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Steele, Aimy Shantell La'Nae – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Information regarding school administrator quality, impact, and effectiveness exists in abundance (Bloom & Erlandson, 2003; Eagly, Karau, Johnson, 1992; Simien, 2005). There are few studies and research about the career development of Black female school administrators particularly and appropriate retention strategies that yield results…
Descriptors: African Americans, Women Administrators, School Administration, Inclusion
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Campano, Gerald; Ghiso, María Paula; Yee, Mary; Pantoja, Alicia – Language Arts, 2013
Community-based research can provide an avenue for understanding the complexities of students' and families' lives and working together for educational justice through what we refer to as coalitional literacy practices. In this article, we share a critical incident about a student's absence from school as an illustrative case of the grass-roots…
Descriptors: Literacy, Community Involvement, Participatory Research, Ethnography
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Comber, Barbara – English in Australia, 2013
As educators encounter a policy landscape where increasingly the education lexicon includes keywords such as data, evidence, quality, and standards, it is interesting to revisit Garth Boomer's contribution regarding teachers as researchers. In "Fair Dinkum Teaching and Learning," Boomer (1985) clearly named at least two key problems that…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Action Research, Literacy, Cooperation
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Anderson, Jill – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Beginning in March 2012, my public scholarship with deported and returning young adults originated from an ethnographic and oral history framework based upon participant research action methodology (Seidman 2006). In collaboration with the Asamblea Popular de Familias Migrantes (APOFAM), I began to meet with groups of returning and deported young…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Mexicans, Ethnography, Oral History
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Rahm, Jrene – Ethnography and Education, 2012
Temporal and spatial configurations that constitute learning and identity work across practices have been little explored in studies of science literacy development. Grounded in multi-sited ethnography, this paper explores diverse girls' engagement with and identity work in science locally, inside a newsletter activity in an afterschool programme…
Descriptors: Ethnography, After School Programs, Science Education, Scientific Literacy
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Tsumagari, Maki Ito – Journal of Research in International Education, 2010
This article describes a study that examined evidence of the enduring effects of United World Colleges (UWC) education, arguably the only purely ideology-driven international education model. The study adopted an interpretive phenomenological analysis of an autoethnography by a UWC graduate. The study found that the graduate has incubated her own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Phenomenology, Ideology