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Direct linkDolan, John P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation explores the life and identity of Paul Mills Ireland, III. The qualitative study was conducted using the portraiture approach and was further developed by incorporating the holistic content approach of analysis in narrative research. This fifth generation soldier was the product of a strong military lineage, most of whom were…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Veterans, Biographies, Qualitative Research
Kitajima, Tomoe – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study--a philosophical exploration, partly in an autoethnographical account-provides an empirical demonstration that one's personal project has a strong and positive impact on the dissertation process both for endurance to complete the process and for quality of the product. The concept of project is often explained as one's pursuit…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Student Experience, Biographies, Personal Narratives
Feille, Kelly Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This research investigates the professional life histories of upper elementary science teachers who were identified as effective both within the classroom and in the outdoor learning environment (OLE). The narratives of five teachers collected through semi-structured and open-ended interviews provided the data for the study. Professional life…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Science Instruction
Trotman, Alicia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyze and interpret the stories told by one teacher, Ms. M, in a fifth grade science classroom. In this study, stories are defined as teacher utterances that are used in first person or third person narrative view, and are related to an experience that occurred outside the classroom. This research…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5, Classroom Environment
Sela Kol, Aviva Helena – ProQuest LLC, 2011
My study concerns the teacher knowledge of "mehankhim," teachers in Israeli high schools entrusted to promote students' moral, civic, and social growth. It examines two "mehankhim" from a secular Israeli high school who participated in a long-term professional development program in secular Jewish education, centered by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Moral Development, Judaism
Pyle, Elizabeth C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Kate Brock's diary provides insight into the daily life of a one-room rural school teacher from Delaware County, New York, during the years 1902-1906. Through her diary she gives a candid narrative of her life as teacher and a member of a rural community. From the 3 1/2 years of almost daily entries, it is possible to identify a number of topics…
Descriptors: Diaries, Teachers, Educational History, Rural Schools
