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Joint Pursuit with/in Communities & Classrooms: Transformative Pedagogy Across Time & Space
This dissertation examines a transformative pedagogical framework—joint pursuit—developed with/in an urban public university program for undergraduate students in Education. Often learning in schools is separated from ... -
Journalism and mass communication at academic crossroads in American higher education
(2002)This descriptive research project was undertaken to determine the best way to structure the future of journalism and mass communication education so that it remains a viable discipline within the academy.The Literature ... -
Justice in Practice: An Investigation of the Instructional Practices of LGBTQ Supportive English Language Arts Teachers
This dissertation study investigates the instructional practices of secondary English Language Arts teachers with strong intentions to be supportive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students. ... -
Korean ESL(English as a Second Language) Graduate Students' Investments, Social Identities, and Imagined Communities
(2013-07-25)The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to examine Korean graduate students' investments in learning and using English in relation to their social identities and how these social identities are being negotiated ... -
Language Teacher Identity Negotiation: A Case Study of a Heritage Thai Language Class in a Thai Buddhist School in the United States
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to research power relations of Thai heritage language teaching (HLT) in a Thai community-based Buddhist school in the United States, called the Temple of Wisdom, or TOW. ... -
Large-enrollment STEM Learning Environments: Cultural and experimental perspectives
Post-secondary STEM education forces students through an experiential bottleneck in the form of large-enrollment lecture courses. At colleges and universities around the world, talented students who have already passed ... -
Latino students' perceptions of their schooling experiences
(2008)This project utilizes a qualitative design to study Latino students' perceptions regarding their schooling and life experiences based on environmental forces and factors which aide in molding their individual character. ... -
Leadership Enactment of Students of Color Providing a “Youth Undoing Institutional Racism” Training
This paper addressed the topic of youth leadership enacted by students of color. Current research speaks to the potential youth leadership can have in creating systemic change and school reform. However, racism perpetuates ... -
Leadership for Learning Technologies: A Case Study of the University of Washington
This qualitative study investigates the institutional support system for the integration and effective use of technology in teaching and learning at the University of Washington (UW) in the US. In particular regards to the ... -
Leadership Learning Across Generations
Throughout the past two decades, there has been a significant expansion of leadership development programs for undergraduate college students. This growth has created an impetus for higher education institutions to ... -
Leadership training with adolescents
(1984)Considerable effort hs gone into the development of leadership training programs for adults who have already assumed formal leadership roles. It is of interest to consider the application of leadership training which has ... -
Leading for Equity: How Education Leaders Navigate Conflicts to Implement Dual Language Immersion Policies
Dual language immersion is an instructional model increasingly adopted by school and district leaders to improve educational opportunities for traditionally marginalized emergent bilingual or bilingual students. Current ... -
Learnable Interfaces - Leveraging Navigation by Design
(2012-09-13)Complex productivity applications that integrate tasks in the workplace are becoming more common. Usability typically focuses on short-term, immediate measures of task performance. This study incorporates a long-term goal ... -
Learners Engagement During a Novel Residential Environmental Education Experience: The Influence of Personal Histories on Interests, Identities, and Stewardship
(2013-11-14)Environmental education is focused on producing informed citizens capable of stewarding the natural world. In the past, there has been little understanding of how participants' personal histories interact with environmental ... -
Learning Beyond the Lab: Designing for Identity Development and Relational Equity for Youth and Scientists
This dissertation provides insights on how graduate-level scientists navigated developing their skills and identities as educators, across two different research contexts. Using a Design-Based Research lens, the design of ... -
Learning from Contexts: A Multicase Study of Secondary Preservice Teachers in Chile
This is a qualitative case study of seven secondary preservice teachers in the areas of humanities and social sciences during their teacher preparation at a public university in Chile. The objective was to establish a ... -
Learning from Text: Examining Teacher Thinking and Practice in AP Environmental Science
The ability to read and make sense of sophisticated subject-matter texts is an essential educational standard for navigating the twenty-first century. Although new standards emphasize critical reading and interpretation ... -
Learning Place: Education and Planning in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, 1934-1955
“Learning Place” traces the development of educational ideas amongst professional planners at the federal, regional, and local levels. As federal funds became available for the construction and re-construction of cities ... -
Learning Protein Structure with Peers in an AR-Enhanced Learning Environment
(2013-07-25)Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive system that allows users to interact with virtual objects and the real world at the same time. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore how AR, as a new visualization tool, ... -
Learning through Action: Teacher Candidates and Performance Assessments
Performance assessments such as the Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) are used by state departments of education as one measure of competency to grant teaching certification. Although the edTPA is used as a summative ...