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  • Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

    Creator:
    Yerace, Marisa
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    This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood-based practice for building community, can offer community-building and civic action wisdom as a model for composition. This model brings attention to spatial metaphors for rhetoric and teaching that have persisted for millennia; it re-focuses us on community; it encourages...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of literacy teaching by understanding this practice as the cultivation of habits of citizenship

  • Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

    Creator:
    Boardman, Colleen
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    The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    methodologies into action and how that application is reflected in our work habits” (pp. 3-4). Methodology can

  • Women, poverty, and educational success : a critical exploration of low-income women's experience in community colleges

    Creator:
    Barry, Kate R.
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    The purpose of this study is to critically explore low-income women's experience as they negotiate post secondary education in community colleges. Three research questions explore the context through which low-income women have entered the college experience, what that experience is like for them, and how the community college experience has...
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    Dissertation
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    Chapter Two: Review of Literature………………………………………………13 Search and Selection Process for Materials

  • The COVID-19 Hunger Cliff: A Narrative Policy Framework analysis of the ongoing fight over pandemic-era universal school lunch policies

    Creator:
    Mowers-Cervantes, Emily
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    The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has emerged as a method of understanding how stories and evidence are portrayed within policy arenas to support policy discussions and what end goals these policy narratives aim to meet. This study applies the Narrative Policy framework to policy narratives used to discuss and share...
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    Capstone Project

  • Congruency, collaboration, and awareness : the discourses that impact the teachers of English language learners

    Creator:
    Avila, Kena T.
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    This research examines the discourses that impact the teachers of ELL teachers within their instructional practices, their school environment, and a wider educational system. Interviews, observations, and focus groups of twelve teachers at two elementary schools in the Pacific Northwest provide the data for this grounded theory approach that uncovers...
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    Dissertation
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    careful about buying grapes today out of habit of boycotting grapes as a kid. I have a poster signed

  • The Impact of Financial Education on Community College Student-Loan Debt

    Creator:
    Garcia, Veronica R.
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    The student-loan market has surpassed 1.3 trillion dollars; rising student-loan cohort default rates are a growing concern among educational institutions. Many colleges are implementing financial-education programs for students to help increase their knowledge, aptitude, and skills so they may become informed consumers. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The purpose of this...
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    Dissertation

  • Exploring resilience in the lives of women leaders in early childhood health, human services, and education

    Creator:
    Turner, Susan Diane
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    Women leaders in early childhood health, human services, and education face tremendous challenges in their efforts to cultivate resilience amidst a myriad of risk factors including incessant stress, low wages, and limited professional support. Women who foster mental health in young children and high-risk families are vulnerable to secondary traumatic...
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    Dissertation
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    ……………………………… 20 Search Process …………………………………….. 21 Resiliency Theory …………………………………. 22

  • Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

    Creator:
    Williams, MaryJean Harris
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    Background: The United States has been under-producing college graduates since at least 1980, with many challenges suppressing students’ self-efficacy. One approach to improving student outcomes is through mentorship. This dissertation applied Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Kram’s Mentor Relationship Development Theory (MRD) to discover whether students’ campus mentorship experiences...
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    Dissertation
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    …………………………………………………………………..........19 Search Methods and Context………………………………………………….19 Major Themes in the Literature

  • Case Study : Description of a Corporate University's Operational Factors

    Creator:
    Ewer, Gary
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    Corporate universities (CUs) have been in existence in the United States since the early 1900s. They are increasingly providing educational and developmental opportunities for workers; however, there is little empirical research on these types of organizations. This study examined a specific electrical distributor's CU using a theoretical framework as a...
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    Dissertation
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    Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC). A key word search was used that included a variety of

  • Mothers and Work: Women's Perceptions in Contemporary Japanese Society

    Creator:
    Yoshizaki, Kimiyo
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    This paper investigates certain women's problems in contemporary Japan. Historically, Japanese believed ideal women fit in the stereotype of "Good wife, Wise mother." Japanese women's main roles were regarded as wife and mother. Especially, motherhood was the main responsibility of women. However, the advance of industry, technology, and methods of...
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    Masters Thesis