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Ralph Bunche National Historic District - Oral History Project (Fa 457), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 457. Oral interviews with thirty-one African Americans who had some association with the area included within the Ralph Bunche National Historic District in Glasgow, Kentucky. Interviewees discuss family history, social rites and customs, the importance of the church and the school, integration and segregation, as well as urban renewal.

Bridging Worlds: Advocacy Stigma And The Challenge Of Teaching Writing To Secondary Ell Students, Laurie Zucker-Conde

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

Standardized interviews with nine high school ESL teachers in nine Massachusetts high schools were conducted. The study examined current writing practices and teacher beliefs about ELL student capacity to achieve higher-level writing ability in the current high-stakes writing environment in urban public schools. Four major research questions were addressed: (1) How do teachers think about their role as advocates for ELL students? How do their classroom practices respond to the stigmatized position of ELL students? (2) How does ELL teacher advocacy influence how ELL teachers teach writing to ELL students? (3) How do teachers enable the higher-level writing abilities of …

School Work Environment: Transition From Education To Practice, Shane Ross

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Learning how to learn as opposed to obtaining the experience to practice any field of professionalism creates a great disconnect between education and careers. Many educational programs do not have the curriculum or a building to transition students into a work atmosphere. When the design of a building and its program creates an environment that bridges the gap between school and work, the psychology and standard of an average graduate greatly increases. Students learn from being taught and personal experience. There are programs that require an internship or similar practice as a mandatory factor of the degree. Apprenticeships connect the …

The Periscope, 2009 May, Subiaco Abbey And Academy

The Periscope, 1921-2020

The Subiaco Academy newspaper entitled The Periscope, dated May 2009

Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-1991 (Sc 1906), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1906. Letters from U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky to constituents dealing with various political issues. He mentions then-senator Lyndon Baines Johnson blocking one of his bills.

Payne, Ella (Sc 1901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 1901. Letter, 19 June 1897, from Ella Payne, Tip Top, Meade County, Kentucky, to Blanche Melbourne, Swanwick, Illinois discussing community events, commencement week activities at the local school, bicycles, and strawberries. Includes cut out pictures of ladies' blouses.

Hines, George Lehman, 1851-1943 (Sc 1904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1904. Correspondence, teacher's certificates from the Shelby County, Tennessee public schools, and other materials related to Hines's work and family.

"Hey Young World”: Hip-Hop As A Tool For Educational And Rehabilitative Work With Youth, Heather Day

American Studies Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Equipping Parents To Be Spiritual Leaders In The Home, Douglas J. Schoelles

ATS Dissertations

The goal of this project was to effect a positive cognitive, affective, and behavioral response in parents from two Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregations to lead their households in spiritual disciplines. The project consisted of four consecutive Sundays of preaching on faith forming in the home coupled with encouragement of the practice of a specific faith habit. These sermons were preached in tandem with four teaching sessions that reiterated the role of parents as spiritual leaders and concentrated on training families to engage in four faith habits in the home. Teaching tools were distributed to facilitate implantation of faith …

The Relationship Between Religiosity And Educational Pursuit And Perception Among College Students At Utah State University, Randy A. Larose

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of religiosity on the pursuit of education and the perceptions towards education among college students at Utah State University (USU). The study focused on what religious variables were useful in predicting postsecondary educational pursuit and either positive or negative educational perceptions among students at USU. From a systematic random sample of 1,460 USU students, a correlational research design was used for this study. Multiple linear regression (MLR) techniques were used to determine which of the various measures of religiosity provided the greatest degree of predictive value for ascertaining educational pursuit …

The Periscope, 2009 April, Subiaco Abbey And Academy

The Periscope, 1921-2020

The Subiaco Academy newspaper entitled The Periscope, dated April 2009

Hughes, Debra (Fa 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 403. Interviews conducted by Debra Hughes with Neta Hughes, Arthur D. Hughes, Leiah Drake and Joe D. Patton, Sr. related to one-room and rural schools. For transcripts of four interviews with one-room school teachers click on the "Additional Files" below.

Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), 1924-2019 (Sc 1900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1900. Letters and portions of letters written by author Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Adair County, Kentucky to her daughter Elizabeth, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Includes references to her family and friends, her daily life, and her writing habits.

Swigert, Anne Howe, 1825-1845 - Letter To (Sc 1892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1892. Letter, 22 September 1840, from "Nannie," Paris, Kentucky, to her classmate Anne Swigert, telling of her vacation, her reading materials, and general gossip about her classmates.

To Read Or Not To Read: The Influence Of Literature On Behavior Management, Katherine E. Ray

Senior Honors Theses

Perhaps one of the most discussed issues in American education is that of classroom management. This is not simply an elementary-level problem either, as would be expected due to the younger student’s short attention spans, but an issue that affects the middle and high schools as well. More and more, behavioral issues are becoming a problem because they cause disruption in the classroom and restrict the students from reaching their full learning potential. But are these problems only due to the special needs of students, such as ADD or ADHD, or does the issue lie deeper? Perhaps reviewing the literature …

Gender Mainstreaming In Social Protection By Vibhuti Patel, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

Gender mainstreaming has become a buzzword in development discourse in the 21st century. The volume under review is a timely publication in the context of the ever increasing pauperisation and immiserisation of millions of people, especially women and children. Naila Kabeer has performed a daunting task in examining the effect of economic globalisation on gender relations for a large majority of the poor around the world and the affirmative actions taken by the nation states.

The Education Of A Witch: Tiffany Aching, Hermione Granger, And Gendered Magic In Discworld And Potterworld, Janet Brennan Croft

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Explores the depiction of gender in education, and how gender issues in education relate to power and agency, in two current young adult fantasy series featuring feisty heroines determined to learn all that they can: Hermione Granger in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, and Tiffany Aching, main character of three Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. Includes a brief appendix on cross-dressing in children’s literature.

Gilbert, Helen Lynn, 1949-1981 (Sc 1889), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1889. Paper: "Early Schools in Warren County [Kentucky]" written by Helen Lynn Gilbert.

Penn State: Symbol And Myth, Gary G. Desantis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will focus on the popular culture iconography of the Pennsylvania State University: the Nittany Lion-as a symbol and apolitical mascot; Happy Valley, the geographic area in which the university is located, as a kind of sacred place and utopia in the Keystone State; football-its hallowed shrines, legendary coaches, and heroic players; regional foods and delicacies-from the unique offerings of the area's diners to the University Creamery (where patrons yearly consume more than 750,000 ice cream cones); and Lion Shrine and the adjacent Nittany Lion Inn-where the faithful have made pilgrimages since the early-twentieth century. The sum of these …

Access And Equity In Higher Education In Antigua And Barbuda, Elsie Hewlett-Thomas

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Across the international higher education spectrum access represents a significant issue. The literature is replete with analyses of access in various higher education systems. Low and inequitable patterns of participation in higher education are particularly prominent in developing countries. This dissertation is a case study of the higher education system of the state of Antigua and Barbuda, former British territories of the Caribbean region, Focusing on the issue of access and equity of access this study addresses the trends related to participation in higher education in this twin-island state of the Caribbean region, and analyzes factors that affect participation in …

The Periscope, 2009 March, Subiaco Abbey And Academy

The Periscope, 1921-2020

The Subiaco Academy newspaper entitled The Periscope, dated March 2009

Bevier-Cleaton High School, 1931 (Sc 1802), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1802. School stationery with 1931 class list, Bevier-Cleaton High School, Cleaton, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

Dalton, Susan (Fa 424), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 424. Interviews conducted by Susan Dalton with George Offitt, Sr., Gene W. Brown, Monya Vance Pryor, and Ann Scharklet related to race and integration in Sumner County, Tennessee.

Bush, Brendan David (Fa 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 421. Interview: "Dr. F. O. Moxley: Trailblazer" conducted by Bendan David Bush for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

The Periscope, 2009 February, Subiaco Abbey And Academy

The Periscope, 1921-2020

The Subiaco Academy newspaper entitled The Periscope, dated February 2009

Digital Storytelling At An Educational Nonprofit: A Case Study And Genre-Informed Implementation Analysis, Lisa Dush

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

Digital stories--two- to five-minute videos consisting of a first-person voiceover set to a slideshow of personal photographs--combine personal reflection with digital technologies. The stories and the process of making them appeal to many organizations, particularly those with a mission of outreach or education. However, despite the inexpensive and fairly easy-to-use digital technologies involved, organizations have typically had difficulty implementing the practice.

This dissertation presents a case study of one organization that hoped to implement digital storytelling, detailing the 15 months after its Writing Director completed a digital storytelling train-the-trainer workshop. The case study organization, Tech Year, is a one-year intensive …

The Periscope, 2009 January, Subiaco Abbey And Academy

The Periscope, 1921-2020

The Subiaco Academy newspaper entitled The Periscope, dated January 2009

Mercer, George, 1733-1784 (Sc 90), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) only for Manuscripts Small Collection 90. Letter written by George Mercer from London, England, to his brother, James, in Virginia, in which he discusses his role as agent for the Ohio Company, the educating of Virginians in London, and a 1758 debt owed to him by George Washington. Mercer served under Washington in the French and Indian War. Includes research notes concerning the letter and the Mercer family.

Irvine, M. Loula (Sc 1739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1739. Teacher's grade book kept by M. Loula Irvine from September 1889 to January 1890 for an unidentified Kentucky school. Also includes some notes on elocution.

The Effects Of English Teaching Methods Course Of The English Department Of Kabul Education University On Secondary School English Teachers, Ali Hikmat

Master's Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.