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Chinese Transnational Adolescents’ Responses To Multicultural Children’S Literature In Culture Circles, Yuwen Chen Dec 2019

Chinese Transnational Adolescents’ Responses To Multicultural Children’S Literature In Culture Circles, Yuwen Chen

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine how Chinese transnational adolescents (CTAs) negotiate their identity based on their cultural knowledge and experiences through book discussion in Freirean “culture circle” (Freire, 2000, p. 120). This study is an interpretivist qualitative study of community-based action research (Glesne, 2010). The participants were seven American-born Chinese, two current Chinese and Taiwanese, and one Chinese adopted adolescent. Within the culture circles, CTAs responded to seven selected multicultural children’s literature which represents Chinese immigrants’ stories in the United States. The topics of the books included (1) who am I, (2) relationships with extended family I, …


When Healing And High-Stakes Meet: Restorative Justice In An Era Of Racial Neoliberalism, Dani O'Brien Jul 2019

When Healing And High-Stakes Meet: Restorative Justice In An Era Of Racial Neoliberalism, Dani O'Brien

Doctoral Dissertations

Based on a 3-year ethnography, this dissertation documents the story of Presente, an explicitly critical youth-led restorative justice group attempting to dismantle the school-prison nexus and create a more youth-centered culture at their high-reform high school. This dissertation addresses the questions: How does serving as a restorative justice peer leader impact students? What challenges and opportunities arise as the school tries to transition to more restorative practices? And how do the values central to restorative justice come up against, challenge, and get challenged by neoliberal education reform?


Teacher Perceptions Of Environmental Science In Rural Northwestern New Mexico Public Schools, Marie Quiahuitl Julienne May 2019

Teacher Perceptions Of Environmental Science In Rural Northwestern New Mexico Public Schools, Marie Quiahuitl Julienne

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

In this study, I explored what teachers perceive as the factors that impact their teaching of environmental science in rural secondary level schools in northwestern New Mexico. I adapted Bronfenbrenner’s (1994) ecological systems model, based on four environmental subsystem levels (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem), as the conceptual framework to address the major research question of this study, and developed 18 interview questions to explore teachers’ perceptions of factors that influence their teaching of environmental science. I investigated the perspectives science teachers have about environmental science topics and the influences they perceive that affect how they teach environmental science, and …


Imaginarios De Paz De Los Niños Del Grado 5 De La Institución Educativa Carlos Julio Umaña Torres Del Municipio De Tópaga, Karen Lisseth Núñez Cruz, Manuela Andrade Claro, Cindy Catherine Nieto Feo Jan 2019

Imaginarios De Paz De Los Niños Del Grado 5 De La Institución Educativa Carlos Julio Umaña Torres Del Municipio De Tópaga, Karen Lisseth Núñez Cruz, Manuela Andrade Claro, Cindy Catherine Nieto Feo

Licenciatura en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras

Este artículo es el resultado de la investigación “La Paz Como Herramienta para el Desarrollo Social de un País”, desarrollada en el municipio de Tópaga, en el departamento de Boyacá. La pregunta que surgió para el desarrollo del presente trabajo fue “¿cómo los estudiantes del grado 5º de la institución educativa técnica Carlos Julio Umaña Torres, en el municipio de Tópaga, definen y conciben la construcción de paz a partir del perdón, reconciliación y derechos humanos?” Teniendo en cuenta el objetivo principal que fue conocer los imaginarios que tienen los niños y niñas sobre la construcción de paz, derechos humanos, …