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Linnette Arroyo Ortiz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative study implemented a Critical Discourse Analysis using the "PRDE English Program Gender Equity Manual" (2015). In addition, this study compared the narrative literature from PRDE's English 9th textbook--"Inside: Language, Literacy and Content by National Geographic and Cengage Learning" (2014) (NG Texts) , and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Adolescent Literature, LGBTQ People
Brown, Corliss Charonne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on preparing educators to teach for social justice. Black teachers have been highlighted for their historical and present work with black students, eliminating educational inequities seemingly through their race consciousness and activism. The literature on black teachers has treated them as a…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Racial Identification, Teacher Education, Social Justice
Griggs, Susan A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The number of females in senior level leadership positions in higher education is substantially fewer than males. Yet female students in these same institutions represent over half the population (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2010). The leadership gender gap is a phenomenon that has undergone numerous studies in search of reasons…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, College Administration, Leadership, Discourse Analysis
Stanko, Rebecca Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research on teaching, and research about secondary English teachers in particular, has focused on classroom practice. This focus implicitly devalues knowledges beyond those related to classroom practice, and re/produces a public/private divide in the subjectivities of teachers in which "teacher identity" and "teacher knowledge"…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Professional Identity, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Arslan, Berna – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation explores the ways in which the Islamic Fethullah Gulen community engages with science as a response to globalization and modernity. Framed with the theoretical discussions on multiple modernities, it investigates how the community contests for hegemony in the field of science against the project of secular modernity, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islam, Sciences, World Views
Saito, Junko – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examines Japanese male superiors' linguistic practices in an institutional setting in Japan, in particular focusing on directive usage. It quantitatively and qualitatively elucidates how seven male superiors in a workplace, which is located in the Tokyo area, employ diverse linguistic resources in directive discourse so as to persuade…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Sex Stereotypes, Females, Linguistics