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Pamela M. Donnelly – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Federal discourse pertaining to college access requires clarified definition. Use of the college access construct has become commonplace, yet no unified refinement of meaning exists. This study, which covered U.S. presidential communications from January 2009 to October 2021, addressed the abstraction of language as leaders presented ideas,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Social Mobility, Presidents
Klein, William Francis – ProQuest LLC, 2013
We now exist in an era where for the first time, symbolic representation may precede the natural world in human experience. Aristotle's a priori terrain has been upstaged. We are changing the nature of our own evolution in profound ways. The question becomes, "How do we transcend the chaos of meaning in this post-modern condition or…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Praxis, Ecology, Symbolic Language
Flack, Adrianne – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative study, which uses a narrative research approach informed by Riessman's (2008) work, explores the "college choice" experience of seven adult students, age 25 and older, who pursue postsecondary education at a non-degree granting, less-than-two-year private for-profit institution in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. My…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Private Education, Private Colleges
Wiehe, Elsa M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This eleven-month ethnographic study puts critical discourse analysis in dialogue with postmodern conceptualizations of space and place to explore how eight educators talk about space and in the process, produce racialized spaces in Roche Bois, Mauritius. The macro-historical context of racialization of this urban marginalized community informs…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Postmodernism, Disadvantaged
Jackson, Micah T. J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Throughout history, preachers have used various models to understand the relationship between the preacher and the hearers of sermons. In recent years, homileticians have responded to the challenges of postmodernism by exploring the metaphor of conversation as a way to develop less hierarchical or authoritarian conceptions of role and authority.…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Research, Pragmatics, Persuasive Discourse
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
Kim, Seunghee – ProQuest LLC, 2008
We investigated barriers to and facilitators of effective teacher-child interactions in voluntary pre-kindergarten programs in child care settings. An effective teacher-child interaction enables both teachers and children to actively engage in solving the problems they confront in their daily lives. The effective teacher-child interaction relies…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Qualitative Research, Research Projects, Preschool Education