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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
Williams, Lacey Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation suggests that metaphors are a powerful learning tool in education and a way to develop as a professional educator. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain a deeper understanding of how teachers utilize metaphors during reflection. I addressed their experience with metaphors, how they use metaphors, how metaphors…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Phenomenology, Faculty Development, Reflection
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
Storrow, Rebecca A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Florida family court mediation programs have typically been assessed with quantitative analysis. To understand the complexity of the experience of being a family mediator, it was necessary to explore how mediators practiced through qualitative research. Metaphors have been considered to be representations of mediators' mental models regarding…
Descriptors: Courts, Family Counseling, Phenomenology, Conflict
Lopez, Antonio R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Media literacy is touted as a necessary life skill for cultural citizenship, yet as it is generally practiced there is little engagement with sustainability issues. In order to gain insights into why this is the case, this research investigated how media literacy practitioners use metaphors to frame both the role of media education in the world…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Citizenship Education, Sustainability, Ecology
Chiang, Mei-Yan – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to elicit the subjective experience of and personal meaning found in the process of first using literal expressions and then creating metaphors to describe a past meaningful experience. Six coresearchers in the field of psychology were selected for a one-time, 90- to 120-minute, one-on-one interview…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Psychology, Interviews, Linguistics
Teng, Xuan – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Despite the growing interest in examining the link between peer-peer collaborative dialogue and second language (L2) development in recent years (Swain, Brooks, & Tocalli-Beller, 2002), much of the empirical work in this regard focused on face-to-face communication, leaving the operationalization of collaborative dialogue in text-based…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Peer Relationship
Ellison, Marclette – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In "Reading First" schools throughout the United States, literacy coaches administer the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) as the sole measure of fluency and then offer instructional recommendations for students with reading difficulties based on those results. However, critics of DIBELS question its accuracy for…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Literacy, Teacher Attitudes, Formative Evaluation
Goode, Matthew Lawson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Thousands of U.S. faculty travel abroad each year to teach host-country students (George, 1995). This study explores the "teach-abroad classroom", defined as "the teaching and learning processes and interactions between faculty and students" in this learning environment (George, 1987, 1995; Slethaug, 2007). Faculty and student…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, College Faculty, College Students, Qualitative Research
Vatne, Stacy Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of my study was to understand undergraduate music performance students' perceptions of their experiences as music performance majors and to assess music student positionality. Music student positionality, music students' perceptions of their place in the university setting, involves music majors' perceptions of their relationships to…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Music Education, Music, Student Attitudes
Alvarez, Patricia Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore Latina students' identity as Latina first-generation college students. Constructivist grounded theory (Charmaz, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006) was used to explore two research questions: (a) For Latina students who are the first in their family to go to college, what is their understanding of being a Latina…
Descriptors: Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Higher Education, First Generation College Students
Ellis, Lauren Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This purpose of this qualitative dissertation study was to capture the meaning and various dimensions related to being an undocumented immigrant youth in the United States, and to develop a grounded theory regarding how undocumented immigrant students negotiate their identity development in light of these dimensions. A semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Adolescents, Biculturalism, Grounded Theory
Warne, Bonnie Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative inquiry explored the personal reading interests of 42 10th-grade students as they selected and began reading a novel. The study's goal was to inform those interested in supporting students' reading interests of what students from one rural school could and could not verbalize about their personal reading interests. The…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Reading Materials, Qualitative Research, Focus Groups
Suero-Duran, Margarita – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Unclear conceptualizations of the leadership function set forth by contemporary school counseling frameworks exist. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to contribute to understanding the leadership role of school counselors from their perspective as leaders. Ten experienced school counselors, who viewed themselves as leaders,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Figurative Language, Comprehensive Programs, Counselor Training
DeRose, John J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the types of instructors who teach local history, factors affecting their instruction in the community's past, and instructional practices employed to educate students about a locality's history. It examined teachers' implementation of items from "The Making of Milwaukee" (MOM) project which included a book, DVD…
Descriptors: Local History, Figurative Language, Interests, Urban Environment
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