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Author:

Ortega, Leticia Eugenia

Title:

Digital Practices and Literacy Identities in English Education: From Deterministic Discourses to a Dialectic Framework

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

discourse
new literacies
digital practices
teacher education
educational policy
collaborative inquiry
literacy technologies

File:

Download Leticia_Ortega_dissertationFINALRev.pdf

Committee Members:

Jamie Myers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Steve L Thorne, Committee Member

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:

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:

Johnson, Matthew Michael

Title:

Failure is an option: Reactions to failure in elementary engineering design projects

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

engineering education
epistemic practice
discourse
sociolinguistics
failure
improvement

File:

Download Matthew_Johnson_Dissertation_Final_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

William Carlsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory John Kelly, Committee Member
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Danny Glynn Sykes, Committee Member
Christine M Cunningham, Special Member