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Past research indicates that the quantity and quality of resources available for immigrants in a destination city have serious implications for an immigrant's overall success. Previous research though, has failed to look at resources for...
In 1917 America found itself embroiled in a worldwide battle concerning the identities and rights of nations. It was all of a sudden required to re-think its ethnic and cultural identity in the light of both its "melting pot" origins and...
This dissertation investigates the effects of federal grant-in-aid programs on metropolitan area economic growth and recovery in "green" energy and environmental sectors of the economy, focusing on the role of self-organizing...
Assuming that the social studies teacher should shoulder responsibility for developing reading skills, what steps are necessary in planning a program aimed at the development of reading skills in the social studies classroom? This paper...
Wildland fire management in the United States is caught in a rigidity trap, an inability to apply novelty and innovation in the midst of crisis. Despite wide recognition that public agencies should engage in ecological fire restoration, ...
Planning for the disposal of the dead is often overlooked as a planning function, but the permanence of allocating land to cemetery use makes it critical to long range land use planning. There is very little contemporary guidance for...
This study explores in-service elementary and secondary science teachers' conceptions of the Nature of Scientific Inquiry and the influence participation in two different Research Experience for Teacher (RET) had on these conceptions....
This research was designed, via auto-photo elicitation, to discover what a democratic school is, specifically Grassroots Free School in Tallahassee, FL. Questions concerning how free school pedagogy is implemented and how students of a...
This qualitative study, which examines media representation issues of China’s Zhuang people and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is based on a content analysis of the People’s Daily, the official media organ of the Chinese Communist...
The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore the art therapist's perspective of working with victims of disaster and implications of art therapy after a disaster experience. Empirical research in disaster relief is limited, ...
Objectives and Theoretical Framework This study addresses the social dynamics of associations between chronic inflammation and quality of life in older adults, as well the ability of social factors to cause inflammatory disease. It...
This thesis addresses the causes and consequences of displacement in Sudan. By focusing on the themes of sovereignty and religion throughout Sudanese history, the complex challenges of the long-standing Sudanese conflict become apparent....
Scientific knowledge often appears to contradict many students' religious beliefs. Indeed, the assumptions of science appear contradictory to the metaphysical claims of many religions. This conflict is most evident in discussions of...
This study was phenomenological, qualitative research to examine the cross-cultural experiences of Asian art education faculty in U.S. higher education as well as the meanings they attach to those experiences. The review of literature on...
The seemingly elusive connections between a West African ceremony and a Southern blues scape is this thesis’s central focus. In Unmasking The Blues: Gẹlẹdẹ And The Creation Of Blues Alchemy, I explore the blues culture phenomena of...
There is an outpouring of resources, a large body of research, and a string of costly interventions concerning the literacy disparities between low-income African American families and middle-income families and families of other...
This dissertation consists of three individual studies on the role of state governments in social welfare. The first paper discusses the relationship between gubernatorial administrative capacity and the ability for Democrats to increase...
This dissertation asserts that members of Ile Asho Funfun, the Lucumí spiritual house at the center of the research, is comprised of members who have undergone the process of converting to the spiritual practice of Lucumí and, as such, ...
The aim of this study was to determine how well art teachers, who had graduated from the art teacher preparation program at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) between 1999 and 2003, thought they were prepared for their teaching...
This study focused on the need for an increased understanding of the experiences of preservice elementary educators and their respective abilities to define culture, identity, and the politics of representation in a technologically...
This dissertation investigates the resources that students use to learn new digital technologies to complete course assignments. This work is particularly important in a time when teachers are assigning more multimodal projects. If...
The Race to the Top (RTTT) federal grant program was an initiative that targeted improving Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. However, the evaluation of the program reported only student outcomes for...
Exploring the Effectiveness of Collaborative Assessment Preparation with Immediate Feedback in an Intensive Adult English as a Second Language Classroom
Learning to speak a foreign language can be a difficult and time-consuming endeavor, involving verbal exchanges in a target language. It is a process that includes learning about, understanding, and to some extent identifying with...
This thesis identifies and examines the trope of barbershop violence in American literature. Drawing on a wide range of literary, scholarly, and historical documents, I explore the way that certain authors subvert traditional ideas about...
Father involvement is critical for youth’s development across their lifespan (Barton, Kogan, Cho, & Brown, 2015; Doyle, Clark Goings, Cryer-Coupet, Lombe, Stephens, & Nebbitt, 2017; Passley, Gerring, & Gerson, 2007). Thus, researchers...
In India, the nationwide female to male sex ratio of children ages 0 – 6 dropped from 976 girls per 1000 boys in 1961 to 914 girls per 1000 boys in 2011. Scholars attribute the sharp decline in India's sex ratio to the advent of...
Ada, a young mute 'rat' girl, is an outcast in an underground society called The Sanctuary. Ada discovers a notebook that alludes to a different world where they would not be plagued with sickness and famine. Teaming up with Isaac, a ...
This study is a personal contribution to the design for wellbeing phenomenon. Using a pragmatic-phenomenological paradigm, the main goal of this research was to conduct a design-based investigation from a human-centered perspective to...
"The problem of this study was to test the hypothesis that the use of certain visual aids will improve instruction in algebra. Two experiments were devised. In the first simple balance scales were used and in the second models were used....
Rhetoric is an agent of the kind of persuasion designed to produce conviction. Conviction is the motivation of Christianity as a Social Movement. The New Testament book of Acts is the harbor for the launching of the movement of...
Demonstrates partnerships between faculty, digital librarian, cataloger, and external digital preservation partners involved in open access (OA) institutional repository (IR) digital collection development and digital preservation of...
There is a frequently asked question among students studying costume design: When does clothing become costume? More acutely, is there reallya difference between the two? The definitions of clothing and costume are almost interchangeable...
In this thesis, I investigate how music and food intersect. I juxtapose two musicians whose relationship with music and food is integral to their world-view and social activism: the swamp-funk/blues guitarist and gumbo-cooker, Bill ...
Factors relating to achievement with selected topics in geometry and topology when taught to fifth-, sixth- and seventh-grade pupils via a programed text
"Although there are some subjective opinions supporting the hypothesis that geometrical and topological topics are teachable at the elementary school level there is the need for definitive research which can answer the following...
This study forms a meta-narrative exploring the educational experiences of Black and Brown elementary students in public schools. The goal is to decenter and dismisses racism and mis-education frequently found in majoritarian stories...
This study was an exploration of the public trust and accountability characteristics of an accreditable museum as defined by the American Association of Museums (AAM). Museums that are accredited demonstrate their commitment to community...
"In general terms, the purposes of this study were two in number: (1) to suggest whether unique mental factors as identified by methods of factor analysis are correlated with success in usual school learning situations and (2) to suggest...
ABSTRACT This qualitative study investigated the experiences of women with impaired vision having an opportunity to create art and literature in a program at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens. The study also examined the participants'...
From Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift, country music encompasses a wide range of artists with a variety of unique traits. Public persona plays a large role in the marketing of country music, affecting how audiences respond and relate to...
Despite the prevalence of delinquency during adolescence and the influence of culture on parenting behaviors and adolescent outcomes, few comparative studies have examined the association between parental warmth and delinquency...
"The purpose of the study was to determine whether there is a difference in the ability of two equally capable groups of subjects to generalize the winning strategy of a simple game when one group learns the perfect strategy for one form...
Art is basic to all phases of living, regardless of the nature of the particular society. The arts, when considered in their complete scope, become an integral function of life--a function so closely a part of living it cannot be...
The need for additional studies and research into problems of art education has been recognized for several years. This realm of study has attracted a number of investigators in recent years but it is still a relatively virgin field....
ABSTRACT During this case study there was an investigation of the perceived impact of social media posts on a college athlete's performance and self-evaluation. The goal was to have up to ten Division I athletes from Southeastern...
Abstract: (Florida, Common Core State Standards, Mathematics Teachers, 2013) This thesis was designed to determine middle school teachers' perceptions of their state of readiness to enact the Common Core Standards in mathematics in the...
Scholarship on globalization suggests that new forms of democratic citizenship and politics are emerging, yet the US educational system remains resistant to global perspectives in the curriculum and continues to favors national identity... In this article, two programs that teach about the world were used to illustrate some of the problems and issues with the national approach to citizenship as it is often taught in U.S. social studies classrooms. These case studies...
Volunteers are among the most important assets of an arts organization. As trends in volunteerism are based on societal changes, the number of episodic volunteers, that is, volunteers who prefer a flexible and sporadic volunteer schedule...
This research contributes to medical sociology, neighborhood research, and life course studies by synthesizing relevant concepts from each field in order to offer a more complete understanding of how and why place impacts health. This...
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