Essays about: "Careers in practice"

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  1. 1. From Professional Engineers to University Lecturers : A Qualitative Inquiry about Motivations, Experiences, and Decision-Making Processes of Second Career-Changing Lecturers

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Luis Miguel Dos Santos; [2023]
    Keywords : Australia; COVID-19; engineer; engineering education; second career changing teacher; self-efficacy; social cognitive career and motivation theory; social cognitive theory;

    Abstract : Background and Research Questions: The purpose of this study is to investigate and understand the motivations, experiences, and decision-making processes of a group of professional engineers who decided to switch their career pathway from the engineering industry to education and teaching during their mid-age. Based on the Social Cognitive Career and Motivation Theory and Self-Efficacy Theory, the study was guided by a research question, why would professional engineers decide to switch their career pathway from the engineering industry to education and teaching during their mid-age, particularly in Australia? What are their motivations?  Methodology: In line with the general inductive approach, focus group activity, remarkable item sharing, and member-checking interviews were used to collect in-depth sharing and stories from six participants via the online platform during the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE

  2. 2. Body-Safe Apocalypse : Sexual Materiality and Frameworks for Design During and Beyond Collapse

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

    Author : Joshua (Ev) Carr; [2023]
    Keywords : collapse; sexual practices; materiality; design theory; philosophy of design; meta;

    Abstract : Following the Covid-19 pandemic, a relatively mild global disruption, our global society experienced large-scale shortages of high-tech materials, the increasing cost or absence of many commodities usually taken for granted, and the floundering of industries that facilitate our global industrial civilisation such as shipping and aviation. By comparison, catastrophic climate change stands to be far more devastating. READ MORE

  3. 3. Komplikationer vid kastration av hanhund och veterinärstudenters självförtroende inför genomförande av operationen

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

    Author : Josefine Prabert; [2020]
    Keywords : hund; hanhund; kastration; veterinärstudent; självsäkerhet; självförtroende;

    Abstract : Normalkastration av hanhund är en av de vanligaste operationerna som utförs inom smådjurskirurgi. Veterinärstudenterna vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet började under hösten 2018 regelbundet kastrera hanhundar i undervisningen. READ MORE

  4. 4. Careers in Practice – A Processual Approach. How consultants make sense of their career in a Knowledge Intensive Firm

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Adisa Hodzic; Johanna Westling; [2017]
    Keywords : Career Development; Career planning; Careers in practice; Processual Career Approach; Knowledge Intensive Firms; Knowledge worker; Business and Economics;

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  5. 5. Who’s on first Teacher professionalism in the wake of the förstelärare-reform

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

    Author : Peter Sundell; [2014-10-02]
    Keywords : Förstelärare; Teacher careers; Critical discourse analysis; Teacher professionalization;

    Abstract : Aim: The aim of this thesis is to straighten out the question mark of the ambition of professionalism which is present in the first teacher reform’s background work. But the concept of professionalization is not without controversy, over time a new definition of professionalism has come into use, the so called organisational professionalism could influence the notion of professionalism in the background work and also in the whole reforms implementation. READ MORE