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Frawley, Liam – ProQuest LLC, 2016
It was not known how 12 full-time public high school interscholastic athletic administrators in southeast New York explained and described how professional mentoring and collaboration influenced their leadership skills. Bandura's social cognitive theory provided the theoretical framework for the study. A purposeful sample was drawn from a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Athletics, Public Schools, High Schools
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Gray, Heewon Lee; Contento, Isobel R.; Koch, Pamela A. – Health Education Research, 2015
This study investigates the link between process evaluation components and the outcomes of a school-based nutrition curriculum intervention, "Choice, Control and Change". Ten New York City public middle schools were recruited and randomly assigned into intervention or control condition. The curriculum was to improve sixth to seventh…
Descriptors: Obesity, Prevention, Questionnaires, Interviews
O'Hara, Kate E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research employs the use of narrative and auto-ethnography in an examination of the complex relationships that arise when students and teachers use technology as an instructional tool. The story unfolds in an exploration of the significant impact and implications the use of computers and related technologies have on educational and societal…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Ethnography, Social Theories, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Shin, Dong Hee – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2007
Introduction: This study investigates the processes involved in the development of a broadband community network in the Northeast USA. A community network project was studied by tracing the developmental processes from network design to the stabilisation of information infrastructure. Method: A case study was conducted on the broadband community…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Computer Networks
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Gallagher, Kathleen; Fusco, Caroline – Ethnography and Education, 2006
This paper explores spatial theory, and particularly a Foucauldian analysis of space, power, and the subject, as a frame within which to examine moves toward security in North American urban schools. We bring into play empirical data from an ethnographic study of New York City and Toronto schools where policies and technologies of record-keeping,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Ethnography, Research Problems, Research Methodology