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  • Tenure-track faculty : motivations, expectations, and experiences

    Creator:
    Pearson, Heather S.
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    This study explored the motivations, expectations, and experiences of tenure-track faculty members at a public research institution. Through semi-structured interviews with twelve participants, the study utilized a constructivist paradigm to qualitative research to address the individual experiences of faculty members entering the professoriate and pursuing tenure. With this methodology and...
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    , high-volume research institution in the Pacific Northwest, twelve individuals participated in one-on

  • The role of marginalized discourses in constructing the white identity of preservice teachers

    Creator:
    Nava, Roberto Chavira, Jr.
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    This research addresses the complexities of White racial identity development in the lives of five elementary and middle school preservice teachers during their graduate teacher education program at a private Christian Pacific Northwestern university. Using a poststructural framework, this research investigated three questions: 1) How do the aspects of subjectivation...
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    Dissertation
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    in the lives of five elementary and middle school preservice teachers during their graduate teacher

  • White racial identity development in transitional space : Discourse and praxis among Christian teacher educators

    Creator:
    Harris, Gennie S.
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    This research examines two questions: 1) What stories do Christian teacher educators tell about their own White racial identity development? and 2) Is there an impact of studying White racial identity development on the praxis of Christian teacher educators? If so, in what ways? The researcher began the project with...
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    Pacific Northwest. In that role, I regularly teach a class to pre-service teachers about diversity and

  • Rural Latinas/os of the Pacific Northwest: College and the Experience of Self- Identification

    Creator:
    Zaragoza, Mariana C.
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    There is an ever growing number of Latinas/os who reside and have settled permanently in rural America. Unbeknownst to most, rural Latinas/os face adversities unfamiliar to those living outside of this scope. As it stands, the barriers urban Latinas/os students face when transitioning to college has been well documented. However,...
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    "Rural Latinas/os of the Pacific Northwest: College and the

  • Reflections on change : a community-college faculty perspective

    Creator:
    Zmetana, Katherine
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    This phenomenological research study focused on educational change as perceived by 16 Liberal Arts faculty members at a Pacific Northwest community college. Research data were collected through in-depth dialogic interviews and a follow-up dialogue session with six participants. The principal guiding research questions comprised the following: 1) What is the...
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    Dissertation
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    focused on educational change as perceived by 16 Liberal Arts faculty members at a Pacific Northwest

  • Faculty perspectives on diversity curriculum

    Creator:
    Ayala, Javier Ivan
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    This research addresses how instructors move from surface levels of diversity understanding to deep levels. The focus was higher education instructors who taught in a general education program, primarily teaching freshman students. The case location is at a public institution on the West coast. Using the literature on diversity and...
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    Dissertation
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    the College of Education Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my dissertation

  • Preparation of vocational-technical teachers in selected community colleges

    Creator:
    Raynalds, David Palmer
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    The increasing demand for vocational-technical training at the community college level stems from four interrelated factors: the impact of automation and technology, the rapid population increase, he social awareness of the economic plight of minority groups, and concern for the non-college-bound high school graduate or drop-out. As a result, community...
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    contribute the largest number of experienced teachers to community colleges in the Pacific Northwest. Almost

  • African American Males' Perceptions of Success while Attending Community College

    Creator:
    Emerson, Dana M.
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    Background: African American males' experience in higher education is often categorized with negative terminology that does not reflect notions of success. Most research addressing the success of African American males in higher education illuminates factors that impede access to success and is often situated in university settings. Very little research...
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    Dissertation
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    colleges in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Subjects: Seven African

  • Investigating science identity and motivation constructs in undergraduate chemistry through novel instrument development

    Creator:
    Wolfe, Teresa M.
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    The purposes of this study were to: 1) determine in what ways incorporating active engagement into a traditional lecture chemistry course contributed to students' science identity and their motivation to learn the science, and 2) determine how the development of a science identity could be measured through the use of...
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    , research university in the Pacific Northwest in one of two undergraduate, general chemistry courses that