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Wellner, Karen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In 1997, developmental biologist Michael Richardson compared his research team's embryo photographs to Ernst Haeckel's 1874 embryo drawings and called Haeckel's work "noncredible". "Science" soon published "Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered," and Richardson's comments further reinvigorated criticism of Haeckel by…
Descriptors: Embryology, Illustrations, Evolution, Secondary School Science
Jackson, Clarissa R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to investigate the patterns of book choice and interaction during book reading sessions of six African American fathers and social fathers and their 4- to 5-year-old children. The fathers/social fathers selected and read aloud expository text, narrative text, and poetry to their children while…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Reading Material Selection, Childrens Literature, Books
Raina, Seemin A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study is based on 72 children's and young adult books that met the criteria of being about Muslims and published and circulated here in the U.S. They can be divided into the varied genres as 49 contemporary realistic fiction, 6 historical fiction, and 17 autobiographies, biographies, and memoirs. In-depth reading and coding were used to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Muslims, Popular Culture, Content Analysis