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Cardillo, Nancy Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This doctoral dissertation attends to concepts, curriculum, and pedagogy related to bodily-kinesthetic factors that unite the Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) field and differentiate it from other clinical approaches. The research evolved from 35 years of participant-observation as the DMT field developed and witnessing the negative consequences of…
Descriptors: Dance, Therapy, Kinesthetic Perception, Kinesthetic Methods
Kaspari, Brenda Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With the skyrocketing costs of higher education and the increased scrutiny of how educational institutions prepare graduates for the workplace, this dissertation explored how the "outsiders," or employers, view and determine the value of academic credentials. Using the premise of credentialism, this grounded theory, qualitative study…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications, Credentials, Personnel Selection
Wright, Colleen Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007 required teacher assistants (TAs) to obtain their child development associate (CDA) credential by September of 2015. TAs who had not obtained their CDA within the required timeframe were either demoted or terminated from their positions. However, with the increase of working parents, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Early Childhood Education, Barriers, Continuing Education
Snelson, Donna Ayers – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Today the multidimensional global shortage of nurses is negatively impacting the work environment of hospital nurses and causing, in a cyclical fashion, decreasing work satisfaction, increasing nurse turnover, and decreasing patient outcomes. While strategies aimed at causation of the nursing shortage must be addressed, to support nursing until…
Descriptors: Credentials, Nursing Education, Qualitative Research, Job Satisfaction
Williams, Nida W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative case study was designed to explore how master teachers in transfer high schools learn the competencies they perceive are required to engage at-risk students so that they persist and graduate. The study is based on the following assumptions: (1) The requisite teacher competencies can be defined and identified and, in fact,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, High Schools, At Risk Students, Case Studies