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Teaching Physics While Female : A Phenomenological Study Of Female High School Physics Teachers, Hope Strickland
Teaching Physics While Female : A Phenomenological Study Of Female High School Physics Teachers, Hope Strickland
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The lived experiences of female high school physics teachers were researched in this study with the aim of gaining a better understanding of their decisions to remain in the classroom or to leave the teaching profession. To allow the participants to describe their background and teaching experiences, as well as the meaning they found in them, a transcendental phenomenological approach was used during this research. To create a richer representation of the phenomenon, fourteen women ranging from 0-31 years of experience teaching high school physics were interviewed for this study. The data from the interviews was analyzed through the lens …
A Participatory Action Research Study With One Emancipatory School Garden, Colleen Q. Saxen
A Participatory Action Research Study With One Emancipatory School Garden, Colleen Q. Saxen
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Although school gardens have been increasingly popular in the United States, much existing literature evaluated success of the programs from a limited set of criteria, such as the extent to which gardens reformed student eating habits and nutritional knowledge. Yet, school gardens offered benefits and outcomes not immediately apparent within this reform paradigm. In addition, the attention on forming a particular kind of food consumer ignored the diverse cultural and racial histories related to agriculture and food in the United States. In this participatory action research (PAR) dissertation, participants, including school staff and community partners, explored one school garden program …