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An Exploratory Study on Teachers’ Perceptions in Developing Leadership Skills in Four to Six-Year-Old Children
No full textWhen a child enters school, the learning environment, mainly the teacher, becomes one of the most significant adults in their life beyond the family (Anhert et al., 2013). Teachers can therefore be constructive in enhancing different skills in children, including leadership skills. Due to the fact teachers play a vital role in children’s development, the purpose of this study was to explore teachers’ perceptions of developing leadership in children and the strategies they use (if any) to instill leadership in them. The study used a qualitative approach by using interviews, observations, and a checklist as the tools to collect data and gain a deeper understanding of how teachers develop leadership in children with a focus on the strategies that teachers use in instilling leadership in them. Eleven teachers participated in this study from one private and three public schools. Data were collected in person and virtually due to the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings indicated teachers were well aware of the leaders in their classroom and their leadership characteristics. Furthermore, data showed teachers established developmentally appropriate teaching practices while applying various strategies and indicated teachers lack training in developing leadership in children. Better understanding the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted leadership contribute to the field of children’s development, and the development of leadership skills in children more specifically. The present study points to the importance of teachers’ training in developing leadership in children. Future research may focus on how and in what ways virtual settings can be effective in instilling leadership in children
Literacy and Liberation: A Content Analysis of Four Antebellum Slave Narratives as Sites of Critical Literacy
No full textThis dissertation examines the roles of literacy and literacy education in early 19th-century autobiographies of four fugitive African American slaves: Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Henry Bibb, and Harriet Jacobs. Also known as antebellum slave narratives, these autobiographies regularly depicted the dehumanization many African Americans endured in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. As such, slave narratives provide critical information about the origins and development of racism in the United States. These stories illustrate how race in the early 19th century became a significant marker of one’s humanity and how people of African descent were perceived as slightly less than human and thus deemed suitable for subjugation. I argue that literacy and literacy education enabled these authors (and by extension, millions of other African Americans) to establish their humanity through their engagement with the debates and conversations about the institution of slavery. Antebellum slave narratives were part of global abolitionist efforts to end slavery immediately. These narratives countered proslavery arguments about the naturalness and logic of slavery and were often the end results of fugitive slaves having given oral accounts of their lives on lecture tours. In short, literacy and literacy instruction enabled Douglass, Brown, Bibb, and Jacobs, as critical literacy theorist Paulo Freire argued, to become more fully human. That is, literacy and literacy instruction enabled the authors to fight oppression and establish agency in a world that frequently denied them their humanity and human agency.
Using content analysis as the method of data collection and analysis, I coded textual data according to 12 categories James Olney (1985) argued were common themes in the narratives. After reducing redundant data, I concluded that the contextual phenomena that best described the data were critical literacy, material conditions, and human rights. Douglass, Brown, Bibb, and Jacobs used literacy and literacy education to engage in the national debates and conversations for the immediate and unconditional end of slavery in the United States. The main implication of this conclusion is that literacy and literacy instruction are pivotal to developing crucial citizenship attitudes and skills that will maintain a healthy democracy
Minutes of the Meeting of the University Senate, February 16, 2023
No full text1. Informational Items: Undergraduate Programs (name of Human Resource Management; Interdisciplinary Studies; Medical Physics, B.S; panish Language and Literature, B.A.; Latin American Language and Civilization, B.A. ; Health Communication Minor; Journalism B.A. to be replaced with 3 B.A. programs with specializations that are updated to be more relevant to incoming students - Broadcasting and Digital Media Practice, Journalism, Media and Society -; Modern Language, Additional Major; Communication, B.A.); SEHS Merger (RLA/TDES); Financial Aid; Updates on International Travel; Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the University Calendar; Provost Updates | 2. Roll Call 3. Approval of the Minutes of January 19, 2023 | 4. Unfinished Business: definition of an Undergraduate Minor (2nd reading - approved) | 5. New Business: Procedural Motion to staff Senate Standing Committees; policy on Graduate Credits for Prior Learning (CPL); Bereavement Policy update (1st reading, 2nd reading waived, approved); Senate General Education Committee charge; Master’s of Science in Finance | 6. Good and Welfare | Adjourn
Oakland University Commencement Program, Fall 2023
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Improving the Standard of Care for Women with Reproductive Loss: A Literature Review
No full textThis thesis will analyze existing literature featuring both the experience of reproductive loss for women, and the standard of care in the medical field that contributes to their experience. Due to the prevalence of a negative mental health impact from reproductive loss, as well as evidence of tension between women and health professionals in their experiences, the medical field lacks a standard of care for reproductive loss that considers not only the physical needs of women, but also their emotional needs. Research on the grief reactions and mental health effects of women following pregnancy loss is limited, as is the exploration and testing of different methods to identify and assist those impacted by reproductive loss. While the healthcare community awaits additional research, professionals can make positive changes to the standard of care for reproductive loss. This literature review explores what is known about the current standard of care for reproductive loss, what women have said about their experience receiving care for reproductive loss, different methods to identify and assist women with reproductive loss, and how these methods can contribute to changing the standard of care in the medical field
Perceptions of Prejudice in the Current Environment Related to a Surge in Political Polarization and Partisanship
No full textOver the last few decades, there appears to have been a surge in political polarization and partisanship that has divided the American public and likely resulted in increased levels of prejudice between members of the two major political parties. This thesis sought to explore the public’s overall perception of prejudice to determine if there has been any observed change in recent years, and to gather information on whether perceptions regarding the prevalence of certain types of prejudice differ based on individuals’ political ideology. 202 participants filled out a survey which consisted of demographic information, questions related to prejudice, and possible solutions to the issue. The results of this study revealed that participants agreed that levels of prejudice have increased, and that a recent surge in both polarization and partisanship has contributed to increased levels of prejudice between the two major political parties within the United States. Findings also suggest that respondents believe prejudice based on race and political affiliation are more prevalent than other types of prejudice, though this perception was influenced by political ideology. Effective solutions to the issue, limitations of the study, and future directions are discussed
