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Job Transitioning Experiences Of Blue-Collar Employees After Federal Downsizing, Eduardo Hurtado
Job Transitioning Experiences Of Blue-Collar Employees After Federal Downsizing, Eduardo Hurtado
Walden Faculty and Staff Publications
Downsizing, realignment, and closure of military bases have forced many low-skilled, blue-collar federal employees into involuntary job loss and job transition. The impact of involuntary job loss on blue-collar workers has been linked to stress and other adverse psychological effects. There is gap in the literature regarding the lived experiences of federal blue-collar employees following downsizing of military bases. The purpose of this qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study was to examine lived experiences of job loss and job transition for federal blue-collar employees following downsizing of military bases. Schlossberg’s transition theory provided a conceptual framework for the study. Ten ex-federal blue-collar …
Metaphors For A Change, Estelle R. Jorgensen, Iris M. Yob
Metaphors For A Change, Estelle R. Jorgensen, Iris M. Yob
Walden Faculty and Staff Publications
Two premises guide this paper: first, music education, like all educational enterprises, is shaped by its grounding metaphors which affect its aims, pedagogies, curriculum, and administration. Second, music education, like all educational endeavors, is increasingly encouraged to address issues of social justice and contribute in real ways to the benefit of the community through positive social change. In this conversation, the authors, each of whom have written about metaphors and social change, build on these two premises to explore ways of bringing together the two lines of inquiry in search of metaphors that would guide an education for social change. …
Qualitative Case Study Of Teachers’ Morale In A Turnaround School, Louis Lane, Don Jones, Glenn Richard Penny
Qualitative Case Study Of Teachers’ Morale In A Turnaround School, Louis Lane, Don Jones, Glenn Richard Penny
Walden Faculty and Staff Publications
A small Southeastern high school that had undergone a turnaround or conservatorship process experienced a lower than average teacher retention rate. The authors conducted a qualitative case study to investigate teachers’ experiences and perceptions of how turnaround strategies may have influenced their morale and how that effect on morale may have affected the teachers’ retention. Bandura’s self-efficacy theory provided the conceptual framework for this study. The research questions addressed teachers’ perspectives of morale as well as their views and experiences with the conservatorship process. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 8 teachers who were actively employed at the school before the …