This dissertation analyzed court decisions in injuries on school grounds cases under the Louisiana Governmental Claims Act. The question addressed was: How have the Louisiana courts interpreted the Louisiana Governmental Claims Act in litigation against Louisiana school districts and their employees? The intent of this study was to show how…

When the national literature (Studies conducted in Turkey) is examined in recent years, it is noteworthy that the writing activities for learning purposes have started to be widely used in educational environments. The increased work in this area has also brought the need for compiling and reviewing the studies in the literature. For this purpose,…

This dissertation explores the somatic manifestations of trans youth and the process by which those manifestations are developed through oppressive experiences in schools. The phenomenological inquiry of two co-researchers (i.e. participants), which utilized open ended phenomenological questions on specific moments of oppression, addresses a gap…

This study addressed the increasing attrition and migration of teachers from middle school classrooms. The study also sought to determine to what extent specific research-based factors motivated teachers to remain in the middle school classroom. An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design was used in this study. The first portion of the study…

This book examines and illustrates the potential of narrative technology, the integration and synthesis of storytelling and digital media in education. Storytelling is a foundational and powerful process in all learning and teaching, and technology is becoming ever more ubiquitous and sophisticated, particularly in its capabilities to mediate and…

Each student has his/her own behavioral characteristics. Still, groups of students demonstrate great similarities in their behaviors in academic and social life. Such student types reflect both the observable and intangible features of individual students. Previous studies utilized cross-sectional data to derive student typologies. Yet, we do not…

This study set out to create and clearly define a pedagogical approach to teaching Composition I that centered around frequent instructor-student writing conferences and measure its impact on writerly self-efficacy and writing ability. Instructor-student conferences have been a threshold concept in academia, but due to a lack of replicable,…

Background: The education of trainees in the intensive care unit (ICU) is extremely challenging due to factors related to the ICU environment, ICU trainees and physicians, ICU subspecialty training, and safety and quality of care delivered to critically ill patients. There is a lack of standardized educational curricula and instructional methods…

Over the past two decades, there has been rapid growth in understanding of bullying in schools and its many negative effects. The reported incidence of bullying and other school violence has increased over time, and UNESCO recently estimated that 246 million children and adolescents experience violence in and around school every year (UNESCO…

The aim of this descriptive study was to research and analyze how professional development of anti-bullying specialist influenced reporting of harassment, intimidations, and bullying in their schools. A large urban school district in New Jersey was identified for having several anti-bullying specialists in each of their school actively…

In this stirring follow-up to the award-winning "Fostering Resilient Learners," Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall take you to the next level of trauma-invested practice. To get there, they explain, educators need to build a "nest"--a positive learning environment shaped by three new Rs of education: relationship,…

This study uses qualitative case study analysis to explore the lived experience of teachers in one school building in a New York urban school district, and examines how they perceive the effects of school building conditions on the teaching and learning process. This study found that teachers are not able to make teaching and learning a priority…

This study explores Millennial-aged college students' use and perceptions of technology used in higher education. The purpose of this descriptive survey study is to describe (1) the relationship between Millennial learners' use of technology devices and applications in personal versus formal education environments; and (2) the relationship between…

The existing literature on race/ethnicity overlooks learning disability (LD) and the latter often neglects African American males. Further, when the intersection of race/ethnicity and LD overlap, African American males are rarely discussed or viewed as high achievers within the literature. Therefore, I seek to break through the wall of silence and…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model on students' academic achievement that is well grounded in the academic research in the domain. The paper aims to weave together the divergent research findings into a comprehensive model for use by all the stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach: It is a literature review-based…