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An Educational Journey to Deanship: A Memoir explores and
highlights achievements and stories of success throughout the
author's academic and administrative experiences. This book
includes photographs and personal narratives from early educational
experiences to deanship. The information presented in this memoir
will serve to provide role modeling, lessons of success,
mentorship, and hope for other deans.
College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies offers three
uniquely designed sections that provide a unique mixture of
research studies conducted on African American, Mexican American,
and first-generation college students. This book explores a variety
of factors affecting a diverse group of college students including
institutional commitment, college adjustment, and social and
academic self-efficacy barriers.
Using the rich history detailed by the authors of The Educational
Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia
(1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections by Dr. Terence Hicks
and Dr. Abul Pitre as a backdrop, this instructional guide engages
educational leaders, teachers, students, and parents in the
teaching and learning process by structuring opportunities to
discuss issues of racial segregation, Jim Crow laws, and select
restraints faced by African Americans living in this community.
Using this guide as a part of the instructional set will help
educational leaders and teachers develop warm-up activities,
research ideas, vocabulary boosters, hands-on projects,
team-building ideas, technology-enhanced connections, culminating
activities, and cross-curriculum connections. Teachers will also
find reflective journal pages and rubrics for key assessments and
direct associations to the Virginia State Department of Education
Standards.
The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward
County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections
provides ground-breaking research on the historical events
surrounding the Prince Edward County's school closings. For five
years (1959-1964), the families of 1,700 African American students
were forced to cope with the absence of public schooling in the
county. Their efforts led to the case Davis v. the County School
Board of Prince Edward County, which was one of the cases that were
consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
The book offers the reader two exciting sections. In the first
section, the contributing authors provide interesting findings on
Grassroots schools, the Kennedy administration, and an African
American movement during the Prince Edward County school closings.
In the second section, the authors provide the reader with personal
reflections and a lecture from four professors whose parents were
affected by the Prince Edward County lockout. Three of the four
professors were graduates of the Prince Edward County school
system.
First-Generation College Student Research Studies displays a group
of dynamic scholars from a variety of institutions across the
United States. This extraordinary edited volume highlights the
first generation college student population and examines topics of
discussion such as; college choice, social experiences, dual credit
on academic success, life styles and health status, and
professional identity/teaching practices. The collection of
empirical studies in this text contributes greatly to the research
literature regarding the role that educational leaders have in
educating first-generation college students.
This groundbreaking book edited by Terence Hicks, a quantitative
research professor, and Abul Pitre, a qualitative research
professor, builds upon the usefulness of each research method and
integrates them by providing valuable findings on a diverse group
of college students. This book provides the reader with a mixture
of quantitative and qualitative research studies surrounding nine
chapters on African American, first-generation, undecided, and
non-traditional college students. Drawing from major quantitative
and qualitative theoretical research frameworks found in
multicultural education, Research Studies in Higher Education is a
must-read. The chapter authors provide important recommendations
for university administrators, faculty, and staff in supporting the
academic, personal, and social adjustment of college life for
African American, first-generation, undecided, and non-traditional
college students. The book contributes greatly to the research
literature regarding the role that educational leaders have in
educating multicultural college students.
Using a combination of case studies and research, the contributors
of this timely book highlight some of the significant issues,
historical, curricular, and societal, that have led to African
American students having a proportionally larger representation in
special education classes, higher drop-put rates, and more
incidences of in-school, race-on-race violence. The contributors
draw from critical pedagogy, multicultural education, and the
Afrocentric canon to critique the American educational system.
Educating African American Students examines historical issues that
are significant for understanding the current state of affairs for
African American education; addresses problems and issues in social
studies education, mathematics education, and the
overrepresentation of African American males in special education;
and poignantly illuminates the necessity for renewed activism by
telling the stories of African American children and their
schooling experiences.
Spirituality Research Studies in Higher Education offers two
uniquely designed sections that showcase a group of talented
scholars from major research institutions. This edited volume by
Terence Hicks provides the reader with topics such as spiritual
aspects of the grieving college students, spirituality and sexual
identity among lesbian and gay students, spirituality driven
strategies among first-generation students, the role of
spirituality in home-based education, and counseling and spiritual
support among women.
High School to College Transition Research Studies offers two
uniquely designed sections that provide a mixture of quantitative
and qualitative research findings surrounding a diverse group of
college students. This ground-breaking book by Terence Hicks and
Chance W. Lewis provides the reader with valuable findings on
topics such as student/faculty interactions, academic/social
integration, and college preparation.
This groundbreaking book edited by Terence Hicks, a quantitative
research professor, and Abul Pitre, a qualitative research
professor, builds upon the usefulness of each research method and
integrates them by providing valuable findings on a diverse group
of college students. This book provides the reader with a mixture
of quantitative and qualitative research studies surrounding nine
chapters on African American, first-generation, undecided, and
non-traditional college students. Drawing from major quantitative
and qualitative theoretical research frameworks found in
multicultural education, Research Studies in Higher Education is a
must-read. The chapter authors provide important recommendations
for university administrators, faculty, and staff in supporting the
academic, personal, and social adjustment of college life for
African American, first-generation, undecided, and non-traditional
college students. The book contributes greatly to the research
literature regarding the role that educational leaders have in
educating multicultural college students.
The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward
County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections
provides ground-breaking research on the historical events
surrounding the Prince Edward County's school closings. For five
years (1959-1964), the families of 1,700 African American students
were forced to cope with the absence of public schooling in the
county. Their efforts led to the case Davis v. the County School
Board of Prince Edward County, which was one of the cases that were
consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
The book offers the reader two exciting sections. In the first
section, the contributing authors provide interesting findings on
Grassroots schools, the Kennedy administration, and an African
American movement during the Prince Edward County school closings.
In the second section, the authors provide the reader with personal
reflections and a lecture from four professors whose parents were
affected by the Prince Edward County lockout. Three of the four
professors were graduates of the Prince Edward County school
system.
Using a combination of case studies and research, the contributors
of this timely book highlight some of the significant issues,
historical, curricular, and societal, that have led to African
American students having a proportionally larger representation in
special education classes, higher drop-put rates, and more
incidences of in-school, race-on-race violence. The contributors
draw from critical pedagogy, multicultural education, and the
Afrocentric canon to critique the American educational system.
Educating African American Students examines historical issues that
are significant for understanding the current state of affairs for
African American education; addresses problems and issues in social
studies education, mathematics education, and the
overrepresentation of African American males in special education;
and poignantly illuminates the necessity for renewed activism by
telling the stories of African American children and their
schooling experiences.
Black Administrators in Higher Education: Autoethnographic
Explorations and Personal Narratives presents to the reader a group
of administrators from predominantly white and historically black
institutions from both four-year and two-year institutions. Through
the lenses of autoethnography and personal narrative studies, this
extraordinary edited volume by two former deans of education
provide the audience with cutting-edge research findings on a
variety of topics relative to black administrators working in
higher education.
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