eScholarship@Goucher: Recent submissions
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Restorative Arts: How Local Arts Agencies Can Facilitate the Arts in Juvenile Justice Settings
(2018-06)The prison populations in the United States increased significantly in recent decades. The same low-tolerance policies, adopted in school systems, created a school-to-prison pipeline where juveniles enter the justice system ... -
THE CONFLICT-POSITIVE ORGANIZATION: SUPPORTING DISSENT AND EMPLOYEE-VOICE FOR MEANINGFUL ADVANCEMENT OF EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES
(2018-06)Arts organizations working to more effectively identify and address the systemic and institutional barriers preventing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their own institutions should incorporate a conflict-positive ... -
Building Pentimento: A Framework for Maintaining Cultural Identity in Urban Development
(2018-05)This paper examines the theoretical frameworks of cultural identity in the context of urban developmental applications in Atlanta, Georgia. By providing a brief historical overview of urban development practices in the ... -
In the Minds of the Living: The Adaptive Reuse of Monuments and Memorials
(2018-06-06)Since 2015, the removal of Confederate monuments from public spaces across the United States has caused the public to question the permanency of monuments generally and their role in perpetuating cultural heritage. ... -
Traditional Dance Arts in Education; Embracing our Diverse American Tapestry
(2018-06-05)We live in a very diverse world and the United State of America is a country of immigrants. I use the term American Tapestry as a metaphor to represent the multitude of ethnicities, races, languages, customs, beliefs and ... -
Cultural Sustainability Assessment Toolkit
(2018-05-25)The Cultural Sustainability Assessment Toolkit is the synthesizing of concepts learned in the MACS program into a structured yet adaptive approach for assessing the cultural sustainability of communities and using the ... -
Count Me In: Leveraging Generational Differences to Sustain Volunteer Engagement
(2018-06)Professional nonprofit theaters in the United States risk losing important support if they neglect to change existing approaches to volunteer recruitment, development, and recognition in light of evolving generational ... -
Bloom
(2018-05)This is a collection of works from the Feminist Psychology class taught at Goucher College in the Spring of 2018. -
War of Memory: The Civil War Continues in School Textbooks
(2018-05-01)The piece I submitted titled, “War of Memory: The Civil War Continues in School Textbooks,” examines four 1890s history textbooks in order to demonstrate the evolution of the Lost Cause and how it was created out of the ... -
The Story of My Life
(2018-05)Rolf E. Muuss received his teaching diploma from the Padagogische Hochschule, Flensburg, Germany; his M.Ed. from Western Maryland College; and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. From 1959 until his retirement ... -
denatured
(2018-04-29)We live in an abstracted, and urbanized form of nature where the connection of person and their environment is easily disregarded. Connection to geographically distant, or non-existent, places is increasingly possible ... -
The Missing Peace: Offerings from the Study of Adoption, Culture, and Identity
(2018-05-24)The purpose of this capstone is to expand cultural sustainability practice by investigating how emerging adult Chinese adoptees living in the United States negotiate identity formation and belonging. To understand the ... -
The Effect of the Use of Interactive Notebooks on 9th Grade Student Achievement
(2018-05)There is an increasing push for improvement in the academic performance of students across the nation. Researchers have shown that one way to achieve this is to help students become more organized in their gathering and ... -
What a Mother Hen Knows But Won’t Say
(2018-05-22)These stories interweave various levels of reality, juggling fact and fantasy through the perspectives of various quirky and conventional characters of two fictional towns: Candle, a rural town with an economy based around ... -
Labour Transition in 21st Century American Economy
(2018-05-22)The American labour market experienced fundamental changes in the since the turn of the millennium as workers are becoming more precarious, experiencing higher dismissal rates and lower job-retention rates. This trend has ... -
The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills on Literacy Measures
(2018-05)The purpose of this study was to determine the potential relationship between non-cognitive (“soft”) skill development and cognitive (“hard”) skill development through a semi-quasi experiment that tested the impact of a ... -
The Relationship between Family Involvement and Students’ Daily Attendance in Kindergarten
(2018-05)The purpose of this study was to determine if parent communication and involvement have an impact on attendance of kindergarten students and their families to daily school and school events. The measurement tools were ... -
The Effects of Leveled Literacy Reading Intervention on Title I First- and Second-Grade Students’ Reading Accuracy and Comprehension
(2018-05-01)The purpose of this study was to determine whether first-grade targeted Title I students who participated in the Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention had the same reading levels after the implementation of the ... -
Professional Learning Communities (PLC) to Assist with Teacher Growth and Improvement of Teaching and Learning
(2018-05-17)Due to so many changes that Baltimore County Public School (BCPS) teachers need to embrace and the huge amount professional development that goes along with new initiatives, BCPS is encouraging schools to establish ...