A T Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 215142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A T Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | A T |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9848-2727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Giving Voice, Creating Change
This constructivist grounded theory study examines how Islamic school teachers adapt social-emotional learning (SEL) curricula for Muslim Middle Eastern American (MMEA) students. Drawing on intensive interviews, focus groups, and graphic elicitation with 20 educators across two North New Jersey USA Islamic schools, three key adaptation areas emerged: promoting cultural awareness, addressing gender roles, and reframing collectivism as a foundation…
Creating and Expanding Space
Purpose: This qualitative study examined the co-constructed mentoring stories of women administrators in K–12 public schools in New Jersey. Using a feminist lens, we explored how women in mentoring relationships experience, navigate, and make sense of their leadership and identity work within gendered systems. Design and Methods: Using narrative inquiry to capture the temporal, social, and contextual nature of experience, we co-constructed mentor…
Prestige at a Price
Background: Burnout in higher education is widely documented, yet it is most often framed as an individual or occupational condition rather than as a consequence of institutional design. This dominant framing obscures how organizational structures and prestige-oriented priorities in higher education shape contingent faculty experiences. Drawing on feminist standpoint theory and scholarship on gendered organizations, this study situates burnout wi…
Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’
Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and dominant language proficiency—conditions often absent in rural Indigenous households. This mismatch deepened e…
And Still, I Rise to Resist and Reimagine
Navigating hidden borderlands
Conflicting cultures, compromising care
The role that women leaders of college counseling centers have is unique; they must contend with the inherent social norms that women face in gendered organizations, in addition to negotiating the dichotomous, and often conflicting, leadership expectations of a care work division and a care-less upper administration. The purpose of this qualitative, heuristic, phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of women directors of co…
Higher Education Stakeholders’ Early Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a swift and dramatic shift in how higher education teaching, learning, and other operations occurred. In the months that followed, higher education stakeholders endured major transitions and unexpected challenges. Higher education leaders, policymakers, students, faculty, and staff were influenced by the pandemic in a variety of ways. There is much to be learned from the experiences of higher educ…
Envisioning the Indigenised university for sustainable development
Purpose While the possibility of a university fostering sustainable development is present in the extant literature and policy documents, the idea still warrants further consideration. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the nature and outcomes of the university’s engagement with Indigenous communities and perceptions of Indigenous knowledge systems in both academic and non-academic activities, and what might be required to foster the universi…
Career Counselors Self-Disclosing to First-Generation College Students
Financial security is cited among reasons why first-generation college students (FGCS) pursue higher education, yet the literature advocating the pursuit of a bachelor’s degree for its perceived value in the employment marketplace fails to include the need for career exploration and planning during the college years. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to examine how career counselors who had been the first in their families to go to co…
Researching experiences of African refugee youth in high-income countries
Institutionalizing the intangible through research and engagement
Timing Is Everything
While policy researchers call for new approaches to support the analysis of complex policies, the dominance of experimental and quasi-experimental designs limits the field's possibilities. Innovative yet rigorous qualitative methods have been overlooked, despite strong arguments by seminal qualitative methodologists about the appropriateness of qualitative research for inquiry situated in particular contexts and that recognizes the influence of t…
Qualitative Approaches to Policy Research in Education
This issue highlights problems with the neoliberal research regime in education policy-one that marginalizes, homogenizes, and dismisses communities, critical voices, and methodologies that could improve educational practice. We argue for greater methodological diversity in policy studies when engaging in research conceptualization, applying theoretical frameworks, collecting data, undertaking data analysis, and critiquing the researcher's episte…
Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (Concord-3)
BACKGROUND: In 2015, the second cycle of the CONCORD programme established global surveillance of cancer survival as a metric of the effectiveness of health systems and to inform global policy on cancer control. CONCORD-3 updates the worldwide surveillance of cancer survival to 2014. METHODS: CONCORD-3 includes individual records for 37·5 million patients diagnosed with cancer during the 15-year period 2000-14. Data were provided by 322 populatio…
A Part But Apart
Despite increasing interest in education and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how universities and their constituents experience and make meaning of violence. This paper sought to capture university participants’ sense of belongingness and attachment to the university space resulting from experiences with ethnic conflict in Western Kenya. This paper uses discourse analysis to elicit linguistic constructions of context, contes…
Exploring the Use of Mobile Technology in Qualitative Inquiry in Africa
In this article I explore how mobile phones may facilitate greater access to participants and higher participation rates in qualitative inquiry in Africa. Qualitative researchers face a number of ethical and procedural challenges when collecting data in the field. But with the explosion of mobile phone usage, many of these obstacles to data collection may be ameliorated, facilitating greater access to participants, to data, and to important findi…
Rebuilding higher education institutions in post-conflict contexts
Universities, dependency and the market
Higher education in developing nations is typically viewed from a dependency perspective – institutions are seen as merely recipients of Western knowledge, aid and reform efforts. Nevertheless, universities in both the centre and the periphery are dealing with tensions between protecting the public good and embracing neoliberal values based on a market approach to higher education. In the USA and Europe these competing interests are typically cas…
Higher Education, Policy Networks, and Policy Entrepreneurship in Africa
Rebuilding higher education institutions in post-conflict contexts
Universities, dependency and the market
Higher education in developing nations is typically viewed from a dependency perspective – institutions are seen as merely recipients of Western knowledge, aid and reform efforts. Nevertheless, universities in both the centre and the periphery are dealing with tensions between protecting the public good and embracing neoliberal values based on a market approach to higher education. In the USA and Europe these competing interests are typically cas…
Higher Education, Policy Networks, and Policy Entrepreneurship in Africa
Researching experiences of African refugee youth in high-income countries
Institutionalizing the intangible through research and engagement
Exploring the Use of Mobile Technology in Qualitative Inquiry in Africa
In this article I explore how mobile phones may facilitate greater access to participants and higher participation rates in qualitative inquiry in Africa. Qualitative researchers face a number of ethical and procedural challenges when collecting data in the field. But with the explosion of mobile phone usage, many of these obstacles to data collection may be ameliorated, facilitating greater access to participants, to data, and to important findi…
Qualitative Approaches to Policy Research in Education
This issue highlights problems with the neoliberal research regime in education policy-one that marginalizes, homogenizes, and dismisses communities, critical voices, and methodologies that could improve educational practice. We argue for greater methodological diversity in policy studies when engaging in research conceptualization, applying theoretical frameworks, collecting data, undertaking data analysis, and critiquing the researcher's episte…
A Part But Apart
Despite increasing interest in education and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how universities and their constituents experience and make meaning of violence. This paper sought to capture university participants’ sense of belongingness and attachment to the university space resulting from experiences with ethnic conflict in Western Kenya. This paper uses discourse analysis to elicit linguistic constructions of context, contes…
Higher Education, Policy Networks, and Policy Entrepreneurship in Africa
Universities, dependency and the market
Higher education in developing nations is typically viewed from a dependency perspective – institutions are seen as merely recipients of Western knowledge, aid and reform efforts. Nevertheless, universities in both the centre and the periphery are dealing with tensions between protecting the public good and embracing neoliberal values based on a market approach to higher education. In the USA and Europe these competing interests are typically cas…
A Part But Apart
Despite increasing interest in education and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how universities and their constituents experience and make meaning of violence. This paper sought to capture university participants’ sense of belongingness and attachment to the university space resulting from experiences with ethnic conflict in Western Kenya. This paper uses discourse analysis to elicit linguistic constructions of context, contes…
Exploring the Use of Mobile Technology in Qualitative Inquiry in Africa
In this article I explore how mobile phones may facilitate greater access to participants and higher participation rates in qualitative inquiry in Africa. Qualitative researchers face a number of ethical and procedural challenges when collecting data in the field. But with the explosion of mobile phone usage, many of these obstacles to data collection may be ameliorated, facilitating greater access to participants, to data, and to important findi…
Rebuilding higher education institutions in post-conflict contexts
Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (Concord-3)
BACKGROUND: In 2015, the second cycle of the CONCORD programme established global surveillance of cancer survival as a metric of the effectiveness of health systems and to inform global policy on cancer control. CONCORD-3 updates the worldwide surveillance of cancer survival to 2014. METHODS: CONCORD-3 includes individual records for 37·5 million patients diagnosed with cancer during the 15-year period 2000-14. Data were provided by 322 populatio…
Timing Is Everything
While policy researchers call for new approaches to support the analysis of complex policies, the dominance of experimental and quasi-experimental designs limits the field's possibilities. Innovative yet rigorous qualitative methods have been overlooked, despite strong arguments by seminal qualitative methodologists about the appropriateness of qualitative research for inquiry situated in particular contexts and that recognizes the influence of t…
Qualitative Approaches to Policy Research in Education
This issue highlights problems with the neoliberal research regime in education policy-one that marginalizes, homogenizes, and dismisses communities, critical voices, and methodologies that could improve educational practice. We argue for greater methodological diversity in policy studies when engaging in research conceptualization, applying theoretical frameworks, collecting data, undertaking data analysis, and critiquing the researcher's episte…
Institutionalizing the intangible through research and engagement
Envisioning the Indigenised university for sustainable development
Purpose While the possibility of a university fostering sustainable development is present in the extant literature and policy documents, the idea still warrants further consideration. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the nature and outcomes of the university’s engagement with Indigenous communities and perceptions of Indigenous knowledge systems in both academic and non-academic activities, and what might be required to foster the universi…
Career Counselors Self-Disclosing to First-Generation College Students
Financial security is cited among reasons why first-generation college students (FGCS) pursue higher education, yet the literature advocating the pursuit of a bachelor’s degree for its perceived value in the employment marketplace fails to include the need for career exploration and planning during the college years. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to examine how career counselors who had been the first in their families to go to co…
Researching experiences of African refugee youth in high-income countries
Conflicting cultures, compromising care
The role that women leaders of college counseling centers have is unique; they must contend with the inherent social norms that women face in gendered organizations, in addition to negotiating the dichotomous, and often conflicting, leadership expectations of a care work division and a care-less upper administration. The purpose of this qualitative, heuristic, phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of women directors of co…
Higher Education Stakeholders’ Early Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a swift and dramatic shift in how higher education teaching, learning, and other operations occurred. In the months that followed, higher education stakeholders endured major transitions and unexpected challenges. Higher education leaders, policymakers, students, faculty, and staff were influenced by the pandemic in a variety of ways. There is much to be learned from the experiences of higher educ…
Navigating hidden borderlands
And Still, I Rise to Resist and Reimagine
Giving Voice, Creating Change
This constructivist grounded theory study examines how Islamic school teachers adapt social-emotional learning (SEL) curricula for Muslim Middle Eastern American (MMEA) students. Drawing on intensive interviews, focus groups, and graphic elicitation with 20 educators across two North New Jersey USA Islamic schools, three key adaptation areas emerged: promoting cultural awareness, addressing gender roles, and reframing collectivism as a foundation…
Creating and Expanding Space
Purpose: This qualitative study examined the co-constructed mentoring stories of women administrators in K–12 public schools in New Jersey. Using a feminist lens, we explored how women in mentoring relationships experience, navigate, and make sense of their leadership and identity work within gendered systems. Design and Methods: Using narrative inquiry to capture the temporal, social, and contextual nature of experience, we co-constructed mentor…
Prestige at a Price
Background: Burnout in higher education is widely documented, yet it is most often framed as an individual or occupational condition rather than as a consequence of institutional design. This dominant framing obscures how organizational structures and prestige-oriented priorities in higher education shape contingent faculty experiences. Drawing on feminist standpoint theory and scholarship on gendered organizations, this study situates burnout wi…
Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’
Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and dominant language proficiency—conditions often absent in rural Indigenous households. This mismatch deepened e…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Higher education (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Mentoring and Academic Development (4 works)