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Principals’ Leadership Practices For Sustaining Music In K-3 Education, Ivone Fraiha Clark
Principals’ Leadership Practices For Sustaining Music In K-3 Education, Ivone Fraiha Clark
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Public school principals who provide and sustain music in elementary programs are often confronted with budgetary cuts and reduced funding for music education. There is a dearth of research regarding music as an essential element in K-3 education in low-income rural schools. The purpose of this generic qualitative inquiry was to explore and describe leadership practices of principals, who despite fiscal challenges, include and sustain music in the K-3 curriculum in a low-income rural area of a small county in North Carolina. Elliott and Silverman’s concept of praxial music education and Leithwood and Riehl’s philosophy of instructional leadership practices were …
Faculty And Student Perspectives Of Nursing Student Completers In A Community College, Rachael Farrell
Faculty And Student Perspectives Of Nursing Student Completers In A Community College, Rachael Farrell
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Research about retention of nursing students has focused on either specific student characteristics or on nursing students at the university level. A problem experienced by a community college nursing program in Maryland is low completion rates, which can affect the institution and the nursing profession. This qualitative case study explored faculty-related factors leading to success of students in the nursing program at this school, so the low completion rate can be addressed. The conceptual foundations for this study were Tinto's theory of student retention and Jeffreys' nursing undergraduate retention and success model. The research questions addressed how faculty-related factors affected …