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Kristin Oberheide – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Prior literature on transborder ("transfronterizos," "transfronteriz@s," or "transfronterizx") students in the Mexico-United States border region focuses predominantly on United States citizens and the San Diego-Tijuana region. This phenomenological study focuses on Mexican citizen international students, who live in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mexicans, College Students, Political Divisions (Geographic)
Jesse A. Sepulveda – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This autoethnography analyzes how my life experiences both as a student and as an educator in this community influenced my principalship and my efforts to open a new elementary school focused on college and career readiness. The aim of this dissertation was to utilize an autoethnographic method to examine the process of opening a new elementary…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries, Political Divisions (Geographic)
Angela Victoria Enriqueta Owens – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This phenomenological study (Moustakas, 1994; Peoples, 2020) uses critical disability theory (Devlin & Pothier, 2006) and intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989) as a lens for investigating the experiences of caregivers in a borderland community in Texas during their child's dyslexia identification process. I used Interpretive Phenomenological…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Dyslexia, Children, Identification
Joshua Acevedo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Through the use of Latinx Critical Race Theory (LatCrit), with testimonios as a method of inquiry, this study analyzed families' experiences that led them to resist school closures. This study also chronicled families' experiences with the transition to new schools, after the school closures. Once schools closed, families described their…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, School Closing, Social Justice, Family School Relationship
Pout, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Naming and naming practices take place at various sites associated with international politics. These sites include border crossings, migrations, diasporas, town halls, and offices of political parties representing minorities. This project is an investigation of these and other sites. It takes seriously questions of names and naming practices and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Naming, Political Divisions (Geographic), International Relations
Sayasenh, Samone – ProQuest LLC, 2012
There is a plethora of studies on Latino academic underachievement, but very little information about Latino students who are successful at community colleges, yet the majority of Latino undergraduates in the U.S. attend these two-year schools. Furthermore, studies disaggregating Latino sub-groups have been limited or non-existent; therefore, this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Underachievement, Grade Point Average