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Oyeka, Denita Hartfield – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Gulf-War-era-II combat veterans have made professional contributions to the civilian workforce since returning from Iraq and Afghanistan combat operations. Service members in California encounter transition issues related to employment and adjusting their self-identity in the civilian employment culture. These complexities have led to career…
Descriptors: Veterans, Employment, Self Concept, Cognitive Processes
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Smith, Carol A.; Parks, Rodney; Parrish, Jesse; Swirski, Ryan – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2018
Technology plays an integral role in the lives of the majority of the US population. As technology becomes integrated into young people's lives, questions arise regarding its effects on learning. This exploratory study draws on interviews with students who attend university in the United States to determine how separating students from technology…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Study Abroad, Student Experience, Influence of Technology
Cecere, Donna-Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Millennial Generation, those born from 1980-2000, see the world from a different viewpoint. This distinctive cohort has structured their lives in a different manner than preceding generations. The introduction and influence of social, political, and technological changes over the past few decades have structured Millennials' unique and…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Cohort Analysis, Individual Development, Young Adults
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Brue, Krystal L.; Brue, Shawn A. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2016
Women's leadership training programs provide organizations opportunities to value women leaders as organizational resources. This qualitative research utilized phenomenological methodology to examine lived experiences of seven alumni of a women's-only leadership program. We conducted semi-structured interviews to clarify what learning elements…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Females, Alumni, Experience
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Nel, Lindi; Fouche, Paul – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
This study explored and described the experiences regarding clinical supervision of master's students in professional psychology programmes in South Africa. Four participants were purposively selected from four different universities. The participants engaged in reflective writings and in-depth interviews over a one-year span. Data were analysed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Masters Programs, Clinical Experience
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MacNeela, Pádraig; Gannon, Niall – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2014
Volunteering among university students is an important expression of civic engagement, but the impact of this experience on the development of emerging adults requires further contextualization. Adopting interpretative phenomenological analysis as a qualitative research approach, we carried out semistructured interviews with 10 students of one…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, College Students, Volunteers, Citizen Participation
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Black, Pauline – London Review of Education, 2017
This paper examines what goes on in an improvising jazz combo in a secondary school in Scotland, where teaching follows Rogoff's three-stage sociocultural process, moving from an initial apprenticeship model through one of guided participation to one of participatory appropriation. Using a case study research design and interpretative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Music Activities, Musical Instruments
Hill, Lisa A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A phenomenological approach was used with this study to give a voice to individuals who are incarcerated for the purpose of understanding their past educational experiences in the areas of academics, personal/social, and career exploration. The study included interviews with 25 individuals who are incarcerated and who were purposefully selected to…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Phenomenology, Semi Structured Interviews
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Unlu, Ihsan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study contains teacher candidates' opinions who spent a portion of their educational career abroad as participants in the Erasmus Program regarding the academic, cultural, and personal gains of the program. Using the Quantitative Research Method, this study focuses on phenomena that researchers are aware of, but on which they do not have…
Descriptors: Student Exchange Programs, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Opinions
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Berry, William F. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2012
Negotiating meaning, knowledge, and identity is fundamental to composing processes. These negotiations occur both individually and socially for writers. Sexual identity is an intrinsic part of these negotiations, but is often overlooked by researchers. This study explored the phenomenon of negotiating sexual identity in the composing processes of…
Descriptors: Interviews, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity, Males
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Morgan, Julia – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
This article focuses on an exploratory study, undertaken in 2009-2012, which explored student transitions from a foundation degree (level 5) into the third year of a BA honours degree (level 6). Direct entry students and staff from an early years programme at a post-1992 British university and second-year foundation degree students and staff from…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Student Experience, Honors Curriculum, Questionnaires
Shaw, Deanna Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to describe the experience of critical self-reflection by life coaches. Life coaching is expanding within many disciplines including education, health care, business, social work, and wellness. Life coaching involves a coach working with an individual or groups aimed at effecting change for professional and personal…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Counselors, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Individual Development
Nichols, Ruth I. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this phenomenological study was two-fold: (a) to explore and describe the perceived impact of Pepperdine University's Educational Leadership Academy (ELA) on 2003-2006 ELA graduates' career advancement, career enhancement, and personal growth; and (b) to obtain ELA graduates' suggestions for ELA program improvement to better prepare…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Career Development, Phenomenology, Qualitative Research
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Bernauer, James A. – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2015
This study sought to construct rich accounts of the remembrances of Catholic grade school and high school graduates in the USA related to their school experiences and the continuing impacts of these experiences on their lives. Ten former students (comprised of five males and five females) who graduated from Catholic schools in the 1950s, 1960s,…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Educational History, Educational Experience, Graduate Surveys
Turley, Matthew William – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In this qualitative study the primary researcher utilized research methods of heuristic phenomenology in order to better understand the experience of recovery for a group of male participants. The purpose of this study was to aid the primary researcher in better understanding his own experience of recovery from alcoholism, as well as to add to the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Alcoholism, Males, Rehabilitation
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