Browsing Doctor of Education in Educational Sustainability by Title
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Learning about the Environment through Art
(Art Congress, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, 2020-04)Art is an invaluable means of expression and can also be a learning tool. This presentation introduces art as a way to include all learning styles, bring art into classrooms that may have experienced reduced art funding, ... -
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 ... -
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’ ... -
My Life - My Story - My First Year as a Doctoral Student
(2020-06)This document is my first-year concept poster within a sustainability context. It contains a Learning-Journey Timeline describing who I am and what I have accomplished thus far in the program, using a timeline that depicts ... -
Natural Capital’s Role in Sustainable Development
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Nature-Deficit Disorder: How Art and Nature Help Children Focus and Succeed in School
(Psychological Coordinates of Personality Development: Realities and Perspectives, 3rd All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Poltava, Ukraine, 2018-02)Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of being alienated from nature, including attention difficulties and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. This disorder was first named by Richard Louv, whose ... -
Ojibwe culture & knowledge of climate change in fourth-grade curricula in Wisconsin public elementary schools
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-08)The first purpose of this study was to provide recommendations for educators to update their fourth-grade social-studies and science curricula by including more accurate and thorough representation of Ojibwe knowledge ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Perceptions of Military Spouses Working In Federal Employment on Changes in Their Work Environment During a Pandemic
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2023-05)In this study I used a systems-thinking framework through the chaos theory of careers. I as-signed categories from the military-spouse employment collective framework (MSECF) as at-tractor types. I addressed the following ... -
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. ... -
Protecting America’s Environment: Priorities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Water and Toxins
(Poltava Oil and Gas College of National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic", 2020-03-24)In the mid-1900s, the environment in the United States was polluted and unhealthy for humans and other species. By the 1970s, it was clear that environmental laws and regulations were necessary to protect the public and ... -
Regenerative Selves: Yoga as a Pedagogy for Cultivating Relationality
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2020-04-16)This study explored whether and in what ways Yoga could cultivate relationality among practitioners and enable them to live sustainably and regeneratively through creating regenerative selves. It examined whether and how ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Roles and Professional Relationships of Special Educators Relative to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Implementation in Four Wisconsin School Districts
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-12)Within general education settings, students with disabilities may not gain maximum benefit from the use of emerging inclusive pedagogical frameworks unless the role of special educators is reconfigured so that their expertise ... -
Schoobio: A Sustainability Curriculum to Increase Biocultural Diversity on School Grounds
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-12)I developed a new global curriculum, Schoobio, in which middle and high school students become citizen scientists and change agents as they engage in transdisciplinary activities culminating in their advocacy for biocultural ... -
School Grounds for Learning: Tying Curriculum to the Outdoors
(Project Central, 2018-11-29)This presentation was given to a graduate lab class at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Kitakyushu, Japan, in November 2018, at the invitation of Dr. Keitaro Ito, colleague and friend of the author. The students were ...