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Negotiating The Faculty Journey: Technology, Teaching, And Tenure, Joseph Horne
Negotiating The Faculty Journey: Technology, Teaching, And Tenure, Joseph Horne
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
This phenomenological study examined the lived experience of five (5) tenured university faculty members over a ten-year span of their professional lives. The purpose of this study was to better understand the lived experience of tenured university faculty, particularly how they negotiated experiences related to the combined influences of technology, tenure, and teaching. While some have suggested that university faculty do not have the necessary skills to transition to this emerging technological era (McKee & Tew, 2013), this study did not attempt to make judgments about whether or not college faculty were prepared to shift their approach to teaching, nor …
Empowering Instructional Practices Of Technology Using Teachers Of Low-Income African American Students, Crystal Cuby Richardson
Empowering Instructional Practices Of Technology Using Teachers Of Low-Income African American Students, Crystal Cuby Richardson
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
The purpose of this case study was to investigate the empowering instructional practices of three technology-using teachers in an elementary school populated by low-income African American students. The participants, from Ladson ES, had been teaching a variety of grade levels and had between six and ten years of experience. Over the course of six months the researcher collected data including field observations, interviews, and artifact reviews, such as lesson plans and student assignments. Portions of frameworks of multicultural education, empowering education, and culturally relevant pedagogy were linked to examine and document the teachers’ instructional strategies and technology use as it …
An Examination Of Standards-Based Practices In College Algebra In The First Two Years Of College, Laurn R. Jordan Dr.
An Examination Of Standards-Based Practices In College Algebra In The First Two Years Of College, Laurn R. Jordan Dr.
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
Instructional practices in mathematics courses at two-year colleges include lecture as the predominant instructional form in 78% of two-year colleges, with class sizes averaging about 26 students (AACC, 2005). The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicates that there is a need for change in the practices of mathematics teachers because students are not being served well by the traditional pedagogical approaches (Burrill & Hollweg, 2003). The standards-based reform movement has had a positive impact on pedagogy but there are ongoing issues of alignment of teaching strategies to more student-centered practices (Barrington, 2004).
This study examined the standards-based teaching practices …
Construction Of Professional Identity In Novice Library Media Specialists, Deborah W. Sandford
Construction Of Professional Identity In Novice Library Media Specialists, Deborah W. Sandford
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
The roles of the person who works in a school library, as well as their title - librarian, teacher-librarian, library teacher, library media specialist, school librarian, library media teacher - have undergone countless revisions since the first official school libraries opened their doors in the early 1900s. Although school library media specialists (LMSs) have struggled to negotiate their identities in public K12 education for decades, this "identity crisis" seems to have reached a critical point due to changes in U.S. learning environments brought about by federal legislation, the implementation of standards-based teaching, the emphasis on standardized criterion referenced testing, and …
Unheralded Historian: Mary Sheldon Barnes And Primary Source Material In History Books, James A. Chisholm Jr
Unheralded Historian: Mary Sheldon Barnes And Primary Source Material In History Books, James A. Chisholm Jr
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
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UNHERALDED HISTORIAN: MARY SHELDON BARNES AND PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL IN HISTORY BOOKS
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James A. Chisholm, Jr.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, Mary Sheldon Barnes emerged as a leading historical methods professor and history textbook author. Although men dominated the field, she wrote several articles and books alone or with her husband Earl Barnes about primary source materials and teaching. She lived during an era in United States history when education was evolving. Students studied traditional subjects such as grammar, mathematics, and Latin using rote memorization. Students who failed to learn classroom material faced varying degrees …
Composing A Gamer: A Case Study Of One Gamer's Experience Of Symbiotic Flow, Heather L. Lynch
Composing A Gamer: A Case Study Of One Gamer's Experience Of Symbiotic Flow, Heather L. Lynch
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
Built upon symbiotic flow, that is a merging of flow theory (Csikzentmihalyi, 1975) and situated cognition (Gee, 2007) this dissertation presents the findings from a 6-month qualitative study of an elite gamer and his practices and experiences with video games. The study used mediated discourse analysis and case study methods to answer the following question: What does it mean to be an elite gamer, to one life-long player of video games? In addition, the following sub-questions were considered: a) What aspects of elite gaming are important and meaningful to one particular gamer? b) What moments of play does this gamer …
Developmental Mathematics College Students? Experiences Of Mathematical Practices In A 4-Week Summer Learning Community Using Local Communities Of Mathematical Practices, Bhupinder Naidu
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine traditionally aged developmental mathematics college students’ experiences of mathematical practices, in a 4-week summer learning community, using a qualitative explanatory single case study approach (Yin, 2009). This study used the methodological framework of Local Communities of Mathematical Practices (Winbourne & Watson, 1998), the conceptual theory of situated cognition (Brown & Duguid, 1988), and the theories of communities of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991), and learning communities (Tinto, 1997). The objectives were to highlight contextual factors that allowed participants to be academically successful as evidenced by their mathematical practices (Ball, 2003). The research …
A High School Mathematics Teacher Tacking Through The Middle Way: Toward A Critical Postmodern Autoethnography In Mathematics Education, John O. Wamsted
A High School Mathematics Teacher Tacking Through The Middle Way: Toward A Critical Postmodern Autoethnography In Mathematics Education, John O. Wamsted
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
The “urban” mathematics classroom has become an increasingly polarized site, one where many middle-class White teachers attempt to bridge the divide between themselves and their relatively economically disadvantaged, non-White students. With its mania for high-stakes testing, current education policy has intensified the importance of mathematics in the school curriculum—both drawing attention to and reifying an “achievement gap” between White (and Asian) and non-White students (Martin, 2009c, 2010). Keeping in mind the Mathematics for all rhetoric as it affects the academic and life success of students (Martin, 2003), this cultural polarization in the mathematics classroom provides a rich site for exploring …
All The School's A Stage: A Multimodal Interaction Analysis Of A School Administrator's Literate Life As Dramaturgical Metaphor, Dru D. Tomlin
All The School's A Stage: A Multimodal Interaction Analysis Of A School Administrator's Literate Life As Dramaturgical Metaphor, Dru D. Tomlin
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
In Images of Leadership (1991), Bolman and Deal identified four “frames” that school administrators use when making decisions: structural, symbolic, human resource and political. They discovered that the latter two frames, which focus on relationships, partnerships, and communication, were most frequently identified as predicting a school administrator’s success “as both leader and manager”(12). Strikingly, Bolman and Deal found that little emphasis and professional time are afforded to help school administrators learn about these critical frames. While there is ample logistical advice about language use, there is scant research that examines it from a theatrical perspective.
The purpose of this autoethnographic …
An Archaeological/Genealogical Historical Analysis Of The National Council Of Teachers Of Mathematics Standards Documents, Erika C. Bullock
An Archaeological/Genealogical Historical Analysis Of The National Council Of Teachers Of Mathematics Standards Documents, Erika C. Bullock
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
Since the mid-20th century in the United States, there have been several reform movements within mathematics education; each movement has been subject to its own unique socio-cultural and -political forces. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ (NCTM) Standards documents—Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989), Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics (1991), Assessment Standards for School Mathematics (1995), and Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000)—not only represent the most recent of these reform movements but also the most enduring. Collectively, these documents have formed a discourse (cf. Foucault, 1969/1972)—Standards-based mathematics education—that has guided mathematics education …
The Lived Experiences Of Black Women Faculty In The Instructional Technology Professoriate, Valora Richardson
The Lived Experiences Of Black Women Faculty In The Instructional Technology Professoriate, Valora Richardson
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
Black women currently and historically have faced challenges as faculty in higher education. The problem the study addressed was the lack of intellectual study and resulting literature about Black women faculty in the field of Instructional Technology. This research sought to gain better insight into experiences of Black women professors in Instructional Technology. Specifically, the purpose of this research was to identify and describe the lived experiences of Black women who are tenure-track faculty in the Instructional Technology professoriate.
A review of literature regarding faculty work, Black faculty in the Academy, Women in the Academy and Black women in the …