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Dynamics Of Teachers' Aesthetic Engagement With Children's Literature, Susan C. Griffith
Dynamics Of Teachers' Aesthetic Engagement With Children's Literature, Susan C. Griffith
Educational Studies Dissertations
This research study seeks to bring the missing voices of teachers into the conversation about teaching and learning children's literature at the college level. Grounded in an empirical base that affirms a need for this perspective, the study investigates and describes the dimensions, patterns and variations that constitute the dynamics of engagement that characterize teachers' experiences with children's literature as aesthetic experiences of adult reading.
Bridging Connections Between Teachers' Racial Identities And Their Teaching Practices, Sandras M. Barnes
Bridging Connections Between Teachers' Racial Identities And Their Teaching Practices, Sandras M. Barnes
Educational Studies Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine how three Black female teachers and three White female teachers of kindergarten, first grade, and eighth grade understand the connections between their racial identity and their teaching practices . Specifically, it sought to understand how they experience their first awareness of racial difference and the influence their family, community, and school had on their construct of race. Also, how their preparation to teach reinforced, expanded, altered, or demystified their understanding of racial differences as a means to teach all children . The study used a phenomenologically based, lived experienced methodology to interview …