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A Phenomenological Exploration of Self-Directed Learning Among Successful Minority Entrepreneurs
(2013)
This transcendental, phenomenological study explored the Self-directed learning (SDL) of 10 successful minority entrepreneurs. Two SDL theories serve as lenses for the study, Spear and Mocker's (1984) Organizing Circumstance ...
Path to the professoriate for high-achieving, first-generation college students.
(2006)
The researcher conducted nine interviews with high achieving first-generation college students who were able to overcome difficulties in order to gain access to higher education, persist through the maze of obstacles that ...
Making sense of motivation: Stories of high-achieving African American middle school students.
(2006)
The outcomes of this study will exhibit students maintaining high-academic achievements are equally intrinsically and extrinsically motivated. Their meaning making is synonymous with that of the literature, as the students' ...
THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION: A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH
(2018-05-11)
This paper examines the experiences and context in the directional relationship between education and the life course. Using the hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, the experiences of educated individuals who do not ...
A Case Study of Resilient African American Adults
(2011)
Through a qualitative, case-study, the extensive literature regarding resilience and the historical information regarding the city in which the participants resided rendered the following five factors that constitute the ...
Mandatory child abuse reporting practices of Oklahoma educators.
(2002)
This study investigated why, despite mandatory reporting laws, Oklahoma elementary teachers failed to report suspected child abuse and neglect cases. Variables included years taught, grade level taught, general knowledge ...
Teachers' Perceptions of the Lived Experience of Safe Schools: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approach
(2012)
Beginning in 1996, a rash of rampage school shootings occurred in the United States. "Rampage school shootings occur when students or former students attack their own school" (Langman, 2009, p. 2). Numerous studies have ...
Evaluating the Effects of Collaborative Action Research on Teachers' Basic Psychological Needs, Efficacy and Knowledge
(2020-08-10)
Research offers accounts of the reasons for variation in the quality of experiences across professional development models (Yoon, Duncan, Lee, Scarloss & Shapley, 2007), which has resulted in “a landscape littered with ...
Authentic instruction: A comparative case study of three urban high schools.
(2005)
All five of these teachers were part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored (grant #0086415) Authentic Teaching Alliance (ATA) which involved public school teachers, graduate and advanced undergraduate fellows, ...
Negotiating the relationship between religion and public education: Conceptualizing a prophetic pragmatic teacher from Toni Morrison's "Beloved".
(1998)
This inquiry participates in continuing philosophical debates over the appropriate relationship between religion and public education (RRPE) and the conceptual consequences of any such relationship for teachers (Purpel, ...