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Stories We Carry Into Classrooms: The Literacy Narratives Of Teachers Of Students With Complex Support Needs, Sharon L. Head
Stories We Carry Into Classrooms: The Literacy Narratives Of Teachers Of Students With Complex Support Needs, Sharon L. Head
Special Education ETDs
In this study, I used a case-based narrative inquiry to investigate the literacy narratives and the thinking about instructional practices of four teachers of students with complex support needs (CSN) from a small, rural school district in the Southwestern United States. I conducted initial and follow-up interviews and facilitated two focus groups across an eight-week period using a process designed to look at teacher narratives across time and after interactions with peers. My data were in the form of transcripts of all interviews and focus groups that I analyzed using two analytic processes: thematic and narrative (Polkinghorne, 1995). I described …
From Council Fires To Computers: Computer Assisted Consensus Building Within Tribes Between Tribes And Between Tribal And Non-Tribal Governments, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)
From Council Fires To Computers: Computer Assisted Consensus Building Within Tribes Between Tribes And Between Tribal And Non-Tribal Governments, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)
LaDonna Harris Native American Collection
This is a concept paper on the development and training of an Indian Interactive Management team in Native American country presented to the Administration for Native Americans. In this paper it is explained how a computer assisted discussion process called Interactive Management (IM) can enable a group of people with highly contrastive perspectives to come together and solve problems because the IM values the differences in perspective and sees them as contributions.