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Creator:: Fish, Susan A.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to understand the individual experiences of four adult literacy practitioners, Anne, Bill, Candy, and Emily, in the first cohort of the Oregon Field-Based Cohort Master's Program. This program, which Oregon established in 1993 as one venue of professional development for adult literacy and English...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: recommendation of guidelines for funding and structuring teacher training to the U.S. Office of Education. Its

Creator:: Moule, Jean Golson
Abstract:: In the past decade, issues related to cultural diversity and pluralism have risen to the forefront in education. The increasing cultural diversity in American classrooms and communities requires preservice teachers to be ready to promote multiple perspectives within their curricula and among their students. The purpose of this study was...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Preservice Teachers: Reflecting on Teacher Characteristics that Bridge Multicultural Education Theory and

Creator:: Twomey, Sylvia Mary
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to understand how adult learners in an online teacher licensure program selected and used learning strategies, transformed existing strategies or developed new strategies. Also examined was whether the environment itself facilitated or impeded usage of transformed strategies, or development of new strategies. Participants in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: education was the prime achievement A Study of Adult Student Learning Strategies for a Web-Based Teacher

Creator:: Cammack, J. Camille
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to analyze preservice teachers' talk about gender issues in education through a poststructural feminist theoretical framework. Eighteen Master of Arts in Teaching students volunteered to participate in a seminar. During the seminar the participants wrote about and discussed gender issues in teaching. Data collected...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: questions about teacher education practices. They served to illustrate the power relationships inherent in

Creator:: Webster, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to document a community college faculty development process through which the faculty learned to reconstruct their curriculum around significant learning outcomes and authentic assessment strategies. The following questions focused the inquiry: 1. What kind of organizational support systems were necessary for the faculty to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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