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Characteristics of Higher Education Environments Conducive to Adaptive Change
Azusa Pacific University, November 2016
Multiple factors, including affordability and expected outcomes, have converged to cause unusual pressure on higher education administrators and faculty and prompt the need for change (Kezar, 2009; Selingo, 2013; Zemsky, ...
Exploring Frameworks to Integrate Globalization, Mission, & Higher Education: Case Study Inquiry at Two Higher Education Institutions in the Pacific Northwest
Seattle University, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the merits of three conceptual frameworks that emerged from a synthesis of literature related to globalization, mission, and higher education. The first framework, higher education ...
Jesus in an Ethnically Rich Environment: A Multi-Cultural Study in the Requirements for Effective, Consistent Gospel Communication in Southeast Renton, Washington
Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, May 2019
This project arose from the desire to minister in the dominantly multicultural community of Renton, Washington. The project utilized interviews to reveal common factors that would enable gospel communication across several ...
A Phenomenological Exploration of the Experiences of Counselor Education Doctoral Student Mothers with Young Children
Oregon State University, August 2017
The number of women in doctoral programs is increasing each year and women now comprise the majority of doctoral students in America (U.S. Department of Education, 2015). Previous research has shown the high levels of ...
The Texts We Teach: A Study of Canon Formation Processes at Christian Secondary Schools
Seattle Pacific University, 2011
The pedagogical canons at Christian schools are formed by the systematic interaction of theoretical and pragmatic factors. And although demographics, finances, and parental pressure do affect text selection, the methods ...
Replicating Predictors of Spirituality and Happiness in Children
Seattle Pacific University, May 2014
Positive psychology provides the theoretical framework for this replication and extension study of Holder, Coleman, and Wallace (2010). Their results indicated that spirituality (especially the domains of communal and ...
Developing Results-Based Leadership Attributes and Team Cohesiveness Through Action Learning
Walden University, August 2010
Those who develop leaders in manufacturing settings have little data that describe the usefulness of action learning as a method of developing leaders’ abilities to improve results-based leadership attributes or perceptions ...
The Place of Pentecost: David Johannes du Plessis, the Assemblies of God, and the Development of Ecumenical Pentecostalism
Princeton Theological Seminary, November 2010
This dissertation focuses upon the work of the Reverend David J. du Plessis, an individual with deep connections to both denominational Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement in mainline American churches of the 1960s. ...