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Title: (RE)-AUTHORING THE STUDENT: AN EXPLORATION INTO FIGURED WORLDS, IDENTITY FORMATION, GENRE, PUBLICS, AND HOW POWER RELATIONS IMPACT CHILDREN'S WRITING
Author: Iannone, Anthony
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary, Curriculum planning, Language arts
Description: As digital media makes its way into elementary school classrooms, urban school culture moves slowly to join in. The move to integrate new technologies into schools is both enabled and constrained by factors such as the need for students and teache...

Title: An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
Author: Smith, Delphia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...

Title: An exploration of blended learning in fifth grade literacy classrooms
Author: Ramadan, Kimberly
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary
Description: The development of the Internet allows for hybrid models of instruction that marry face-to-face and online learning (Osguthorpe & Graham, 2003). The purpose of this study was to explore blended learning and traditional instruction in three fifth g...

Title: Employing Agency: Multiple Perspectives of Material Conditions, Power, and Literacy in a First Year Writing Program
Author: Rand, Meaghan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Rhetoric
Description: The purpose of this study is to examine how first year writing teachers' histories and experiences affect teacher agency negotiation in their classrooms. Five qualitative case studies of first year writing instructors are used to discuss the impac...

Title: Performing Student, Teacher, and Tutor of Writing: Negotiating Ideas of Writing in a First-year Writing Course and Writing Center Tutorials
Author: Courtney, Jennifer
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Language arts, Rhetoric
Description: Based upon the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Holland et al. and the work of composition scholars such as Welch, Brannon et al., and Bousquet et al., who oppose neoliberal privatization, this qualitative study explores how ...

Title: Preschool Pedagogy and Its Impact on Preschoolers' Attitudes Toward Learning
Author: Lounsbury, Karen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education
Description: This qualitative study examined two preschool pedagogical approaches and the impact each had on students' attitudes toward learning. One preschool used A Beka curriculum, which is a direct instruction pedagogy. The other preschool used Creative Cu...

Title: Teacher candidates’ experiences with clinical teaching in reading instruction: A comparison between the professional development school environment and the non-professional development school environment.
Author: Hopper, Cynthia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading
Description: Teacher candidates experience a variety of school settings when enrolled in teacher education methods courses. Candidates report varied experiences when in public school classrooms. This dissertation investigated clinical experiences of teacher ca...

Title: The Impact of Teachers' Knowledge and Professional Development Experiences on the Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices they Implement in Literacy
Author: Kavel, Rebecca
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Reading
Description: ABSTRACT With substantial demographic shifts in the U.S. student population, today’s teachers educate growing numbers of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (Kena, Aud, & Johnson, 2010). While these students bring an ab...