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Culturally and Linguistically Complex Classrooms, In-Service Professional Development, and the Mediation of Mainstream Elementary School Teachers' Professional Subjectivities in the North Carolina Piedmont
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...
Family Matters: Familial Support and Science Identity Formation for African American Female STEM Majors
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...
On Improvisation, Learning, and Literacy
Title
On Improvisation, Learning, and Literacy
Author
Welsh, Ryan
Date Created
2014
Subjects--Topical
Education, Education--Philosophy
Description
Previously, improvisation has served as a term for describing a quality of the action taking place in classrooms between teachers and students. This project begins to theorize a way of understanding embodied literacies and scenes of learning throu...
Service Learning: Social-Emotional Development and Civic-Engagement of Elementary School Students
Title
Service Learning: Social-Emotional Development and Civic-Engagement of Elementary School Students
Author
Miller, Aimee
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Educational leadership
Description
ABSTRACTAIMEE MOORE MILLER. Service-Learning: Social-Emotional Development and Civic-Engagement of Elementary School Students. (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE).Social-emotional learning and character education are topics which have both ...
TALKING THROUGH WALLS: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY OF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ USES OF ONLINE DISCUSSIONS IN THEIR ELA CLASSROOMS
Title
TALKING THROUGH WALLS: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY OF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ USES OF ONLINE DISCUSSIONS IN THEIR ELA CLASSROOMS
Author
Cather, Andrew
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Education, Language arts
Description
As the availability of digital technology in public schools spreads, teachers are tasked with implementing new technologies in their classroom. One of these technologies is online discussion forums. This qualitative multiple case study focused on ...
When the Script Hits the Plan: Using Author's Chair to inform instructional practices within a scripted literacy program
Title
When the Script Hits the Plan: Using Author's Chair to inform instructional practices within a scripted literacy program
Author
Johnson, Brianne
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Education, Reading
Description
This qualitative case study conducted in a first grade classroom examined the influence of the social interactions that occur during the Author’s Chair (an element of a Writer’s Workshop instructional framework) on a teacher’s instructional decisi...