Care is foundational to the way we reproduce and transform the world around us. Today, in a time marked by widespread calls for racial and social justice, and simultaneous backlash against these calls, it is imperative that we understand the ways that care circulates and operates within racialized struggle. In this dissertation I engage in this…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how online adjunct nursing faculty describe their experiences overcoming challenges in creating a caring teacher-student relationship throughout the United States. Noddings' Ethic of Care provided the foundation for this study as the theoretical lens that shaped the research…

Undergraduate general chemistry courses are often perceived in a negative light by students. Student attitudes towards chemistry play a significant role in their success in chemistry and retention in STEM altogether. Research has shown in K-12 classrooms that care-based instruction strategies can help to improve student attitudes towards…

This exploratory case study examines the phenomenon of "carino" from teachers, students and parents in the DL classroom. Data collected involved 8 Latino/a Dual Language teachers, 143 Dual Language students and 141 parents of Dual Language children. The study uncovers how through "amor" (love), "afecto" (affection)…

Today's students will face issues and problems that are global scale and require a collaborative global effort to resolve effectively. To help prepare students to resolve these global issues, students must learn to participate in the global democratic process as part of their citizenship education. In particular, scholars argue students need to…

This dissertation examines the Community of Faith-Enculturation Paradigm of John Westerhoff through an early childhood weekday's educational pedagogy that occurs in a conservative evangelical church setting. Chapter 1 introduces the research problem, question, thesis statement, and the purpose of the study including the definition of the terms.…

Campus sexual violence in the United States has been elevated as a matter of national concern over the past decade through student activism, Title IX legal regulation, and the #MeToo movement. This attention has mandated the creation of institutional structures for addressing sexual violence, but also highlighted the limitations of university…

Generation Z individuals born between 1995-2012 currently represent 25% of the population and will soon exceed the Millennials as the largest generation (Dill, 2015). Thus, lack of practical knowledge and understanding may lead to employee turnover (Flippen, 2017). This study addresses how teacher education programs, cooperating teachers,…

Incivility in nursing is a multidimensional problem that requires a new, innovative approach to managing complicated interpersonal behaviors. Emotional intelligence has emerged as an essential skill for the nursing profession, as these competencies have been associated with enhanced interpersonal interactions and may be effective in cultivating a…

This study explored the curricular decision-making and instructional practices of four Black male elementary teachers in a large suburban school district. In order to capture the intersection of their racial and gender identity with their educational practices, the researcher utilized educational connoisseurship and criticism, a methodology that…

This study aimed to address research gaps and disparities among adult Vietnamese English as a second language (ESL) learners in adult education due to the model minority myth and broad generalization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) population. Despite their aspirations for an improved quality of life and integration into the U.S.…

This research study emerged from a desire to understand how classroom teachers construct their professional identity after earning a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) graduate degree. There has been research about professional identity development among beginning TESOL teachers who only teach English Learners (ELs) and about…

An ethic of care is central to the role of teaching and educational outcomes. Many Kindergarten-College institutions have "developing caring students or teachers" as a primary goal in their mission or vision statements. However, teachers need to know how to care. The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to examine the behaviors that…

The 20th century brought about the development of an increased climate of capitalist influence on every aspect of American life, including and especially on higher education. Simultaneously, as more and more purposes of higher education have come to reflect values of capitalist culture, a movement towards new ways of teaching and learning has…

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the term "soul" was virtually deleted from curriculum theory and replaced with the categories of "self" and "mind" from the learning sciences. This dissertation is a hermeneutic study undertaken to explore inviting the term back as a structuring concept in curriculum theory…