A study of the career paths and career goals of Indiana public school curriculum directors

Showalter, Diana Lynn McKinney Ball State University 2002 해외박사(DDOD)

This research study, based on 15 research questions, described demographic information, career patterns and career goals of 156 of Indiana's public school curriculum leaders. The two most common titles for curriculum leaders were curriculum director and assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Significant associations were found in three areas: respondents with the highest degrees and those who had moved to the curriculum director's position from specific educational professions identified certain career goals; curriculum directors who planned to retire from their current positions chose curriculum as their ultimate career goal. Comparisons to Malone's (1999) study of Indiana's superintendents were included. Curriculum directors were evenly divided men and women, were 96% Caucasian, had a mean age of 51 years, and represented all sizes of school districts.

Second language learning and context : Phenomenological perspectives

McKinney, Michael Perry Brian Indiana University 1981 해외박사

ATTENUATION OF OZONE-INDUCED PULMONARY CELLULARITY AND PERMEABILITY: THE ROLE OF INTERLEUKIN-6 AND THE ACUTE-PHASE RESPONSE (OZONE EXPOSURE, CELLULAR INFLAMMATION)

MCKINNEY, WILLIE J. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL 1998 해외박사

HISTORY AND REVIVALISM : HORACE WALPOLE'S PROMOTION OF THE GOTHIC STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE (WALPOLE HORACE)

MCKINNEY, DAVID DUANE University of Virginia 1992 국내박사

THE INFLUENCE OF PARISIAN POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT ON THE PIANO WORKS OF ERIK SATIE AND FRANCIS POULENC (FRANCE, POULENC, FRANCIS, SATIE, ERIK)

MCKINNEY, DAVID CONLEY the University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1994 해외박사

IN SITU MEASUREMENTS OF BRO AND THE PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF INORGANIC BROMINE IN THE ARCTIC STRATOSPHERE (BROMINE OXIDE, OZONE, CHLORINE OXIDE)

MCKINNEY, KARENA APRIL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE. 1998 해외박사

Exploring Breast Health Perceptions, Behaviors, and Social Cohesion among Ethnically Diverse Black Women

McKinney, Sheila Y Florida International University ProQuest Disserta 2017 해외박사(DDOD)

Purpose Study explored the relationships of ethnic identity, culture, and social cohesion to mammography, cancer screening, and preventive medical visits among African-American and Afro-Caribbean women in Broward County, FL. Purpose was to under. Methods: A bounded convenience sample of 117 women (49% African-American and 51% Afro-Caribbean) completed a cross-sectional survey and a subset (n=87) participated in semi-structured discussion groups. Both measured perceptions related to breas. Results: Half of participants (51%) self-identified as Caribbean. OGO was positively associated with overall attitudes (p< 0.01), perceived urgency (p = 0.05), and perceived benefit related to breast cancer. Linear regression indicated that Afro. Conclusions: Ethnic identity was associated with women's perceptions of risk, urgency, and benefit for breast cancer screenings. These perceptions may have had a greater influence on the decisions of Afro-Caribbean women not to comply with scree. [This research was supported in part by NIH/NIGMS R25 GM061347.].

Students with chronic illnesses: The construction of self in the college environment

McKinney, Kristen Jeanine University of California, Los Angeles 2001 해외박사(DDOD)

Self-concept development has long been considered an important outcome of the college experience. However, most research on self-concept within higher education has been compartmentalized, considering only one aspect of self at a time, rather than all aspects simultaneously. In addition, this research has primarily been conducted on the traditional, white, male college population and has only begun to consider the experiences of different types of students. This study used narrative interviewing to explore how college students with chronic illnesses construct their concepts of self and how these students use self-constructions to explain why they make particular decisions and take particular actions within the college environment. Data collection consisted of multiple in-depth interviews with six women diagnosed with a range of chronic illnesses. Findings illustrated that dealing with the intrusions illness posed made these women feel that their choices were limited. Their need to take care of their health influenced the amount of time they had available for other things, which influenced both the quality and quantity of their involvement in college life and their perceptions of themselves. Illness also influenced what these women believed was possible for them in the future. For all of the participants, emotional support from family and friends appeared to help them maintain positive self-concepts. Strong support networks made them feel that people cared about them and understood them. Challenges to a positive sense of self occurred throughout their lives, but for many of the participants these challenges became more problematic in college. These challenges were emphasized because they no longer had the kind of support networks that they had prior to college. Their stories also suggested the need for more support than other students needed because of the emotional aspects of their illness experiences. However, in many ways their illnesses made it more difficult for them to make friends. Other issues that influenced their ability to develop strong relationships were their concern about how disclosing their illness might impact people's view of them, and the stigma associated with institutional sources of support such as counseling and disability services.

Seeding whose future? Exploring entanglements of neoliberal choice, children's labor, and mobility in hybrid Bt cotton seed production in western India

McKinney, Kacy University of Washington 2011 해외박사(DDOD)

In this dissertation I explore the engagements of adivasi communities of southern Rajasthan in hybrid Bt cotton seed production, and in the neoliberal development of agriculture in western India. Through the lens of the labor process, and the gendered and generational divisions of labor in particular, I investigate the discursive and material processes of development and change that have accompanied the diffusion of agricultural biotechnology. Drawing on focus groups and semi-structured interviews conducted in Dungarpur District, Rajasthan, I connect experiences, perspectives, and processes of meaning making and subject formation among young migratory laborers and contract farming households, with a political economic analysis of the cotton seed and biotechnology industries. I analyze the deployment of discourses of choice and freedom, used by advocates for agricultural biotechnology to market neoliberal development, on adivasi communities. I document the ambivalence that characterizes the decision making processes of young people and adivasi households to begin and to continue to engage in capitalist production. I consider: i) how young people make sense of their work as migratory laborers, their roles in cotton seed production, and their futures; ii) how contract farming arrangements, while creating a feeling of independence and hope among women and men in adivasi communities, also work to reinforce unequal power relations and the heavy reliance on relationships of trust and dependence with agents, Gujarati farmers and seed companies; and iii) the ways in which the diffusion of agricultural biotechnology acts as a mechanism for neoliberalization. I question the emphasis on technologies in development discourse and practice, and on integration into capitalist production, as empowering for poor rural communities. I offer a contextualized, place-based study of biotechnology, and I push beyond stories of success and failure, and sweeping claims about the technology, to instead offer a critical feminist geography of biotechnology. I offer narrative accounts of contract farmers, child and young migrant laborers, and seed agents that both explore and trouble neoliberal notions of farmer choice. I argue that these discourses and practices of neoliberal development work to create the illusion of freedom while shifting risk and responsibility away from the market, and onto marginalized subjects of development.

Adolescent Christian formation and mother nurturance and involvement: A mixed methods study

McKinney, Philip Lee, II The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 2013 해외박사(DDOD)

This research study was an examination of the relationship between mother nurturance and involvement and the Christian formation of adolescents. Mother involvement was measured according to the adolescent's perception in twenty domains of motherhood. Eight domains of Christian formation were evaluated using the Spiritual Formation Inventory (SFI) developed by Brad Waggoner. The literature review includes a biblical theological foundation for motherhood, mother nurturance and involvement literature, and an examination of adolescence. The chasm between the sociological and biblical theological fields of research was bridged through the presentation of mutual perspectives on adolescent development. The research produced several important results. First, the results suggest that mother nurturance was significantly correlated with all SFI domains/subscales except with the Building Relationship domain and the overall SFI score. Second, the results suggest that higher perceived mother involvement could lead to significant increases in SFI subscales and overall SFI scores. Third, the results suggest that desired mother involvement was not significantly related with SFI subscales/domains and the overall SFI. Fourth, the results imply that males have, on average, higher overall SFI scores than females. Fifth, with age, gradual decreases in the Seeking God, Building Relationship, and Doctrine domains/subscales scores were observed as age increases. Similar observations were found for the overall SFI score. This appears to consistently be a direct consequence of age. The effect of type of adolescence was also observed to be significant for such domains (that is, early adolescents had higher scores in these domains than late adolescents). Finally, the qualitative interviews suggested five common themes from the respondents' answers: (1) "She was there for me when I needed her," (2) "She helped shape my character," (3) "She taught me how to live," (4) "She helped shape my faith," and (5) "She was supportive of me." Though answers varied, the three central themes were presence, support, and teaching.