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- Title
- "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
- Author
- Strong, Kellan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...
- Title
- #RatchetQueerTeacher: Social, Emotional Well-being and Liberation Through Mindfulness and Hip Hop Thearapy
- Author
- Wheatley, Torie
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Queer studies
- Description
- There is a growing mental health concern among Black Ratchet queer womxn in educational and criminal justice realms and the Covid-19 pandemic has left the educational climate in a state of high stress and anxiety. Consequently, Black Womxn in educ...
- Title
- A Phenomenological Content Analysis of Siblings' Lived Experiences Related to Having a Sibling with Substance Use Problems
- Author
- Aucoin, Rose
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology
- Description
- ABSTRACTROSE M. AUCOIN. A Phenomenological Research Study of Peoples' Lived Experiences Related to Having a Sibling with Substance Use Problems. (Under the direction of DR. TARYNE M. MINGO) Research indicates that substance use of a family member ...
- Title
- A Phenomenological Inquiry to Understand Environmental Work Factors, Academic Readiness and Supervisory Needs of Interprofessional Collaborative Counselors
- Author
- Kipick Cawn, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Counseling psychology, Mental health
- Description
- The multi-professional health care setting calls for a stronger evidence-based practice for providing collaborative framework/theory across disciplines. The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the perspectives of counselors wh...
- Title
- A Phenomenological Study of African American College Students' Recovery Experiences In A Collegiate Recovery Program
- Author
- Huggins, Marie
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- This study examined the experiences of recovery among African American college students participating in collegiate recovery programs (CRPs). A phenomenological qualitative approach was utilized to collect and analyze data. The purpose of this stu...
- Title
- A QUALITATIVE MULTIPLE CASE STUDY EXPLORING HIGH-PERFORMING TEACHER AGENCY AND REFORM OF “LOW-PERFORMING” SCHOOLS IN NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- Kessler, William
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education and state
- Description
- Since the early 1980s, American educational reformers tried to improve schools through standards, high-stakes tests, and punishments for those schools that failed to meet the mark. In North Carolina, many schools with diverse populations and low s...
- Title
- AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES: DO THEY PERFORM BETTER ON STANDARDIZED READING AND MATHEMATICS TESTS IN TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OR NON-TITLE I ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS?
- Author
- Anderson, Sony
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- African-American males continue to slip through the cracks of the Education System in America. McSpadden McNeil et al. (2008) report that district officials continue to focus on school scores as if they are the only way to assess student progress....
- Title
- AN EXPLORATION OF SUPERVISORS' EXPERIENCES OF SUPERVISORY WORKING ALLIANCE AND SESSION FACTORS WHEN FACILITATING DISTANCE-DELIVERED CLINICAL SUPERVISION
- Author
- Hammonds, Dominique
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology
- Description
- This dissertation examined supervisors' experiences of factors that may affect the facilitation of distance-delivered clinical supervision. Factors impacting the facilitation of face-to-face supervision such as supervisory working alliance, sessio...
- Title
- An Intergenerational Oral History of African American Students in Edgecombe County, North Carolina from 1930-1980
- Author
- Mungo, Sequoya
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- The literature about the history of African American education must continue to move beyond deficit-centered research and further explore the varied perceptions and experiences of African Americans from their perspectives. Traditional research oft...
- Title
- COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLACEMENT: HOW EMERGING POLICY AND PRACTICE RELATE TO SUCCESS AND PERSISTENCE
- Author
- Helget, Donna
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether the method of course placement for the first attempted English and mathematics courses was independent of the student demographic variables of gender, race/ethnicity, and Pell Grant eli...
- Title
- EXPERIENCES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MAINTAIN ABSTINENCE FROM MOOD ALTERING SUBSTANCES USING SELF-DIRECTED, COGNITIVE-BASED RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUPS
- Author
- Kitzinger, Robert
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology
- Description
- ABSTRACTROBERT HENRY KITZINGER, JR. Experiences of individuals who maintain abstinence from mood altering substances using self-directed, cognitive-based recovery support groups. (Under the direction of DR. PAMELA S. LASSITER) The purpose of this ...
- Title
- Evidence-Based and Makerspaced: Preservice Teachers’ Dispositions, Perceptions, and Preparedness to Teach Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
- Author
- Holland, Abby
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- The purpose of this qualitative research project was to explore the perceptions, practices, and roles that a team of six (6) preservice teachers developed regarding make-based learning, which is informed by constructionism and teaching students wi...
- Title
- Examining the Holistic Health of Urban African Americans Experiencing Continuous Traumatic Stress and Gun Violence in Chicago
- Author
- Adoma, Jabari
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology
- Description
- This study examined the holistic health of urban African Americans living on the West Side and South Side of Chicago who are experiencing continuous traumatic stress (CTS) due to gun violence. The qualitative research study utilized a phenomenolog...
- Title
- Experiences of self-criticism among counseling students
- Author
- Kondili, Elvita
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology
- Description
- This dissertation examined the experiences of self-criticism among counseling students in practicum while in session with clients. This study utilized a phenomenological approach to data collection and analysis. The data was comprised of nine hour...
- Title
- Exploring the Experiences of Black Resident Advisors at Historically White Institutions
- Author
- Murray, Morgan
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- The resident advisor (RA) position is one of the most complex and important roles on college campuses in the United States. Few other student staff positions require the same level of training and have the same level of responsibilities (Blimling,...
- 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
- HE WHO FEEDS YOU: THE MALES PLACE COMMUNITY GARDEN AS A FACILITATOR OF DEVELOPMENT IN BLACK MALE YOUTH
- Author
- Simmons, Alexander
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Agriculture, Developmental psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- Recent theory and findings suggest that even while enduring adverse social circumstances such as poverty, Black male youth exhibit strengths that can aid in their development. Some frameworks maintain that youth strengths can be fostered through i...
- Title
- Lived experiences of nurses on a burn unit related to secondary traumatic stress.
- Author
- Shearer, Lindsay
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing, Psychology
- Description
- Nursing is a large and growing profession. Nurses provide a critical service to patients and families, often in highly stressful work environments (McGibbon, Peter, & Gallop, 2010; Theme Filha, Costa, & Guilam, 2013). The stressful nature of nursi...
- Title
- Loving and Leaving the Classroom: Contextualizing the Attrition of Black Women Teachers From Urban Schools
- Author
- Lee, Shanique
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
- Description
- Since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling against school segregation, Black women teachers (BWTs) have had perpetually high rates of attrition, despite their legacy of providing high quality, emancipatory education (Acosta, 2019; Carver-Th...
- Title
- Navigating Life Experiences: Voices of African American Women Pursuing a College Degree After Incarceration
- Author
- Smith, April
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership
- Description
- This study examined the experiences of African American women pursuing college degrees after incarceration despite systemic barriers. The conceptual framework used to ground the research was Feminist Standpoint Theory (FST) through the lens of Bla...