Jessica Ashcraft
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Ashcraft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashcraft |
| SIGNATURE | ASHCRAFT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Leaving the office-palace
This article presents the life narrative of the Buddha as an archetype for education leadership. Drawing upon the Nidāna-Kathā’s depiction of the Buddha’s choice between the two leadership styles of the enlightened Buddha or the king-Cakkavatti, we draw symbolic parallels between the Buddha’s decision to leave the isolated illusion of his pleasure-palace and the education leader’s choice to leave her office to spend time familiarizing herself wit…
Latter-day Saint women and leadership in higher education
This intrinsic case study explores the leadership journeys of 15 female leaders in higher education positions at Anonymous University. After conducting and analysing interviews with each of these leaders, four overarching themes emerged. These included the following: that leadership was not originally part of their life plans, ‘nudges’ which acted as catalysts for considering leadership roles, a sense of relational responsibility within those rol…
On Large Language Models’ capacity to replace human teachers
In the wake of recent developments in Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence technologies, there has been a resurgence of scholarly conversation regarding the roles and value of human teachers in the educative process. In this article, we situate these scholarly discussions against the backdrop of an ancient tale of artificial intelligence from the Mahabharata. We begin by providing a basic explanation of how LLMs function and then hi…
Examining “The Mormon Puzzle”
This article describes the multifaceted origins and dynamics of pedagogic progressive educational ideas among Mormon educators in the Utah Territory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We propose four principal avenues through which progressive educational ideas reached these Mormon educators. These include the exigencies of desert frontier living that predisposed early Utah Mormons to progressivism’s focus on practical educ…
The Unique Professional Journey of Female High School Principals in Utah
The purpose of this study was to increase awareness of the unique professional journey of female high school principals in Utah and to potentially adjust the male-gendered lens through which such leadership positions have traditionally been viewed. A narrative, phenomenological qualitative research approach was used to gather and analyze the career journeys of six female high school principals in Utah. Our findings indicated that female high scho…
Pressure to Plagiarize and the Choice to Cheat
In light of the burgeoning influence of LLM AI programs like ChatGPT in a variety of academic contexts and the COVID-19 pandemic’s expansion of virtual classrooms and coursework, the philosophical framing of academic integrity and plagiarism is being re-examined. In concert with these technological changes, students are also facing increasing pressure to succeed in their academic pursuits. Inasmuch as the consequences of failure in these contexts…
Principles of Teaching and Learning from the Bhagavad Gita
This article explores principles of teaching and learning found within the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Hindu text. After an in-depth thematic hermeneutic analysis of two translations of the text, we found eight themes, including the disciple’s role: questioning and emulating the Guru; the Guru’s role: teaching as the supreme act of love; learning as Enlightenment; ultimate Self-knowledge as Self-realization; taming the mind through meditation; action…
Teaching and Learning Principles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
This article presents pedagogic principles prescribed in the text of the Doctrine and Covenants, a foundational book of scripture from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Following a qualitative, thematic analysis of the text, we organized the data into seven themes: character of God as a teacher, learning as the pursuit of truth, attributes of a teacher and learner, warnings in seeking light and truth, learning methods, teaching met…
Teaching, Learning and the Buddha
This article investigates core ideas and principles of teaching and learning as found in the Nidāna-Kathā, a sacred Buddhist text that describes the lives and learning journeys of the Buddha. A three-tiered, exhaustive textual analysis revealed the following themes: resolve and responsibility, supererogatory effort, pabbajja, tradition, becoming, pedagogy and joy. Due in part to the noteworthy openness of a Buddhist conceptualization of canonicit…
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Teaching, Learning and the Buddha
This article investigates core ideas and principles of teaching and learning as found in the Nidāna-Kathā, a sacred Buddhist text that describes the lives and learning journeys of the Buddha. A three-tiered, exhaustive textual analysis revealed the following themes: resolve and responsibility, supererogatory effort, pabbajja, tradition, becoming, pedagogy and joy. Due in part to the noteworthy openness of a Buddhist conceptualization of canonicit…
The Unique Professional Journey of Female High School Principals in Utah
The purpose of this study was to increase awareness of the unique professional journey of female high school principals in Utah and to potentially adjust the male-gendered lens through which such leadership positions have traditionally been viewed. A narrative, phenomenological qualitative research approach was used to gather and analyze the career journeys of six female high school principals in Utah. Our findings indicated that female high scho…
Pressure to Plagiarize and the Choice to Cheat
In light of the burgeoning influence of LLM AI programs like ChatGPT in a variety of academic contexts and the COVID-19 pandemic’s expansion of virtual classrooms and coursework, the philosophical framing of academic integrity and plagiarism is being re-examined. In concert with these technological changes, students are also facing increasing pressure to succeed in their academic pursuits. Inasmuch as the consequences of failure in these contexts…
Principles of Teaching and Learning from the Bhagavad Gita
This article explores principles of teaching and learning found within the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Hindu text. After an in-depth thematic hermeneutic analysis of two translations of the text, we found eight themes, including the disciple’s role: questioning and emulating the Guru; the Guru’s role: teaching as the supreme act of love; learning as Enlightenment; ultimate Self-knowledge as Self-realization; taming the mind through meditation; action…
Teaching and Learning Principles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
This article presents pedagogic principles prescribed in the text of the Doctrine and Covenants, a foundational book of scripture from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Following a qualitative, thematic analysis of the text, we organized the data into seven themes: character of God as a teacher, learning as the pursuit of truth, attributes of a teacher and learner, warnings in seeking light and truth, learning methods, teaching met…
Latter-day Saint women and leadership in higher education
This intrinsic case study explores the leadership journeys of 15 female leaders in higher education positions at Anonymous University. After conducting and analysing interviews with each of these leaders, four overarching themes emerged. These included the following: that leadership was not originally part of their life plans, ‘nudges’ which acted as catalysts for considering leadership roles, a sense of relational responsibility within those rol…
On Large Language Models’ capacity to replace human teachers
In the wake of recent developments in Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence technologies, there has been a resurgence of scholarly conversation regarding the roles and value of human teachers in the educative process. In this article, we situate these scholarly discussions against the backdrop of an ancient tale of artificial intelligence from the Mahabharata. We begin by providing a basic explanation of how LLMs function and then hi…
Examining “The Mormon Puzzle”
This article describes the multifaceted origins and dynamics of pedagogic progressive educational ideas among Mormon educators in the Utah Territory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We propose four principal avenues through which progressive educational ideas reached these Mormon educators. These include the exigencies of desert frontier living that predisposed early Utah Mormons to progressivism’s focus on practical educ…
Leaving the office-palace
This article presents the life narrative of the Buddha as an archetype for education leadership. Drawing upon the Nidāna-Kathā’s depiction of the Buddha’s choice between the two leadership styles of the enlightened Buddha or the king-Cakkavatti, we draw symbolic parallels between the Buddha’s decision to leave the isolated illusion of his pleasure-palace and the education leader’s choice to leave her office to spend time familiarizing herself wit…
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)