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Peace Under Pressure: Portraits Of Christian Leadership In College Basketball Coaches, Charles Henry Wilson Jr.
Peace Under Pressure: Portraits Of Christian Leadership In College Basketball Coaches, Charles Henry Wilson Jr.
Doctoral Dissertations
NCAA Division I college basketball coaching is a high-stakes, high-reward profession. This study is based on three premises: (a) there is increasing pressure on college basketball coaches to win immediately and win consistently; (b) coaches are expected to maintain their integrity; (c) the pressure to win immediately and win consistently can influence some coaches to compromise their integrity. Given that context, the purpose of this study was to investigate and illuminate the lived experience of Christian head men’s and women’s basketball coaches at public, NCAA Division I institutions. This study was guided by two guiding research questions: (a) What is …
Communicating With Hispanic Parents Of Young, School-Age Children, Sarah Grace Williams
Communicating With Hispanic Parents Of Young, School-Age Children, Sarah Grace Williams
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
The People Who Do ‘This’ In Common: Book Clubs As ‘Everyday Activists’, Julie E. Tyler
The People Who Do ‘This’ In Common: Book Clubs As ‘Everyday Activists’, Julie E. Tyler
Doctoral Dissertations
This study of the Books-N-Wine club in Knoxville, Tennessee participates in a growing body of research on reading communities. Since the 1980s, researchers have investigated book clubs as social-intellectual phenomena whose history dates back to eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Intersecting with the development of the public sphere and even fueling concrete social movements, book clubs comprise a “shadow tradition of literature.” Current research suggests that contemporary clubs continue to advance this “shadow tradition” and have the potential to teach and transform their constituencies. Several areas remain unexplored in research on book clubs, including the ways in which particular categories of …
L2 Spanish And The Subjunctive: An Analysis On Current Intermediate Level Spanish Curricula In Light Of Past And Current Research On The Subjunctive, Ryan Thomas Eckerson
L2 Spanish And The Subjunctive: An Analysis On Current Intermediate Level Spanish Curricula In Light Of Past And Current Research On The Subjunctive, Ryan Thomas Eckerson
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.