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Vania Pate – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study delves into the college experiences and life history of students who attended Jackson State University after the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of COVID-19 pandemic and students' academic performances in higher education. It explores the views of theorists as to the challenges and conflicts…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Educational Experience, COVID-19
Patricia A. Ingerick – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This qualitative study sought to understand how social media, as a site of public pedagogy, influences how adults use reflection to learn from political news content. The theoretical frameworks of public pedagogy and social cognitive theory informed the analysis of results. The study focused on the experiences of ten social media users between the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Social Media, Political Attitudes, Trust (Psychology)
Harlan Harrell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Research with veterans in community colleges is often framed through a deficit perspective and with a definition of success limited to degree completion. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of student veterans negotiating the acculturation process within the community college canopy through an asset…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Veterans, Nontraditional Students, Cultural Awareness
Dedinsky, Paul C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored restorative justice arising in the context of an academic high school course in which students learned restorative justice principles and strategies. Given that the literature provided limited guidance of restorative justice in this context, these novel circumstances presented a unique opportunity for study. The central…
Descriptors: High School Students, Justice, Conflict Resolution, Courses
Leventhal, Mary Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the study was to examine cultural dissonance between teachers and students with its implications for student achievement in a rural Title 1 elementary school. Most U.S. teachers share a White, monolingual, middle-class, female teaching culture that is a mismatch with their increasingly multicultural student population. That problem…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Rural Areas, Critical Thinking, Reflection