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Author:

McHenry-Sorber, Erin C.

Title:

Competing Values, Competing Narratives: Rural Education Politics in Dual Arenas

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

rural education
local education politics
micropolitics
teacher strike
collective bargaining
unions
educational leadership

File:

Download Erin_McHenrySorber_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kai Arthur Schafft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nona Ann Prestine, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Mitra, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member

Author:

Eppley, Karen Elaine

Title:

Friction, Fiction, and Failure: Scientifically Based Research and the Rural

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

rural education
scientifically based research
social science research
fiction

File:

Download dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member

Author:

Reynar, Rodney Kent

Title:

The Changing Sense of Place Among Agricultural Families in Saskatchewan: Implications for Rural Education and Society: Implications for Rural Education and Society

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

sense of place
sense-base education
rural education
rural society
rural communities
rural schools
rural sustainability

File:

Download Reynar_dissertation_08.pdf

Committee Members:

Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rama B Radhakrishna, Committee Member
Madhu Suri Prakash, Committee Member
Dorothy Ann Blair, Committee Member

Author:

Koricich, Michael Andrew

Title:

Many Peas, No Pods: Community, Diversity, and College Access in Rural America

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

College access
College choice
rural education
community studies

File:

Download Koricich_Dissertation_-_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

John Jesse Cheslock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leticia Oseguera, Committee Member
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member
Aaron Wachhaus, Special Member

Author:

Biddle, Catharine Clothier

Title:

Communities discovering what they care about: Youth and adults leading school reform together

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

education reform
youth-adult partnership
student voice
Vermont
rural education
qualitative case study

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward J Fuller, Committee Member
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Hall, Danielle

Title:

local control as resistance: policy and practice of autonomous school boards

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

school boards
superintendents
local control
policy implementation
rural education
educational leadership

File:

Download Local_Control_as_Resistance_-_Policy_and_Practice_of_Autonomous_School_Boards_Daniella_Hall.pdf

Committee Members:

Kai Arthur Schafft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dana Lynn Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward J Fuller, Committee Member
Karen Eppley, Committee Member
Richard Ingersoll, Special Member

Author:

Stark, Mary

Title:

A Case Study Of Formal And Informal Learning Among Displaced Mountain Residents From Greene County, Virginia

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

formal learning
informal learning
mountain people
rural education
resettlement
Greene County
Virginia

File:

Download Stormy_Stark_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline A Stefkovich, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward J Fuller, Committee Member
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Member
Frederick Dudley Loomis Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Kiser, Kathleen Anne

Title:

Art Integration: Exploring a Transdiscplinary Practice in Rural Art Education

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

: art integration
transdisciplinary
place-based
rural education

File:

Download KKiser_Dissertation_Final_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Kimberly Anne Powell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine M Thompson, Committee Member
Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Outside Member

Author:

Nguyen, Chi Phuong

Title:

Education in the reform era: How policy and politics transformed Vietnamese students, school leaders, and communities

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Vietnam
Vietnamese education
rural education
international education
comparative education
education reform
education policy
college expectation
college access
politics
educational leadership
principal

File:

Download NGUYEN__CHI_Dissertation_Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Kai Arthur Schafft, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soo-Yong Byun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward J Fuller, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Soo-Yong Byun, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Voigt, Susan

Title:

Supporting the Bridge: Rural leaders' influences on systems to promote teacher professional capital growth

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

educational leadership
rural education
educational administration
professional capital

File:

Download Voigt_Dissertation_Final_070421.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernard Badiali, Member Added & Related Areas Represent
Deborah Schussler, Member Added & Major Field Represnt
Kai Schafft, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Edward Fuller, Member Added & Major Field Represnt
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cui, Mingkun

Title:

Escaper, Fighter and Exam-taking Master: An Educational Autoethnography of A Rural Student in China

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

rural education
China
rural student
educational journey
autoethnography

File:

Download Final_Draft_Dissertation_Mingkun_11-11.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Valente, Outside Field Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Unit Member
Kai Schafft, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gerald Letendre, Major Field Member
Rebecca Tarlau, Outside Field Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Maselli, Annie

Title:

Democratic Crises and the Political Weaponization of Public Education: Rural Educational Leadership Sensemaking during Times of Social Upheaval

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

rural education
politics of education
education policy
educational leadership
superintendent
school boards
spatial polarization
democracy
COVID-19

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Committee Members:

Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Matthew Kelly, Major Field Member
Karen Eppley, Outside Field Member
Ashley Patterson, Outside Unit Member
Kai Schafft, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kryst, Erica

Title:

The Role of Higher Education in the Habitus Transformation of Youth from Rural Communities

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

rural education
higher education
habitus
rural youth and communities
rural out-migration

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Committee Members:

Gerald K Letendre, Program Head/Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Soo-yong Byun, Major & Minor Field Member
Mark Brennan, Outside Unit Member
Kai Schafft, Outside Field Member