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This exploratory, mixed-methods study aspired to learn more about teachers’ experiences, their perceptions of self-efficacy (SE), their posttraumatic growth (PTG) outcomes, and their sensemaking surrounding these interrelated factors...
Families in the rural town of Immokalee, Florida are faced with the problem of finding a high-quality place to care for their infants and toddlers while they work, due to a lack of space in child development centers that accept infants...
The purpose of this Dissertation in Practice was to look at the patterns and trends of student enrollment, course hour load, and academic outcomes and explore student success interactions after the environmental shock of a natural...
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 study seeks to make meaning of Black college women's interpretations of Black womanhood through the lens of urban reality television. This study highlights the consumption of urban reality television in higher education and works to...
This study examines how colonial-era Christian missionary education shaped apartheid-era religious schooling and post-apartheid state religion education. The author argues that post-apartheid state religion classrooms simultaneously...
This study centers on maintaining motivation in second language learning (SLL), by exploring Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs), a recently conceptualized phenomenon theorized by Professor Dornyei and his colleagues (Dornyei, Muir, ...
Reintegration programs promote technical and vocational education and training (TVET) for ex-combatants, with the aim of helping them develop skills, assume new social roles, and gain community acceptance. This in-depth interview study...
This study examines middle school students from low wealth communities and their perceptions of poverty and teacher efficacy. Additionally, this study seeks to provide valuable insight into educators regarding the skills and dispositions...
This dissertation centers on the stories and perspectives of young refugees from Syria and Afghanistan enrolled in Sweden’s municipal music-and-arts school, or kulturskola, programs. Kulturskolor are voluntary music and arts programs...
Every year, more students in the United States participate in international service learning (ISL) programs through their universities (IIE, 2016; Boone, Kline, Johnson, Milburn, & Rieder, 2013). Over the past two decades, the...
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the use of art as a pedagogical tool with pre-service art teachers in a graduate-level art education class. A curriculum was developed focusing on educational social justice...
Intrusive Advising and Its Influence on First and Second Year Students: A Formative Evaluation of a Pilot Intrusive Advisng Initiative at a HBCU in the South
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have granted educational opportunities to students with a diverse aptitude of scholastic success. As a result, many of these students require additional academic support and assistance...
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how Black women doctoral students describe and make meaning of their scholarly identities. Additionally, this study illustrates the negotiations Black women doctoral students make in the...
Democratic engagement and socially just leadership education are emergent approaches to community engagement and leadership education. Three critical and timely tensions set the stage for this study: tensions between higher education's...
This dissertation explores the campus climate of a Historically Black University in the Southeastern United Sates by providing an overview of the campus' sexual assault policy and Black women students' and administrators' perceptions of...
Despite the fact that high-quality preschool education is empirically acknowledged to facilitate short- and long-term personal, social, cognitive, and economic benefits, the professionals who teach preschool experience overwhelmingly...
Today's students will face issues and problems that are global scale and require a collaborative global effort to resolve effectively. To help prepare students to resolve these global issues, students must learn to participate in the...
Forty-three percent of all international college students in the United States enroll in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs. In 2014, the Caribbean sent the highest proportion of female students (44%) to...
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