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Lange, Karin E. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Implementing research-based practices in classrooms as a means of increasing achievement in mathematics for all students requires an understanding of many complex factors that influence classroom change. Situating the role of the teacher as critical to these efforts, teacher inquiry provides a theoretical framework from which to understand the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Researchers, Teachers, Interpersonal Relationship
Ngomba-Westbrook, Nalova Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates the tensions a teacher educator faces in facilitating a media literacy teacher education course at the university level. Teaching tensions are conceptualized as a three-tier framework. At the first level, tensions may arise in the selection and application of pedagogies associated with critical and new/21st century…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Media Literacy, Teacher Associations, Elementary Secondary Education
Cournoyer, Amy Beth – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This case study investigated case-based pedagogy using student-teacher-generated cases as an instructional tool in the preparation of 12 pre-service ESL, Bilingual, and Modern Foreign Language teachers enrolled in a Student Teaching Seminar at a post-secondary institution. In the fall methods course, each participant generated a case study based…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Observation, Case Studies
Kirell, Leah R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The following dissertation explores how higher education faculty members' memories of learning content and learning to write influence their pedagogical practices and examines how disciplinary and departmental contexts intersect with those pedagogical practices. The research was designed as a nested case study that draws on interview data,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Styles, Memory
James, Nancy Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways second grade children signaled the meanings they made from pictures and print and to identify ways they signaled new meanings when transmediations between these two semiotic systems took place. The study was a mixed methods study using qualitative methods in a case study format for the first…
Descriptors: African American Students, Standardized Tests, Rhetoric, Video Technology
Herman-Davis, Beth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore how critical pedagogy, culturally relevant curriculum, and student centered instruction impacted student engagement in reading for struggling high school readers, including first- and second-generation immigrants. The researcher/practitioner (r/p) chose to highlight Latinas in the study to understand the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Caring, Reading Materials, Critical Theory