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College Students’ Negotiation Of Privilege In A Community-Based Violence Prevention Project, Bet S. Catlett, Amira Proweller
College Students’ Negotiation Of Privilege In A Community-Based Violence Prevention Project, Bet S. Catlett, Amira Proweller
Scholarship of Engagement
Recent scholarship on service-learning has departed from examination of more traditional models and outcomes to explore how service-learning shapes students’ understanding of social change. This study builds on existing research to further interrogate the ways in which service-learning relates to power and privilege, specifically exploring how college students in a service-learning experience reflect on notions of privilege and how this informs their work with urban youth. Data was collected from 15 undergraduate student participants in a violence prevention program. Findings point to the potential that lies within change models of service-learning for students to reflect on the complex relationship among …
An Analysis Of Two Education Reform Policies: Obama's Race To The Top And Promise Neighborhoods Programs, Alecia S. Person
An Analysis Of Two Education Reform Policies: Obama's Race To The Top And Promise Neighborhoods Programs, Alecia S. Person
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
In this analysis, I examine the relationship between neoliberalism and public education in order to provide context for the education policies laid out by the obama administration, specifically focusing on Race to the Top and Promise Neighborhoods. I will discuss how market discourse and shifts in the political climate have made way for a neoliberal education agenda based on privatization, strict and punitive assessments and accountability practices, and standardized high-stakes testing. A portion of this paper will analyze education policy documents and related literature to identify policy trends and give historical context to current national education policy reform agenda. This …
Framed By Privilege: Perpetuating And Resisting White Supremacy In White, Middle-Class Parenting, Kelly Brianne Baldwin
Framed By Privilege: Perpetuating And Resisting White Supremacy In White, Middle-Class Parenting, Kelly Brianne Baldwin
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
Parenting is a primary site for the socialization of young children, including socialization around issues of race and racism. Giving careful attention to the implications of a socially privileged racial status, this study draws on the personal narratives of three White, middle-class, heterosexual mothers living in Chicago to improve understanding of White, middle-class parenting around issues of race and racism and to critically examine the ways parenting practices relate to larger social Discourses in the United States that perpetuate or disrupt White supremacy. When parenting around issues of race and racism, mothers adherent to White supremacy typically abandoned parenting strategies …
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The Predictive Validity Of High School Grades To College Remedial Mathematics Performance, John Dozier
The Predictive Validity Of High School Grades To College Remedial Mathematics Performance, John Dozier
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
The concerns for remedial education are not new – as remedial education has a long history. Yet, the issues are gaining prominence in our discourse about improving the outcomes associated with post-secondary education. Any discussion of improvement is often accompanied by a discussion regarding the challenge posed to post-secondary institutions in meeting the growing remedial needs of the students that they receive. The purpose of this research is to evaluate community college placement of students into remedial coursework through an examination of whether a student’s high school mathematics preparation and mathematics grade average are a significant determinant of their completion …
Personalismo, Small Schools, And Latino Students' Academic Success, Isabel Mesa Collins
Personalismo, Small Schools, And Latino Students' Academic Success, Isabel Mesa Collins
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
A growing body of research indicates that Latino students continue to struggle academically presenting educators and school leaders with serious concerns about a cultural achievement gap. Guided by the work of Lee & Loeb, (2000); Lee & Freidkin, (2007) and Stevens, (2008) who have examined small personalized learning communities, this paper examines the concept of personalismo as a conduit for establishing a platform that may help narrow the achievement gap within the Latino population in the public school system. Through a series of T-Tests, conducted in two small public schools with varying levels of personalismo, within a Chicago Public School …
Stories And Cultural Humility: Exploring Power And Privilege Through Physical Therapists' Life Stories, Marjorie Hilliard
Stories And Cultural Humility: Exploring Power And Privilege Through Physical Therapists' Life Stories, Marjorie Hilliard
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to explore how life experiences, set within their social, cultural, and historical contexts, shape the development of cultural humility in physical therapists (PTs). Cultural humility involves health professionals being actively engaged in an ongoing process with patients, colleagues, communities, and themselves to make sense of the complexities of social and culture differences within relationships in practice. Given demographic trends and health care disparities, it has become critically important to better understand the dynamics of developing trusting relationships to provide quality care. This study was influenced by relationship-centered care, sociocultural, and insurgent multiculturalism theories. A …
The Effects Of An Advisory Program On Middle-Level Student Learning, Jeffrey Stawick
The Effects Of An Advisory Program On Middle-Level Student Learning, Jeffrey Stawick
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study is to explore if a middle school advisory program significantly effected student learning. Educators who advocate for the middle school concept for middle-level education claim that purposefully designed advisory programs can have specific beneficial effects. However, a limited body of knowledge and little empirical evidence supports this assumption. This study uses an ex-post facto quasi-experimental design comparing three consecutive eighth grade classes in a middle school where such an advisory program was developed. The program was designed to improve student learning through improved relationships, interventions, and additional instruction time. The first eighth grade class had …
A Guest In Someone's House: Exploring The Role Of African-American Student-Faculty/Staff Interactions In A Community College Setting, Yolanda Isaacs
A Guest In Someone's House: Exploring The Role Of African-American Student-Faculty/Staff Interactions In A Community College Setting, Yolanda Isaacs
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
African-American students are enrolling in four-year universities and community colleges in the hope of receiving a degree; however, their rate of degree attainment at the latter institutions in particular continues to be troubling. Although community colleges are making efforts to improve the graduation rates of African-American students, more institutional strategies are needed to address this concern. The purpose of the study was to explore how the role of African-American faculty and staff can affect the success of African-American students in a community college setting. The researcher investigated African-American students’ perceptions and experiences regarding how African-American faculty and staff members have …
Beyond The Language Program Model: The Importance Of Student Identity For The English Language Learner, Arthi Rao
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
This ethnographic dissertation study focuses on life in fourth grade classrooms, examining how sociocultural experiences and influences in the local learning environment impact native Spanish-speaking English language learners’ (ELL) identities, and subsequently how students perceive their schooling experience and language practices. Connections are made between their learning and experiences that occur in their classrooms and schools at large, specifically through language of instruction and schooling practices, and how ELLs identify themselves as individuals and members of society. This qualitative research looks at ELLs in transitional bilingual and dual language classroom contexts through the frameworks of sociocultural theory and language as …
Intersections: The Schooling Experiences Of African-American Females Inolved In Long-Term Foster Care And Their Transition Into Womanhood, Sonia Kennedy
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
African-American girls are entering foster care and experiencing longer stays in a system that was not intended to facilitate adolescents transitioning into adulthood. For African American adolescent girls many remain in care indefinitely and move from one temporary foster home, group home and institution to another, with little stability or preparation for the future. Although the Adoption and Safe Families Act (AFSA) of 1994 and other policy reforms were designed to guide the temporary placement of children in foster care, this has not been the case, particularly for African American females. Upon entrance into foster care, African American adolescent females …
The Social Context Of Urban School Reform: Collective Efficacy And Student Achievement, Carla E. Ellis
The Social Context Of Urban School Reform: Collective Efficacy And Student Achievement, Carla E. Ellis
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this correlational study was to determine if between-school variance in school-level student achievement is related to collective teacher efficacy in 10 urban elementary schools in Chicago. It also examined the effects of teacher leaders’ implementation of a School-University partnership and the leadership characteristics of principals on school collective efficacy. Collective teacher efficacy was measured using Goddard’s (1998) 6-point 21-item Likert Collective Teacher Efficacy scale. There were 280 teachers and 53 teacher leaders who completed the scale. The Collective Teacher Efficacy scale results were analyzed and examined in relationship to school-level Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) test …
Sites Of Agency, Sites Of Growth: Elements Of Success For Formerly Incarcerated Adult Graduates Of An Alternative High School, Mary Hornschemeier Bandstra
Sites Of Agency, Sites Of Growth: Elements Of Success For Formerly Incarcerated Adult Graduates Of An Alternative High School, Mary Hornschemeier Bandstra
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
Students who leave high school before graduating run a high risk of becoming incarcerated, and adults with a record of incarceration and no high school diploma have difficulty maintaining legal employment and therefore remaining out of prison. For adults who lack high school diplomas, few options exist to earn that credential. Though standardized testing is still a point of controversy in education policy for juveniles, the GED exam is the assumed standard for adults in the United States to earn their high school credentials, and few alternatives exist for those who are ill-equipped to pass a demanding standardized test. This …
Help-Seeking Behaviors Of African American Men, Leslie D. Holley
Help-Seeking Behaviors Of African American Men, Leslie D. Holley
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
Given the prevalence of racism on African American men's psychological well-being and their high level of cultural mistrust, understanding factors that may have influenced their help-seeking behaviors and attitudes can be an important area of inquiry. If counselors and other professionals highlight factors that influence African American men's helping seeking behaviors they can develop outreach efforts to better serve this population and increase their counseling utilization rates. Existing literature has indicated that cultural mistrust, identity, and locus of control could play vital roles in the help-seeking behaviors and attitudes of African American men and has had implications for the counseling …
The Image Of God Of Christian, Non-Christian And Clinical Populations: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Perspective, Mihaela E. Bernard
The Image Of God Of Christian, Non-Christian And Clinical Populations: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Perspective, Mihaela E. Bernard
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
The study investigated the God image (Rizzuto, 1970) of Christian, non-Christian and clinical population of individuals, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder in a remission state of the illness, from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Participants were recruited from local mental health agencies and one local university. Their images of God were measured with the God Image Inventory (Lawrence, 1991) on eight scales - Presence, Challenge, Acceptance, Benevolence, Influence, Providence, Faith and Salience. The inventory was administered in a paper-in-pencil version and online via a web-based online scoring program of the GOd Image inventory (Gattis, 2001). The …
Steans Center Newsletter, Steans Center
Steans Center Newsletter, Steans Center
Steans Center Newsletters, Press Releases and News Items
No abstract provided.
Applications Of The Theories Of Mikhail Bakhtin In Science Education, Jason Delgatto
Applications Of The Theories Of Mikhail Bakhtin In Science Education, Jason Delgatto
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this literature review is to investigate the work of Russian philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895 – 1975), and more specifically, how his theories on language in a social context apply to science education. In response to ongoing concerns regarding declining student achievement in the sciences, this paper follows a growing trend to integrate perspectives from the fields of language, anthropology and sociology, in order to reform science instruction and improve student scientific literacy. Bakhtin’s major theories around dialogue, and his views on the celebration of carnival, are presented through an analysis of secondary resources that …
Context And Process In International Teacher Recruitment: The Experiences Of Global Educators Outreach (Geo) Teachers From Africa In The U.S.A., Omar A. Kamara
Context And Process In International Teacher Recruitment: The Experiences Of Global Educators Outreach (Geo) Teachers From Africa In The U.S.A., Omar A. Kamara
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
This study examined the experiences of three teachers recruited from African countries to teach in Chicago‘s public schools. The purpose of the study was to highlight the experiences of the teachers through the lens of changing global dynamics that make such international recruitment of teachers more likely than ever before. It was apparent through this research that the movement of the teachers from developing countries to the United States of America had professional, economic and social impact on the teachers, their families and their communities. Although the teachers interviewed were hopeful that the skills they are gaining could one day …