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Title: A Phenomenological Study: The Lived Experience of Teen Mothers Who Graduated From High School and Attended or Completed College
Author: Stroble, Christine
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description: The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to (1) explore the lived experience of teen mothers who graduated from high school and attended or completed college and (2) discover the school factors that contributed to their academic ...

Title: AN UNFULFILLED DREAM OF AN URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: A FAILED EXPERIMENT IN EDUCATIONAL REFORM
Author: Doyle, Kerri
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Curriculum planning, Educational sociology
Description: This research presents the qualitative case study of an urban community school initiative that began as an educational reform effort and that ultimately failed. The process of emergence for this school and factors leading to its collapse are descr...

Title: Character Education in Print: Content Analysis of Character Education in Introduction to Education Textbooks
Author: Protz, Babette
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Albert Einstein is credited with saying that the most important component of education is the development of students' character. While debate exists as to the delivery of character education in the public schools, it must be recognized that not a...

Title: Culturally and Linguistically Complex Classrooms, In-Service Professional Development, and the Mediation of Mainstream Elementary School Teachers' Professional Subjectivities in the North Carolina Piedmont
Author: Siefert, Barbara
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Career development
Description: This dissertation study employed participatory methods of qualitative inquiry to understand how, in the setting of the North Carolina piedmont, a district-initiated multi-tiered professional development program mediated mainstream elementary schoo...

Title: Family Matters: Familial Support and Science Identity Formation for African American Female STEM Majors
Author: Parker, Ashley
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACT This research seeks to understand the experiences of African American female undergraduates in STEM. It investigates how familial factors and science identity formation characteristics influence persistence in STEM while considering the d...

Title: From Recall to Resolve: Supporting the Development of Culturally Responsive Preservice Teachers in a Language Arts Methods Course
Author: Glover, Crystal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Teachers--Training of, Language arts
Description: The need for culturally responsive teachers in an increasingly diverse educational system is paramount. The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice teachers' developing understandings of culturally responsive pedagogy in a language art...

Title: GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION: 21ST CENTURY INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES FOR URBAN TEACHERS
Author: Menand, Howard
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher
Description: In the current knowledge economy, a connection exists between globalization and global macro policies and the micro level effect of these policies at the local classroom level. This study begins by establishing globalization's impact on education ...

Title: Students' Conceptual Knowledge of Limits in Calculus: A Two-Part Constructivist Case Study
Author: Adams, Margaret
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Educational psychology, Adult education
Description: This case study investigated students' conceptual knowledge of limits in calculus by implementing semi-structured interviews. The constructivist learning principles of Piaget and Inhelder as well as theories of understanding by Skemp guided the st...

Title: TEACHER PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL
Author: Finley, Lauren
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Professional learning communities
Description: ABSTRACTLAUREN L.FINLEY. Teacher perceptions regarding the implementation of the professional learning communities at the elementary school level. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT RICKELMAN) The purpose of this study was to describe elementary s...

Title: THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF INTUITION IN THE CHILD'S EPISTEMIC BELIEFS IN THE PIAGETIAN DATA SET
Author: Bickart, John
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Cognitive psychology
Description: U.S. schools teach predominately to the analytical, left-brain, which has foundations in behaviorism, and uses a mechanistic paradigm that influences epistemic beliefs of how learning takes place. This result is that learning is impeded. Using dis...

Title: The University English Lecturer: Colleague or Commodity
Author: Carney, Karen
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education
Description: Consumer demands and annual budgetary inconsistencies have caused today's postsecondary academic landscape to continuously shift and change. Challenges to remain competitive or simply survive impact postsecondary institutions at their most fundame...

Title: WRITING TO UNDERSTAND, EXPLAIN, AND REFLECT: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A WRITERS' WORKSHOP MODEL IN A FOURTH-GRADE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM
Author: Martin, Christie
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The purposes of this study are to (1) understand how elementary school students use writing to reflect their learning and problem solving in mathematics; and (2) to explore how teachers adapt their instructional approaches based upon reflection on...