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"For A Future Tomorrow": The Figured Worlds Of Schoolgirls In Kono, Sierra Leone, Jordene Hale
"For A Future Tomorrow": The Figured Worlds Of Schoolgirls In Kono, Sierra Leone, Jordene Hale
Doctoral Dissertations
Current research in Sub-Sahara Africa suggests that young women face challenges in accessing and completing schooling, due among other things to gender related school based violence (Bruce & Hallman, 2008; Dunne, Humphreys, & Leach, 2006; Lloyd, Kaufman, & Hewett, 2000). These studies, while valuable in providing documentation on school enrollment and school leaving, do not explore the motivational framework where young women remain in school. The purpose of this dissertation is to trace how schoolgirls’ identities or “figured worlds” (Gee, 2011) are co-constructed in particular contexts by the same cohort of schoolgirls, their teachers, households, and communities through an ethnographic …
Engineering Victory: The Ingenuity, Proficiency, And Versatility Of Union Citizen Soldiers In Determining The Outcome Of The Civil War, Thomas F. Army Jr
Engineering Victory: The Ingenuity, Proficiency, And Versatility Of Union Citizen Soldiers In Determining The Outcome Of The Civil War, Thomas F. Army Jr
Doctoral Dissertations
My dissertation explores the critical advantage the Union held over the Confederacy in military engineering. The skills Union soldiers displayed during the war at bridge building, railroad repair, and road making demonstrated mechanical ability and often revealed ingenuity and imagination. These skills were developed during the antebellum period when northerners invested in educational systems that served an industrializing economy. Before the war, northern states’ attempt at implementing basic educational reforms, the spread of informal educational practices directed at mechanics and artisans, and the exponential growth in manufacturing all generated a different work related ethos than that of the South. Plantation …
Student Success Skills: Third Year Results Of An Ies-Funded Randomized Control Trial, Greg Brigman, Karen Harrington, Elizabeth Villares, Linda Webb
Student Success Skills: Third Year Results Of An Ies-Funded Randomized Control Trial, Greg Brigman, Karen Harrington, Elizabeth Villares, Linda Webb
CSCORE Conference Presentations
Presented at the annual American Counseling Association (ACA) National Conference, this presentation offers information on the need for more research linking school counselors and student performance and an overview of the current IES four-year study on the Student Success Skills intervention.
Perceptions Of Health Educators And Supervisors About Their Preparation In Alexandria, Egypt (How Well They Believe Their Training And Preparation Prepared Them To Work As Health Educators), Elshaymaa Ahmed
Master's Capstone Projects
Health educators have many responsibilities, including community education, assessment program development, evaluation, research, health policy and grant writing. Health educators in Egypt do not participate in all these activities, but they mostly do participate in essential activities such as community education. The health educators in Egypt get training and preparation on topics such as addiction, women’s health, chronic diseases, and the skills needed for teaching.
This study investigated the perceptions of health educators and their supervisors about how well they believe their training and preparation has prepared them to work with health clients in Alexandria, Egypt. The study includes interviews …
Good Intentions, Limited Impact: The Technical Assistance For Student Assignment Plans Program, Kathryn A. Mcdermott, Elizabeth Debray, Erica Frankenberg, Anna Fung-Morley, Ann E. Blankenship
Good Intentions, Limited Impact: The Technical Assistance For Student Assignment Plans Program, Kathryn A. Mcdermott, Elizabeth Debray, Erica Frankenberg, Anna Fung-Morley, Ann E. Blankenship
Kathryn A. McDermott
In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (PICS), invalidated the student assignment policies of Seattle, Washington and Jefferson County, Kentucky. The Court ruled that the government has a compelling interest to promote diversity, while simultaneously arguing that racial balance and diversity should be considered different and separate goals. Thus, the PICS decision sent mixed messages to school districts across the country. To help school districts navigate the legally uncertain environment, the federal government created a small, one-time competitive grant called the Technical Assistance for Student Assignment Plan (TASAP) grant. …
"A View From The Field:" A Practitioner's Perspective On The Education Reform: A Regression In Labor And Educational Policies In Mexico // La Reforma Educativa: Una Regresión En Lo Educativo Y Laboral En México, Mtra. Martha De Jesús López Aguilar
"A View From The Field:" A Practitioner's Perspective On The Education Reform: A Regression In Labor And Educational Policies In Mexico // La Reforma Educativa: Una Regresión En Lo Educativo Y Laboral En México, Mtra. Martha De Jesús López Aguilar
Landscapes of Violence
In this stage of neocolonialism the empires devastate, plunder and appropriate the natural resources of poor and developing countries. As it ceases to be a free and sovereign nation by being subjugated to the plans of international and transnational financial organizations associated with its oligarchy, Mexico has become one of these countries. These forces impose their supranational economic, political and military control by standing above the Mexican Constitution and political institutions. Slowly but surely they put forward their interests in order to increase their profits in this greedy, unscrupulous and irrational race via the brutal accumulation and concentration of wealth …