Professional development is a main strategy that schools use to change educator practice (Darling-Hammond et al., 2017; Desimone, 2009), which has increasingly become a focus because of community pressure to ensure educational equity (Ahebee, 2020; Graves, 2020; Miller, 2022; Vegas & Winthrop, 2020). Yet there is little consensus about how to…

For more than four decades, the United States has used the International Military Education and Training (IMET) program as a foreign policy tool to pursue its geopolitical interests. The program, which consists of training foreign military personnel at American institutions, aims to strengthen alliances and regional stability, while advancing…

Hegemonic institutions continue to promote the importance of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging initiatives (DIB). However, the persons in power creating these initiatives are often White men and women (Bischel and McChesney, 2017), that do not understand the complexity of the lived experience of Black, Brown, and African American people within…

The environment in which higher education institutions are situated has been impacted by a number of disruptive forces since the early 1990s, including acceleration in the capability of information technology (Beagle, 2006; Bennett, 2003; Foster, 2014), changing attitudes about learning pedagogy (Barr & Tagg, 1995), and calls for…

The purpose of this qualitative, narrative study was to explore the lived experiences and perceptions of individualistic and collectivistic immigrant teachers as they transformed into inclusive leaders in the unfamiliar multicultural K-12 classrooms of Houston, Texas. The theoretical foundations were: Hofstede's individualism-collectivism…

There can be no doubt that we live in an increasingly technology driven world. If the purpose of schooling is to prepare students for active and informed participation in modern society, then schools need to embrace technology and leverage it to provide more powerful and relevant learning experiences for twenty-first century students.…

The central theme of this dissertation is the transformational learning journey with Pepperdine The central theme of this dissertation is the transformational learning journey with Pepperdine University utilizing the research method of autoethnography personal narratives. Autoethnography is bold, yet vulnerable, genuine and authentic. It provides…

Postsecondary teaching and learning must be reoriented to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, and values they will need for creating a more sustainable world. This action research study examined the effects of implementing the "Burns model of sustainability pedagogy" in university courses taught by the researcher. This model is comprised of…

This descriptive phenomenological study explored the perceptions and experiences of followers in the development of the leader-follower relationship, within a long-term health care environment. This study is also framed within the disciplinary context of human resource development (HRD). This study addressed the research question, "During your…

"Learning Reconsidered" (Keeling, 2004) and "Learning Reconsidered 2" (Keeling, 2006) called upon institutions of higher education to measure learning outcomes, and to facilitate transformative learning in college students. "Learning Reconsidered 2" defined transformative learning with Mezirow's description of the…

Although many private Christian liberal arts programs exist today that seek to foster servant-leader (SL) development within their students, there is a void of both literature and data that details how servant-leadership development occurs and what contexts may be appropriate or necessary for this development. The purpose of this study was to…