Collaborative learning is acknowledged as an important skill in both higher education and modern society. However, there are many challenges when designing and implementing collaborative learning and many studies report that college students are often frustrated when placed in such situations. Despite the fact that the literature has a wide range…

Faculty leaders are part of the shared governance structures and processes, participating in the development of policies and in decision-making that affects many two-year community colleges. In this research study, faculty leadership experiences are described and interpreted during a Guided Pathways reform approach for student success at an urban,…

The following inquiry asks the question: "What is the experience of transformation using imaginal knowing in counseling education?" Inspired by personal experience of transformation through education, the author engages this question by exploring others' experience of imaginal knowing in the context of a core-curriculum graduate-level…

Virtual learning and teaching on student achievement and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic were examined at a Historically Black College and University using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. Individual interviews were conducted utilizing faculty and student participants. Four research questions guided the study and yielded results…

The population of marginalized Christian Black contingent or adjunct faculty was the focus of this study. The purpose of the study was to understand the lived experiences of Black contingent (adjunct faculty) at member institutions of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) to help explain high turnover, pay disparities, and…

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and describe pastors' experiences who have served full-time in a lead/senior pastor role in evangelical churches after having lost or left their employment as a result of experiencing poor person-organization fit. For this study, pastoral staff turnover was defined as the employment of…

This qualitative, interview-based study examined the experiences of 14 teachers with their professional development. The research was conducted to understand teacher perspective of professional development. Many billions of federal dollars have been spent on teacher professional development, and there has been neither a dramatic increase in…

This study examined how secondary teachers supported their students' comprehension of informational text. Four content-area teachers--English, science, social studies, and vocational--were observed and interviewed in this study based on hermeneutic phenomenology methods. In addition, the teachers provided a sample of lessons delivered outside the…

Career technical education is an essential element for the workforce development needs of employers in the United States of America. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 has created challenges for higher education and has affected the lives of faculty and students in different ways. The purpose of this qualitative hermeneutic phenomenology study was…

The research project was designed to understand the lived experience of general elementary teachers teaching art when they are minimally trained and art education is devalued in schools and educational policy. The research follows hermeneutic phenomenology as it explains and gives voice to the lived experience. The heuristic foundation of this…

The purpose of this hermeneutical phenomenological study was to understand the work adjustment of expatriate teachers employed in Chinese internationalized schools. The theory guiding the study was Dawis and Lofquist's theory of work adjustment. This theory explained the process of employee adjustment at the workplace as the result of job…

Teacher self-efficacy is a construct that continues to be extensively researched. With the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, the learning environment has shifted dramatically and has had an impact on Jewish educators' sense of efficacy. This study examined the pre- and post-test scores for self-efficacy of Jewish educators who engaged in either…

Access barriers to campus mental health counseling services for persons of color have been previously identified in the literature. These barriers are known to create disparate access to this important campus resource for students of color. Despite this robust body of research, inequities have persisted, revealing a gap in the literature. The…

This study explored marginalized stakeholder feedback by reconstructing the lived experiences of 13 single mothers who completed post-secondary education while dependent on public assistance since the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). This study utilized a qualitative, hermeneutic…

Motivation and engagement are often barriers to literacy for adolescent readers. Traditionally, the graphic novel has been seen as easy to read and a resource that only has value for students with language difficulties or learning challenges. This qualitative case study investigated how middle school readers' ability to make meaning contributed to…