering schools
ISBN:

Educational Policy Goes to School

Educational Policy Goes to School
Author: Gilberto Q. Conchas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317192516

Educational policies explicitly implemented in order to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success for disenfranchised youth can backfire—and often have the unintended result of widening those gaps. In this interdisciplinary collection of case studies, contributors examine cases of policy backfire, when policies don’t work, have unintended consequences, and when policies help. Although policy reform is thought of as an effective way to improve schooling structures and to diminish the achievement gap, many such attempts to reform the system do not adequately address the legacy of unequal policies and the historic and pervasive inequalities that persist in schools. Exploring the roots of school inequality and examining often-ignored negative policy outcomes, contributors illuminate the causes and consequences of poor policymaking decisions and demonstrate how policies can backfire, fail, or have unintended success.

An Introduction to Qualitative Research

An Introduction to Qualitative Research
Author: Gretchen B. Rossman
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1506307922

The updated Fourth Edition of Gretchen B. Rossman and Sharon F. Rallis’s popular introductory text leads the new researcher into the field by explaining the core concepts through theory, research, and applied examples. Woven into the chapters are three themes that are the heart of the book: first, research is about learning; second, research can and should be useful; and finally, a researcher should practice the highest ethical standards to ensure that a study is trustworthy. The Fourth Edition includes an elaborate discussion of systematic inquiry as well as a nuanced discussion of developing a conceptual framework.

The SoJo Journal

The SoJo Journal
Author: Brad J. Porfilio
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1641138637

The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal of educational foundations. The College of Education at San Jose State University hosts the journal. It publishes essays that examine contemporary educational and social contexts and practices from critical perspectives. The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is interested in research studies as well as conceptual, theoretical, philosophical, and policy-analysis essays that challenge the existing state of affairs in society, schools, and (in)formal education.