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Electronic Theses and Dissertations

2006

Narrative inquiry

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Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry Into Language, Culture, And Identity Development Of Three High School Female Immigrant Students And Their Mainstream Schooling Experience In Atlanta, Georgia, Joanna Stoughton Cavan May 2006

Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry Into Language, Culture, And Identity Development Of Three High School Female Immigrant Students And Their Mainstream Schooling Experience In Atlanta, Georgia, Joanna Stoughton Cavan

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This inquiry explored the experience of three female immigrant students as they acculturated (learned a new language and culture) and enculturated (maintained the heritage language and culture) while developing new identities in an English-speaking public high school in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. I used a cross-cultural narrative inquiry method (He, 2003) to examine how these students' experiences of exclusion, marginalization, and neglect impact their school success. Cross-cultural narrative theory, which is grounded in the works of Clandinin and Connelly (2000) and Dewey (1938), helped me delve into the everyday life experiences of these female immigrant students. I turned to the works …


Inquiry Into The Writing Pedagogy For Middle School Language Arts, William Love Moore Jan 2006

Inquiry Into The Writing Pedagogy For Middle School Language Arts, William Love Moore

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This is a narrative inquiry into writing pedagogies of middle school language arts teachers and an administrator. Six teacher participants were interviewed and observed, their lesson plans were analyzed, and their instructional practices and writing philosophies were examined. Overarching research questions were (1) What role does writing pedagogy play in a language arts program? (2) What strategies were used to teach writing? and (3) What types of assessments were utilized? The theoretical framework of my research was based on Dewey's (1897) philosophy of education with roots in hermeneutic phenomenology by van Manen (1990). Methods of inquiry were based on narrative …