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Role Identity and Engagement Behaviors of Student-Athlete Alumnae
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Matthew Charles Brinton – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological research study was to explore the meanings volleyball student-athlete alumnae (SAA) from a doctoral granting research institution in the Rocky Mountain region (Rocky Mountain Regional University or RMRU) associate with their lived experiences and how those interpretations shape their engagement…
Descriptors: Role Perception, Self Concept, Student Athletes, Alumni
An Educator out of Water: A Phenomenological Study into Identity-as-Educator for Student Affairs Professionals
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David McCoy – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The work of student affairs professionals has been happening since the inception of western higher education. The profession has shifted a great deal since that time, with an emphasis now on student affairs professionals as 'educators' alongside their faculty counterparts. Regardless of change, research has consistently demonstrated the impact…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Professional Identity, Teacher Role
Facilitating the Facilitators of Action Learning in China: Practices and Prospects
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Brook, Cheryl; Abbott, Christine – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
This paper explores the learning and experience of Western action learning facilitators engaged in developing Chinese facilitators of action learning, all of whom were also managers, as part of a qualification programme based in China. The Western facilitators interviewed for this study had been specifically asked by their hosts to deliver a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Facilitators (Individuals), Organizational Development
Understanding the Role of School Psychologists through a Personal Change Project
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Aspiranti, Kathleen B.; Jackson, Carrie – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2021
This study investigated how the implementation of a personal change project impacted school psychology graduate students' knowledge of the change process. Ten school psychology graduate students completed a personal change project (PCP) in which they initiated a change within their personal life. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected…
Descriptors: School Psychology, School Psychologists, Counselor Training, Counselor Role
Entrepreneurial Identity and Role Expectations in Nascent Entrepreneurship
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Lundqvist, Mats; Middleton, Karen Williams; Nowell, Pamela – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
Entrepreneurship has been defined as an individual?new value creation dialogic. To study how entrepreneurial identity evolves, this article, drawing on entrepreneurial learning theory, adds an entrepreneurial role expectations dialogic. Longitudinal evidence from nascent entrepreneurs working in venture teams on invention disclosures offers an…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Professional Identity, Novices, Learning Theories
Writing in the Senior Capstone: Theory and Practice
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Masiello, Lea; Skipper, Tracy L. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2013
Surveys of employers continually highlight the need for better communication skills among recent college graduates. Yet, writing instruction in higher education serves far more than a transactional purpose. Writing facilitates learning, helps students gain skills in analysis and synthesis, and supports a range of other personal and intellectual…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Communication Skills, Writing Instruction, College Seniors