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Description:: The literature on racial/ethnic diversity in schools largely shows evidence of positive academic outcomes for students in diverse schools relative to segregated schools. At the same time, there is ample research demonstrating the discrimination and marginalization that students of color experience in desegregated schools. In this dissertation, I seek to...
Keyword:: Identity, Organizational theory, Diversity, Race/ethnicity, and Belonging
Subject:: Education
Creator:: Castrechini, Sebastian
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16751 and etdadmin_upload_1013563

Description:: This dissertation explores the mathematics identities of early elementary school students. Throughout school, many students come to believe that mathematics is not for them or is not a part of who they are or want to be. Previous research has revealed mechanisms that lead to negative relationships with mathematics for...
Keyword:: Identity, Elementary education, Agency, Early childhood education, and Mathematics education
Subject:: Elementary education, Education, and Mathematics education
Creator:: Altshuler, Mari
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16232 and etdadmin_upload_927819

Description:: Celebrity, reputation, and identity were complex issues for nineteenth-century British actresses. This dissertation examines how actresses responded to, integrated, and defied gender norms and social structures as they performed “authentic” identities for consuming publics. I investigate how actresses participated in charity events and bazaars, autobiographical writing, and advertising campaigns in...
Keyword:: Identity, Victorian, Reputation, Celebrity, Actresses, and England
Subject:: History, Theater, and Theater history
Creator:: Kelly, Lisa Michelle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_667794 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14707

Description:: Political leaders often engage in open fights for recognition, announcing that some crucial element of their state’s identity, status, or history, has not been properly acknowledged and respected in the conduct of diplomacy. Among international relations scholars, these instances are usually ascribed to the fact that states, like individuals, need...
Keyword:: Identity, Recognition, Israel-Palestine, Status, Armenia-Turkey, and Britain-EU
Subject:: International relations, International law, and Political science
Creator:: Freedman, Joshua
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_660729 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14591

Description:: Social comparison is a ubiquitous part of social life. People compare themselves to others to establish and maintain a sense of social hierarchy and structure, to develop and sustain interpersonal relationships, and even to help understand themselves. In this dissertation, I focus on how the referent of social comparison –...
Keyword:: Identity, Similarity, Social Comparison, Relationships, Innovation, and Metacognition
Subject:: Social psychology and Experimental psychology
Creator:: Galoni, Chelsea
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14559 and etdadmin_upload_652709

Description:: People pursuing important goals are known to prefer means that are highly instrumental (those most likely to facilitate goal pursuit). The self-handicapping literature demonstrated an important caveat to this principle—that people instead prefer impediments (rather than instrumental means) to their most important, identity-central goals when they anticipate goal failure. Such...
Keyword:: Identity, Self-sabotaging, Goals, Instrumentality, and Self-handicapping
Subject:: Marketing
Creator:: Gamlin, Jessica Erin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14585 and etdadmin_upload_659968

Description:: This dissertation aims to address a gap in the literature regarding the effect of the achievement-focused student identity on prosocial values and behaviors, specifically among students who predominantly value prosociality. Largely, research on identity and motivation addresses academic outcomes and psychological well-being outcomes (Settles, Sellers, & Damas, 2002; Jaret &...
Keyword:: Identity, Academic Motivation, Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Prosocial Motivations
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Vida Magarita Manzo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/26/2018
Date Modified:: 02/26/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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