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Choosing Not To Participate: Cyber Truancy And Special Education, Elizabeth A. Popielarcheck
Choosing Not To Participate: Cyber Truancy And Special Education, Elizabeth A. Popielarcheck
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This qualitative study investigated facilitators and barriers to participation in online instruction for students in grades 9-12 with a high incidence disability from the perspective of the student and adult in the home (AIH). Three AIH-student dyads participated in questionnaires and an online interview. The interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and then analyzed using the six phases described by Braun and Clarke (2006). Eight categories that aligned with barriers and facilitators to participation were identified: communication, instruction in the home, role of the AIH, attendance, grading, teacher provided student support, overall quality of online learning experience, and suggestions. Categories were …
Possible Paths Forward For A Practice-Based Teacher Education Centered On Justice, Joshua Harlan Karr
Possible Paths Forward For A Practice-Based Teacher Education Centered On Justice, Joshua Harlan Karr
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This dissertation seeks to address limitations of Practice-Based Teacher Education (PBTE) in relation to (1) narrow conceptions of practice and teacher learning, and (2) peripheralization of equity and justice. After aiming to understand the landscape of limitations in PBTE, this study situates itself within specific manifestations of these limitations that exist in common conceptualizations of teacher learning and practice-based pedagogies. To (re)emphasize the situated nature of practice and center equity and justice in PBTE, I theorize an expanded notion of teacher learning, develop design features for contextually situated pedagogies of practice (Grossman et al., 2009), and implement the design with …