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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Overcoming adversity"”.
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OVERCOMING ADVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND SUCCESS AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES AT A TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Despite increased numbers of African American male students pursuing higher education, their academic levels of achievement continue to lag behind other ethnic and gender groups (NCES, 2003). The gap is even greater at the community college, where dropout and failure rates double those seen among …
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The LOTUS Project: A Resilience Program for Dominican University of California Occupational Therapy Graduate Students
… therapy practitioners experience chronic stress, adversity, and are at risk for burnout (de Witt, Monareng, Abraham, Koor, & Saber, 2019). Building a resilience practice early in the OT career has the potential to assist students in overcoming adversity from chronic stressors that could lead to …
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Resilient Leadership: A case study about a gay man's journey of coming out and running for public office.
… this resilient leadership style. This journey of overcoming adversity including coming out, living authentically, serving as an openly gay elected official and championing the movement that contributes to resilient leadership.
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Living Well with Chronic Pain: A Heuristic Examination of Strategies used by Young Adults to Achieve Well-Being
… living with chronic pain as a young adult while overcoming adversity. Utilizing a heuristic phenomenological approach, the co-researchers were able to share their lived experience followed by an intense qualitative data analysis. Upon completion of data analysis, the information revealed a moving …
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Women Recreating their Lives: Challenges and Resilience in Midlife
… the protective processes of resilience for overcoming adversity. Three research questions guided this study: (1) How have women dealt with an adverse experience or challenging transition in their adult married life and where did the strength or resilience they needed to rise above it come …
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Remixing the tech: the digital media ecologies of the hip-hop artists from Grahamstown, South Africa
… Here, through a hip-hop culture that champions overcoming adversity, dysfunctional digital technology is constantly repaired and remixed. Hitherto, research on digital media use in the Global South has predominantly focused on the mobile phone in isolation. This study instead argues for the …
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Living with a transvestite : A phenomenological study of wives and committed partners of transvestites
… changes within themselves as a result of overcoming adversity.
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Undergraduate African American women's narratives on persistence in science majors at a PWI
… capital, science identity formation, and adversity faced by undergraduate African American women pursuing hard science majors. The main findings from this study were that African American women who persisted in hard science majors had individual interests, support from the home …
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A Narrative Analysis Using Multiple Case Studies of Nursing Graduates Who Overcame Academic Adversity
… This research poses the problem that academic adversity may be encountered in nursing students across three levels of nursing education, affecting retention. Because this adversity takes many forms, it is often difficult for nurse-educators to identify students who are at risk for academic …
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Becoming a Heritage Language Teacher: Exploring Professional Identity Formation through Drama
… to their identity formation, illustrating how overcoming adversity is integral to their professional development. Moreover, the applied drama framework positions the researcher as a facilitator of drama workshops, fostering a safe environment for dialogue, expression, collaboration, and …
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Success and attrition of students on a science Foundation Year: an exploratory study of their experiences in a mixed-methods framework
Attrition is a complex but persistent issue across tertiary education world-wide, impacting on institutional reputation, financial stability, and students’ future life trajectories. Foundation Year programmes in the UK provide a pre-university year of study and increasingly serve as the primary …