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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:

Chou, Wan-Hsiang

Title:

The Strange Case of Disconnection: Co-sleeping, Attachment, and the Imported Picture Books about Bedtime in Taiwan

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Taiwan
childrearing practices
fear
transitional objects
children's literature
picture books
attachment theory
parent child relations
sleep

File:

Download wan_hsiang_chou_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Ewald Johnson, Committee Member
Steven Herb, Committee Member
Karen Treat Keifer Boyd, Committee Member
Dr Mary Galbraith, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Wen-ling

Title:

An Investigation into the Perceptions of Nursery School Directors and Teachers Towards Use of An Assessment Instrument in Early Childhood Education/Care Evaluations of Nursery School Quality in Taiwan

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Government Regulations
Three Systems Models
Assessment Instruments
Early Childhood Curriculum
High-quality Nursery Schools
Early Childhood Education

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Gu, Wei

Title:

Teachers' Attitudes Toward Parental Involvement in Selected Government Kindergartens in China

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

China
parental involvement
attitudes

File:

Download WeiGu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ladislaus M Semali, Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Xu

Title:

GENDERING SPACES: GENDER IN THE CALDECOTT MEDAL AWARD PICTUREBOOKS FROM 1980 TO 2007

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Caldecott winners
Space
Poststructuralist feminism
Gender

File:

Download thesis_2.4.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Dean Hade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gail Louise Boldt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tsai, Yi-Wen

Title:

The Impact of Dialogic Reading: Facilitating Language Acquisition of Young Children with Hearing Impairments in Taiwan

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Dialogic Reading
Hearing-Impairemed Children
Language Acquisition

File:

Download eTD_Yi-Wen_Tsai.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Member
Ladislaus M Semali, Committee Member
Pamela S Wolfe, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, 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:

Chu, Yun-Fen

Title:

RETELLING THE STORY OF HUA MU-LAN: MILITARY EXPERIENCES OF UNIFORMED WOMEN FROM ONE TAIWANESE SERVICE ACADEMY

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

gender performance
the gendered division of labor
Taiwanese servicewomen
nationalism
Confucianism
subjective experiences
subject positions

File:

Download Dissertation_fianl1.pdf

Committee Members:

Marnina Gonick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Yang Eun

Title:

SELF-EFFICACY WITH REGARD TO THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION TEACHERS IN KOREA

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Self-Efficacy. Early Childhood Education. Early Ch

File:

Download Total_Dissertation-YangEun_Kim.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carla Zembal Saul, Committee Member
Scott P Mcdonald, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Yen-Chun

Title:

Parents' Perceptions of Child's Play and the Relation to Children's Development of Social Competence and Creativity

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

child play
social competence
creativity

File:

Download Yen-Chun_Lin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Tomas Yawkey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Robert Lee Burgess, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Yu-Chuan

Title:

Private Kindergarten Scorecard

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

performance management
self-evaluation

File:

Download Final_Defense_4-30-2007_-stakeholer_internal_organizaion_process.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
William Hartman, Committee Member

Author:

TSAO, YA-LUN

Title:

The Impact of Social Play Activities on Promoting Social Interactions of High-Functioning Autistic Children in Taiwan

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

social play activities
high-functioning autistic children
pivotal response training (PRT)

File:

Download 911361854_Ya-Lun_Tsao.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Daniel Yawkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pamela S Wolfe, Committee Member
Ladislaus M Semali, Committee Member
Rama B Radhakrishna, Committee Member

Author:

Burns, Rebecca West

Title:

Conceptualizing Supervision in the Professional Development School Context: A Case Analysis

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Professional Development Schools (PDS)
Supervision
Hybrid Educator
Field Experiences
Clinical Faculty
University Liaison

File:

Download Burns_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernard Joel Badiali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James F Nolan Jr., Committee Member
Dr Kimberly Powell, Committee Member
Stephanie L Knight, Special 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:

Boyer, Elisebeth Connolly

Title:

Preservice Elementary Teachers’ use of a Discursive Model of Meaning Making in the Co-construction of Science Understanding

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

elementary
science
preservice
discourse
argument

File:

Download Boyer_Dissertation_7-16-12.pdf

Committee Members:

Carla Zembal Saul, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carla Zembal Saul, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Committee Member
Glendon Wilbur Blume, Special Member

Author:

Wu, Ying-Chi

Title:

A story of the past makes its way to the present: Mobility in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Alice in Wonderland
media adaptations
mobility
picturebook
pop-up book
e-book

File:

Download Wu_Dissertation.pdfDownload permissions_for_image_use.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Dean Hade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Herb, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

Author:

Mohamed Jiri, Khairul Aini

Title:

Becoming teachers of English-language learners in two multicultural countries: narratives from preservice teachers in the United States and Malaysia

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Malaysia
Comparative and International Education
Teacher Education
English as a Second Language
Multiculturalism

File:

Download Khairul_Aini_Thesis_2012_R_.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Youb Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Youb Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyle Leonard Peck, Committee Member
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Special Member