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Direct linkJacqueline Nicole Ridley – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This qualitative research study examined the connections made by refugee and immigrant youth to a teacher proposed mirror text at an elementary ESL book group. Mirror texts, or books in which youth with marginalized identities can see themselves reflected, have been argued to promote text connections and reading comprehension for minoritized…
Descriptors: Books, Refugees, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
de Vries, Peter C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Mark 13 predicts that certain events will occur literally within the generation of Jesus' contemporaries, and today's reader recognizes that some of these events have not taken place. The reader therefore appropriates the text as a false configuration of the world because it describes the world differently from how it is. However, the hermeneutics…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Hermeneutics, Prediction, Discourse Analysis
Epistemic Beliefs Underpinning Discourse within a Critical Literacy Intervention: A Multi-Case Study
Pennell, Colleen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Reading is a complex act mediated by cognitive and sociocultural constructs that include classroom discourse and personal epistemology. This study explored the epistemic beliefs underpinning the discourse of four third-grade, male struggling readers and sought to understand how these beliefs unfolded during the critical-analytic reading…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Intervention, Epistemology, Student Attitudes
Schulze, Robert J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates the viability of utilizing linguistic pragmatics to interpret the biblical text and to determine its hermeneutical significance. As a complementary aid to historical and literary readings of a text, linguistic pragmatics utilizes certain tools to discover and/or describe the implicit meaning encoded into a text. A…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Religious Education, Pragmatics, Linguistics
van Belle, Leah Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Basal readers have long been problematized for a lack of diversity among the characters and experiences represented in the text selections. Building on this, and informed by critical theory, critical race theory, and Bourdieuian perspectives, this dissertation examines racist discourses in a set of third grade basal readers. In order to explore…
Descriptors: African Americans, Critical Theory, Basal Reading, Numeracy
Kelly, Ryan Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the discourse of preservice teacher candidates in order to better identify those practices and experiences by which they shape their identity and conceptualize their role in teaching. The study's purpose was to find out (a) how secondary preservice teacher candidates conceptualize the practice of their teaching, (b) what…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
