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Tariq Qasim – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The 2014 genocide against the Yazidi community, perpetrated by ISIS, represents one of the most devastating humanitarian crises of the 21st century. This qualitative case study explores the lived experiences of Yazidi women, aged 25-40, who have resettled in Nebraska after surviving unspeakable atrocities, including mass killings, sexual…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Coping, Cultural Context, Victims of Crime
Melissa Webster Rhodes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There are many factors which contribute to college/university retention rates, two of which are a sense of entitlement and a lack of academic coping skills among rising college freshmen. The theoretical foundations of this research is conflict theory in education and social construct theory. This study examines grade inflation and social promotion…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Grade 12, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Bedford, Winifred – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Microaggressions in the higher education setting are a pervasive issue frequently encountered by members of marginalized cultures. The experience of microaggressions can result in negative outcomes on neural substrates, mental health, emotional health, and physical health. Furthermore, academic microaggressions can impact performance, learning,…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Aggression, Racial Bias, Antisocial Behavior
Oh, Onook – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Flexible, mobile, and distributive social web technologies afforded online users with unprecedented opportunities to connect previously disconnected groups of people at a distance surrounding shared interests or common issues. Reflecting the opportunities opened by social web technologies, recent extreme events have exposed both positive and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
Mateer, Susan Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In 2001, less than two years after the Columbine High School shootings, a plan to copycat the Columbine shooting in a junior high school was interrupted by police. This was one of the first documented cases of interrupted school violence and the school where this was to occur was traumatized both by the fact that students were planning violence…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Violence, Juvenile Justice, School Safety
Dryier, Kimberly J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the existence and implications of relational aggression toward female educational administrators. This qualitative study examined the impacts of relational aggression toward ten female superintendents, their observations of relational aggression in the workplace, strategies to overcome relational…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Ethics, Antisocial Behavior, Self Esteem