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Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Working Towards Decolonization, Indigeneity, And Interculturalism, Theresa (Therri) A. Papp

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

No abstract provided.

Critical Intersections Through Poetry In A Tesol & World Language Graduate Education Program, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Sharon M. Nuruddin, Kuo Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Amanda Brady Deaton, Xinyi Meng, Ashley Brown-Lemley, Ming Sun

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

In this studio submission, Language Education students who took one or more poetry writing courses along with their instructor share one poem draft and critical reflection, noting the political climate of the work co-produced and inquiry regarding the impact of producing creative work as reflexive, critical teacher education scholarship. Together they draw a context and implications for creative and critical teacher education through shared poetry writing.

“Where Are You From?”: Using Critical Race Theory To Analyze Graphic Novel Counter-Stories Of The Racial Microaggressions Experienced By Two Angry Asian Girls, Talitha Angelica Acaylar Trazo, Woohee Kim

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

This article uses critical race theory (CRT) to analyze two stories about racial microaggressions from Where Are You From?: Short stories about being Asian in America, the graphic novel written and illustrated by Talitha Angelica Acaylar Trazo in fulfillment of her undergraduate honors thesis. Where Are You From? visually historicizes the counter-stories of 48 Asian and Asian American students at a predominantly-white undergraduate institution. In this article, we examine these microaggressions in relation to institutional and structural racism and the intersections of race, gender, and power dynamics between white faculty and Asian female students. Furthermore, we propose …

Disrupting Dis/Abilization: A Critical Exploration Of Research Methods To Combat White Supremacy And Ableism In Education, Sara H. Petit-Mcclure, Chelsea Stinson

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

The following paper explores the way scientific research, as it is commonly defined, has been used to continue the marginalization and subsequent dis/abilization of students based on racial, cultural, and linguistic identities. Starting with a historical perspective, we trace the role of scientific research in the support of white supremacist, ableist societal mechanisms, as well as the emphasis on scientifically-based research in educational policy and practice. We call for an expansion of the definition of scientific research to emphasize mixed and multiple methods guided by the principles of participatory, emancipatory, and decolonizing methodologies.

Problem-Solving Versus Solving Problems From The Esl Math Teachers’ Point Of View, Christopher Lacy

CUP Ed.D. Dissertations

Krulik and Rudnick (1996) defined problem-solving as explaining how math tasks contain the potential to provide intellectual challenges to enhance the mathematical mindset and development. English as a Second Language (ESL) students must learn math, increase their English language use, and grow literacy skills all in one setting. ESL teachers must examine how ESL students solve, make real-world connections, and build upon learned behavior with rigor. The purpose of this qualitative study was to comprehend how math teachers of ESL students apply problem-solving to benefit the overall educational experience of these students. The research question guiding this study asked: What …

Technical Adequacy Of Curriculum-Based Measures In Writing In Grades 1–3, Abigail A. Allen, Pyung-Gang Jung, Apryl L. Poch, Dana Brandes, Jaehyun Shin, Erica S. Lembke, Kristen L. Mcmaster

Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to investigate evidence of reliability, criterion validity, and grade-level differences of curriculum-based measures of writing (CBM-W) with 612 students in grades 1–3. Four scoring procedures (words written, words spelled correctly, correct word sequences, and correct minus incorrect word sequences) were used with two CBM-W tasks (picture–word and story prompt) during fall, winter, and spring of one academic year. A subsample of participants (n = 244) were given a criterion measure in spring of the academic year. Pearson’s r coefficients were calculated to determine evidence of alternate form reliability and criterion validity, and a …

Generosity Of Spirit: Faith, Democracy, And Grace In Marilynne Robinson’S Gilead, Elisabeth Dellarova

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

As my honors capstone and a culminating course for the English major, I have completed an individual study on the theme of grace and how it relates to the American experience in Marilynne Robinson’s work, specifically her three books Gilead (2004), Home (2008), and Lila (2014). The books are about the families of John Ames and Robert Boughton, who are preachers and lifelong friends living in the fictional small town of Gilead, Iowa in the 1950s. Through the books, Robinson presents her view on modern American Christianity, placing it in the context of American religious movements such as Transcendentalism, Puritanism, …

Reading Instruction For Students With Intellectual Disabilities:Inservice Teachers' Perceptions, Agatha Lee Gibbons

Theses and Dissertations

Students with intellectual disabilities have at times been overlooked and denied effective reading instruction. Teachers tasked with instructing such students are often limited in the training, resources, and support necessary to effectively instruct these students in reading. These problems are further compounded by the fact that students with intellectual disabilities have historically been misperceived, often by the very educators tasked with instructing them, as either being unable to learn to read or that the prospect of teaching them to read is simply too daunting and complicated to be of sufficient worth (Aldridge, 2014; Kluth & Chandler-Olcott, 2008). Such misperception may …

College Of Education News, College Of Education, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• From apartheid to academia, Georgia Southern graduate student beats odds to earn degree on Friday
• Students exchange experiences with the University of South Bohemia
• Georgia Southern education professor gives keynote in Nigeria

Measuring L2 (Russian) Reading Proficiency Across Various Levels Using Eye Tracking, Anastasiia Nikol Rybakova

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years interest in L2 reading research has focused largely on word frequency, sentence level, word recognition, and several researchers have begun to use eye tracking to better study reading behaviors. Parshina et al. (under review) have found that high proficiency heritage speakers of Russian read faster in terms of gaze duration and total time and had fewer regressions than low proficiency heritage speakers. The current study focuses on the establishment of benchmarks for L2 Russian readers in terms of first fixation duration, gaze duration, and total time when reading a complete passage, and compares these variables among different …

An Intricate Ensemble : The Art-Science Of An Ecological Imaginary For The Anthropocene Epoch, Alyce Santoro

Masters Theses

The contradictions inherent in European Enlightenment-based “logics” that externalize humans from “nature” were a concern for the Romantic Naturalists, Dadaists, and Surrealists. More recently, some in the environmental humanities and socio-ecologically-concerned arts and sciences have also posed challenges to anthropocentric, hierarchical, positivist modes of thought. I suggest that by engaging the ludic, imaginative, and collaborative while bearing the empirical in mind, dualisms (such as objective and subjective, individual and collective) dissipate, and existence as a dialectical state of intricate ensemble can be revealed. In light of catastrophic disruption to Earth’s life-sustaining processes by exploitative forms of human activity, I argue …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (December 9, 2019), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Standardization Of The Computerized Battery For Neuropsychological Evaluation Of Children (Benci) In An Urban Setting, In Kenya: A Study Protocol, Rachel Wanjiru Maina, Amina Abubakar, Perez‑Garcia Miguel, Fons J. R. Van De Vijver, Manasi Kumar

Institute for Human Development, East Africa

Objective: In sub Saharan Africa one of the key challenges in assessment using neuropsychological tools has been the lack of adequately validated and easily implementable measures. This study will translate into English, adapt and standardize the Computerized Battery for Neuropsychological Evaluation of Children (BENCI). The BENCI battery will be adapted using back-translation design, comprehensive cultural adaptation and standardized in a case–control study involving two groups of children: HIV infected and HIV unexposed, uninfected children. The content adaptation will be iteratively carried out using knowledge of English and feedback from pilot testing with children. The proposed study will first involve the …

Lanthorn, Vol. 54, No. 18, December 9, 2019, Grand Valley State University

Volume 54, July 15, 2019 - April 27, 2020

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Queen Nanny, A Case Study For Cultural Heritage Tourism: The Archaeology Of Memory And Identity, Lacy Risner

Liberal Arts Capstones

This research project is intended to provide a foundation of knowledge of the Maroon culture in Jamaica, through the legends of one of their most prominent founders, Queen Nanny, as an aid for those who want to educate themselves before approaching community leaders about tourism development. Documentation of Queen Nanny’s life is contested and shrouded in mystery. Yet, that is part of what makes her memory so powerful. The various roles that Queen Nanny is associated with feature her adamant pursuit of an independent life for herself and her Maroons. Whether she is catching bullets or teaching the Maroons how …

Civil Warfare: Russian Foreign Policy Strategy In Eurasia, Robert Q. Carolan

Honors Capstones

In the aftermath of NATO’s 2008 expansion into Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation has implemented a new stratagem of hybrid warfare. One that aspires to reorient Eurasia around a Russian nucleus of power. A cornerstone of this new foreign policy? Civil society and the destabilization of western institutions in key countries such as Ukraine and the Republic of Georgia. Drawing on ground experience in Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia—as well as expert knowledge, this paper will analyze Russia’s use of civil society in the fight for Eurasia.

Small Rural High Schools And College Completion, John Martin

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Students in small rural high schools are an overlooked group of students in this country. The push for students to go to college seems to be common across the United States; however, that might not be the case for every group of students. Small rural high school students are a unique set of students when it comes to college because it is not always considered the biggest priority for these sets of households. The smaller rural high schools are majority filled with students of lower socioeconomic status (Hardre, & Reeve, 2003; Meendering, Kranz, Shafrath, & McCrmack, 2016). A lot of …

Evaluating And Addressing The Information Needs And Habits Of Turkish English Majors, Leanna C Fry

Theses and Dissertations

Information literacy is a relatively new concept in Turkey and is most accessible to English Language Learners. This article-format dissertation identifies the information needs and habits of English Language and Literature majors at a major Turkish university, discusses the development of an online intervention to teach information literacy to these students, and tests the efficacy of using Turkish subtitles to teach information literacy skills to these English majors. Article 1 surveyed students majoring in English Language and Literature about their attitudes towards library usage and sources. Student attitudes revealed a preference for internet sources over library sources and a belief …

Perceptual Experience And Understanding Language, Seong Oh

Open Access Dissertations

Can we literally see and hear meanings? In my dissertation, I argue first that we have a conscious understanding experience which is (1) non-inferential, (2) cognitively impenetrable, and (2) with a specific sensory modal. Under the characterization of the experience, I conclude that the experience is literally perceptual. Thereafter, I argue that this characterized understanding experience is conceptual by virtue of being a high-level perceptual experience, and then plays the role of epistemic justifier for the belief of what an utterance means just as high-level perceptual experience in general performs as a justifier for perceptual belief.

Deworming Children For Soil-Transmitted Helminths In Low And Middle-Income Countries: Systematic Review And Individual Participant Data Network Meta-Analysis, Vivian Andrea Welch, Alomgir Hossain, Elizabeth Ghogomu, Alison Riddle, Simon Cousens, Michelle Gaffey, Paul Arora, Robert Black, Donald Bundy, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

Woman and Child Health

Intestinal parasites affect millions of children globally. We aimed to assess effects of deworming children on nutritional and cognitive outcomes across potential effect modifiers using individual participant data (IPD). We searched multiple databases to 27 March 2018, grey literature, and other sources. We included randomised and quasi randomised trials of deworming compared to placebo or other nutritional interventions with data on baseline infection. We used a random-effects network meta-analysis with IPD and assessed overall quality, following a pre-specified protocol. We received IPD from 19 trials of STH deworming. Overall risk of bias was low. There were no statistically significant subgroup …

Creative Arts-Based Parents Training Program For Parents Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jung Eun Park

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

This study evaluated the impact of the Creative Arts-based Parents’ Training (CAPT) program. The 6-week long, creative arts therapy-based program and its impact on parental stress and sense of competence for parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) was examined. Korean Parenting Stress Index Short-Form (K-PSI-SF) and Korean-Parenting Efficacy Test (K-PET) were used as quantitative measurements. Qualitative data were also collected for the experimental group (n = 17) using questionnaires, art journaling, and a 30 min focus group interview. The control group (n = 15) only participated in quantitative measurements. There was no difference in age between …

Differentiated Social Skills Curriculum For Aac Users, Braden Mccarty, Ann Beck, Tricia Larkin

Graduate Independent Studies - Communication Sciences and Disorders

Communication is a basic human right. Every day, people express their ideas, emotions, wants, and needs with various conversational partners. Once young children learn to talk, social communication instruction usually does not take place in a formal setting. Children often learn appropriate means of conducting themselves in a social situation through daily interactions, a skill that continues to develop as a person ages. For individuals that require an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device to express themselves, social communication can become a difficult task. AAC users are often individuals that have difficulty with expressive language, but there are some circumstances …

Religious Sister Educators: A Narrative Study Through A Feminist Lens, Lisa Peluso

Theses & Dissertations

Through the dedicated labor of women religious, the Catholic school system represents the largest private system both nationally and internationally (Arthur, 2005; United States Catholic Conference of Bishops, 2016). Once the backbone of American parochial schools, the presence of religious sister educators within Catholic schools has become an increasingly rare occurrence. Using a theoretical framework based on feminist theory and rooted in the concepts of oppression and identity, this dissertation study examines the personal, religious formation, and professional experiences of two retired religious sister educators who successfully devoted over four decades to the mission of Catholic education as they navigated …

European Travel Writing On Somaliland: The Rhetoric Of Empire And The Emergence Of The Somali Subject, Jamal Gabobe

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Review Of Some Tigrinya And Somali Proverbs, Filip Busau

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

تطبيقات مقصد العرض المعاصرة "دراسة مقاصدية قانونية"Contemporary Applications Of Preserving Honor - Legal Purposeful Study", Osama Hasan Rabab’A, Faisal Shawabkeh, Ahmed Rababaa

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

This research aims, to demonstrate the impact of DNA, to maintain the intent of keeping the offspring, both: teleology and legaley, has included an introduction to the research, and the definition of the problem, and the idea of the previous studies, and scientific additions added by the search, and the explanation of the methodology and plan of the research.

The study consists of two sections, the first section, the purpose of keeping the offspring, and conditions related to it, which is three chapters: Chapter One: The term intent of keeping the offspring, linguistically and idiomatically, and the second: positive provisions, …

العلاقات الأسلوبية بين سور الطواسين (الشعراء، النمل، القصص) Stylistic Relations Between The Walls Of The Tawasin (Poets, Ants, Stories, Rima Hamdallah Abu Sweilem

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

This study deals with the stylistic relations between the three Qur’anic chapters, which begin with the written letters (Tasim and Tas) poets, ants and stories. Stylistic relations are meant to deal with the linguistic and linguistic meanings and meanings. And through the study of inductive analytical of some of the positions and comply with the size of the research, to achieve the objectives of this study and answer its questions and report its results.

كتب علم الأنساب عند المحدثين - دراسة نقدية- The Books Of Genealogy In Accordance With Hadith Scholars - A Critical Study -, Bashar Youssef Al-Zoubi, Abdullah Al-Sawalmeh

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

In this study, I have revealed the methods of Hadith scholars in their Ascription Science writings, taking four models of their books as a subject of study. To this end, the definition of ascription was presented in linguistics and terminology, and a suggested terminology was introduced. The stages of ascription science and its evolution have been traced before and after Islam. The study has mentioned the types of ascription that were adopted by Hadith scholars and clarified how new types of attribution arose. The study has also pointed out the importance of ascription science in religious, cultural and political traditions. …

التفتيش القضائي: مفهومه، مشروعيته، حكمه، "دراسة فقهية". Judicial Inspection: Its Concept, Legitimacy, Judgment - A Jurisprudential Study, Tariq Asabbagh

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

This study presents the concept of judicial inspection in the Islamic jurisprudence, in addition it shows a set of terms related to judicial inspection, whether related in terms of linguistic or conventional definition or from the practical aspect of judicial inspection. This study also showed the evidence of the legality of the judicial inspection from the practical point of view, In the inspection of workers, governors, princes and judges, as well as the study was subjected to a statement of the judgment of judicial inspection and wisdom, and the study presented some of the forms of judicial inspection, and has …