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  • From risk to resiliency : academic persistence in Mexican-American high school English as a Second Language students

    Creator:
    Temes, Carla A.
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    Five student-researchers and the author engaged in a continually-evolving, student-driven qualitative research study. Despite significant disadvantages, including navigating a. foreign culture without speaking the language, these invulnerable learners succeeded. Ultimately of greatest interest to the six were an analysis of their collective knowledge and experiences, and their individual transformation over...
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    Major Professor, repre _nting Education Director of the School of Education IDean o ; ra.0 'ate

  • The heart of leadership : An autoethnographic study of issues that impact educational leadership

    Creator:
    Prince, Erin K.
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    This autoethnography explores issues that impact educational leadership by examining individual reflections, perceptions, and responses developed through the lens of a principal of two elementary schools. The main data source involves journal entries collected over a period of one year. Theories of educational leadership styles and effective school practices form...
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    Reflection…………………………………………………... ..37 Chapter Three: An Autoethnographical Journey………………….....39

  • ESL students as ethnographers : co-researching communicative practices in an academic discourse community

    Creator:
    Dantas-Whitney, Maria
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    No research to date has involved ESL students as researchers in investigations of community language practices. This study examined the research processes of 23 international college students in an advanced ESL course. The students worked on an original curriculum, the Language Research Project, through which they performed ethnographic and discourse...
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    like to thank the other members of my committee, Drs. Sheila Cordray, Pat Rounds, Eileen Waldschmidt

  • The role of marginalized discourses in constructing the white identity of preservice teachers

    Creator:
    Nava, Roberto Chavira, Jr.
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    This research addresses the complexities of White racial identity development in the lives of five elementary and middle school preservice teachers during their graduate teacher education program at a private Christian Pacific Northwestern university. Using a poststructural framework, this research investigated three questions: 1) How do the aspects of subjectivation...
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    Higgins; Dr. Donna K. Phillips; Dr. Jean Moule; Dr. Eileen Waldschmidt; and Dr. Shiao-ling Yu. I owe