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Title: "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
Author: Strong, Kellan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...

Title: A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
Author: Kincaid, Nicki
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Reading
Description: This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...

Title: But Is it Service-learning?
Author: Steele, Lucy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric, Education
Description: Two-year schools serve a high population of traditionally marginalized students, including students of color, first-generation college students, older students, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Ma & Baum, 2016). Historically, two-y...

Title: Do You See Yourself In Multicultural Literature? Seeking Self-reflections From Black Students
Author: Thomas, April
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Reading, Education
Description: In the United States, Muhammad (2020) explains how Black students who attend schools have a greater potential for success when they see themselves represented in the curriculum and when their cultural, gender, and racial identities are affirmed. T...

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...

Title: Place-based education, student writing, and cultural contexts: A case study of building community consciousness in a rural middle school classroom
Author: Donovan, Erin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The idea of place extends beyond just the location where people live. Place is a narrative, a story that involves interactions, characters, conflicts, and the rise and flow of humanity. By understanding the importance of place and the connection t...

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 ...

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 Effects of an Interactive Vocabulary Strategy on Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of Word Learning
Author: Latham, Kendall
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading
Description: ABSTRACTKENDALL KISER LATHAM. The effects of an interactive strategy on teachers' and students' perceptions of word learning. (Under direction of DR.KAREN WOOD)It is a well established fact that the level and degree of vocabulary knowledge plays a...

Title: UNSILENCED: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF FAMILY LITERACY PROVIDED BY A BLACK WOMAN SINGLE PARENT RESEARCHER
Author: Brandon, Paige
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Family literacy research documents rich descriptions of literate experiences between families (Compton-Lilly et al., 2020), with parent research providing an insider’s in-depth perspective which would not be available to other researchers (Kabuto ...