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Understanding Hope In Elementary Students, Amber O'Shea
Understanding Hope In Elementary Students, Amber O'Shea
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
As educators, it is in our best interest to care for the whole child, including social and emotional needs, in order to promote student success. One elementary school in the Midwest has identified increasing hope as a school improvement goal in belief that this will in-turn increase student well-being. With the interest of increasing hope, we must first garner an understanding of our specific population of students so we can create a hope intervention suitable for their needs.
The purpose of this dissertation study was to closely examine four first grade students in order to better understand how they cognize …