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Author:

Cai, Yihuai

Title:

Contested Space, Conflicting Desires: "Becoming" "Girls" in Urbanizing Rural China

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

girlhood studies
feminist ethnography
poststructuralism
subjectivity
rural urbanization
privatized vocational schooling

File:

Download Yihuai_Cai_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Marnina Gonick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Member
Dr Mrinalini Sinha, Committee Member

Author:

Olan, Elsie L

Title:

Stories of the past and present:what preservice secondary English teachers draw on when learning to teach writing

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

writing
preservice secondary English teachers
teacher education
stories
pedagogical tools
inquiry assignment
SCT
SCAT

File:

Download E._Olan_Diss.The_Pennsylvania_State_University.pdf

Committee Members:

Angiline Louisa Whitney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Angiline Louisa Whitney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member

Author:

Fuentes, David Andres

Title:

Exploring Pre-service teachers' historical thinking through the Cooperative Biography: A Design-based Research Study

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Historical thinking
Historical understanding
pre-service teachers' perceptions of history
design-based research
history education

File:

Download D._Fuentes_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephanie Cayot Serriere, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Alan Metzger, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

D'Urso, Alexandra

Title:

Life stories and sociological imagination: Understanding identity in France and Sweden vis-à-vis the life works of Faudel and Adam Tensta

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

life stories
public pedagogy
Adam Tensta
Faudel
living biography
sociological imagination

File:

Download DissertationFINAL-withFrontMatter.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacqueline Edmondson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member

Author:

Ngomba-Westbrook, Nalova

Title:

Tensions of Teaching Media Literacy in Teacher Education

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

literacy studies
media literacy
media studies
teacher education
survey research
case study

File:

Download WestbrookDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeanine M Staples, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie L Knight, Committee Member
Ladislaus M Semali, Committee Member

Author:

Mason, Lance Ernest

Title:

Cultivating Democratic Habits of Communication in the Social Studies

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

John Dewey
habits
communication
social studies
philosophy of education

File:

Download MASON_Dissertation_-_Cultivating_Democratic_Habits_of_Communication_-_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Alan Metzger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Murry R Nelson, Committee Member
Alan M Sica, Committee Member
Shannon Wimberley Sullivan, Committee Member

Author:

Cone Hernbloom, Lisa Ann

Title:

Negotiating Race To The Top: An Intervention Teacher's Story

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

positioning
Race to the Top
intervention
autoethnography
critical policy analysis
agency

File:

Download Lisa_Ann_Cone_Hernbloom_Dissertation_The_Pennsylvania_State_University.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen Mary Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Dorothy H Evensen, Special Member

Author:

Huang, Hubert Khan

Title:

Examining youth attitudes toward civic engagement: A study of collaborative social entrepreneurship using a multi-user virtual environment

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

civic education
civic engagement
educational technology
issues-centered curriculum
deliberation
interdisciplinary literacy

File:

Download Huang_Dissertation_Revised_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Alan Metzger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Alan Metzger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
David Lynn Passmore, Committee Member
Rose Marie Baker, Committee Member

Author:

Pasterick, Michelle Le

Title:

Language and culture learning abroad: Mediating pre-service World Languages teachers' development of interculturality

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

world languages
interculturality
study abroad
foreign language
intercultural competence

File:

Download M_L_Pasterick_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Edward Poehner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Elizabeth A Smolcic, Committee Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member

Author:

Kang, Suyoung

Title:

Demystifying the Popular Narratives of English Fever in South Korea: From Mothers' Perspectives

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

English fever
globalization
education fever
Korean motherhood
neoliberal motherhood
intensive mothering

File:

Download SYKang_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jamie Myers, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mari Haneda, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Special Member