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Item A Brave Space for Community: Bolstering K-12 Theatre Education for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion(2019-05) Loest, Tylor; MA in Arts AdministrationChanges in and enhanced access to K-12 theatre education can create greater long-term diversity, equity, and inclusion in American theatre. Recent data on theatre participation demonstrates audience participants to be primarily white, older, and highly educated. This group of participants is aging and decreasing their attendance. This paper explores how twentieth-century suburban growth, racial discrimination, and widening income inequality led to a system of Opportunity Hoarding. This opportunity for early arts-access, created predominantly for white Americans, aided their lifelong participation. As America shifts to a majority-minority in 2045, classrooms will begin to become more racially and ethnically diverse beginning around 2020. The second part of this paper examines how practices of the twentieth century created a diversity gap in the classroom, failing to reflect today’s students and communities. This gap hinders students from fully embracing lifelong participation in theatre. The findings of this paper demonstrate how professional theatres and community arts and cultural organizations, through a social justice lens for community engagement, can aid schools in eliminating bias within K-12 theatre education to build future participants. To combat widening income inequality, these arts and cultural leaders can work with students and communities to meet their needs in gaining access to live theatre. Finally, with public schools focused on standardized tests and the charge to fill science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers by 2020, access to K-12 theatre education must be redefined to restore its place among core areas of study. The creation of a brave space for community building in schools for K-12 theatre education can aid in increasing test scores, developing social-emotional skills, re-engage civil discourse, and move STEM to STEAM. These changes can result in enhanced access to K-12 theatre education. This early exposure to theatre will build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive American theatre.Item Empathy and Adverse Childhood Experiences' Role in Choice of Major(2022-04-25) Lutz, Rylan; Gricus, Michelle; Social Work; Hood College Departmental HonorsPrior research suggests that those pursuing college majors with the intent of helping others may be more likely to have higher levels of empathy, and a higher average of adverse childhood experiences. In turn, these experiences may be a motivational factor for a person to select a certain type of major. This study evaluates the number of adverse childhood experiences that undergraduate students majoring in social work, nursing, and psychology have endured in their lifetime. In addition, empathy is quantified as a variable using an Emotional Intelligence Index to analyze a possible relationship with adverse childhood experiences. Analysis suggests that those who have a college major focused on helping others may have elevated levels of emotional intelligence and may have a higher average of adverse childhood experiences.Item An Exploration of the Emerging Adult Woman’s Perceived Value of Primary Care(2020-07) Rabideau, Melany; Cuddapah, Jennifer; Cooper, Jennifer; Bulette, Elizabeth; Loxterkamp, David; Hood College Department of Education; Organizational LeadershipThe healthcare industry often justifies framing patients as consumers using the fact that today’s emerging adults, who assume priority of convenience over continuity, demand transactional care and are forgoing relational care. Self-guided transactional utilization has caused emerging adults to lack primary care continuity, which is problematic both for cost and quality of care. This qualitative study explores the lived experiences of emerging adult women and reveals the essence of the value of primary care purported in their individually designed ideal primary care systems. Analysis of individual interviews revealed: (1) emerging adults desire, but struggle to find, the human connection or a patient-provider relationship in primary care; (2) primary care delivered like a business reinforces emerging adults’ belief that the human connection is not possible, causing transactional services to be attractive for at least their convenience and efficiency; and (3) emerging adults are asking for high touch care similar to care management services traditionally only provided to insurance-backed “high risk” patient panels. Implications of these findings are crucial to discerning how primary care practices and policies can evolve to focus on empathy and leverage transactional conveniences that reinforce rather than replace patient-provider relationships. Focused attention is needed to ensure the value proposition of the patient-provider relationship is not lost on future generations of patients through adoption of these findings in best practice models like the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s Patient Centered Medical Home.Item Looking Out(2016-01-01) DeBold, Elena; O'Dell, Kathy; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsLooking Out is an exhibition centered around the relationships, stories, and expressions of an inmate, Thomas, currently serving a life sentence. The work aims to give a voice to Thomas and his family while connecting their stories with the wider issues of mass incarceration, racial injustice, and racial trauma. At the heart of the work is an exchange between Thomas and Elena. Elena is able to make work surrounding Thomas'slife, and Thomas is able to express himself in ways otherwise not usually possible due to his incarceration. Through its use of immersive, multi-sensory, and interactive artistic techniques, Looking Out aims to bring about an empathetic understanding of the lives of others while breaking down stereotypes. The work seeks to merge art and experience?more specifically, to consider the creation of new experiences, the formation of new relationships, and the construction of new memories as an art form. In this art form, Elena acts as an empath, able to relate to other individuals within their own framework of lived reality, in hope that the role of empath will stretch to the audience. Additionally, Elena attempts to demystify Thomas'sexperience, thus countering the media'sstereotype-based portrayal of incarcerated black men, while creating an outlet through which Thomas'sand his family'svoices can be heard.Item Sexual Aggression Experience Predicting Empathy with an Unspecified or Date Rape Victim and Perpetrator(2019) Santoriello, Gina; PsychologyThe purpose of this study was to examine rape empathy in two experimental conditions ( date rape; unspecified rape) based on personal sexual victimization experience (nonvictim; date victim; nondate victim) and personal sexual perpetration experience (nonperpetrator; date perpetrator; nondate perpetrator). Undergraduate college women (n = 212) completed the Sexual Experiences Survey to measure both victimization experience and perpetration experience (Koss, Gidycz, & Wisniewski, 1987), and one of two versions of the Rape Victim Empathy Scale and the Rape Perpetrator Empathy Scale (Smith & Frieze, 2003). Regarding victimization, results showed that all victims reported greater empathy than nonvictims, and a potential interaction (p < . l O); date victims tended to report greater empathy with a date rape victim than an unspecified rape victim, but nondate victims tended to report greater empathy with an unspecified rape victim than a date rape victim. Regarding perpetration, results showed that those who have perpetrated against a date reported greater empathy with a rapist than those with no perpetration experience, but nondate perpetrators did not significantly differ from the other two groups. Similarity in experience may influence empathy. The significance of the study will be discussed later in the paper.Item Toward a Framework for Detecting Empathy in Public Sector Organizations(2018-04-30) Dolamore, Stephanie; College of Public Affairs; Doctor of Public AdministrationPublic organizations fulfill critical needs in communities across the United States, such as housing, environmental protection, public education, and more. In this important role, healthy public organizations should be accountable to the values that guide their work. However, a lack of tools in the field of public administration prohibits the assessment of organizational culture in public organizations, particularly as it relates to equitably representing the individuals they serve. To close this gap, this dissertation presents a framework to detect an organizational culture of empathy, including the results from an archival analysis of the organizational culture of the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC). The framework is grounded in the work of social equity (Frederickson, 2005, 2010; Gawthrop, 1998; Johnson & Svara, 2011; Svara & Brunet, 2005; Wooldridge & Gooden, 2009) and reflects organization cultural assessments already used in the field (Gooden, 2014; Testa & Sipe, 2013). The importance of examining an organizational culture of empathy at HABC is reflected in the troubling history of service provision of housing services to individuals who are traditionally under-represented and structurally excluded from decision-making processes (Pietila, 2010; Rothstein, 2017). Findings from this work contribute to expanding the scholarship of empathy within public administration by establishing a relationship between empathy, a public service value, and organizational culture.