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Explaining Academic Failure In The United States And Laos: Interpreting The Voices Of Hmong American And Hmong Lao Students, Leena Her Nov 2011

Explaining Academic Failure In The United States And Laos: Interpreting The Voices Of Hmong American And Hmong Lao Students, Leena Her

Leena N. Her

Claims about minority students' academic potentials are often used to explain the achievement gap between poor and minority students and their white counterparts in the United States. Alternatively, Professor Leena Her argues that as cultural citizens of the United States, ethnic minority students’ explanation of failure in the U.S. reveal much more about the culture and democratic ideology of the United States.


Deepening Our Understanding And Advocacy For Ells: K-12 And University Partnerships As Hopeful Sites Of Advocacy For Ells, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks, Trish Mullaney Oct 2011

Deepening Our Understanding And Advocacy For Ells: K-12 And University Partnerships As Hopeful Sites Of Advocacy For Ells, Susan Adams, Kathryn Brooks, Trish Mullaney

Susan Adams

Workshop presented at the 2011 Indiana University Southeast English as a New Language Conference, New Albany, IN, November 12, 2011.


Being The Change We Want To See: Enl Teachers Author Their Own Identities, Susan Adams Oct 2011

Being The Change We Want To See: Enl Teachers Author Their Own Identities, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Workshop presented at the 2011 Indiana University Southeast English as a New Language Conference, New Albany, IN, November 12, 2011.


Being The Change We Want To See: Esl And Special Needs Teachers Author Their Past And Their Future, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams Oct 2011

Being The Change We Want To See: Esl And Special Needs Teachers Author Their Past And Their Future, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams

Susan Adams

Presentation at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention post-convention workshop, Chicago, IL, November 19, 2011.


Inside Job: Finding Respite, Release, (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teacher Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams Sep 2011

Inside Job: Finding Respite, Release, (Un)Learning And (Re)Imagining Teacher Transformation Through Race-Based Equity Work, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams

Susan Adams

Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, October 14-15, 2011.


Being Muslim And American: The Voices Of Turkish Immigrant Children, Zeynep Isik-Ercan Sep 2011

Being Muslim And American: The Voices Of Turkish Immigrant Children, Zeynep Isik-Ercan

Zeynep Isik-Ercan

This presentation explores the ways 15 Turkish immigrant children negotiated their religious identities in schooling contexts in a large Midwestern city in the United States and the contextual factors that influenced this negotiation process.


"How Do I Fit?” Turkish Immigrant Children Navigating Social Relationships In Schooling Contexts, Zeynep Isik-Ercan Sep 2011

"How Do I Fit?” Turkish Immigrant Children Navigating Social Relationships In Schooling Contexts, Zeynep Isik-Ercan

Zeynep Isik-Ercan

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Third Space: Turkish Parents And Children Negotiating Culture, Identity And Schooling, Zeynep Isik-Ercan Sep 2011

Rethinking Third Space: Turkish Parents And Children Negotiating Culture, Identity And Schooling, Zeynep Isik-Ercan

Zeynep Isik-Ercan

No abstract provided.


Education Of Young Burmese Refugees In Midwestern United States, Zeynep Isik-Ercan Sep 2011

Education Of Young Burmese Refugees In Midwestern United States, Zeynep Isik-Ercan

Zeynep Isik-Ercan

No abstract provided.


Looking At School From The House Window: Learning From Turkish-American Parents’ Experiences With Early Elementary Education In The United States, Zeynep Isik-Ercan Sep 2011

Looking At School From The House Window: Learning From Turkish-American Parents’ Experiences With Early Elementary Education In The United States, Zeynep Isik-Ercan

Zeynep Isik-Ercan

This study is an in-depth investigation of the perspectives of Turkish immigrant parents on their children's early schooling in the United States (PreK-3). It specifically explores how these parents connect themselves or are disconnected from school culture, and how their socio-cultural understanding of education and teachers influence their relationships with schools. Using a qualitative research format, data were collected through in-depth interviews with 18 parents from 10 families. Findings suggest that Turkish parents negotiated the ways curriculum and instruction is constructed in American schools such as their assumption of the lack of academic rigor while they embraced sound pedagogies the …


Thinking About The Earth, Sun And Moon: Urban Second Graders As Investigators., Zeynep Isik-Ercan Sep 2011

Thinking About The Earth, Sun And Moon: Urban Second Graders As Investigators., Zeynep Isik-Ercan

Zeynep Isik-Ercan

This study strove for the application of inquiry based learning based on the principles of a constructive classroom environment versus traditional teaching where the learners are silenced and only interacting with their teacher. The results indicated that when given the chance and support, culturally and linguistically diverse children can better utilize their abilities through the opportunities that the inquiry based learning provides such as independent and group learning processes, role taking, and having more choices.


Third Spaces As Methodological Possibilities: Reflections Of A Researcher Moving Beyond, Zeynep Isik-Ercan Sep 2011

Third Spaces As Methodological Possibilities: Reflections Of A Researcher Moving Beyond, Zeynep Isik-Ercan

Zeynep Isik-Ercan

No abstract provided.


Bintu's Dance: An African Story Book, Samuel Hinton Sep 2011

Bintu's Dance: An African Story Book, Samuel Hinton

Samuel Hinton

This is the story of a little girl who is motivated by her dreams to enter the dancing competition in her village. African dance uses improvisation and the entire body. Some dancers learned their moves from former dancers who became famous by participating in dance during various rituals, celebrations, or festivities. Bintu's grandma was a champion dancer. Learn how Bintu's family comes together to support her in the big competition.


Ya Me Fui! When English Learners Consider Leaving School, Jeanmarie Hamilton Boone Jul 2011

Ya Me Fui! When English Learners Consider Leaving School, Jeanmarie Hamilton Boone

Jeanmarie Hamilton Boone

This study examines narratives of English learners who have either dropped out or considered dropping out as a result of their experience in high school. This research seeks to determine at which point students left or considered leaving school, which often goes undetected in traditional quantitative data collection methods. The common themes that emerged in these narratives are examined in light of existing research. Researchers have suggested the following reasons English learners leave high school before earning a high school diploma: employment, limited English skills, disciplinary problems, poor grades, and not feeling a “sense of belonging” to the school. The …


Teaching Toward Educational Equity: Creating Critical Collegial Communities That Sustain Teacher Transformation And Equitable Outcomes For Students, Susan Adams May 2011

Teaching Toward Educational Equity: Creating Critical Collegial Communities That Sustain Teacher Transformation And Equitable Outcomes For Students, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Workshop and panel at the Indiana Urban Schools Association Conference, June 15, 2011.


Re-Presenting Hmong Women’S Lives In Academic Text: The Constraint Of Tradition, Culture And Patriarchy, Leena Her Apr 2011

Re-Presenting Hmong Women’S Lives In Academic Text: The Constraint Of Tradition, Culture And Patriarchy, Leena Her

Leena N. Her

No abstract is currently available.


Assess Without Distress, Susan Adams, Trish Mullaney Feb 2011

Assess Without Distress, Susan Adams, Trish Mullaney

Susan Adams

Workshop presented at the 2011 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 16-19, 2011.


Whiten Up! Examining The Impact Of White Esl Teachers’ Race, Privilege And Positionality On Immigrant Students In School, Susan Adams Jan 2011

Whiten Up! Examining The Impact Of White Esl Teachers’ Race, Privilege And Positionality On Immigrant Students In School, Susan Adams

Susan Adams

Paper presented at the 2011 National Association of Bilingual Educators Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 16-19, 2011.


Tracing The American Discourse Of Academic Failure Across Multiple Contexts, Leena Her Jan 2011

Tracing The American Discourse Of Academic Failure Across Multiple Contexts, Leena Her

Leena N. Her

No abstract is currently available.


Being The Change We Want To See: Esl And Special Needs Teachers Author Their Past And Their Future, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams Dec 2010

Being The Change We Want To See: Esl And Special Needs Teachers Author Their Past And Their Future, Susan Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams

Susan Adams

Presentation at the 2011 Indiana Teachers of Writing Annual Conference.


New Jersey V. T.L.O, Mary Christianakis Dec 2010

New Jersey V. T.L.O, Mary Christianakis

Mary Christianakis

No abstract provided.


Charting A New Course For Public Education Through Charter Schools:Where Is Obama Taking Us?, Mary Christianakis, Richard Mora Dec 2010

Charting A New Course For Public Education Through Charter Schools:Where Is Obama Taking Us?, Mary Christianakis, Richard Mora

Mary Christianakis

No abstract provided.


Veronia School District 47 J V. Acton Et Ux., Guardians Ad Litem For Acton, Mary Christianakis Dec 2010

Veronia School District 47 J V. Acton Et Ux., Guardians Ad Litem For Acton, Mary Christianakis

Mary Christianakis

No abstract provided.


Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants: Toward Mainstreaming Critical Peace Education In Teacher Education, Edward Brantmeier Dec 2010

Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants: Toward Mainstreaming Critical Peace Education In Teacher Education, Edward Brantmeier

Edward J. Brantmeier

No abstract provided.


Teen Courts, Mary Christianakis Dec 2010

Teen Courts, Mary Christianakis

Mary Christianakis

No abstract provided.


The Power Of Personhood In Facing The Future, Sherwood Thompson Dec 2010

The Power Of Personhood In Facing The Future, Sherwood Thompson

Sherwood Thompson

Discourages youth need caring adults who employ both traditional and creative strategies to help them develop character and positive life goals.


Translation Of Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (Isel) And Coping Self-Efficacy (Cse) From English Into Kiswahili For Use In Kenya, Thomas Kamau, Valerie Olson, Genevieve Zipp, Maryann Clark Dec 2010

Translation Of Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (Isel) And Coping Self-Efficacy (Cse) From English Into Kiswahili For Use In Kenya, Thomas Kamau, Valerie Olson, Genevieve Zipp, Maryann Clark

Thomas Matenjwa Kamau, Ph.D. MBA, MPA

There is a growing body of international research focusing on social factors and their impact on mental health of people living in developing countries. Because of the novelty of these studies and high cost associated with developing survey tools, researchers may choose to translate pre-existing survey tools instead. Research findings are only reliable if a translated instrument is equivalent in content, semantics, and concept to the original instrument. The objective of this study was to translate the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL) and the Coping Self-Efficacy (CSE) from English into Kiswahili. The original version of each instrument was translated from …