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A Perspective Of Female Faculty In Hospitality Higher Education, Clarissa Mason
A Perspective Of Female Faculty In Hospitality Higher Education, Clarissa Mason
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Bullying and related incivility have become critical social issues influencing not only individual lives but also society at large; yet, extensive research on bullying only began about four decades ago (Randall, 2001; Sanders, 2004). Bullying can happen to children, but it can also impact adults more often than one would think. The 2014 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, conducted by the Workplace Bullying Institute , found that “, one-quarter of adult Americans (27%) said they directly experienced abusive conduct at work” (Namie, Christensen, & Phillips, 2014, p.4), and over one third of adults are aware of incidents of workplace bullying. …
An Examination Of African American Male Educators' Perceptions Of Relationships And Discrimination, Akiva S. Carson
An Examination Of African American Male Educators' Perceptions Of Relationships And Discrimination, Akiva S. Carson
Dissertations
In the field of education, African-American men are greatly underrepresented across all school settings. In the state of Illinois of nearly 130,000 certified educators, there are less than two thousand (2,000) African American males across the state. Through a critical race theory lens, the focus of this narrative study was to explore what can be learned by researching/re-framing how African-American educators perceive their experience of developing relationships across educational domains and how they make sense of the ways in which they experience discrimination and construct relationships with others. Through the use of interview, observation and journal responses, insight into their …