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Author:

Torregano, Michelle Early

Title:

Clean Slate: Making Sense of Public Education in the "NEW" New Orleans

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

social equity
school reform
public education
race
Rebuilding and Transforming
privatization
politics
Bring New Orleans Back Education committee
charter schools
critical policy analysis
discourse
educational equity
greenfield
history of public education in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina
interviewing
National Coalition for Quality Education in New Or
natural disaster
neoliberalism
teacher unions
United Teachers of New Orleans

File:

Download METDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Emilie Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Nell, Marcia Lyn

Title:

SCHOOLS AND PARENTS ACTIVELY REACHING KIDS FOR LITERACY EVERYDAY (SPARKLE): PROMOTING POSITIVE PARENTAL SELF PERCEPTIONS THROUGH THE USE OF INTERACTIVE STORYBOOK TECHNIQUES

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

parent involvement
family literacy
reading alouds
emergent literacy
interacitve reading
parental capabilities
parental responsibilities
parental efficacy
parental rrole construction

File:

Download MarciaNell.pdf

Committee Members:

James Ewald Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Debra M Freedman, Committee Member

Author:

Poehner, Priya Maria

Title:

DRAFTING A NEW CHAPTER ON CRITICAL FRIENDS GROUPS: EXPLORING TEACHER LEARNING FROM A VYGOTSKIAN PERSPECTIVE

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

teacher professional development
Critical Friends Groups
Sociocultural Theory
teacher learning

File:

Download final_dissertation_format.pdf

Committee Members:

James F Nolan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Bernard Joel Badiali, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Gounari, Panagiota

Title:

CONTESTING COMMON SENSE DISCOURSE: LANGUAGE, POLITICS AND DEMOCRACY

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

critical pedagogy
language and common sense
language and democracy
sociolinguistics
critical discourse analysis

File:

Download Gounari_etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry A Giroux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Paul Youngquist, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Pyeong-gook

Title:

SHARING DECISIONS, TEACHING IN TEAMS, AND MULTI-AGING: INDIVIDUALLY GUIDED EDUCATION, 1965-1981

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

elementary secondary education
comprehensive school reform
educational change
organizational change
school culture
change strategies
change agents
organizational development
teacher role
staff development
decision making
team teaching
individu

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Robert F Nicely Jr., Committee Member
Murry R Nelson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Daniel Marshall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David P Baker, Committee Member

Author:

Ulker, Riza

Title:

A Study of Turkish Kindergarten Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Two Instructional Models: Direct Instruction and Child-Initiated Instruction

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

child-initiated instruction
direct instruction
classroom social behavior
kindergarten

File:

Download Riza_Ulker.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Rayne Audrey Sperling, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Wible, Scott Andrew

Title:

Language Diversity as Policy: Three Lessons from Three Decades

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

language diversity
language policy
rhetoric and composition
Conference on College Composition and Communicatio

File:

Download Wible_Diss--PDF_Submission--6-2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Keith Gilyard, Committee Member
Elaine B Richardson, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

MacKenzie, Sarah Kate

Title:

Ambiguous Presence: (Re)searching the Negotiations of Be(com)ing Teacher

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

a/r/tography
pre-service teachers
teacher identity
narrative
arts-based research
spirituality
pedagogy
teacher education

File:

Download MacKenzie_Dissertation_Submission_June_2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Miryam Espinosa Dulanto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marnina Gonick, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Yvonne Madelaine Gaudelius, Committee Member

Author:

Childs, Sharon Smith

Title:

LANGUAGE TEACHER COGNITION: TRACING THE CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

sociocultural theory
sociocultural perspective
language teacher education
teacher learning

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Final_Draft_-_CHILDS.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen E Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen E Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Meidl, Tynisha Denea

Title:

Teachers' Dissonance With Curriculum Planning for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

linguistically and culturally diverse students
curriculum
dissonance

File:

Download Final_Copy_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ladislaus M Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member

Author:

Youngbauer, Vincent W.

Title:

The Implementation of Media Literacy in the Social Studies Curriculum

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Media Literacy
Social Studies Education
Teacher Training
History and Media
Media Technology

File:

Download Youngbauer_dissertation_2.0_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Scott Alan Metzger, Committee Member
Jeanne Lynn Hall, Committee Member

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:

Sensenig, Victor James

Title:

Libraries and Literacy in Ecological Perspective

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Literacy education
Public libraries
Ecological systems theory
Reading achievement gap

File:

Download VJSensenig_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David Alexander Gamson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mindy L Kornhaber, Committee Member
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Member
Steven Herb, 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