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  • Electric utility pole yard training facility : Designing an effective learning environment

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    Topping, Robert P.
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    The primary responsibility of electric utilities is to supply consistent, dependable, and affordable energy to private customers, businesses, and industries. As with many businesses, electric utilities are experiencing the effects of an aging workforce and expending considerable resources to train their current and replacement workers. Community colleges can partner with...
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    Facility: Designing an Effective Learning Environment by Robert P. Topping A

  • Social justice counseling : A study of social justice counselor training in CACREP-accredited counselor preparation programs

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    Ratts, Manivong J.
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    There is a growing movement within the counseling profession calling on counselors to integrate a social justice perspective into counseling theories, paradigms, and practices. However, there are no empirical studies illustrating how counselor preparation programs accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) are preparing...
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    potential within a mutually responsible, interdependent society (D. J. Goodman, 2001, p. 4-5). Based

  • Profiles in courage of community college leaders

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    Kruger, Mari L.
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    The purpose of this study is to explore the lived experience of courage among community college leaders across the United States. The following questions guided the research: (1) What is the courageous experience like for a community college leader? (2) What is the process of courage development? (3) What are...
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    Roper, Dr. Jessica White, Dr. Steven Rubert, and Dr. Pamela Transue for their time and energy which

  • Chunking professional-technical programs to create pathways to degree completion in community colleges

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    Dins, Kate
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    The purpose of this study was to explore the phenomenon of community colleges creating pathways to degree completion in professional-technical programs by breaking degree programs into smaller portions, referred to as "chunks." The purpose or possible advantage of chunking was that it would improve the rate of degree completion among...
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    a great prize, nothing short of a gateway to the American dream” (Kahlenberg, 2004, p. vii

  • The heart of leadership : An autoethnographic study of issues that impact educational leadership

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    Prince, Erin K.
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    This autoethnography explores issues that impact educational leadership by examining individual reflections, perceptions, and responses developed through the lens of a principal of two elementary schools. The main data source involves journal entries collected over a period of one year. Theories of educational leadership styles and effective school practices form...
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    ” (Tedlock, 2000, p.455). Experiencing firsthand interaction with people during everyday functions

  • Impact of discourses on preservice literacy teacher identity development : Subjectivity and agency

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    Larson, Mindy Legard
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    This research addressed the complexities of identity development in the lives of seven elementary and middle school preservice literacy teachers during their graduate teacher education program at a private western university using a poststructural feminism theoretical lens. This research investigated two questions: 1) How do preservice teachers develop their identity...
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    is” (Dudley-Marling, 1997, p. 188). After meager attempts to figure out teaching six and seven-year