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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 ... -
The Role of Workplace Spirituality in Stress and Job Satisfaction in Higher-Education Tenure-Track Faculty
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2022)A challenge faced in American society is satisfaction within professional work life. Although there is an abundance of research on workplace wellness, relatively few studies have focused on wellness factors that influence ... -
Love-Based Leadership for Sustainability: Leveraging Love-Based Leadership, Systems Theory & Social Dimensions of Behavioral Economics
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-05)In this dissertation, I lay the groundwork for the definition, application, measurement, and evolution of a framework for love-based leadership for sustainability (LBLS) in three separate manuscripts. In Manuscript I, I ... -
Perception, Place, & Perspective: Teaching Sustainability Through Literature
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-05)This study was a multi-phase research project that began by examining the perspectives of a sample of English-Language Arts (ELA) teachers’ self-reported identities as educators for sustainability and their knowledge of ... -
Mindsets on Closures and Consolidations: Perceptions of Schooling in Rural Communities
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-05)In this study, I examined selected rural communities in Wisconsin that had experienced a school closure or had a referendum that could have resulted in the closure of a local school. My aim was to analyze data on participants’ ... -
Perspective Transformation Regarding Sustainability in Higher Education
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-05)This study examined transformative sustainability learning (TSL) by determining the occurrence of perspective transformation (PT) regarding sustainability in sustainability-focused courses offered at a public university. ... -
Participants' Perceptions of the Ho-Chunk Nation Indigenous Arts and Sciences Institute
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2021-12)Native American culture or Indigenous ways of knowing and learning have been historically underrepresented in US public school classrooms. In this study, I claim that educators should participate in culturally influenced ... -
FARMERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY AND LAND ETHIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY CURRICULA
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2021-12)This was a qualitative study of discourses and practices reported by a sample (n = 45) of self identified sustainable farmers in central Wisconsin. I collected survey data, conducted farm visits, interviews, and analyzed ... -
Perceived Influences of Significant Life Experiences on Early-Childhood Educators' Teaching Practices
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2021-12)The first purpose of this qualitative study was to explore self-reported significant life experiences of early-childhood educators to determine how experiences of traditional pre-K educators differed from those who taught ... -
Institutional Fragility: Structures of Dominance in American Higher Educational Institutions Inhibiting Sustainable Education
(Frontiers in Sustainability, 2021-06-28)Higher educational institutions (HEIs) have become a requisite place to educate future change agents towards solving urgent sustainability issues facing society, and HEIs have responded to this imperative. As Vincent et ... -
Institutional Fragility: Structures of Dominance in American Higher Educational Institutions Inhibiting Sustainable Education
(Frontiers in Sustainability, 2021-06-28)Higher educational institutions (HEIs) have become a requisite place to educate future change agents towards solving urgent sustainability issues facing society, and HEIs have responded to this imperative. As Vincent et ... -
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 ... -
Special Issue: Transformative Sustainability Education
(Journal of Transformative Education, 2018-09-17)In a time of integration and convergence rather than reductionism and specialization, we invite you to read this special issue on transformative sustainability education. This collection of articles examines the ... -
Riverspeaking: Transformative Learning within a Relational Ontology
(2016)The co-authors perturb the modernist ontology of rationalism, cognitivism, progressivism, and the view of the self as autonomous that is predominant in current transformative learning theory. Entering into a co-learning ... -
Window of Opportunity: Creating a Hopeful Future Following the COVID-19 Disaster
(Synergetic Approach to the Design of Living Space of Personality Conference, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, 2021-04-27)The COVID-19 disaster has resulted in feelings of isolation and trauma, as well as hope for the future. Two international studies were conducted in 2020 to measure the impacts of gender equity, access to health care, and ... -
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, ... -
Information Architecture: Concepts for an Eco-Language of Mind, Matter, & Media
(University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, School of Education, 2020-12-12)Information is complex, multi-dimensional, interdisciplinary, and systemic. Language systems can be perceptually fragmented, negatively impacting environmental performance within critical resource management systems including ... -
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 ... -
Natural Capital’s Role in Sustainable Development
(Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer Nature., 2020)