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Cortez-Riggio, Kim-Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study of digital media engagement, through participation in a class blog, explored its impact on 5th grade students' communication and collaboration, and morality and ethics-based thinking, in regards to the socially significant topic of cyber bullying. The use of a classroom blog as a space to develop cyber citizenship skills was also…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Web Sites
Guvercin, Mustafa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among academic optimism, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs), and student achievement in college preparatory charter schools. A purposeful sample of elementary school teachers from college preparatory charter schools (N = 226) in southeast Texas was solicited to complete the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Trust (Psychology), Citizenship
Whitlock, Annie McMahon – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is a qualitative case study focused on describing and analyzing the student and teacher experience with One Hen, a project-based learning unit specifically designed to teach civic engagement. In this study I address three questions: 1) Do fifth-grade students' knowledge and skills in economics change after participating in a…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Active Learning, Student Projects, Citizenship Education
Horne, Patricia Lynne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this research was to determine the nature of the relationship between urban elementary fifth graders, environmental workers, and the environment. The study examined 320 urban fifth grade elementary students' drawings of environmental scientists (DAEST) and environmental caretakers (DAECT). Additionally, semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Females, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools
Stender, Robert Holoua – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The relationship between Hawaiian cultural identity and student progress at Kamehameha Elementary School (KES) is the focal point of this study. As the student demographics continue to evolve at Kamehameha Schools, most recently with increasing numbers of children coming from orphan and indigent backgrounds, teachers want greater understanding of…
Descriptors: Hawaiians, Culturally Relevant Education, Academic Achievement, Grade 5
Koh, Serene S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Debates about nationality and identity have particular relevance for multicultural nations such as Singapore and the United States where recent trends in immigration and an increasing multiplicity of identities problematize the notion of citizenship. Given that a nation's schools are where the dominant discourse of nation identity and history are…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Citizenship Education, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries