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  • 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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    Preservice Literacy Teacher Identity Development: Subjectivity and Agency by Mindy Legard Larson

  • Enhancing community college revenue sources by leveraging land resources

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    Scott, Cheryl L.
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    Community colleges are experiencing a decline in state allocated funding. Traditionally, college administrators look for ways to cut expenditures and raise tuition and fees to make up for the shortfall. Using available land resources to generate a revenue stream may provide revenue for community colleges. The purpose of this study...
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    community colleges are adequately funded by state and county governments” (p. 740). Importance of

  • A phenomenological inquiry into the experience of reflection by older adults in adventure-based experiential education

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    Brennan, L. A.
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    This phenomenological inquiry explored dimensions of reflection for older adults in a developmental oriented adventure education experience. Data were gathered from emergent interviews with four individuals while participating in a multi-day, self-contained experiential education program conducted in a rugged environment, and led by a Navajo leader. Two principle research questions...
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    “educational consumer marketplace,” and from projections made by the United States (U.S.) Census Bureau

  • Educational technology associations as change agents : A case study

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    Stephenson, Christine (Christine Gale)
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    This research addressed the role of educational technology associations as change agents within education with particular emphasis on issues of advocacy and leadership. Using a poststructural feminist lens and the metaphor of interview and analysis as storytelling, it explored the perspectives of nineteen individuals belonging to a national level educational...
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    relationship with their educational technology association and that ideas of change agency, advocacy, and

  • 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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    (g) environmental and economic impact. iii ©Copyright by

  • Understanding school bullying and workplace abuse in a Taiwanese context

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    Lin, Yu-Hui
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    Bullying prevents its targets from enjoying a safe, stress-free living, learning, and working environment. For most children, bullying experiences will be merely unpleasant childhood memories. This remains the same in adult's working environment. During the past decade, the concept of workplace abuse has had an increasing resonance within western countries....
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    17% of the respondents were victims of workplace abuse. Personality traits and environmental

  • Autotronics : Implications for automotive related training programs standards based upon emerging technologies

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    Savin, Stuart
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    The purpose of the study was to provide a method for evaluating the effect, impact or role that (as perceived by automotive, diesel, automotive collision faculty and administrators) the nationally recognized industry training standards developed by Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) and National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF) have on the...
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    initial development was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (NATEF, 2002). By 1996 the program was

  • Indigenous language preservation programs and language policy in education : a web-based intertextual analysis

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    Muniz, Gloria J. Bock
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    There are more than 6,900 known living languages in the world, half of which could be extinct within one hundred years. Approximately 150 indigenous American languages are still spoken in the United States; however, it is estimated that by the year 2050 only twenty of them will remain. Language preservation...
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    spoken in the United States; however, it is estimated that by the year 2050 only twenty of them will

  • 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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    completion in professional-technical programs by breaking degree programs into smaller portions, referred

  • The implementation year of shared governance at a Vanguard community college

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    Lanning, Patrick M.
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    College governance is a function of structure and of how people act within that structure. Organizational strategies no longer identify administrations as monopolies that possess all of the good ideas. Recent organizational management approaches to governance promote inclusiveness in decision-making and are at odds with the community college's historical structures,...
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    historical and cultural influences. Colleges are socially constructed organizations influenced by current