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Creator:: Baadarani, Dalia
Abstract:: Bullying cultivates insecurity and fear while generating attention for the perpetrator and degrading the student-victim in front of others. The act erodes the self-efficacy and identity of minority students more specifically and produces a hostile climate that undermines the learning and social development to all affected. Despite the pervasive negative...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Creator:: Briggs, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Ann)
Abstract:: Research mentorship is a new construct emerging in the literature, but remains inadequately defined and scarcely researched. This topic is of relevance to counselor education because of the paucity of literature on the topic, and because of our professional commitments to diversity, wellness, and scholarship. Effective mentorship has been shown...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Twomey, Sylvia Mary
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to understand how adult learners in an online teacher licensure program selected and used learning strategies, transformed existing strategies or developed new strategies. Also examined was whether the environment itself facilitated or impeded usage of transformed strategies, or development of new strategies. Participants in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Philosophy in Education on May 4, 2000. Title: A Study of Adult Student Learning Strategies for a Web Based

Creator:: Campbell, Edward J.
Abstract:: In 2010 the American taxpayers spent $697 million educating veterans under the provisions of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly referred to as the GI Bill). Most veterans begin their college education at a community college. However, the number of veterans succeeding in community colleges is exceedingly low. Based...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Edward J. Campbell for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education

Creator:: Powell, William N.
Abstract:: Researching what I believe to be exclusionary practices in higher education against African Americans has compelled me to approach this subject, in part, historically. Although I realize that a historical chronology of any subject is often deceptive, as with any writer, I am tempted to interpret events to fit my...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: science of race had sought to maintain (94). In Barry Troyna's book, Racism and Education, Fazal Rizvi

Creator:: Cammack, J. Camille
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to analyze preservice teachers' talk about gender issues in education through a poststructural feminist theoretical framework. Eighteen Master of Arts in Teaching students volunteered to participate in a seminar. During the seminar the participants wrote about and discussed gender issues in teaching. Data collected...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Preservice teachers explore gender issues in education through

Creator:: Kilburg, Gary M.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate Peer Collaborative Mentoring (PCM) as a professional development model for international graduate teaching assistants at an American university. Data were gathered from interviews and observations of three American peer mentors (Intracultural Peer Mentors/IAPMs), five Chinese Graduate Teaching Assistants (Intercultural Peer Mentors/IEPMs), and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Kilburg for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education presented on April 23, 1992. Title: A Study of

Creator:: Eckhardt, Carol A.
Abstract:: Academic advising on American college and university campuses has evolved into a professional activity supported by a growing body of theory and research. Developmental psychology provided the foundation for an approach to advising that emphasizes an holistic view of the student by supplementing traditional advising functions with career and personal...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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