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  • Serious fun : life-deep learning of koi hobbyists

    Creator:
    Liu, Chi-Chang
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    Hobby activities can be viewed through the lens of informal, free-choice learning. A wide range of hobbies combine fun and learning-intensive practices, and can contribute to scientific literacy. Hobby learning involves clear goal orientation, persistence and effort, and often results in more richly and strongly connected knowledge; traits highly valued...
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    Dissertation
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    Contextual Model of Learning to explain how personal, socio-cultural and physical contextual factors affect

  • Respecting one’s abilities, or (post)colonial tokenism? : Narrative testimonios of faculty of color working in predominantly white community colleges

    Creator:
    Samano, Michael Luis
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    The purpose of this research project was to gain a deeper understanding of the lived experience of faculty of color. More specifically, this project explores how diversity-related workload expectations impact faculty of color who work in predominantly white community colleges. Known by various descriptors, the term used in this research...
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    lived personal and professional experiences of faculty of color: • Have you had any experiences with

  • Corpus-Based Studies on Pregnancy

    Creator:
    Mullen, Alyson
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    The pregnancy and postpartum periods are full of major life transitions. So often, the focus of the literature is about the unborn baby and physical changes a woman experiences throughout this timeframe. Many sources often overlook women’s personal experiences in the perinatal period. Despite an increase in perinatal mood and...
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    experiences throughout this timeframe. Many sources often overlook women’s personal experiences in the

  • The experiences of older students' use of web-based student services

    Creator:
    Ho, Katy W.
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    The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to understand the experiences of older students' use of web-based student services in a community college setting. For the purpose of this study the term "older student" was defined as people born between the years 1943 and 1960. This group of people,...
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    Dissertation
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    Older Students in Higher Education……………….7 Personal Experience………………………………………………..8 Summary

  • Supporting the Families of International Graduate Students with Accompanying Dependents

    Creator:
    Rains, Shalece L.
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    Research universities in the United States recognize the importance of attracting graduate students from around the world to make global collaborations possible and to take advantage of the worldwide demand for higher education. Educational research has developed a large body of literature on the specialized supports that improve successful outcomes...
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    , destabilization of personal identity, and isolation from community (De Verthelyi, 1995; Martens & Grant, 2008

  • Examining Sexuality and Gender in Academic and Popular Discourses: Corpus-Based Analyses

    Creator:
    Ferrese, Shauna
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    Counseling as a profession has been on a journey of self-examination as CACREP approaches the release of its revised standards and the world recovers from the tumultuous few years under the shadow of the pandemic. Cultural shifts in perspective have prompted new conversations around concepts related to sexuality, racial identity,...
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    celebrating. I also had to come to terms with my own personal privilege as a young, White, middle-class

  • Increasing college-going self-efficacy of rural fifth grade students

    Creator:
    Jensen, Michelle L.
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    The work of professional school counselors in helping students achieve academically and increasing their college-going rates is significant work. Research indicates that high school and even middle school is often too late for students to begin the process of college and career planning. This dissertation includes two manuscripts. The first...
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    focus: academic, career, and personal/social development. Domains are to be addressed at all levels of

  • The Book of Mormon Topic Structure, Keyness Distinctions, and Collocates of Deity: Implications for Mental Health Professionals

    Creator:
    Callister, Paul T.
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    Understanding the spiritual worldview of clients is a core element of multicultural competency for mental health professionals. One spiritual and religious population is members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and related Latter-day Saint populations. The Book of Mormon is an important sacred text of this population....
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    Christianity. In the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, God refers to a personal God who is the creator of

  • The Nature of the Discourse on Race and Ethnicity in Play Therapy Literature

    Creator:
    Page, Unique L.
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    Ethical and training standards across counseling-related professions contain competencies related to race and ethnicity as necessary research and practice components. One such counseling-related sub-specialty is Play Therapy, which acknowledges that professionals utilizing play therapy techniques must consider racial and cultural context, trauma, and intersectionality when working with children. However, there...
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    personal opinions, emotions, and bias that may impact their research (Chapin, 2008). One of the eight

  • Policies and practices of L.G.B.T. friendly institutions to support students who are attracted to more than one gender

    Creator:
    Zissen, Donald J.
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    Within the United States, the number of "out" Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) individuals attending a college or university is on the rise (Rosario, Schrimshaw, Hunter & Braun, 2006). With this increase, the new and/or different ways that lesbian and gay individuals can present and express their sexual orientation has...
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    of students and the issues they face in their personal development. As gender identity issues