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Rogers, Leslie Cohen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative, insider account of student civic development in a university service-learning course has two primary goals. One is to propose frameworks for describing the process of civic development of service-learning students that are situated in theories of civic identity, cognitive development, and cognitive dissonance. The other is to…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Criticism, Qualitative Research, Citizen Participation
Totten, Leah Darcey – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In this study, I explore the challenges, tensions, and opportunities facing a major research-intensive public university related to public service and engaged scholarship as the university system and higher education in general increase emphasis on service and engagement. This project was designed in cooperation with the university's Center for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Student Attitudes
Polite, Rodney – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There are two major issues that will be addressed in this study to determine if they influence the selection of an appropriate policing strategy. The first is citizen perception of whether crime has decreased or increased in their community. The second is whether the length of time a citizen has lived in the community has an effect on their…
Descriptors: Crime, Police, Quality of Life, Criticism
Pagel, Richard T. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
California Community Colleges are facing increased accountability while at the same time experiencing reduced and uncertain state funding. When resources are not properly allocated there is waste, public criticism, and ultimately increased oversight. A review of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) sanction letters…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Strategic Planning, Educational Facilities Planning, Community Colleges
Caban, Heather Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Freire wrote that reading one's world is a necessary precursor to writing it, or conscienzation. The present dissertation, expanding on Kellner's concept of multiple literacies (1998; 2002a; 2005b; 2006a; 2008), explores what it means to read and write one's world in the context of globalization. Given the arrival of a new imaginary, with its…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Media Literacy, Guidelines, Multiple Literacies
Birmingham, Daniel J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
School science continues to fail to engage youth from non-dominant communities (Carlone, Huan-Frank & Webb, 2011). However, recent research demonstrates that informal science learning settings support both knowledge gains and increased participation in science among youth from non-dominant communities (Dierking, 2007; Falk et al., 2007; HFRP,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Education, Females, Learner Engagement
Taft, Mary Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teachers working with increasingly diverse student populations are expected, for the first time in American history, to bring all students to high levels of proficiency. American graduates must compete with graduates from other nations, given the realities of the 21st century global economy. American teachers must possess 21st century skills in…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Discourse Analysis, State Policy
Raisor, Michael Louis – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine what the most highly effective leaders do during difficult times to be successful. The backdrop of the study was the 2009 $300 million cuts to the Indiana K-12 education budget, a uniform crisis that affected all 293 public school districts at the same time. The subjects in this study were those…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Superintendents, Leadership, Retrenchment
Smith, Norman – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In 2010 the Texas Education Agency adopted newly rewritten curriculum standards for the state's social studies courses K-12. The period leading up to the adoption of the standards proved contentious as the new standards moved out of the writing committees and into the public realm. The issues brought forth from initial readings of the standards…
Descriptors: State Standards, Content Analysis, Curriculum, Social Studies
Morgan, Ian Egon – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The theory of literary translation has been plagued by a disregard of the comprehensive aspect of the task since its inception, largely focusing on the challenges of the expressive aspect instead. This development throughout the history of translation--with the notable exceptions of Martin Luther and Friedrich Schleiermacher--has led to…
Descriptors: Translation, Poets, Foreign Countries, Poetry
Campoli, Ashley Jimerson – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Leadership style and professional learning have been linked to student achievement. Studies have linked leadership styles such as distributed leadership to job-embedded professional learning. However, research is mixed when these two constructs are related to student achievement. This study evaluated the relationship between distributed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Leadership Styles, Administrators, Leadership
Prior, Matthew T. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigates the ways in which emotions and emotionality are managed as topics and resources in second language (L2) research interviews. A continued challenge for researchers is how to define and operationalize emotions and other putative psychological phenomena. One popular research methodology that treats emotions as the object and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Research Methodology
McGuire, Lauren A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the effect of direct instruction in rhetorical analysis on students' critical thinking abilities, including knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The researcher investigated student perceptions of the effectiveness of argument mapping; Thinker's Guides, based on Paul's model of critical thinking; and Socratic questioning.…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Pretests Posttests, Critical Thinking, Student Attitudes
Fisher, Alison Aurelia – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Environmentalists are accustomed to using the rhetorical appeals of guilt and sacrifice to advocate their agendas. I argue that the motivations of guilt and sacrifice do not mirror the goals of sustainability, and are easy for anthropocentric-resourcist ideology (ARI) agendas to counter. When it comes to actual environmental policy change,…
Descriptors: Rhetorical Criticism, Comedy, Anxiety, Climate
Chiprany, David Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reported that 35 percent of middle school students and 45 percent of high school students say that there are students who are affiliated with gangs or who consider themselves to be affiliated with gangs in their schools (Arciaga, Sakamoto, & Jones, 2010). Gangs are increasingly violent and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Suspension, Enrollment, Addictive Behavior
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