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Huerta, Andrew L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With increasing numbers of first-generation college students enrolling in colleges and universities across the US, so too is the need to begin preparing such underrepresented students for graduate school and a career in academia. As a phenomenological case study of student transformation, this dissertation examines the experience of nine…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students, Educational Research, Inquiry
Siegel, Satoko Yaeo – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation describes an ethnographic case study of an elementary school in a border city in Southern Arizona. Its purpose is to explore teachers' professional lives at Cactus Elementary School (CES; pseudonym) through classroom observations, interviews and informal conversations. The majority of the fieldwork was conducted in the 2004-2005…
Descriptors: English Only Movement, Educational Policy, Ethnography, Case Studies