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The Relationship Between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Principal Self-Efficacy
(2015)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and Principal Self-Efficacy (PSE). With a nationwide quest to improve teaching and learning in schools, every ...
Principal. Me. An Autoethnographic Analysis of Role Conceptualization Within the Principalship
(2015-05-08)
Over the course of the past several decades, the principalship has shifted dramatically. Neo-liberal inspired accountability pressures and increasing societal demands have increased the workload of those who lead schools. ...
Undergraduate International Students in Virtual Learning Communities: Exploring the Development of the "I-Me" Identity
(2015-08)
This qualitative study explored the experiences of twelve international students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds in virtual learning communities in university and college courses. Specifically, this study ...
Roman Catholics Developing a Moral Compass: Parochial School Graduates' Experiences and Reflections of Living the Cardinal Virtues
(2015-05-08)
This qualitative study explored moral experiences using personal interviews and oral history narratives gathered from adult participants. The purpose of the research study was to seek a deep understanding of students’ moral ...
Confronting Mass Incarceration as Cultural Miseducation: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
(2015-05-08)
When strong expectations for societal compliance to societal ills, including miseducation, result in mass incarceration of disenfranchised communities; suffering can occur. The more acerbic the incarceration; the greater ...
An Endless Tangle of Problems: An Intellectual Biography of Thomas Franklin Green
(2015-05)
This work is an intellectual biography of the philosopher Thomas Franklin Green. It follows his intellectual development beginning in his student years in higher education and concludes with an examination of his final ...
Organizational Structure, Leadership, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
(2015-05-08)
A plethora of research on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) exists. However, there is a limited amount of research examining this construct within schools. This study examined the OCB phenomenon in schools. More ...
To The Angel of Schooling, Write: Redeeming the Telos of Schooling as a Liturgical Institution, And the Role of the School Administrator as Peace-Weaver, Through the Lens of Prophetic Imagination
(2015-05-08)
The purpose of this dissertation is to critique the institution of mass schooling by holding up the failure of both its liturgy and its pedagogies as part of the larger failure inherent in the overarching telos of the ...
TURNING WORDS INTO ACTION: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING HOW IDEOLOGY LINKS CONTEXT AND CHANGE
(2015)
The purpose of this study was to examine how context affects the ideological content of school district leadership as it enacts change. The political pressure which demands public school reform has created an environment ...
AN ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
(2015)
The purpose of this study was to explore leadership transitions in private school environments through the lens of social identity theory. The study relied on qualitative analysis of in-person interviews with three leaders ...