Intergroup dialogue is a multicultural education strategy aimed at promoting conflict resolution and enhancing the understanding of differences (Zuniga et al., 2002). An intergroup dialogue course involves gathering ...

African-American women schoolteachers played an important role in African-American communities. They applied innovative methods to relieve the conditions of an inadequate educational system and in the process made enormous ...

This dissertation examines the possible value of utilizing theories of the human subject derived from recent philosophical work to understand the practices of mass media audiences. The first half of the manuscript provides ...

Coaching often rests upon a “causal cascade” (Atteberry, Bryk, Walker & Biancarosa,2008) that posits that collaboration with a coach leads to a change in the attitude, beliefs and practices of teachers and therefore improves ...

The years following World War II have seen a wealth of scholarship dedicated to the topic revealing the undeniably huge impact the war had on people and politics throughout the world. In terms of the United States’ involvement ...

*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: QuickTime; Microsoft Office.

This study investigates whether adding peripheral webpage ad for a product that is placed in an online sitcom affects audiences’ recognition of and attitude toward the product. Because the ad and placement may serve as ...

My dissertation explores postbellum texts that put African American womanhood at the heart of their narratives, both as an abstract symbol of race and gender and as embodied through female characters. I focus on realist ...

In three studies, I examined the psychological state of being energized by negative expectations of others. Although there is a large body of psychological literature available on the effects of expectancy beliefs that ...

A social constructivist qualitative methodology was used to examine 6 Latino college students' sexual health beliefs about the human papillomavirus (HPV). Data were collected through the use of in-depth interviews and ...