- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Career Development and Diversity
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Values and Moral Education
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Education and Vocational Training
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Higher Education and Employability
- Education Systems and Policy
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
- Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Religious Education and Schools
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
University of Nevada, Reno
2010-2024
Miami University
2024
University of Miami Health System
2024
The Ohio State University
2020-2023
What is the difference between education and indoctrination? Should moral be task of schools? How can teachers induce children to subscribe standards without being accused of...
Journal Article Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries, Fields Get access Fields. By Patrick D. Murphy. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington, 2009. 230 pp. Cloth $60.00. Keira Hambrick University of Nevada, Reno keewah7@yahoo.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies Literature Environment, Volume 17, Issue 3, Summer 2010, Pages 614–615, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isq057 Published: 30 July 2010
Abstract Objective Identify the role(s) and support(s), if any, that family members provide to first‐generation historically marginalized doctoral students, including strengths challenges of this support. Background Nonfinancial support is important for success retention graduate students. More empirical studies these students are needed. Method During an intervention designed their families, we conducted four focus groups with ( n = 22) three they chose accompany them 15). Transcripts were...
While research demonstrates that family support is essential for doctoral students, detailing institutional efforts to involve families limited. We developed the GAIN Scholars program, consisting of two 3-week-long boot camps incoming first-generation and historically marginalized students. Quantitative data were collected from 38 students in program (n = 22) control 16). One key component this was Family members 15) invited opening ceremony, a day programming, online activities. Pre-...
This study involved development and validation of the Family Involvement in Graduate School measure, first instrument to measure involvement family graduate students’ educational process. The was originally designed with six subscales. It developed based on Hoover-Dempsey et al.’s model parent involvement. Feedback given by expert reviewers refine measure. validated exploratory factor analysis a sample 150 members students. Data collected from (a) program for underprivileged students (b)...
In this essay, we offer the “investigative pivot” as a framework for teaching rhetoric researchers how to orient and withstand being re-/dis-/oriented by research process. Investigative pivoting indexes researcher responds material conditions under which they collect analyze data. To illustrate investigative pivots, present pivot narratives from four graduate student researchers. Drawing on analytic power of E. Cram’s orientation, these detail negotiate infrastructural, ideological,...