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Women Principals Of Jewish Secular High Schools In Israel: Access And Progress, Dana Michelle Lebental
Women Principals Of Jewish Secular High Schools In Israel: Access And Progress, Dana Michelle Lebental
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
This quantitative investigation focused on women high school principals at Jewish secular schools throughout Israel. Despite challenges, Israeli women have succeeded in obtaining over half of the principal positions at Jewish secular high schools, but the degree to which there is equal gender access to leadership roles in the school system remains unclear. This study examined whether there was clustering of women in high school principal positions in certain geographical areas, the process by which these women obtained principal positions, what obstacles the women overcame, and an analysis if respondents differed by district in terms of their career paths, career …
Shouldn't Their Stories Be Told In Their Voices: International Students’ Experiences Of Adjustment Following Arrival To The U.S., Elizabeth Kelley Thompson
Shouldn't Their Stories Be Told In Their Voices: International Students’ Experiences Of Adjustment Following Arrival To The U.S., Elizabeth Kelley Thompson
Masters Theses
This study explored the experienced adjustment period for international students following their arrival to the U.S. and whether or not any expressed challenges could be attributed to some type of cultural intolerance or positionality by members of the host culture. This study investigated the experiences of international students’ adjustment strategies as told in their voices and perspectives. Included is an in-depth discussion focusing on strategies for overcoming challenges as well as a rich description of cultural intolerances that contribute to the stresses experienced by international students. A strategy of care and inclusion was employed making it possible for international students …
The National Security Education Program And Its Service Requirement: An Exploratory Study Of What Areas Of Government And For What Duration National Security Education Program Recipients Have Worked, David J. Comp
Dissertations
The National Security Education Program, established under the National Security Education Act of 1991, has had a post-funding service requirement in the Federal Government for undergraduate scholarship and graduate fellowship recipients since its inception. The service requirement, along with the concern that the National Security Education Program was and remains funded by the United States Department of Defense, was very controversial in the early years of the program and remains a concern for some faculty and scholarly organizations to this day. Questions arise about whether the National Security Education Program is successfully achieving government objectives of employing National Security Education …
Casa De La Solidaridad: A Pedagogy Of Solidarity, Kevin Yonkers-Talz
Casa De La Solidaridad: A Pedagogy Of Solidarity, Kevin Yonkers-Talz
Doctoral Dissertations
Casa de la Solidaridad has been recognized as an innovative and effective educational model within Jesuit higher education yet, until now, there have only been verbal presentations of the unique attributes of the Casa de la Solidaridad model. In addition, there has been a lack of information regarding the influence of the Casa experience on the lives of alumni. The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to thoroughly describe and document the unique attributes of the Casa de la Solidaridad model, and 2) to provide some insight into how the Casa program has influenced the lives of Casa alumni. …