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- Title
- ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
- Author
- Basalik, Debra
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Psychology
- Description
- The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is increasing (CDC, 2016). Research studies have focused on either medical treatments and therapeutic interventions for this disorder, or the trauma of the diagnostic process. Scholarship, however,...
- Title
- The Development and Validation of a Measure of the Experience of Dirty Work
- Author
- Bickmeier, Robert
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Industrial
- Description
- Dirty work is socially constructed as tainted on one or more domains (physical: dangerous, dirty, or associated with death; moral: underhanded or in contradiction to prevailing norms; social: in association with stigmatized others or done in subse...
- Title
- Place-based education, student writing, and cultural contexts: A case study of building community consciousness in a rural middle school classroom
- Author
- Donovan, Erin
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- The idea of place extends beyond just the location where people live. Place is a narrative, a story that involves interactions, characters, conflicts, and the rise and flow of humanity. By understanding the importance of place and the connection t...
- Title
- HOLDING OUT FOR A HÉROE: A BOOK CLUB STUDY OF RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL LATINAS
- Author
- Dymes, Laurie
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Middle school education, Reading, Instructional systems--Design
- Description
- Literacy provides people with intellectual tools to question, challenge, understand, disagree, and arrive at informed perspectives and is a reflection of cultural values and meaning-making for adolescents within their community. By understanding t...
- Title
- “To Push or Not to Push?”; Exploring Lived Experiences of Former Women Track and Field Student-athletes Who Trained and Competed Through Pain and Injury.
- Author
- Erega, Arna
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Mental health
- Description
- Athletes are aware that with involvement in the sport they are exposed to the risk of getting injured. Suffering an injury can be one of the most stressful experiences in a student-athlete’s athletic career and can cause a series of psychological,...
- Title
- Building a Computing Identity: The Role of Middle School Computer Science Courses in Igniting Student Interest to Consider a Career in Software Development
- Author
- Gann-Carroll, Susan
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Computer science
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to understand whether students who took computer science courses in a prescribed sequence during middle school developed a strong enough computing identity to show an interest in continuing to take computing courses i...
- Title
- Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
- Author
- Lovato, Laura
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Government policy, Psychology
- Description
- The impact of HIV-related stigma on HIV prevention, treatment, and the well-being of people living with HIV (PLWH) is well established within the existing literature. HIV-related stigma experiences are compounded by intersections of identity, in t...
- Title
- Four Women: Saudi Scholarship, Intensive English Programs and Self-Authoring
- Author
- Malcolm, Jeanne
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Description
- This participatory qualitative inquiry explored the shifting subjectivities of three women from Saudi Arabia, as they pursued tertiary education in the United States through benefit of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program. Informed by a Vygotskia...
- Title
- FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
- Author
- McGee, Marquis
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and un...
- Title
- PUNK ROCK AS FAMILY AND COMMUNITY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF MEMBERSHIP IN A MUSIC-BASED SUBCULTURE
- Author
- Palamaro Munsell, Eylin
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Psychology, Area studies
- Description
- Adolescence is often viewed as a tumultuous time. As teens grow more independent, social interaction with peers becomes increasingly important, and friendships with peers are associated with numerous positive outcomes. However, along with teens' e...
- Title
- Family Matters: Familial Support and Science Identity Formation for African American Female STEM Majors
- Author
- Parker, Ashley
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- ABSTRACT This research seeks to understand the experiences of African American female undergraduates in STEM. It investigates how familial factors and science identity formation characteristics influence persistence in STEM while considering the d...
- Title
- The Multidimensional Self at Work: An Intersectional Examination of Identity Conflict and Authenticity Among Black and White Men and Women
- Author
- Summerville, Karoline
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Organizational behavior, Psychology
- Description
- Diversity initiatives are often ineffective because they characterize differences at the group-level, and therefore, do not adequately address individuals’ specific identity-related challenges. I apply intersectionality theory to understand how mu...
- Title
- The Balancing of the Artist-Teacher Dual Identity in K-12 Public School Visual Art Educators
- Author
- Wall, Deborah
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational leadership, Art--Study and teaching
- Description
- DEBORAH MILLS WALL. THE BALANCING OF THE ARTIST-TEACHER DUAL IDENTITY IN K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL VISUAL ART EDUCATORS(Under the direction of Dr. Rebecca Shore) The purpose of this narrative qualitative study was to explore how artist-teachers perceive ...