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Spirits In The Food: A Pedagogy For Cooking And Healing, Sumita Dutta
Spirits In The Food: A Pedagogy For Cooking And Healing, Sumita Dutta
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Cooking is mind, body, spirit work. What’s possible when we ‘drop in’ to our bodies when cooking? We begin noticing what we are energetically bringing to the food we make. This creative project practices a pedagogy that works with food to create healing space. Healing, as it is defined here, is not void of discomfort nor is it happiness all the time. Who haunts your domestic space? Who is at your back when you cook? This project finds information and sacred knowledge in the food we cook and eat; it reflects back to us deeply buried truths regarding our traumas, …
Professional Profiles, Pedagogic Practices, And The Future Of Guitar Education, Robert Pethel
Professional Profiles, Pedagogic Practices, And The Future Of Guitar Education, Robert Pethel
Middle and Secondary Education Dissertations
In recent decades, guitar education has emerged as a discipline in PreK-12 institutions alongside “traditional” music education such as band, orchestra, and chorus. Despite the substantial body of literature containing practical advice on teaching guitar, research-supported scholarship is lacking. Additionally, this body of literature suggests a lack of congruency between curriculum, pedagogy, and teacher preparation among guitar educators. The purpose of this study was to provide an evidentiary-based understanding of the professional profiles and pedagogic practices of guitar educators. A multi-phase investigation was conducted. In Phase One, a large sample (n = 1,269) of guitar educators participated in the Guitar …
Teacher Reflective Practice As A Response To Technical Rationalism, Xylecia Fynn-Aikins
Teacher Reflective Practice As A Response To Technical Rationalism, Xylecia Fynn-Aikins
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine how an African American teacher in an urban school used reflection to inform her pedagogical practice for her second grade, African American students. In this research, reflection functioned as a response to technical rationalism, a theoretical perspective that relies solely on scientific processes, calculability, and empiricism to determine norms and prescriptions for practice. Practice that emerges solely from technical rationalism often disregards the needs of urban, African American students. As a reflective pedagogical practice has long been theorized as a method to combat injustice through conscious rationalization, in this autoethnographic study, the …
Looking Back To Go Forward: Student Evaluations Of Experiences In African-Centered Educational Institutions, Ivan N. Vassall Iii
Looking Back To Go Forward: Student Evaluations Of Experiences In African-Centered Educational Institutions, Ivan N. Vassall Iii
Africana Studies Theses
In educational research, a prevalent topic of discussion is African-centered pedagogy. This phenomenological study records the unique perspectives of adults who specifically grew up in African-centered learning environments from a young age. The sample includes 10 African American adults, aged 18-45, from various cities in the United States. Mixed methods are applied in this study: group concept mapping strategies are implemented to yield both qualitative and quantitative results for analysis. Data is further supplemented with one-on-one interviews, and a review of themes from interview transcripts using multiple coding processes. Findings from this particular demographic can add another dimension to the …