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Price, Cecelia Joyce – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Employing the research approach known as portraiture, this study investigated the varying ways in which three secondary English language arts teachers at a visual and performing arts high school conceptualized and designed multimodal literacy learning. Also studied were the ways in which their students responded to these designs; and in keeping…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Multiple Literacies, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Dolphin, Glenn Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There is a need to enhance science and geoscience literacy. Effective instruction allows students opportunity to build their own models, test them, make their own arguments, and discern reliability of the claims and arguments of others. Attempts at designing and importing such instruction have shown limited implementation fidelity, even with…
Descriptors: Geology, Science Education, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
Spiker, Amy B. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Preservice teachers hold metaphors and personal beliefs about teaching that they carry with them into their first teaching experiences. These metaphors tend to persist through challenges. This qualitative study investigates five preservice teacher's metaphors and personal histories of education through three phases; university student,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Figurative Language, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Bailey, Christine I. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Drawing upon a postmodern ethnographic approach, the modes of inquiry into this qualitative study included observation and data analysis in order to represent a particular community of students: first year college freshmen from a mid-size, religiously-affiliated university in the southern United States. The methods included artifact…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Creative Writing, Writing Research, Postmodernism