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Student Affairs Administrators' Motivations To Attain A Doctorate In Higher Education Administration, Matthew Tyler Binion
Student Affairs Administrators' Motivations To Attain A Doctorate In Higher Education Administration, Matthew Tyler Binion
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Students are motivated to pursue education for various reasons and understanding those motivations can help administrators and faculty better serve graduate students who choose to participate in doctoral studies. This study analyzed qualitative data in an effor to better understand how student affairs administrators percieved thier motivations while discerning doctoral study in the field of Higher Education Administration (HEA). This study used Self Determination Theory as a framework for understanding how motivational factors influence students to participate in doctoral education. The results showed that there existed four major themes that described the particpants experience with considering purusing a doctorate in …
Artistic Leadership: An Examination Of Leadership Approaches Used By Principals With A Background In The Arts, Taurus Martrell Hines
Artistic Leadership: An Examination Of Leadership Approaches Used By Principals With A Background In The Arts, Taurus Martrell Hines
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to ascertain information on the leadership approaches used by principals with artistic backgrounds, skills, or hobbies to understand how their behaviors could inform instructional leadership. Eight principals who shared a similar interest in music, described their instructional leadership experiences. Using phenomenological methodology to collect and analyze data, each participant partook in a semi-structured interview to create a visual painting of the life of an artistic leader. Six themes emerged during the data analysis. The findings from this study clarified that artistic leadership exists. Principals with a background in the arts identified themselves as …
A Phenomenological Study On The Experiences Of Secondary Education Counselors, Aaron Zachary Jordan
A Phenomenological Study On The Experiences Of Secondary Education Counselors, Aaron Zachary Jordan
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The counseling profession within the context of secondary education stands at a crossroads in terms of understand how the field is able to effectively prepare students for college and career readiness (Bain 2012). Student to counselor ratios, varied job roles, external and parental influences and a variety of other factors make the function of preparing students for college difficult. Research questions were developed for this study with the micro and macro perspectives of the school counselor and operational space of their job in mind. Respondents in this study were asked a series of in-depth, phenomenologically founded interview questions which had …
Uncovering Meaning In Montessori Teachers’ Lived Experiences Of Cosmic Education As A Tool For Social Justice, John Allen Branch
Uncovering Meaning In Montessori Teachers’ Lived Experiences Of Cosmic Education As A Tool For Social Justice, John Allen Branch
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This inquiry focused on the lived experiences of Montessori teachers in implementing Montessori’s Cosmic Education as a tool for social justice in their classrooms in order to more fully understand Cosmic Education’s meaning, purpose, and practice. The researcher also sought to understand how Cosmic Education could be an effective pedagogy of place, providing historical and social contexts in which students may develop and grow. The study used a post-intentional phenomenological design (Vagle, 2014), and was based on a series of interviews with five Montessori teachers from different classroom age levels. The data were analyzed using poetic inquiry through the form …