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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lehigh University, 2008. / Adviser: Linda M. Bambara.

Thesis (Psy.D.)--Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2003. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: B, page: 1554. Chair: Judith Kaufman. Available also in print.

<p> Recent research has uncovered differences in values between individuals who identify with the working class (WK) versus those who identify with the middle class (MD). WK individuals strive for interdependence, group belonging, and orienting toward others; their MD counterparts strive for independence, standing out from a group, and orient toward the self. These contrasts have been shown to influence behavior. The current study utilized a paradigm for studying socially motivated underachievement to investigate how these contrasting normative guidelines affected behavior in a situation that pitted individual achievement goals against prosocial goals. WK individuals, relative to MD individuals, were expected to perform their worst in this goal conflict situation. The anticipated pattern of means emerged for WK participants, although not significant, such that performance was worst in the goal conflict situation. However, MD participants surprisingly performed their best when presented with this goal conflict.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4246. Adviser: Lisa B. Spanierman. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-105) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University

<p> Key concepts in liberation psychology describe the treatment and regard for children in public school: oppression, colonization, hegemony. This study asked whether public education is experienced as oppressive, creating students who are colonized. Through a frame of liberation psychology and a depth psychological perspective, the study examines whether children are systematically "civilized" by the dominant adult population. Is the indigenous child&mdash;the child born with unique intelligence, knowledge, and desire to learn&mdash;systematically stifled within the existing educational paradigm? </p><p> Findings revealed that several practices at the Middle School enhanced learning, personal empowerment, self-esteem, and happiness, and were termed Liberatory. Most significant was whole-child value, where nonacademic strengths, intrinsic worth, and creativity were valued. Mutual, positive, connected relationship between teacher and student was primary, enhanced by trips outside of school with faculty, emphasizing character and life lessons. Acceptance permeated the peer environment. </p><p> Practices at the public High School, referred to as Oppressive, contributed to alienation, separation, fear, boredom, and disincentive to learning. Focus on right answers on tests encouraged memorization/forgetting, paradoxically described as "academic" by students, and creativity was not valued. Students cited teacher overwhelm as the main reason for the absence of connected relationship between educators and students. Judgment permeated the peer environment. </p><p> Participants were 10 females between 18 and 20 years old who attended a private middle school that practiced humanistic, whole-child learning, and a public high school in Santa Barbara, CA. A Likert survey asked 25 identical questions regarding experience of both schools, followed by in-depth interview highlighting the difference between the subject's experiences of both schools. Using hermeneutic data evaluation, Findings fell into 4 strong themes at 2 poles of experience and practice: Liberatory and Oppressive. </p><p> There was 1 significant exception to the clear pattern in Findings: a teacher within the Oppressive system used Liberatory practices effectively. Simple changes like respect, care, listening, and personal connection could increase learning and happiness in school.</p>

A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo inscrever um litoral, uma interface entre os campos da educação especial, da socioeducação e da pesquisa acadêmica, oportunizando, de um lado, a investigação acerca da escolarização de adolescentes acautelados na Fundação de Atendimento Socioeducativo do Rio Grande do Sul (FASE/RS) e, de outro lado, a reflexão aprofundada sobre a escolarização para aqueles com deficiência, especialmente os que apresentam impasses em sua estruturação psíquica. O estudo foi realizado entre os meses de março e maio de 2017, na Escola Estadual de Ensino Médio Senador Pasqualini, localizada no Centro de Atendimento Socioeducativo Padre Cacique, em Porto Alegre/RS. Os seguintes questionamentos norteiam esta pesquisa: como se configura a escolarização de adolescentes que cometem atos infracionais e cumprem uma medida socioeducativa de internação? Dentre os acautelados, há adolescentes considerados da educação especial? Dentre estes, há sujeitos que apresentam impasses em sua estruturação psíquica? Como se estabelecem as relações entre a educação especial e a socioeducação? Trata-se, portanto, de uma pesquisa exploratória, de base qualitativa, em que os procedimentos de pesquisa e análise se sustentaram nos fios éticos da psicanálise, principalmente, no reconhecimento do sujeito em sua singularidade; na possibilidade de criar e preservar espaços de fala e escuta; no entendimento de que aquilo que se fala a respeito do outro é constitutivo das possibilidades de ser e estar no mundo. Entre o texto da lei e a vida na escola, percebemos que as formas organizativas do trabalho pedagógico (a organização curricular, os tempos e os espaços escolares) procuram singularizar o fazer docente, borrando os atos infracionais, a favor da condição de aluno e de professor. No que se refere ao diálogo entre áreas, apesar de o litoral estar posto nos documentos legais, não encontramos formalizada a presença de adolescentes com deficiência que cumprem medida de internação. O silêncio, entretanto, é ruidoso. Através de Marino, um jovem aluno da Escola Senador Pasqualini, encontramos inúmeras alusões e hipóteses sobre o desempenho escolar, capazes de justificar o encaminhamento para o atendimento educacional especializado. O ato infracional, contudo, borra a condição de uma possível deficiência e apaga o direito a recursos previstos, potencialmente eficazes para sustentar o aprender. / The main objective of the present research is to inscribe a coastline, an interface between the fields of special education, social education and academic research propitiating, on one side, the inquiry concerning the schooling of adolescents incarcerated at the Foundation of Social Education Service in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (FASE/RS) and, on the other side, the deepened reflection on the schooling for those with impairments, especially the ones who present impairments in their psychic structure. The study was carried out between March and May 2017 at Senador Pasqualini High School located at the Padre Caquice Social Education Service Center in the city of Porto Alegre/RS. The following questionings guide this research: How is the schooling of adolescents who commit infractions and fulfill social educational measure of incarcaration configured? Amongst the incarcerated ones, are there adolescents who need special education? Amongst those, are there ones who present impairments in their psychic structure? How are the relations between special education and social education established? This is, therefore, an exploratory research of qualitative base where research procedures and analyses have been supported in the ethics of psychoanalysis, mainly, in the recognition of the subject in his/her singularity; in the possibility of creating and preserving spaces of listening and speaking; in the understanding that what is said in regard to the other is constituent of the possibilities of being in the world. Between the law and the life at school, we perceive that organizational forms of pedagogical work (curriculum organization, times and spaces in school) look for making the teacher’s role singular and erasing the infractional acts in favor of the teacher-student condition. As for the dialogue among the areas, although a coastline is present in legal documents, we did not find formally the presence of impaired adolescents who are currently fulfilling measures of incarceration. Silence, however, is noisy. Through Marino, a juvenile student at Senador Pasqualini School, we could find countless alusions and hypotheses on school performance which are capable of justifying the guiding for specialized educational service. Infractional acts, however, smudge the condition of a possible impairment and erase the right to legal resources, potentially efficient to support the learning process.

<p> Children often use social exclusion both to establish friendships and to protect interactive space during early childhood (Fanger et al., 2012). However, previous research has focused on elementary school age. The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between friendship and exclusion among preschool children. The current study observed 16 focal children (named either part of a best friend pair or non best friend pair) for all behaviors related to being a perpetrator or victim of six types of exclusion as named by Fanger et al. Results revealed that children who were part of a best friend pair excluded others more, but were excluded by peers less while children who were not named as having a best friend excluded less, but were excluded by others more. These results identify a need for further research on social exclusion within the preschool context.</p>

<p> In order to remain effective in an increasingly digital workplace, many organizations have shifted towards the automatic and electronic collection of employee performance data. For example, employees completing computer-based training may be monitored to collect objective performance information for either developmental or administrative purposes. Though this allows for more objective employee feedback and evaluation, little remains known about the effect of pervasive electronic monitoring on key self-regulatory processes which underlie learning. This study was designed with this gap in mind and explores the relationship between electronic monitoring type (developmental or administrative), goals, and feedback perceptions, feedback usage, and learning. In order to understand this relationship, the current study extends classical theories of performance management and self-regulation to supplement emerging research on electronic monitoring. Results of this experiment suggest that monitoring purpose does not have a strong impact on state goals. Monitoring purpose, however, may affect feedback perceptions. Using the results of this study, evidence-based recommendations can be made for the theoretical understanding and practical of monitored training.</p>