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Territorial Justice: The Fight for Black Educational Rights in the Oklahoma Courtroom
(2021-12-18)
This dissertation explores previously unstudied and undiscovered court challenges brought by Black settlers during Oklahoma’s territorial period (1889-1907) in the United States. These Black pioneers challenged new legislation ...
The Broad Daylight of Knowledge: Seminole Education 1843-1930
(2021-05-06)
Utilizing archival methods, the goal of this project is to describe how the Seminole Nation asserted sovereignty through their educational institutions. A critical component to this study involves the translation of a ...
Principal Support for the Development of Teacher Leaders: The Conceptualization and Measurement of a New Construct
(2021-05)
As it stands, there are few measurement tools for leaders to use in assessing the degree to which they are supporting the growth of teacher leadership within their school, and those that do exist are based on varying, and ...
COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHOICE AND CAMPUS EXPERIENCES OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED STUDENTS
(2021-05-14)
The design of higher education is a stratified system to funnel the most academically prepared students from the highest earning households to the most selective higher education institutions. Conversely, students who are ...
Exploring the Role of Leadership in Teacher Development According to Career Stage
(2021-05-14)
The aim of this dissertation is to explore, through the lens of self-determination theory, teacher experiences with leadership support through the various career stages – novice, competent, and expert. While existing ...
Learning After Downsizing: A Case Study on Layoff Survivors in a Downsized Organization
(2021-05-14)
Organizational downsizing is a strategy that many companies use to save money and implement change. However, research suggests that organizations often lack the benefits they expect from downsizing due to the challenges ...
Exploring the moderating effect of socio-moral climate on the relationship between resistance to change and change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior
(2021-05)
To be able to compete and achieve goals, organizations must change at a rapid pace; ergo, they must create environments in which employees do not just accept change, but drive change that propels the organization forward. ...
Culturally relevant pedagogy in practice: using critical whiteness to create critical consciousness in urban education
(2021-05)
This dissertation examines the purpose of urban k-12 public schools and identifies the explicit and implicit ways in which they disrupt and limit urban students’ opportunities. Through interviews with white teachers in ...
NEVERTHELESS SHE PERSISTED: AN ANALYSIS OF WHAT MOTIVATES WOMEN TO PERSIST IN ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
(2021-12-18)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of women who successfully navigated the trajectory to the upper levels of administration in the public K-12 school districts, and how they leveraged ...
Principal Perceptions of District Support in Oklahoma: What They Get, What They Want, and How It Affects Their Psychological Needs
(2021-05)
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between principals’ basic psychological needs and the district-level factors that support them. Evidence from the past thirty years of educational research has pointed ...