Students come to college with expectations that their experiences will help them secure a career after graduation (Eagan et al., 2016; Stolzenberg et al., 2020). Institutions offer work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences, which directly connect students' coursework to future careers (Cooper et al., 2010). Extant literature provides an abundance…

This dissertation explores the reimagination of mathematics education through a Bourdieusian perspective. The conceptual framework includes Bourdieu's well-defined terms: capital, field, habitus, and doxa. A thorough review of mathematics education documents finds that mathematics education has not yet considered, mathematics capital, from a…

The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between the use of online proctoring software and technostress, age, and years' experience utilizing educational technology among nurse educators' using online proctoring software for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 131 surveys were returned via…

For the past 20 years, community colleges have struggled with employee retention and with finding qualified individuals for senior administrative roles. As the crisis continues, many community college employees are returning to the classroom to receive university-based education in order to move into those vacant roles. As they re-enter higher…

Black women are among the diverse members of society seeking to gain access to leadership roles in education, specifically, to serve as principals in Texas. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of Black women who have become principals in Texas. The qualitative research method with…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the lived experiences of students of color enrolled in graduate counseling education (GCE) master's-level programs in California. A phenomenological approach was used, and participants included 25 students of color from five GCE programs who were enrolled in terminal master's-level counseling…

Across the United States, the primary and often, the only intervention employed to support the induction and development of beginning teachers is mentoring. Mentoring is particularly important for beginning teachers who work in under-resourced, hard-to-staff schools, exactly the type of school Black teachers are most likely to work in. While…

Objective: Despite the growing student parent population, many postsecondary institutions in the United States (U.S.) lack sufficient lactation policies for students. The objective of this study was to explore breastfeeding students' perceived awareness and use of on-campus lactation rooms and identify barriers and facilitators to expressing milk…

This study examines the virtual classroom experiences of graduate students. Virtual classroom applications related to the course "applications of scientific research" taught at a state university were treated as a case study. Virtual classroom recordings, defined using the university's learning management system, were used as research…

Inquiring about students' learning and their difficulties understanding the concepts and models of physics is a familiar challenge in physics education research. Researchers have developed various methodologies, such as phenomenography, to address it. Phenomenography is an empirical approach to determining how people experience and understand…

The concept of sustainable mobility is related to the fulfilment of certain conditions that consider environmental, economic and social factors when making decisions on transport activity. The recognition of the role of education as a key factor for sustainable development and sustainable mobility has been growing. Therefore, the development of…

This study looked into the lived experiences of international students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The research focused on how international students viewed the COVID-19 pandemic, their personal, social, economic, health and hygiene, and schooling experiences. A validated and reliable researchers-made…

This descriptive, correlational research study examined the prevalence of racial microaggressions among doctoral students of color in counselor education, and the relationships between experiences of racial microaggressions, relational mentoring, and social connectedness. Implications and future directions are provided based on the results.

Choosing a career pathway in medicine is a high stakes decision for both medical students and the field of medicine as a whole. While past research has examined how characteristics of the medical student or specialties influence this decision, we introduce temporal elements as novel variables influencing career selection decisions in medicine.…

In this process-article, I have considered what complexities might "affect" research of prison education when using Posthuman, Post Qualitative, Feminist (New) Materialism thinking. Through an imagined conversation with these 3 concepts as abstract 'beings', I have answered provocative questions about my research methods, apparatus, and…