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Author:

Betts, Elana Cherice

Title:

Fostering LGBTQ Advocacy in School Psychology as Adult Education: Shaping Attitudes, Beliefs, and Perceived Control

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

critical theory
Theory of Planned Behavior
adult education
LGBTQ
school psychology
affirmative practice
multicultural ed

File:

Download EBetts_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Member
Thomas Bettinger, Committee Member
Holly L Angelique, Committee Member
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Member

Author:

Mccadden, Theodore Edward

Title:

"for People Who Aren't Sure Who They Are, Theatre is a Great Place to Be": Narratives of Actors and their Sexual Identities

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
theatre
acting
embodied learning
performance of gender
adult development
LGBT development
queer theory

File:

Download McCadden_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward W Taylor, Committee Member
Holly L Angelique, Committee Member
Adam Ross Gustafson, Committee Member

Author:

Sandoe, Kathryn Jeanne

Title:

Hungry for Justice: The Hunger Games and Developing an Activist Identity in Women Fans

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
informal learning
popular culture
fan activism
The Hunger Games
social justice
public pedagogy
convergence culture
poststructural feminism
social movements
fan studies

File:

Download Sandoe_2017_Dissertation_FINAL_w_Vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Committee Member
Holly Angelique, Committee Member
Peter J. Kareithi, Outside Member

Author:

Sessoms, Amber Michelle

Title:

The Merging of the Personal and the Collective: Reimagining Black Natural Hair Care Digital Spaces as Sites of Critical Public Pedagogy

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

natural hair
black hair
black women
african american women
digital spaces
blogs
critical public pedagogy
identity development
adult learning
adult identity development
blogging
online learning communities
critical consciousness
identity formation
popular culture
adult education
african american hair
black womanhood

File:

Download Sessoms_2017_FINAL_Dissertation_w_Vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Peter Jones Kareithi, Committee Member
Adnan A Qayyum, Outside Member

Author:

Newton, Rhonda Ruth

Title:

Quiltmaking Teachers: Piecing a Career at the Intersection of Learning and Leisure

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

adult education
actor-network theory
recreation specialization
communities of practice
leisure studies
quilting
quiltmaking
nonformal education
credentialing

File:

Download Newton_-_Final_-_Fall_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann Louise Swartz, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
Careen Yarnal, Outside Member

Author:

Greenawalt, Anne

Title:

SPORTSWOMEN’S CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY AND LEARNING THROUGH PERSONAL NARRATIVES: A POSTSTRUCTURAL FEMINIST ANALYSIS FOR CREATING HISTORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

sportswomen
identity
adult learning
adult education
narrative learning theory
feminist theory
autoethnography
feminist critical discourse analysis

File:

Download Greenawalt_-_Sportswomens_Constructions_of_ID_and_Learning.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Member
Mary Napoli, Committee Member
Charles David Kupfer, Outside Member

Author:

Whalen, Gina

Title:

Giving Voice to the Transformative Learning of Mothers who Lost a Child to Suicide

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

transformative learning
suicide
child loss
bereaved mothers
feminist perspectives on adult learning
autoethnography
narrative
grief
suicide loss survivors
suicide bereaved
critical reflection
discourse dialogue
adult education
suicide postvention

File:

Download Final_Whalen_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Member
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Outside Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Program Head/Chair