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Sands, Ashley Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Ground-based astronomy sky surveys are massive, decades-long investments in scientific data collection. Stakeholders expect these datasets to retain scientific value well beyond the lifetime of the sky survey. However, the necessary investments in knowledge infrastructures for managing sky survey data are not yet in place to ensure the long-term…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Data Collection, Scientific Methodology, Semi Structured Interviews
Nguyen, Camilla C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative ethnographic study addresses the phenomenon of rapid social media expansion, which creates organizational challenges. Ongoing development of advanced technology products means that effective organizations must be more adaptive and receptive to new approaches and changes in their environment. In a hyper connected society, one where…
Descriptors: Social Media, Organizational Culture, Learning, Productivity
Rege, Sumita – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The growing ubiquity of the Internet has changed the way we conduct many of our meaningful activities, occupations, today. Despite the changes in technology, human needs haven't changed as radically, we still need connection, involvement, information and avenues of expression, but what has changed are the myriad ways in which we do those things.…
Descriptors: Electronic Journals, Web Sites, Internet, Occupational Information
Akst, Leslie Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation is a qualitative study of a curriculum I designed for composition students in the Fall of 2012. The curriculum I created is informed by the Freirean edict that a self-generated desire to "create knowledge" is far more likely to result in meaningful, holistic learning than simply "banking" information. In the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, College Faculty, College English
Thompson, Ella Belzberg – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In 1999, it was necessary to build an interface for the Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive (the world's largest digital video archive at the time) that constituted over 120,000 hours of video of over 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors, rescuers and witnesses. In order to build this educational research interface, an…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Archives, Video Technology, Interactive Video
Heuschkel, Kimberly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Much is known about the practices, beliefs, assumptions, and discourses of teachers as they look at issues of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity but little has been done to understand how racial injustice is sustained in these school settings and how whiteness operates in predominantly white educational contexts. White elementary school…
Descriptors: Whites, Elementary School Teachers, Racial Identification, Discourse Analysis
Went, Jeanine Belcastro – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this classroom ethnography was to explore what opportunities for learning, aligning with LEAP Essential Learning Outcomes (ELO) categories, could be found in an upper-level theatre course for theatre majors at a small, selective, baccalaureate degree granting institution in the Northeastern United States. Using ethnographic data…
Descriptors: College Programs, Outcomes of Education, Ethnography, Undergraduate Students
Socas, John – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In these times of economic uncertainty, successful performance at job interviews has become increasingly important in order to obtain employment. This study examines the experiences of students at an urban community college in an intervention where drama embodied with reflection is used to enhance professionally relevant self-presentation skills.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Urban Schools, Intervention
Rivard, Courtney J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The first decade of the 21st Century in the United States witnessed two major events that have come to be understood as national disasters: September 11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina. Numerous historical institutions quickly mobilized to collect material relating to the two events, prompting the creation of what is now referred to as "disaster…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Archives, Data Collection, Databases
Bodle, Aaron Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In the second half of the Twentieth Century, many Western industrial cities underwent a gradual process of de-industrialization. This process reached its apex for many U.S. cities in the 1990s. The dramatic economic and social devastation that developed concomitantly with these economic changes left many urban policy makers, service workers, and…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, High School Students, Urban Areas, Ethnography
Baron, Luis Fernando – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There are many indications that social mobilization and political participation have been transformed by Information Communication Technologies (ICT), and, more recently, by Social Media. In spite of many studies which have attempted to grapple with their interrelationship, we still know little about the degree and complexity of those…
Descriptors: Social Media, Activism, Information Technology, Citizen Participation
Daniels, Quincey L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of Hmong students regarding the Upward Bound Program and how those perceptions related to their participation in the program. A critical ethnography of Hmong students in the Upward Bound Program was conducted and included an examination of potential inequities by creating a literal…
Descriptors: Hmong People, Student Attitudes, Disadvantaged Youth, Youth Programs
Andrews, James P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative research study focuses on crisis events affecting university international populations. It explores how seven directors of university international offices at seven different geographical locations in Texas respond to those events. The study findings shed light on the current state of crisis preparedness in higher education from…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Foreign Students, College Students, Risk Management
Obiamalu, Reginald – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of study was to examine the attributes of teachers of urban continuation high schools in Los Angeles Unified School District. The research questions were: 1. What are the attributes of veteran teachers and new teachers as prepared to teach at-risk students in alternative high schools? and 2. How do alternative high school teachers…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers
Johnson, Rachel Parse – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study asked how two white, in-service elementary school teachers within the context of their classrooms navigated the cultural gaps between themselves and students from whom they differed (e.g. racially, ethnically, socio-economically, and/or linguistically). Three sub-questions examined: 1) what life experiences shaped how the teachers…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Interviews
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