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A History of Nansemond Collegiate Institute From 1890 to 1939
(Virginia Tech, 1997-05-27)
The goal of this effort was to write the definitive history of a high school for Blacks in Nansemond County.
The destruction of school records in the fires that eventually led to the closing of the school made that task ...
THE BRAID OF TEACHING: Exploring the weave of elementary school contexts in an Appalachian school district
(Virginia Tech, 1999-08-20)
This dissertation examines how elementary school teachers in a small rural district set between two state universities talked about the contextual elements that interacted with their teaching roles. The school district ...
Designing, Piloting, and Evaluating the Interdisciplinary Internet Module - Healthy Hearts for Intermediate Grade Children
(Virginia Tech, 1997-06-11)
Two issues are prevalent today in K-6 education-- the integration of the Internet into schools, and the emphasis on guiding children to make wise and healthy lifestyle choices. These are the two themes reflected in this ...
Twice Forty Years Of Learning: An Educational Biography of Robert Reid Howison (1820-1906)
(Virginia Tech, 1998-06-18)
The two primary purposes of this study were to develop an educational biography on the life of Robert Reid Howison, a nineteenth-century Virginia lawyer, minister, historian, and author, and to examine Howison's efforts ...
Organizational and Managerial Outcomes of a Cultural Diversity Training Program
(Virginia Tech, 1998-04-15)
Workforce parity among cultural groups in America has been an unobtainable goal for years. The present diversity in our society dictates a new mandate for majority managers in their approach toward working beside and ...
Variables that Attract and Retain Middle-Income Families to Urban Public Schools
(Virginia Tech, 2011-04-25)
In the mid-nineteenth century, with the influx of European immigrants into the cities, public schools became the answer to the poverty and ignorance of the urban masses. Then, in the late nineteenth century and early ...
Leadership Products As Innovations In The Context Of Rogers' Diffusion Theory
(Virginia Tech, 1997-09-01)
In this study, two implementable leadership products were analogous to innovations, when framed in the context of Rogers’ diffusion-of-innovation theory. Thus, the products’ respective dissemination patterns were compared ...
Ethics Education In Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Programs
(Virginia Tech, 1996-06-21)
Mental health professionals place value on education in the hopeful expectation that ethics instruction will provide the knowledge and awareness required to empower therapists to make ethical clinical decisions. This study ...
Ableism in Education: A Case Study of a Student with Multiple Disabilities
(Virginia Tech, 2015-01-08)
This phenomenological case study examines the journey of one female with multiple disabilities and how she achieved success in school against difficult odds. It relies on an overview of the disability movement, related ...
"There Must Be Musical Joy:" An Ethnography of a Norwegian Music School
(Virginia Tech, 1997-03-30)
This study seeks to discuss issues and practices as found among three musicians, their classrooms, rehearsals and performances in a music school in Asker, Norway. The issues explored are more generally "Western" than ...