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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"This study explored ways in which the development and implementation of an online professional development experience for secondary science teachers might shift teacher perspectives, understandings, and practices surrounding the integration of socio-ecological justice learning (SEJL) into their classrooms, courses, and curricula. This Participatory Action Research study included a pre-survey of seventy-one teachers. Results informed the design and...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"This narrative inquiry asked participants to reflect on their lived experiences in formal education and assessed if schooling was adapting effectively to the complexities of the 21st century. The study drew from participants' connection to learning and interconnected their insights with inclusive pedagogies and ecological awareness concepts. The analysis explored why the conventional educational model persists and counters transformational change....
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"As a contribution to decolonizing discourses, this dissertation examines narratives of place attachment in colonized space as shared by individuals confronting forced displacement, militarized violence, and environmental injustice on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This study investigates emergent themes in place-based resilience, examining indicators associated with place dependence, social connection, place-based identity, and nature connection...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Amid a global water security crisis exacerbated by climate change and biodiversity loss, this research explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) provide elegant solutions for recentering nature in 21st century global water policy. This research posits that the NBS concept is not new. It has been implemented by Indigenous Peoples as a form of water policy through Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK) for centuries. NBS have only recently...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Conformity to western socialized norms of masculinity has been associated with negative mental health outcomes and is considered to be a factor in systemic oppression. Encouraging men to engage in help-seeking behaviors is a frequently noted solution, however, there has been limited prior research identifying methods to achieve this. This study consists of two phases; 1). The development and initial validation of the Anchored Interdependent Masculinity...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the wine market, its producers, and how consumers interact with a sensory-oriented product. Traditionally, sensory attributes of interacting with wine rely on the face-to-face method of delivery, whereby consumers interpret wine products by the perceptions of sight, smell, and taste to determine if they like a specific product. Mandatory shutdowns and pandemic restrictions have challenged traditional...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This dissertation details a doctoral research project that considered how embodied experience to place and the more-than-human world within the Florida Everglades might influence the existent entanglements of human-nature connectedness. I explored my immersive connection to place and experience with the more-than-human through a multi-methodological approach. Applying multiple data collection tools such as participant-observation of human and the...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The purpose of this study was to examine the application of the high-quality components of an online course rubric and impact on student success. Using a mixed method design and a practitioner analysis, this study explores the connection between components of a quality online course and student final semester grades in an online classroom. Using the components of a quality course defined by The SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR) for...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The worldview of separation has been identified as a significant contributor to current complex and converging social, ecological, and economic issues. In response, the field of sustainability education emerged as a means of cultivating changes in worldviews toward holistic and interconnected ways of knowing and being. This research study aimed to develop strategies for educational program designs that move beyond sustainability through place-informed...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Remediations and Reciprocal Relations with Mushroom, Plant, and Human Healers is a two-node dissertation that employs narrative and multispecies inquiry and a community action research project. Node 1 explores interspecies communication as a form of reciprocity in both the Mazatec tradition with the sacred mushrooms in the Sierra Mazateca and in an Asháninka tradition with master plants at Mayantuyacu, a plant medicine center outside of Pucallpa,...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This research study implements a systems theory approach to examine the impacts of institutional power on self-realization in twice-exceptional Girls and Women of Color (2eGWOC) situated in educational contexts. Institutional power will be discussed and defined as power structure that creates negative thinking and negative action that impedes self-realization in 2eGWOC. The relationship between institutional power, systemic apathy, will be explored...
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ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"This dissertation sought insight into the experiences of queer undergraduate faculty's experiences with colonialism and neoliberalism in the academy. Using the interpretive phenomenological analysis as the methodology, homogeneity of the participants was sought by controlling for location that participants work, Central Appalachia, and their queer identity. What emerged were themes related to Appalachia as place, conceptually, and a lack of shared...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Worldwide, climate change is affecting communities and economies. This daunting problem, seemingly needing to be addressed sooner than later, has often not been taken seriously. This study aimed to adapt the Yale Climate Opinion Survey (Leiserowitz et al., 2022), an American assessment instrument, for use in the Mexican municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia to analyze citizens' knowledge, perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes towards climate change....
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Current literature reveals the importance of expanding the educational toolchest to include teaching through games. Game-based learning has been extensively studied, underscoring a human need to have fun while learning. This research project focused on the development of 'Paved Paradise: A Tiny House Ecovillage' Board Game, that could teach individuals how to live on the planet with minimal impact while they simultaneously designed a tiny house ecovillage....
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"This research builds upon scholarship in critical environment science agency, and also fulfills a need from the field of community and citizen science for critically oriented programs with implications for teacher professional learning."-leaf ii.
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Amidst the prevalent discourse advocating for a shift toward a more just and sustainable form of capitalism, there is a growing acknowledgment that business education, perhaps more than business practices themselves, inadvertently perpetuates approaches to wealth creation that erode ecological systems and societal relationships. Recognizing the inherent lack of value-neutrality in business education, this study explores the implicit worldviews embedded...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As the global climate crisis continues, pursuing political consensus on pro-climate actions becomes a more urgent priority. This dissertation explores the attitudinal effects of a short video message describing the reproductive health harms of air pollution, a frame that has not yet been extensively employed in climate communications. Analysis reveals that the reproductive health message appeals to certain groups on certain issues. Notably, the message...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sustainable development is a global priority, yet there needs to be more research that investigates the training of sustainable development practitioners to address critical multidisciplinary challenges. This disseration aims to analyze the ecosystem that trains development practitioners ; design a Masters in Sustainable Development Practice (MDP) program to train development practitioners and assess what their credentials should be to increase Jamaica's...
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Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Critiques of outdoor adventure education (OAE) include concerns over the lack of racially and ethnically diverse user participation on public land, barriers for minoritized groups to participation in the outdoors , and the lack of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in outdoor leadership. This dissertation suggested that one way that ongoing issues of equity and justice in OAE is prioritized is through the critical renovation of sense of place curriculum....
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