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Jessica Kemler – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this narrative qualitative study was to explore how politics affects the ethical decision-making processes of elementary principals. Participants were comprised of five elementary school principals, with varied years of experience, across neighboring suburban public school districts in eastern New York. Data was collected through…
Descriptors: Ethics, Principals, Decision Making, School Administration
Minseok Choi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although studies in higher education have paid attention to the complexities of learning disciplinary language and discourse, little attention has been given to learning professional discourse in a second language (L2). Recent studies on language socialization have addressed this gap by focusing on L2 students' emerging communicative competence in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Academic Language, Socialization
Griffin, Melanie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Typical critical patterns for studying children's literature, defined in this study as a written text intended for a reader up to the age of 14, make it difficult to chart generic change across a large corpus of texts. Traditionally, criticism of children's literature focuses on cherry picked archetypes, exemplars, and the standout extraordinary.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Literary Criticism, Interdisciplinary Approach, Awards
Kniss, Robert S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the manner in which it governs intercollegiate athletics has come under intense scrutiny in its recent history. The area within the NCAA's policy's and legislation that has come under fire the most is its regulation on student-athlete amateurism. Within the past few decades the NCAA has faced an…
Descriptors: Role, College Athletics, Court Litigation, Models
Ong, Yann Shiou – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The study reported in this dissertation is a response to the call for school science argumentation interventions to shift from a focus on argument framework towards epistemic criteria valued by the scientific community, and to focus on the practice of critiquing in addition to constructing arguments, as both practices are part of scientific…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Epistemology, Intervention, Science Instruction
Rabold, Jennifer C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study investigated the approximations of disciplinary literacy in high school English Language Arts students' writing. To study the development of these disciplinary conventions, the portfolios of written literary analyses were examined from fourteen twelfth-grade students over their last two years in high school. The conceptual framework for…
Descriptors: Language Arts, High School Students, Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods
Johnson, Rebecca Ashley – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Moving beyond purposes for reading as fixed outcomes, this dissertation project explores the possibilities of affect theory for decentering or weakening those purposes so they might be seen as one element among many interacting in the classroom space. Because these purposes become the expected outcomes of reading with youth in secondary English…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Secondary School Students, Outcomes of Education, Classroom Communication
Shannon M. Canfield – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Untreated perinatal mood and anxiety disorders have short- and long-term consequences for mental, physical, developmental, social, and economic outcomes affecting the mother, infant, family, and community. Online Health interventions are known to be effective in treating mental health disorders and increasing access to care. Successful perinatal…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Perinatal Influences, Social Support Groups, Pregnancy
Dorman, Dereic Angelo – ProQuest LLC, 2018
"An Afrocentric Critique of Race Dialogues: The Application of Theory and Practice in Africology" is a critical examination of race dialogues based on the Afrocentric paradigm's constructs of African agency, Afrocentric consciousness-raising and liberatory action. This dissertation critiques race dialogues based on Africology's mission,…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Criticism, Racial Attitudes, Theory Practice Relationship
Barrios, Victor M., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of the present research was to examine how five self-identified Cuban-American social studies teachers in Miami, a city where they are considered the dominant culture, described their ethnic and cultural identity, expressed educational beliefs on teaching and learning, promoted culturally inclusive pedagogy, and approached the official…
Descriptors: Cubans, Hispanic Americans, Social Studies, Teachers
Schwab, Warren Arthur – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In this multiple case study, I asked ten practicing secondary educators in the Midwest to express the purposes and practices that drive their teaching regarding climate change education. The theoretical framework grounding this qualitative study is that of critical theory, in which one leverages critique to bring about social change. I analyzed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Environmental Education, Climate, Secondary School Teachers
Cirell, Anna Montana – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Digital media is becoming increasingly important to learning in today's changing times. At the same time, digital technologies and related digital skills are unevenly distributed. Further, deficit-based notions of this digital divide define the public's educational paradigm. Against this backdrop, I forayed into the social reality of one rural…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Areas, Disadvantaged, Educational Technology
Allbaugh, Jonathan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The current societal pressures regarding religious liberty and institutional sustainability for Christian higher education in America call for rhetorical leadership from presidents of Christian colleges and universities. This study provides a biblically rooted and theoretically sound, multifaceted approach using sociorhetorical criticism and…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Church Related Colleges, College Presidents, Christianity
Patrick, Andrew P. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The time between the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and its replacement, the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, marked a period of unprecedented policy-driven education reform. Unfortunately, the major objectives of the policy were not achieved, and the very problems it sought to fix still exist. One reason for this was an…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Bilingual Education, Educational Policy
Ludewig, Julia – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The dissertation paints a cultural-historical portrait of the New Criticism, a formalist school of twentieth-century literary criticism. My case study revisits the trajectory of this vital school of thought through a fine-grained textual comparison of critical essays produced by principal affiliates. Using "genre" as a guiding concept, I…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Literary Criticism, Essays, Comparative Analysis