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Direct linkChesanko, Melissa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In this study I conducted individual and focus group interviews in order to understand the ways in which students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) perceive the campus climate at West Virginia University and in what ways their experiences are shaped by that climate. Campus climate is defined as "the…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation
Peer reviewedDonehower, Kim – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2013
Using Alasdair MacIntyre's theory of tradition-bound rationalities, this essay analyses James Moffett's depiction of the censors who opposed his "Interactions" textbook series in the Kanawha County, West Virginia, schools. Many reviewers have found Moffett's analysis of the censors in "Storm in the Mountains" even-handed and…
Descriptors: Censorship, Textbooks, Cultural Influences, Literacy
Schwartz, Terry A.; Kaplan, Michael H. – 1981
This paper describes a community education model which represents one aspect of developmental efforts with a community education evaluation project undertaken in Kanawha County, West Virginia. It begins by reviewing relevant community education literature which, together with local data sources from Kanawha County, was used as a foundation for the…
Descriptors: Community Education, Cultural Influences, Environmental Influences, Models
Marra, John Leslie – 1971
An exploratory study focusing upon the career choosing patterns of high school seniors in a relatively isolated, coal-mining county of West Virginia is reported in this paper. The 2 basic hypotheses examined were that rural youth from upper status family backgrounds will have higher status career orientations than those from lower status family…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Planning, College Attendance, Cultural Influences
Download full textOffice of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
Under the auspices of the Instructional Programs Branch of the U.S. Office of Education, a 3-day conference was held May 21-23, 1962, on "Teaching Children and Youth Who Are Educationally Disadvantaged." The conference brought together from all over the Nation acknowledged leaders of public school programs expressly designed to realize…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educationally Disadvantaged, Educational Experience, Human Relations
