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Author:

Park, Amie Meeae

Title:

Narrative Identity Negotiation of First-Generation Korean Immigrants

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Korean immigrants
Acculturation
Identity negotiation
Narrative identity
Culturally embedded learning

File:

Download Final--Narrative_Identity_Negotiation_of_First-Generation_Korean_Immigrnats-Amie_Park.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Carol A Smith, Committee Member
Gyunsoo Yoon, Committee Member

Author:

Bee, Beth Anne

Title:

Women weathering the climate: Gendered knowledge and adaptive capacities in central Mexico

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

food secuirty
feminist theory
adaptive capacity
climate change
risk perception
Mexico

File:

Download Bee_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Ross, Brenda M.

Title:

Language, identity, and investment in the English language of a group of Mexican women living in Southeastern Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

ethnic identity
discourse analysis
investment
identity
language
gender
agency

File:

Download BRoss_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Susan Strauss And Sr Suresh Canagarajah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan G Strauss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Athelstan Canagarajah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Toso, Blaire Willson

Title:

Latina Mothers' Enactments of Agency: Achieving Desires through Discourses in Family Literacy.

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
agency
family literacy
Even Start
mothering
Foucault
literacy
immigrants
Latina
narrative inquiry
discourses
Good Mother

File:

Download BWToso_DISSERTATION_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member

Author:

Lim, Hyunmin

Title:

LEARNING AND SOCIAL PROCESS OF AGING AMONG KOREAN OLDER MARRIED WOMEN: THE CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

informal learning
social process of aging
the cultural-historical activity theory
Korean older married women

File:

Download Lim_Dissertation_Final_rev_11-29-2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Sharon Louise Falkenstern, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Juliet Anne

Title:

VOICES, VALUES, VIEWS: A NARRATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY OF A VOLUNTEER LITERACY PROGRAM STUDENT INVOLVEMENT GROUP

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
literacy
participatory education
narrative ethnography

File:

Download Juliet_Smith_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Jae Yeol

Title:

From lifetime employment to self-employment: Learning and job instability in Korea

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

lifetime employment
learning
job instability
adult learning
transformative learning
Korean workers

File:

Download JaeYeolKim_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Sharon Louise Falkenstern, Committee Member
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member

Author:

Graves, Shanna L

Title:

Influences on Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Family Involvement and Cultural Diversity: An Exploration of Mentoring Relationships

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

mentoring
teacher preparation
teacher beliefs

File:

Download Graves_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Ewald Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
John Daniel Marshall, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Snider, Susan Lynn

Title:

The Lived Experiences of GED Students: What Do Their Experiences Tell Us?

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

General Educational Development
high school equivalency diploma

File:

Download Snider_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Kuhne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Kuhne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Melody M Thompson, Committee Member
David P Baker, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Sangok

Title:

FROM HOUSEWIVES TO ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS: A CULTURAL HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY ANALYSIS OF LEARNING IN A KOREAN COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Cultural Historical Activity Theory
CHAT
Community-based organization
expansive learning
standpoint theory
Informal learning
Housewives

File:

Download Sangok_dissertation_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member

Author:

Meidl, Tynisha Denea

Title:

Teachers' Dissonance With Curriculum Planning for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

linguistically and culturally diverse students
curriculum
dissonance

File:

Download Final_Copy_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ladislaus M Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Fuentes, David Andres

Title:

Exploring Pre-service teachers' historical thinking through the Cooperative Biography: A Design-based Research Study

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Historical thinking
Historical understanding
pre-service teachers' perceptions of history
design-based research
history education

File:

Download D._Fuentes_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Alan Metzger, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Ying-Chi

Title:

A story of the past makes its way to the present: Mobility in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Alice in Wonderland
media adaptations
mobility
picturebook
pop-up book
e-book

File:

Download Wu_Dissertation.pdfDownload permissions_for_image_use.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Dean Hade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Herb, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Drayton, Brendaly Elizabeth

Title:

Literacy and identity: Reflections of six African American males in an adult literacy program

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Adult literacy
Adult basic education
African American males
Gender
Identity
Narrative analysis

File:

Download dissertation_drayton2__final.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ian E Baptiste, Committee Member
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Ronald Ward Jackson, Special Member

Author:

Hunt, Irma L

Title:

Visual Arts and Older Adult Learners in Retirement

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

older adults
generativity
art as a way of knowing
visual arts
retirement
older learners
adult education

File:

Download hunt_final_dissertation_oct_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Ed Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Ed Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carolyn June Grasse Bachman, Committee Member
Dr Thomas Bettinger, Committee Member
Felicia Lynne Brown Haywood, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, Keiwana O'neal

Title:

Black Greek-letter Organizations: A Legacy of African American Adult Education

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Black Greek-Letter Organizations
African American Adult Education
Self-Help Tradition
Racial Uplift

File:

Download Jones_Dissertation__final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Felicia Lynne Brown Haywood, Committee Member
Dwayne Kwaysee Wright, Special Member

Author:

Dietrich, Kathleen Ann

Title:

Envisioning an Uncertain Climate Future: Space, Learning, and Resources in a Participatory Scenario Building Activity

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Scenario building
climate change adaptation
space
learning
envisioning
Ghana
participatory action research

File:

Download Dietrich_Dissertation_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Petra Tschakert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
Brian King, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Arends, Jessica Hope

Title:

Faculty conceptualizations of global service-learning: Envisioning change, doing damage, and the role of identity

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

global service-learning
faculty
motivations
critical reflection
community impacts
identity

File:

Download Faculty_Conceptualizations_final_Arends_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth A Smolcic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine M Thompson, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Special Member

Author:

Naughton, Dana Marie

Title:

Learning through Adoption: The intercountry adoption experiences of Canadian and Dutch Adopters of Children from the United States

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

international adoption
outgoing adoptions
U.S. adoptions
lifelong learning
narrative inquiry

File:

Download Naughton.Dana.Dissertation.May2014.Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
Margaret Ann Lorah, Committee Member
Joseph M Valente, Committee Member

Author:

Campbell, Kimeka Georeen

Title:

"Coming to this Caribbean mecca": The role of place in knowledge construction among Trinbagonian migrants in Brooklyn.

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

place
space
adult education
Trinidad
Tobago
informal learning
Brooklyn
cultural historical activity theory

File:

Download KGC_ADTED_CIED_DISSERTATION_FINAL_7.24.2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Tamminga, Committee Member
Davin Jules Carr Chellman, Committee Member

Author:

Camberg, Sara Jean

Title:

Creating Families: Parent Psychoeducation And The Experience Of Parents Adopting Children With A Disrupted Attachment

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Adoption
disrupted attachment
adopted children
parent psychoeducation
filial therapy

File:

Download SJCAMBERG_final_version_3.3.15.pdf

Committee Members:

Melody M Thompson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melody M Thompson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member
Margaret Ann Lorah, Committee Member

Author:

Gee, Jeremiah Compton

Title:

Here and back again: Community reentry from a rural county jail as a learning experience

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

rural jails
rural
jail. education
adult education
correctional education
phenomenology
critical phenomenology
prison

File:

Download GEE_DISSERTATION_FINAL_03APR2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Melody M Thompson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Kuhne, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member
Davin Jules Carr Chellman, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Changkee

Title:

How Two Kindergarten Teachers Perceive and Meet the Needs of The 2.5 Generation Korean Children

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

2.5 generation
immigrant families
language development
context of reception
teacher education
cultural capital

File:

Download Changkee_Lee_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Ewald Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Ewald Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Mooney, Angela J

Title:

(un)intended Outcomes of the Common Core English Language Arts Standards: A Narrative Inquiry into the Learning Experiences of English Learners' Teachers

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult learning
elementary teachers
Common Core State Standards
English Learners
authoritative policies

File:

Download Angela_J_Mooney_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Davin Jules Carr Chellman, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Jeanine M Staples, Committee Member

Author:

Gungor, Ramazan

Title:

Social Support among Women in Adult Literacy Classrooms: The Case of the Mother Child Education Foundation (AÇEV) in Turkey

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Social Support
Literacy
Adult Literacy
Women
Turkey
AÇEV.

File:

Download Gungor_R..pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Post, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
Davin Jules Carr Chellman, Special Member

Author:

Chung, Yunjeong

Title:

Cross-cultural adaptation in the discourse of education and motherhood: An autoethnography of a Korean international graduate student mother in the United States

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

autoethnography
cross-cultural adaptation
Confucianism
motherhood
international student
student mother
academic mother

File:

Download FinalrevisedYJ.pdf

Committee Members:

Jamie Myers, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamie Myers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Committee Member
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Member

Author:

Charley, Eryka Lynn

Title:

Overcoming Social Exclusion: Stories from High-achieving American Indian College Students

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Social Exclusion
American Indian Education
High-Achieving

File:

Download Final_-_Charley_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kai Arthur Schafft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica Frankenberg, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Mitra, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Bryan Brayboy, Special Member

Author:

Webb, Patricia Holland

Title:

Bearing Witness: Informal Learning Among Critical Care Nurses in the Context of Traumatic Suffering

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

adult learning
trauma
secondary traumatic stress
compassion fatigue
nurses
informal learning
workplace learning
emotional labor
phenomenology
psychoanalysis
critical theory
lifelong learning

File:

Download WEBB__P-Bearing_Witness-FINALupload-23July2016-pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Fred Michael Schied, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Davin Jules Carr-Chellman, Committee Member
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Outside Member

Author:

Krupar, Allyson Marie

Title:

WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND FORCED MIGRATION: A VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF EXPERIENCES IN NGO-SPONSORED ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN DADAAB, KENYA

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

women's empowerment
refugee education
Dadaab
nonformal education
power
Somali studies
visual ethnography

File:

Download Krupar_Dissert_Final_7-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph M Valente, Committee Member
Davin Carr-Chellmen, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Outside Member

Author:

Spencer, Thomas Nelson

Title:

A Multi-Site Empirical Study of International Student Adjustment

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

Intensive English Program
Academic Adjustment
Social Adjustment
Adult Learners
English as a Second Language
English for Academic Purposes

File:

Download Spencer__Tom_Dissertation_ADTED_FA17.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adnan A Qayyum, Committee Member
Leticia Oseguera, Committee Member
Robert William Schrauf, Outside Member

Author:

Odele, Anne

Title:

MEANING, USES, AND OUTCOMES OF ADULT LITERACY IN A FUNCTIONAL ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM IN UGANDA

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Functional adult literacy
adult education
adult literacy
adult learning

File:

Download ANNE_ODELE_DISSERTATION_FALL_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kimberly Powell, Committee Member
Carolyn E. Sachs, Committee Member
Alicia Catharine Decker, Outside Member

Author:

Seraphin, Wideline

Title:

In her Own Words: (De)Marginalizing Black Immigrant Girlhood in an Emancipatory Literacy Classroom

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

black immigrant girls
immigrant youth literacies
Haitian youth
literacy studies
literacy education

File:

Download FINAL_DISSERTATION_VITA2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeanine M. Staples, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeanine M. Staples, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Stuchul, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Dutta, Ritam

Title:

AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY BENGALI STUDENTS’ ‘ADDA’ (HANG-OUT) IN ONE UNIVERSITY IN KOLKATA: ALTERNATIVE PATHWAYS TO LEARNING, OR A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME?

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Bengali
Sociability Practice
Informal learning
Kolkata
Adda
Hang out
Student
Youth
West Bengal
Alternative pathways to learning
Culture Studies
Youth Studies
Ethnographic Case Study
Educational Culture
Culture of Education
South Asian Studies
Education
Educational Sociology
Sociology of Education
Informal Education
Adult Education
Continuous Education
Lifelong Learning

File:

Download Revised_Dissertation_Final_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Outside Member
Gwendolyn Monica Lloyd, Committee Member

Author:

Diaz Beltran, Ana Carolina

Title:

"Am I North American or South American?" Theorizing and Studying Living Curricula of the Global

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

curriculum
citizenship
global citizenship
Latinas/os
immigrant
youth
Hazleton
living curriculum
place
global
stories
storying
narrative

File:

Download DiazBeltran._Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Thomas Kissling, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Pettus, Mudiwa Mpho

Title:

African-American Rhetorical Education in the Age of Booker T. Washington

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Booker T. Washington
African-American rhetorical education
African-American rhetorical theory
post-Reconstruction
interracial communication
W.E.B. Du Bois
Pauline Hopkins
Sutton Griggs
democratic deliberation
rhetoric
rhetorical education
compromise
nineteenth-century rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Frey, Shannon

Title:

Success in Learning, Literacy, and Life: Views of Adult Basic Education Students and Federal Policy

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult basic education
New Literacy Studies
adult learners
adult literacy

File:

Download SFrey_dissertation_revisions_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adnan A Qayyum, Committee Member
Kathleen Mary Collins, Committee Member
Jeanine M Staples, Outside Member
Roy Clariana, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sandbulte, Jade

Title:

Invisible Sojourners: Second Language Socialization among International Spouses

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

second language socialization
second language acquisition
social network analysis
international spouses
identity
investment

File:

Download Sandbulte_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Suresh Canagarajah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Jon Litzenberg, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member
Robert William Schrauf, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Choi, Jinhee

Title:

LEARNING THROUGH WORK: HOW NORTH KOREAN MIGRANTS LEARN TO INTERACT, MANAGE EMOTIONS, AND DEVELOP COPING STRATEGIES AT SOCIAL ENTERPRISES IN SOUTH KOREA

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Adult education
Workforce integration
Social enterprise
North Korean defector
North Korean migrant
Emotional labor
Migration studies
International workforce integration
Refugee studies
Entrepreneurship
sector collaboration

File:

Download Choi_Dissrtation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Esther Susana Prins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Post, Committee Member
Craig A. Campbell, Committee Member
Allison Sterling Henward, Outside Member
Hyung Joon Yoon, Committee Member
Susan Mary Land, Program Head/Chair