Scholarly Work - Education
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Educational Manifest Destiny: Exclusion, Role Allocation, and Functionalization in Reservation Bordertown District Admission Policies
(2019-02)Towns that border American Indian reservations provide important contexts for studying relationships between educational institutions and marginalized communities. This study applies critical discourse methodologies to ... -
Implications of Trauma-Sensitive Practices at the Middle Level
(2019-01)This essay provides a broad overview of adverse childhood experiences and their impact on the middle level learner. Through a literature review, the author finds points of intersection between current research on traumatized ... -
Enhancing engineering education in the elementary school
(2019-04)The Next Generation Science Standards emphasizes the inclusion of engineering practices throughout the K–12 science curriculum. Therefore, elementary educators need to be knowledgeable about engineering and engineering ... -
The Digital Storywork Partnership: Community-centered social studies to revitalize Indigenous histories and cultural knowledges
(2018-09)Indigenous communities have always cultivated social studies learning that is interactive, dynamic, and integrated with traditional knowledges. To confront the assimilative and deculturalizing education that accompanied ... -
Thinking about sexual orientation: College experiences that contribute to identity salience
(2018-05)Sexual orientation has been socially prominent in the national media lately, but little is known about how college creates opportunity for thinking about sexual orientation among individual students. Using data from the ... -
LGBT legal issues in Jesuit higher education
(2008)Issues facing the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community can prove to be a legal nightmare for college and university administrators to address, particularly at religiously affiliated institutions like ... -
The exporting and subcontracting decisions of Viet Nam's small- and medium-sized enterprises
(2018-05)The exporting and subcontracting decisions of a panel of Vietnamese private small- and medium-sized enterprises is investigated. We find that among subcontractors, subcontracting is a supplementary rather than primary ... -
Measuring work conditions for teachers of American Indian students
(2008)The purpose of this study was to re-validate the Quality of Teacher Work Life Survey (QTWLS) with a population of 404 teachers in Montana schools with predominant American Indian student enrollments; and to describe the ... -
Leadership, quality, and school improvement: A reflection
(2008-08)The author discussed the notion of leadership as instilling within individuals and infusing within a community the greater capacity for experiencing quality. The meaning of capacity and quality was deconstructed to provide ... -
Identity, heritage and achievement: Comparative case study of effective education in Indian country
(2014)A comparative case study design sought to determine how effective schools on Indian Reservations infuse local epistemologies into leadership practices. The converging themes fit a Social Identity Theory model. The leader ... -
Social justice leadership for American Indian sovereignty: A model for principal preparation
(2015-12)The Indian Leadership Education and Development project (ILEAD) at Little Bighorn Tribal College and Montana State University did not begin with an intentional focus on social justice; this article tracks the evolution of ... -
Redefining and decolonizing philanthropy in American Indian communities
(2016)This review article critically analyzed patterns of American Indian philanthropy that persist in Montana to determine the meaning of doing with people as opposed to doing to or doing for people. We contextualized successful ... -
Rural Educational Attainment: The Importance of Context
(2018-01)Understanding patterns of educational attainment among rural youth is a critical concern for our nation as we seek to make postsecondary access and attainment more equitable across our increasingly diverse student ... -
Coming out in STEM: Factors affecting retention of sexual minority STEM students
(2018-03)Using a national longitudinal survey data set from the Higher Education Research Institute, this study tested whether students who identified as a sexual minority (for example, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer) were more ... -
School librarians’ advocacy for the profession: Results of a U.S. national survey
(2011-07)As a result of eliminations in school librarian positions due to funding reductions in schools and school districts across the United States, library associations encourage school librarians to advocate for the profession. ... -
Library Advocacy Through Twitter: A Social Media Analysis of #savelibraries and #getESEAright
(2015-07)Advocacy groups of all types use social media to reach their constituents. However, are messages of library advocacy disseminated through social media reaching those who can become allies in the quest to save libraries? ... -
Using case studies to help faculty navigate difficult classroom moments
(2010-12)"Hot" or "difficult" classroom moments occur when a student's provocative comment elevates emotions in the classroom and creates an uncomfortable tension. Faculty typically feel unprepared to address these volatile moments, ... -
Leading by example: A case study of the influence of principal self-efficacy on collective efficacy
(2017-02)Self-efficacy is a perceived judgment that one has the ability to execute a course of action that brings about a desired result. Principal self-efficacy describes a set of beliefs that enable a principal to enact policies ...
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