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Conceptions Of Self, Other And Society: Exploring The Impact Of A Service-Learning For Social Justice Course On Student Positionality, Deborah Rintels Weiner
Conceptions Of Self, Other And Society: Exploring The Impact Of A Service-Learning For Social Justice Course On Student Positionality, Deborah Rintels Weiner
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
Change models of service-learning, or service-learning for social justice courses, are educational models that deeply integrate course content and a service requirement with a social justice agenda, where students are asked to consider the positionality or relative power and privilege of all participants in the service-learning dynamic as well as institutionalized inequity along lines of race, gender, sexuality, religion and other axes of exclusion in American society. Grounded in the teachings of Freire, and his “problem posing” educational model, that casts a critical eye on the role of traditional education as a “dehumanizing” relationship that works to oppress both teachers …
Experiencing The Implementation Of New Inquiry Science Curricula, Peter S. Ower
Experiencing The Implementation Of New Inquiry Science Curricula, Peter S. Ower
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
Using a phenomenological methodology, a cohort of four experienced science teachers was interviewed about their experience transitioning from traditional, teacher and fact-centered science curricula to inquiry-based curricula. Each teacher participated in two interviews that focused on their teaching backgrounds, their experience teaching the prior traditional curriculum, and their experience teaching the new inquiry-based curriculum. The findings are presented as a narrative of each teachers’ experience with the new curriculum implementation. Analyzing the data revealed four key themes. 1) The teachers felt trapped by the old curriculum as it did not align with their positive views of teaching science through inquiry. …
Urban Renewal And The Role Of The University Of Chicago In The Neighborhoods Of Hyde Park And Kenwood, David Belden
Urban Renewal And The Role Of The University Of Chicago In The Neighborhoods Of Hyde Park And Kenwood, David Belden
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
In the years that followed the end of World War II, the University of Chicago was a national leader in education. The University influenced economic growth, national security, and scholarly achievement through its professional education and scientific research. As a university located in a large metropolitan area, the University of Chicago also faced a dramatically changing set of neighborhood conditions that not only threatened its position and role within higher education, but also experienced social forces that jeopardized the future of the institution in the Hyde Park-Kenwood neighborhoods. With the gradual decline of large American cities in the postwar decades, …
Education Policy And Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Jumana Khalifeh
Education Policy And Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Jumana Khalifeh
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
This study examined the discursive framing of school closings as promoted by both the Educational Facilities Master Plan published by Chicago Public Schools in 2013 and the discourse of newspaper articles in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, and Catalyst Chicago. A critical discourse analysis approach as both theory and method allowed for better understanding of the political nature of social goods and uncovered relations of authority and power in the use of language in these texts. This study revealed the complicated nature of the interplay of neoliberalism, education policy, and the media in the form of newspapers; therefore, it …
Gender And Education: A Qualitative Study Of Women's Experiences At Selective Women's Colleges, Staci H. Zake
Gender And Education: A Qualitative Study Of Women's Experiences At Selective Women's Colleges, Staci H. Zake
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
This study examined women’s experiences in a single-sex academic environment to help us better understand broader issues in higher education related to the history of educating women and the role of women’s colleges within the U.S system. This dissertation research moved beyond existing research about elite single-sex schooling to better understand the experiences for graduates of second tier women’s colleges in relation to a women-centered environment. Findings support that female students attending second-tier women’s colleges experience the single-sex environment very similarly to peers attending top tier women’s colleges and can end up in similar places professionally as their peers at …