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Margaret Lundberg – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation explores the stories of lived experience of mature women returners within the habitus of a single institution of higher education: The University of Washington Tacoma (UWT). This urban-serving university in Washington State was founded more than 30 years ago as an upper division branch campus designed to serve a place and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Reentry Students, Females
Gwendolyn Cash-James – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Utilizing sensemaking theory as a theoretical lens, this study attempts to understand the lived experiences of the participants as they navigate a new position and, potentially, a new institution. The interviews conducted provide perspective on how identity formation, understanding of institutional context, change management, and the articulation…
Descriptors: Administrators, Novices, Community Colleges, Administrator Attitudes
Sara Lovett – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I build on scholarship on antiracist, culturally sustaining, translingual and ecological theories in composition studies to argue that equitable, accessible pedagogies affirm students' role as co-creators in producing knowledge alongside their peers and instructors and that antiracist ecological frameworks can aid writing…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Racism, First Generation College Students, Writing (Composition)
American Public Welfare Association, Washington, DC. – 1977
In the first two years of a three year project, the Youth-Community Coordination Project assisted five communities in five different states (Washington, Colorado, South Carolina, Georgia and Rhode Island), in developing more effective methods of dealing with problems of youth development. A profile of youth needs, attitudes and problems within the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Coordination, Community Involvement, Community Planning
Consulting Services Corp., Seattle, WA. – 1970
The present report both details the initial statements of educational need made by State residents and adds more insight into underlying educational problems. The first report concentrated on a questionnaire approach to allow a cross section of the population to give their perceptions of Washington State educational needs. One of the principal…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Curriculum Design, Educational Administration, Educational Needs
Hartl, David, Ed.; And Others – 1978
Small schools will find this social studies curriculum guide for grades K-3 helpful in complying with Washington state education laws that require districts to identify student learning objectives and evaluate each student's performance relative to the attainment of the objectives. This curriculum, developed during 1975 and 1976 by teachers and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Behavioral Objectives, Community Coordination, Developed Nations