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Adaptive Leadership in Higher Education: Complexity, Diversity, and Inclusion
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-12)In this study, I framed diversity as a complex, dynamic change and explored relationships among complexity-leadership theory (CLT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In this explanatory, sequential, mixed-methods ... -
Amending the Soil: Preparing to Cultivate Transformational Professional Development
(2020-05)This poster, Amending the Soil: Preparing to Cultivate Transformational Professional Development, summarizes noteworthy learning experiences in my journey as a first year doctoral student in the field of educational ... -
Attending to Transformation
(2020-06)“Transformative learning is not a linear process, yet there is some progression to it, perhaps spiral-like” (Cranton, 2000). This concept poster represents my “spiral-like” educational sustainability learning journey over ... -
Backcasting: Visioning Our Way to a Sustainable Future
(5th All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference, Department of General, Developmental, and Practical Psychology, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, 2020-04-27)This paper presents an example of the process called backcasting, a means for stakeholders to envision the future and work backwards to determine the steps needed to reach it. The author conducted this game in Spring 2020 ... -
Beyond Access: Technology, Blindness, & Self-Determination
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-03-30)This mixed-methods study sought to examine the user experience of technology related to self-determination from the perspective of persons who are blind. Connections between assistive technology and Deci and Ryan’s (2017) ... -
Black Alumni & the Pedagogical Impact of Service-Learning: An Evaluative Case Study
(25-05)Service-learning pedagogy is described as a method for enhancing students’ sense of self and commitment to community. However, little research has examined its long-term impacts on students and alumni. This evaluative case ... -
Building a Community of Partnerships
(2020-05)This concept poster represents both the linear and non-linear growth experienced in the program this first year. It is linear in the sense it is a continuum of experiences gained throughout my life that point towards the ... -
A Case Study in K-12 Education for Sustainable Development
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2025-05)The K-12 sector needs curriculum that will better ready students for the sustainability challenges of the future. This research is a mixed methods case study that uses Kotter’s theory of change to prioritize Education ... -
Citizen Action and Environmental Law in the U.S.
(America House Kyiv, 2021-06-08)Did you know that rivers in the United States used to catch on fire as a result of pollution? Thanks to the work of passionate eco-activists and researchers across generations, we now know the how’s and why’s of cause, ... -
Climate Change Education in Universities: Instructors’ Perceptions of Risk, Motivations, and Barriers
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2024-05)Climate change is a pressing global issue that has a short window for action and mitigation. In this study, I utilized protection motivation theory (PMT) to examine relationships among tertiary-level instructors’ perceptions ... -
Climbing Without a Ladder: The Lived Experience of Military Spouses and Their Non-linear Paths to Self-Actualization, Identity, and Growth
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2025-08)In this qualitative narrative study, I examined lived experiences of a purposive sample of 11 Active duty military spouses. I conducted in-depth interviews in which I sought to learn about their military lifestyles and ... -
Critical Consciousness Among Young Adults in a Community in Hawaiʻi
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2025-06)In this convergent parallel mixed-methods study, I utilized Diemer et al.’s (2022) previously validated Short Critical Consciousness Survey (ShoCCS) and conducted virtual interviews with a sample of young adults aged 18 ... -
Critical Food Pedagogy and Sustainable Development
(Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education, Springer Nature, 2018-10-25)Food pedagogy is the fusion of food-related content and experiential process as one co-occurrence. Coupled with the critique of, and solutions to food related issues, society forms power relations that serve as the ... -
Culinary Sustainability Education: A Culinary Education as Sustainability
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-05)Critics have observed that modern culinary education still adheres to the traditions that emerged during the feudal era as well as the modernist values of power, hierarchy, reductionism, and dualist worldviews. More ... -
A Data-Driven Triple-Bottom-Line Sustainable Balanced-Reporting Framework for Small Municipalities
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-12)This study focused on cities in the United States with a population maximum of 75,000. The first phase consisted of a qualitative study of current reporting frameworks to identify the current landscape of sustainability ... -
Deborah Chabi First Year Experience Concept Poster 6/2020
(2020-06)This poster is a visual representation of some of the information I have learned in my transformative learning experience as a Doctoral Student in Educational Sustainability my first year. As a seasoned educator, mother, ... -
Defying Gravity: An Affective Photovoice Lens on Transformative Sustainability Learning
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-05)The purpose of this study was to understand the learning experiences and the role of affect for students in a transformative sustainability education doctoral program. My research questions reflected the purpose of this ... -
Digital Touchpoints (Issue #1, Fall 2024)
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2024-12)Teaching and learning with digital technologies is a complex matter in today’s P-12 classrooms. As we continue to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers must make sense of the shifting landscape of what daily teaching ... -
Digital Touchpoints (Issue #2, Spring 2025)
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2025-05)What does it mean to teach and learn in these contemporary times, considering the ubiquity of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI)? Does it make sense anymore for students to memorize state capitals? ... -
A Doctoral Student’s First-Year Experience Paves a Path to Activism
(2020-05)Although my decision to pursue an Ed.D. in Educational Sustainability was driven by an intention to change the world for the better in some small way, I began this doctoral journey with a lack of clarity of what that would ...