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The Success Of Native American Students At Bennett County High School And Parent Involvement, Janet F. Varejcka Jan 1992

The Success Of Native American Students At Bennett County High School And Parent Involvement, Janet F. Varejcka

Student Work

The history of Native Americans has been checkered. No more so than in the history of their plight for quality education. The concept of racial inferiority was an excuse to push Indians from land they had always occupied. Native American men, women, and children were treated like animals.

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Nova University Ed.D. Programs In Child And Youth Studies 1992-1993 Catalog, Nova University Jan 1992

Nova University Ed.D. Programs In Child And Youth Studies 1992-1993 Catalog, Nova University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

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Reasoning Using Biological Content: Relationships Among Evidence, Theory, And Interpretation., Catherine Lee Cummins Jan 1992

Reasoning Using Biological Content: Relationships Among Evidence, Theory, And Interpretation., Catherine Lee Cummins

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Theoretical sampling was used to select 30 high school biology and college zoology students who examined a simulation involving island biogeography. The literature base for the study was scientific reasoning, problem solving, and prescientific conceptions. The research questions were answered using qualitative and quantitative methods. The first research question was: What number and what type of variables would be used to evaluate biological data? The students used 19 categories of variables, and the most frequently used were size, distance, and food. The second research question was: Will students use the controlling variables strategy in this reasoning task? Only four students …

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Impact Of The Preservice Field Experience In Foreign Language Teaching: A Study Of The Development Of Preservice Teachers' Perspectives In Foreign Language Teaching. (Volumes I And Ii)., Denise Egea-Kuehne Jan 1992

Impact Of The Preservice Field Experience In Foreign Language Teaching: A Study Of The Development Of Preservice Teachers' Perspectives In Foreign Language Teaching. (Volumes I And Ii)., Denise Egea-Kuehne

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Within the broader issue of teacher education, the focus of this study is on one of the most neglected areas of inquiry in the field of foreign languages, the preservice field experience, and the development of student teachers' perspectives of foreign language teaching. The following questions were specifically addressed: (1) What perspectives of foreign language teaching do student teachers hold upon completion of their program of university courses? (2) Is there an alteration of student teachers' perspectives of foreign language teaching during their student teaching semester? (3) What factors appear to influence student teachers' perspectives of foreign language teaching during …

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Cultural Studies And The Multicultural Curriculum., Mary Susan Huddleston Edgerton Jan 1992

Cultural Studies And The Multicultural Curriculum., Mary Susan Huddleston Edgerton

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Although some of the most recent work in the field of multicultural education has acknowledged and begun to theorize about what has been called the new cultural politics of difference, problems concerning the very notions of marginality, boundaries, and their accompanying "essentialist" thought remain undertheorized. It is my intention to bring discussions about marginality and essentialism from literary theory, feminist psychoanalytic theory and poststructuralist philosophy more explicitly into the conversation about multicultural curriculum theorizing. In this study I have attempted to further develop this conversation around notions of "translation" as generated by philosophers Michel Serres (1982) and John Rajchmann (1991) …

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From Their Perspective: Issues Of Schooling And Family Culture Of Four African-American First Generation College Students., Neari Francois Warner Jan 1992

From Their Perspective: Issues Of Schooling And Family Culture Of Four African-American First Generation College Students., Neari Francois Warner

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The diversity of students entering today's colleges and universities makes it increasingly important that educators, theorists and other scholars strive toward a fuller understanding of the life conditions of minority groups. This research is designed to provide insight into the processes, pressures and people that shape the lives of one particular minority group, the African American non-traditional, first generation college student. In this research, I examine the school and family experiences of four of these students in an attempt (1) to provide data that contribute to the refutation of the stereotypical images and myths that are so pervasively used to …

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Centralization And Decentralization: The Relationship Of Bureaucracy, Autonomy And The Principalship In Elementary Schools., Cheryl Berot Boutte Jan 1992

Centralization And Decentralization: The Relationship Of Bureaucracy, Autonomy And The Principalship In Elementary Schools., Cheryl Berot Boutte

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Throughout the last decade, parents and communities have continued to press for more control over their schools in an attempt to improve performance. Members of the educational community have begun calling for school restructuring to return decision making power to the school site professionals. These calls for the decentralization of our highly centralized school systems have prompted educators, researchers and political scientists to examine the organizational settings in which schools operate. This study investigated the influence of organizational structure, namely centralized bureaucracy and decentralized autonomy on school leadership and the relationship of that leadership to the school's culture. The study …

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Autobiographical Amnesia: Memory, Myth, Curriculum., Gregory Michael Nixon Jan 1992

Autobiographical Amnesia: Memory, Myth, Curriculum., Gregory Michael Nixon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Autobiography in curriculum theory and practice is being more and more acknowledged as a major force leading toward the development of reflectively analytical teachers, reflexive practitioners, and discursively self-aware individuals. I look to two vital aspects of self-narration to explore. I speak firstly of memory, without which narrative continuity would be impossible. Memory is as involved with learning as it is with storytelling, and I would agree with Krell (1978) that "inquiry into memory and the theory of pedagogy go hand in hand" (p. 131). I eschew the models of memory provided by the behavioral sciences, empirical psychology, cognitive psychology, …

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Family Life Education In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In The 20th Century: A Historical Review, Ray W. Stringham Jan 1992

Family Life Education In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In The 20th Century: A Historical Review, Ray W. Stringham

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reviewed selected educational literature in almost 350 texts published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) from General Authorities and manuals which included content curriculum in adult family life education; for the adult women's organization (Relief Society); for the men's Melchizedek Priesthood; and for parents instructing their children at home (Family Home Evening).

Topics were ranked by century, according to frequencies of occurrence (FO) in the five major publications. Topics were also summarized by each decade. Tables were provided which summarized the top 40 of 78 topics identified. Recurring Themes suggest family is the basis …

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Full-Time Courses, Entry 1992, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee Jan 1992

Full-Time Courses, Entry 1992, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee

Prospectus: Bolton Street

Courses for the College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin 1.

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A Survey Of Teaching Strategies Used In California Community College Nursing Programs To Foster Critical Thinking, Nicki Harrington Edd Jan 1992

A Survey Of Teaching Strategies Used In California Community College Nursing Programs To Foster Critical Thinking, Nicki Harrington Edd

Dissertations

This study explicated critical thinking teaching strategies being utilized by California Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) faculty, and their perceived effectiveness, to serve as a model for faculties in nursing and other disciplines. Questions addressed by the study included not only teaching strategies in use and their perceived effectiveness, but also exploration of common threads among nursing educators in their definitions of critical thinking, and common themes of "especially effective" techniques. The study involved a pilot of the survey instrument, utilizing one sample school's nursing faculty, with subsequent distribution to all 69 other ADN program senior nursing course lead faculty. The …

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A Comparison Of Cognitive Abilities Test Scores Of Second Graders From Four Different Preschool Backgrounds, Judy A. Conner Jan 1992

A Comparison Of Cognitive Abilities Test Scores Of Second Graders From Four Different Preschool Backgrounds, Judy A. Conner

Graduate Research Papers

This study focused around a research question involving middle and upper socioeconomic status children: Do public school second graders who previously attended Montessori preschools demonstrate higher cognitive abilities (as measured by the Cognitive Abilities Test) than second graders who attended traditional preschools or did not attend preschool? Although there was a wide variability of scores within each group, t-tests analyses revealed significant differences favoring preschool attenders when compared to those who did not attend preschool, and for Montessori preschoolers when compared to the other groups.

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A Conceptual Model To Assisteducational Leaders Manage Change, John Richard Cochren Jan 1992

A Conceptual Model To Assisteducational Leaders Manage Change, John Richard Cochren

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual model to assistEducational leaders manage change. Research for the study concentrated in the realm of theory development and model building rather than hypothesis testing. The goal of the study was to answer the following research questions: (1) Is there a need for assistance in managing change effectively? (2) Will major components that inhibit change be revealed by a review of the literature? (3) Are the most salient features of the components identified? (4) Can the major components be interrelated in a way that will assist in managing change effectively? The …

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Catalog, 1991-1992, Anderson University - South Carolina Oct 1991

Catalog, 1991-1992, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1991-1992 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

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Selected Principals' Perceptions Of The Importance Of The National Policy Board For Educational Administration's Initially Recommended Foundational Areas Of Learning For Principal Education, Anthony T. Hussey May 1991

Selected Principals' Perceptions Of The Importance Of The National Policy Board For Educational Administration's Initially Recommended Foundational Areas Of Learning For Principal Education, Anthony T. Hussey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was undertaken to determine selected principals' perceptions of the importance of the NPBEA's initially recommended seven foundational areas of learning and associated topics to be included in doctoral programs for preservice preparation of principals. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine the amount of coverage of the foundational areas and associated topics in the preparation programs of the selected principals. National samples of U.S. public elementary and secondary school principals were surveyed over a 14 week period. Except for four topics, both groups of principals perceived the areas and topics to be important. Both groups perceived …

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Expectations: A Guide For Childbirth Education At Logan Regional Hospital, Janet Radford Bergeson May 1991

Expectations: A Guide For Childbirth Education At Logan Regional Hospital, Janet Radford Bergeson

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The purpose of this project is to develop a childbirth education handbook for expectant parents that specifically follows the ongoing childbirth classes taught at Logan Regional Hospital. At present, much of the information that is provided to expectant parents comes from companies that advertise their products through childbirth education brochures. It is desirable that the students be provided with a complete, objective handbook to supplement the instruction received in the classroom.

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Newsbulletin Vol. 22, No. 8, Salve Regina College Mar 1991

Newsbulletin Vol. 22, No. 8, Salve Regina College

Newsbulletin

No abstract provided.

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The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 1991-02-01, Wooster Voice Editors Feb 1991

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 1991-02-01, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 1991-2000

The first page of this edition of the Wooster Voice focuses largely on the new parking regulations implemented by the administration. This includes a $15 parking ticket for vehicles registered with the college, and $25 for unregistered vehicles. The Viewpoints section of the week are once more focused on student opinions of the war and everything surrounding the discussion of the war. Later on in the issue, there are some articles about the various athletic events on campus. Finally, the issue ends with advertisements.

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Law, Culture, And Children With Disabilities: Educational Rights And The Construction Of Difference, David M. Engel Feb 1991

Law, Culture, And Children With Disabilities: Educational Rights And The Construction Of Difference, David M. Engel

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Widows, Education And Social Change In Twentieth Century Banaras, Nita Kumar Jan 1991

Widows, Education And Social Change In Twentieth Century Banaras, Nita Kumar

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

In the first half of this century, some one dozen women in Banaras played key rotes in channelling the educational movement into new directions, expanding its agenda to include girls, especially poor girls. These women stand out as pioneering in that they founded schools, dynamic in the way they administered and expanded them, and radical in the vision they had for their students. What makes the case of these women particularly interesting is that they were mostly widows. They rejected the familiar stereotypes for widows through their activism, but in subtle ways that retained for them the respect of society …

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Fulltime Courses 1991-92, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee Jan 1991

Fulltime Courses 1991-92, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee

Prospectus: Bolton Street

Courses for the College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin 1.

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A Study Of The Effects On Dropout Migrant Students, Relative As To How It Affects Their Lives, Frances D. Macias Jan 1991

A Study Of The Effects On Dropout Migrant Students, Relative As To How It Affects Their Lives, Frances D. Macias

All Graduate Projects

A survey was conducted of 15 migrant students and their parents. Students and their parents were interviewed with a list of questions. These students attended two secondary and two senior high schools in Yakima, Washington. It was determined that because of continued migration of families, students get behind in their studies and therefore lose interest because of the frustration and low self-esteem these students feel. Families still migrate from Yakima, Washington, to other states in search of seasonal work, farm labor is still a way of life for migrant families from schools in the Yakima School District. It's sad to …

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Writing Relationships: Reading Students, Reading Ourselves, Lad Tobin Jan 1991

Writing Relationships: Reading Students, Reading Ourselves, Lad Tobin

Doctoral Dissertations

If we want to understand how students learn to write in a college composition course, we need to pay more attention to the context in which that writing and the teacher's reading occurs. What we need is a definition of context broad enough to account for the interactive and dialectical nature of the composing and reading processes, but still narrow enough to tell us what not to take into account. My argument in this dissertation is that we can best accomplish this by viewing context in composition as primarily determined by the interpersonal, classroom relationships--between the student and teacher, between …

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The College Participation Of The 1982 Undergraduate Cohort In Louisiana Public Higher Education: A Longitudinal Analysis., Margaret Blanchard Hargroder Jan 1991

The College Participation Of The 1982 Undergraduate Cohort In Louisiana Public Higher Education: A Longitudinal Analysis., Margaret Blanchard Hargroder

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study examined the six-year college participation of students entering Louisiana public undergraduate higher education in Fall 1982. Motivation for the study stemmed from several educational conditions in Louisiana: a lower graduation rate than that of the nation, disparities in the graduation rates of Black students and White students, and administrative considerations for the restructuring of public higher education. The purposes of the study were: (1) to describe the population by selected characteristics and (2) to identify participation differences in enrollment, persistence, and achievement among sub-groups classified by: (a) race and gender, (b) developmental program participation, and (c) institutional types …

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Family Support For Persisters And Non-Persisters In Louisiana's Adult Basic Education Programs., Geraldine Hargrove Holmes Jan 1991

Family Support For Persisters And Non-Persisters In Louisiana's Adult Basic Education Programs., Geraldine Hargrove Holmes

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The role that family involvement and the effects of home efforts have on improved student achievement for children is well documented in the literature. The purpose of this study was to determine whether family support should be considered when planning adult basic education (ABE) programs. The objectives addressed were: demographic characteristics, level of family support, and relationship of family support among selected variables. A statewide random sample of 197 adult basic education students was surveyed (82.7% response rate). Persisters (students who either completed the ABE program or were continuing their instruction when the study was conducted) and non-persisters (students who …

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The Effects Of Community Building Group Process Intervention Technique On Reading Performance Among Inmates In A Medium Security Prison., Robert Earl Roberts Jan 1991

The Effects Of Community Building Group Process Intervention Technique On Reading Performance Among Inmates In A Medium Security Prison., Robert Earl Roberts

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A substantial body of research has shown that when students work together in groups and are rewarded based on the learning of all the groups members, they achieve consistently more than students who are in traditionally taught classes. The goal of this project was to test the effects of an innovative group process intervention technique on reading performance among a population of incarcerated adult males in a medium security prison in Louisiana. This model, referred to as "Community Building" (CBGP), has been utilized among other ways as an intervention technique to resolve organizational/personnel problems in private, business, university, and government …

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An Ethnographic Study Of Kindergarten Children's Literacy Skills And Stress-Related Behaviors Before And After Teacher Demonstration., Nancy Crossland Weems Jan 1991

An Ethnographic Study Of Kindergarten Children's Literacy Skills And Stress-Related Behaviors Before And After Teacher Demonstration., Nancy Crossland Weems

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this ethnographic research was to study kindergarten students' literacy skills and stress-related behaviors and a teacher's instructional behavior before and after demonstrations in appropriate bookreading strategies. A lower socio-economic setting, which previously had been identified by Burts, Hart, Charlesworth, and Kirk (1990a) as a developmentally inappropriate instructional environment, was selected for observation as one which might be amenable to change. The demonstrations included bookreading strategies that the kindergarten teacher could implement to promote the acquisition of literacy in ways that do not contribute to stress. Ethnographic data collection consisted of three months of participant observation in one …

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An Analysis Of Educational Films: An African-American Perspective. (Volumes I And Ii)., Brenda Garibaldi Hatfield Jan 1991

An Analysis Of Educational Films: An African-American Perspective. (Volumes I And Ii)., Brenda Garibaldi Hatfield

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Historically African-Americans have been marginalized and subordinated in critical discourse and research in curriculum studies and educational media. There is a vital need for research directed toward African-Americans as subjects and viewers of media used in school curricula. Cultural theorists in curriculum and educational media studies are interested in knowing how social, political and ideological messages are produced and circulated in society, and how student audiences use them to make sense of their experiences. The purpose of this research is to contribute to a better understanding of how racial representations and social identities are coded and produced in educational films, …

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School Centralization And Organizational Effectiveness: The Role Of Teacher Alienation., Bobby L. Johnson Jr Jan 1991

School Centralization And Organizational Effectiveness: The Role Of Teacher Alienation., Bobby L. Johnson Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The focus of educational reform in recent years has shifted to the restructuring of schools. Many reformers have defined restructuring in terms of the decentralization of power within schools (Elmore et al., 1990). Yet, there is little research to suggest how such decentralization will affect teachers and improve schools. Given this scarcity, the purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between the degree of centralized decision-making which exists in a school, teachers' cognitive and affective work alienation, and multiple indices of school effectiveness. Such relationships were examined within the context of Seeman's (1972) framework of social change as …

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"Spades Players" And "Senators": An Ethnography Of Black Subcultures In A Community College., Anthony Louis Molina Sr Jan 1991

"Spades Players" And "Senators": An Ethnography Of Black Subcultures In A Community College., Anthony Louis Molina Sr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This ethnographic study of Black community college students, in a predominantly white community college, took place over a three-year period and focused on two groups. One group, the spades players, neglected their studies in favor of the card game spades, which they made the central activity of their family-like collective in the student commons. The other group, Black senators in the Student Government Association, were academic achievers who performed service to the college. By immersion into both cultures, the researcher gained the confidence of individual students in both groups, interviewed them in various settings, and looked for reasons behind the …

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