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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"sense of belongingness"”.
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Hmong Americans in Higher Education: Exploring their Sense of Belongingness and the Concept of the American Dream.
… Hmong American college students' perspectives on sense of belongingness and their idea on the American Dream. The college experience can serve as a precursor to improving the social and economic situation of the Hmong students when aligned with the personal desire to gain upward mobility and …
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Social-ecological factors associated with bullying and sexual harassment perpetration among middle school students
The aim of the present study was to investigate the extent to which family- (i.e., family social support, family violence, parental supervision, and sibling aggression perpetration) and school-related (i.e., sense of belongingness at school and school social support) factors are associated with …
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Queer writes: A phenomenological study of LGBTQIA+ students’ identity and belonging following the United States Supreme Court Obergefell decision
… in Obergefell v Hodges establishing the right of same-sex couples to marry, the LGBTQIA+ community has become the target of increased homophobia, including acts of violence. Too little is known about the impact this problem has had upon the developing gender and sexualities identities and sense …
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The Need to Belong and Student Grades: Is There a Correlation?
… will attempt to asses middle school students sense of belongingness through the use of the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale (Goodenow, 1993) against the grade point average. The purpose of this research is to assess if belongingness and academic achievement correspond with one …
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Assessing accessibility in environmental education with an emphasis on the d/Deaf and hard of hearing community
… is a topic that has been explored more often in the last decade. Still, levels of accessibility and how to increase accessibility have been studied less within the scope of environmental education (EE). Accessibility can be defined differently when considering EE and nature-based …
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Feasibility of STRONG in a University Teaching Clinic: Youth Impacts, Parental Perceptions, and Clinician Experiences
This study investigated the feasibility of a resilience focused intervention, Supporting Transition Resilience of Newcomer Groups (STRONG), within a university teaching clinic. STRONG aims to enhance resilience, teach coping-skills, and foster a sense of belongingness among newcomer youth. Using a …
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Educating a Diverse Student Population: A Principal in a Small Urban Setting
"This was a qualitative study of a principal in a small urban setting. In attempting to answer the question, what vision is needed for schools to successfully educate all students, two topics are discussed: instructional leadership and discipline practice. It is argued that a vision of schools as …
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Assessing a short-version of the South African psychological ownership questionnaire (SAPOS)
The aim of this study is to provide managers within South African organisations with an instrument that effectively measures employees’ perceptions of psychological ownership. Although the South African Psychological Ownership Questionnaire (SAPOS) – which measures the four dimensions of identity, …
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Let’s Talk: An Exploration of a Transdiagnostic Peer Mentorship Program for Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
… disease (IBD) is a chronic autoimmune disease often diagnosed during adolescence. IBD negatively impacts all aspects of health-related quality of life, resulting in physical, emotional, social, school, and work functioning challenges. Providing care to adolescents during the transition period …
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High School Students' Perceptions of Their High School Experience
… to student success or failure. The purpose of this study was to understand high school students' perceptions of their high school experience. Data for this quantitative study was collected using a survey instrument. The 1,120 participants, who were ninth through twelfth grade students …
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Exploring Community College Faculty and Administrators Work Providing Educational Opportunities for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD): An Integral Framework for Inclusive Postsecondary Education
<p>There is a growing number of inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs and scholarship in higher education. Providing a spectrum of educational opportunities for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in higher education plays a pivotal role in creating inclusive …
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The crossroad : experiences of non-EU/EEA international Masters students in their last year of study in the UK
… Culture Shock (CS, Oberg, 1960), a process of culture learning. Available literature on IS seems to focus mainly on the phases of CS between the arrival in the host country until adaptation, or at the later stage of returning home. The last part of the IS journey in the host country, before …
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The Efficacy And Limits Of The Collegiate Men Of Distinction Mentoring Program
… in higher education. At the University of Southern Indiana, the four-year graduation rate for Black men sits at 1.5 percent which is more than twenty points lower than the 22 percent national average (National Center for Education Statistics, 2017). The purpose of this research was to …
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An Empowerment Evaluation of Colorado Mountain College’s Mountain Scholars Program via Latino Alumni Aspirational Goals and Outcomes
… (MSP) via semi-structured interviews with five of its Latino alumni. This study’s assets-based social justice/transformative philosophical framework included David Fetterman’s methodological empowerment evaluation and Tara Yosso’s conceptual community cultural wealth (CCW) theory. This …
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The construction of identity through race and ethnicity : coloured South African women in Western Australia
The formation of ethnic and racial identity is important psychologically. Mainstream psychological theory and research on identity has been criticised for its failure to adequately address the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups in society. The purpose of my research was to centre …
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Practising inclusive education in an Indian context: Taking the agenda forward
… been focussed on issues around access, attitudes of teachers towards students with disabilities and challenges to implementing inclusive education. However, there is a need to move away from focusing solely on issues of access and challenges towards a deeper understanding of how inclusive …
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Socio-cultural changes in Thai beach resorts: a case study of Koh Samui Island, Thailand.
… to make the transition from a traditional way of life to a modem form of society. Many studies show that destinations consider these changes positively in terms of modernisation and affluence. However, the interaction between two different cultures creates change processes over time, especially …