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Charles Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examined whether an urban-rural intergroup dialogue (IGD) curriculum intervention can improve participants' (a) awareness of social identities, privilege, and oppression; (b) intergroup understanding and relationships; (c) strategies to engage and intervene; and (d) capacity to advance equity and justice for bridging the…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Discussion, Consciousness Raising, Self Concept
Brian P. Heilmeier – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Disruptive activism has been a part of college campus since 1766 when the Bad Butter Rebellion at Harvard took place (Dickey, 2016; Ireland, 2012; Moore, 1976). More recently institutions have been facing an increase in disruptive campus activism (Dickey, 2016). When disruptive campus activism occurs on a college campus it is often the student…
Descriptors: Campuses, Activism, Role Conflict, Higher Education
Badenhorst, Pauli – ProQuest LLC, 2018
What does it mean to say that race is an event, action, and encounter between bodies rather than an attribute of subjects? What may we come to behold when we recognize the inherent limitations of focusing exclusively on race as language and social construct, and the converse pregnant supplementary existential capacity of the material, especially…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Racial Differences, College Students, Emotional Response
Brandt, Susan Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Although research literature has shown management circles the benefits of incorporating humor into the workplace and effective ways to resolve conflicts, none exists on the role of humor and its interplay with conflict management. This study addresses the question, "What relationships exist between the "Self-Perceived" and…
Descriptors: Humor, Teaching Methods, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Liu, Yi-chen – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Published research suggests that literature should transmit ethnic and societal values as well as reassure one's own confidence and self-respect. This study provides a model for examining Asian-American children's and adolescent literature critically from the perspective of identity issues. It examines fifteen award-winning Asian-American…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Self Concept, Korean Americans, Japanese Americans
DeTurk, Theodore J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Conflict is a natural and pervasive, but often misunderstood, force that thrives in all human societies. Conflict is an inherent part of the school environment because of the labor-intensive nature of the school setting. As district leaders, school superintendents are surrounded daily by diverse groups of people who have their own needs and…
Descriptors: Conflict, Statistical Analysis, Conflict Resolution, School Personnel