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Williams, Deborah Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The MLIS curriculum gap and nonteaching academic librarian's teaching identity development comprise the problem under investigation. The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological analysis was to examine the meaning of nonteaching academic librarians' experiences in north and northcentral Florida with information literacy (IL) instruction, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Information Literacy, Teaching Methods
Majewska, Izabela Agata – ProQuest LLC, 2018
National and international organizations emphasize the importance of teaching global competence in American higher education as a way of preparing students for the rigors of a globalized workforce. Lack of nation-wide educational initiatives aimed at providing institutional guidelines for assessing international relations (IR) courses for this…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, College Instruction, Transformative Learning
de Souza Correa, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A recent challenge for contemporary education has been to efficiently educate the increasingly diverse American population (Holley, 2013). Seeking to resolve the problems related to the education of a diverse student population, colleges and universities across the United States have begun to require students to enroll in diversity courses…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Diversity
Gordon, Linda Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study utilized an action research design with qualitative methods to explore the transformative potential of a multicultural literature curriculum within a general education setting. Providing young students with opportunities to develop perspective taking and empathetic responses to others who are different, offers the critical potential for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Empathy, Multicultural Education
John, Diane Yvette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Background. The demands of the current health-care system support the need for more nurses to be prepared at the bachelor's level (American Association of the Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2007). However, only 28% of the registered nurse (RN) population in Florida holds a bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN), which may be the result of increased…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Nursing Education, Bachelors Degrees, Nurses
Elizabeth Rios – ProQuest LLC, 2007
In the field of Christian higher education, some educators are more concerned with marketing their programs to nontraditional students, the fastest growing segment of new enrollments. Although many view that as a blessing, the issues of mission and specifically spirituality are of concern to educators and administrators who want to avoid the…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Colleges, Religious Factors, Transformative Learning