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Christoffersen, Katherine – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2019
In the U.S./Mexico borderlands, local language varieties face frequent discrimination and delegitimization or "linguistic terrorism." The present study uses the three-level positioning framework to analyze how young adults in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) in south Texas construct borderland identities by positioning themselves with respect…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Self Concept, Social Discrimination
Ford, Terry – NAMTA Journal, 2015
This fairytale-come-true began with an idealistic public school teacher just out of college who lived in the neighborhood of her students. In stages, working with a community organizing group consisting mainly of concerned parents, Terry Ford founded what is now called Lumin Education, a network of campuses serving more than six hundred children…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Profiles, Montessori Method, At Risk Students
Rubio, Brenda; Palmer, Deborah K.; Martínez, Manuel – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
Currently, there is limited research examining the barriers that immigrant professionals experience when becoming a bilingual teacher in the United States. This study examines the trajectory of a Mexican national, trained as a teacher in his home country, who became a bilingual dual-language educator in a Central Texas school district. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Language Maintenance, Masters Programs, Personal Narratives
Gillen, Norman; Bhattacharya, Kakali – Qualitative Report, 2013
This article is a response to calls for more first-person accounts from researchers using narrative formats to interpret data. The authors examine the practice of ethnodrama as a means of exploring and analyzing the experiences of a Latina public-school student in a small South Texas coastal town during the 1950s and 1960s as she attempted to…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, Student Experience, Personal Narratives
Ponjuán, Luis; Palomín, Leticia; Hernández, Susana – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2017
Enrollment rates for Latino male students continue to increase at community colleges; unfortunately, compared to their other racial and/or ethnic male counterparts they are less likely to earn a college credential or degree. This qualitative study explores the narratives of six presidents at Texas community colleges designated as Hispanic-Serving…
Descriptors: Enrollment Rate, Hispanic American Students, Community Colleges, Males
Knox, Ronny D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research project used the Narrative Non-fiction method to examine the school-to-prison pipeline phenomenon through the experiences of four previously incarcerated adult males who had been placed in Discipline Alternative Educational Programs (DAEPs) during their public school education. In 1981, DAEPs were instituted as a pilot program to…
Descriptors: Discipline, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Personal Narratives
Salinas, Cinthia; Rodríguez, Noreen Naseem; Lewis, Brenda Ayala – Bilingual Research Journal, 2015
Utilizing a figured worlds and critical historical inquiry framework, this qualitative study examined how the Tejano History Curriculum Project provided opportunities for prospective and practicing bilingual educators to challenge long-standing and problematic depictions of Tejana/o histories in Texas. This study examined how these teachers…
Descriptors: History, Social Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Practices
You, JeongAe; Craig, Cheryl J. – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
Through the use of narrative inquiry, this research study explores the collaborative curriculum making experiences of six teachers (three males; three females) in one physical education (PE) department in an urban middle school in the U.S. Collaboration; as defined in this work, this has to do with teachers' voluntary interactions and their shared…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Urban Education, Curriculum Development
Check, Ed; Ballard, Katy – Art Education, 2014
In this article, the potentially harmful effects of bullying toward LGBTQ students are demonstrated through personal narratives, encouraging tolerance and the freedom to create and express through art. As openly gay and lesbian arts educators, the authors have learned that it is vital for them not only to invite gay and lesbian lives into teaching…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Personal Narratives
Zapotocky, Robin – Gifted Child Today, 2014
Robin Zapotocky is a first-year teacher in a fifth-grade classroom at Cannaday Elementary in Mesquite ISD, Mesquite TX. She graduated from Baylor University in the gifted and elementary dual certificate program, and first met Carl when she was student teaching in a gifted and talented pullout program for third- and fourth-grade gifted students.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary School Students, Behavior Problems, Antisocial Behavior
Aicinena, Steve – Academe, 2013
For days and months, the author had experienced a crisis of faith. Because he had believed sports were beneficial for the university and the young athletes who participated in them, he had willingly invested seventeen years of his professional life in the administration of the athletics program. In 1988, he accepted a position as an an assistant…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Athletics, Administrators, Personal Narratives
Bukoski, Beth E.; Hatch, Deryl K. – Community College Review, 2016
Objective: This study examines masculinity in a manner commensurate with established feminist frameworks to deconstruct a patriarchal system that ill-serves both men and women. Method: We utilized standpoint theory and narrative analysis to examine longitudinal, qualitative data from first-year Black and Latino males as they transition into…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Males
Jones, Beata; Leverenz, Carrie – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2017
Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." This article presents a pedagogical approach for framing a digital-identity-enhancing ePortfolio that maximizes student engagement and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Publishing, Technology Uses in Education, Story Telling
Craig, Cheryl J. – Research Papers in Education, 2019
This narrative inquiry examines why a well-respected English as a Second Language teacher quit teaching in an urban middle school in advance of her retirement. The work provides interpretive accounts of what attracted the teacher to start teaching ESL, what caused her to stay in the profession and the circumstances that drove her to quit. In the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language
Jenlink, Patrick M. – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2014
The purpose of this critical ethnographic study was to examine the nature and meaning of cultural ecology in relation to preparing scholar-practitioner leaders. The ethnography focused on how the discourses and practices within the disciplinary setting of leadership preparation shape the identity of social scholar-practitioner leaders. The…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Ethics, Leadership Training, Social Justice