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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 ...
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. ...
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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
Integrating Biodiversity into Urban School Grounds through Transdisciplinary Curriculum Design
(7th International Conference of the Network URBIO – Urban Biodiversity & Design, Leipzig, Germany, 2022-11-28)
As a teaching ecologist and doctoral candidate in Educational Sustainability, I work with science teachers who want to use place-based learning in their classes. Place-based learning ties ecological concepts to “real world” ...
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 ...
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 ...