This disquisition addresses the critical issue of disproportionate representation of girls in K-12 technology engagement, a problem that persists both in the local context and nationally. Grounded in post structural feminist...
Keyword:
counter spaces, girls, technology, underrepresentation, and women
Subject:
Girls -- Education, Technology -- Study and teaching, and Educational equalization
Students living in poverty and/or experiencing childhood trauma consistently report suboptimal educational results nationwide. This research study examines the impact of building teachers’ capacity in understanding their own...
Keyword:
Assets-Based Ideology, Priviledge, Students Living in Poverty, and Teacher Implicit Bias
Subject:
Low-income students, Teachers -- Training of, Classism, Privilege (Social psychology), and Culturally relevant pedagogy
This study provided a unique opportunity to examine how two groups of teachers experienced the integration of technology in a K-12 school system in the southeastern United States. The total number of respondents (n=338)...
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collaboration, constructivism, engagement, professional development, teacher beliefs, and technology integration
Subject:
Educational technology -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Teachers -- Effect of technological innovations on -- North Carolina -- Case studies, and Teachers -- North Carolina -- Attitudes
The open access mission is central to the community college role and mission in higher education. Although initially implemented by four-year colleges and universities, adoption of formal enrollment management initiatives in...
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enrollment, management, marketing, persistence, recruiting, and retention
Subject:
Community colleges -- North Carolina -- Admission, Community colleges -- Open admission -- North Carolina, and Community college students -- Recruiting -- North Carolina
The impact of humans on the environment has caused a need to evaluate why individuals act in non-sustainable ways. How to change current non-sustainable behaviors is a focus in current social research. Authors have written...
Keyword:
community college, environmental, higher education, pro-environmental behavior, sustainability, and theory of planned behavior
Subject:
Community college students -- Behavior -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Community college students -- North Carolina -- Attitudes -- Case studies, Community colleges -- Environmental aspects -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Environmental responsibility -- Social aspects -- North Carolina -- Case studies, and Environmental sociology -- North Carolina -- Case studies
The Leicester and Sandy Mush communities in western North Carolina have a history of involvement in schools through early subscription schools, private academies, and public schools. The levels and forms of involvement have...
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community involvement, public schools, and school history
Subject:
Rural schools -- North Carolina, Western, Rural schools -- North Carolina -- Sandymush, Rural schools -- North Carolina -- Leicester, Community and school -- North Carolina, Western, Community and school -- North Carolina -- Sandymush, Community and school -- North Carolina -- Leicester, Sandymush (N.C.) -- History, and Leicester (N.C.) -- History
This paper utilizes a dissertation-in-practice model (Storey et al., 2015) wherein scholar-practitioners examine the implementation of teacher professional learning in the areas of culturally responsive practice (Gay, 2000;...
Keyword:
care, culturally responsive, education, equity, improvement science, and relationships
Subject:
Culturally relevant pedagogy, Teacher-student relationships, and Academic achievement
More than two decades of debate since the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the term information literacy have been marked by ongoing criticism of its associated definitions and standards. Some...
Keyword:
critical information literacy, critical interpretive synthesis, critical pedagogy, information literacy instruction, library instruction, and practitioner research
Subject:
Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Evaluation and Critical pedagogy
What if a district utilized its teacher onboarding program to prioritize the development of a culturally responsive lens to meet the needs of its diverse student population? Public school districts in the United States have...
Subject:
Educational leadership, Culturally relevant pedagogy, Teachers -- Training of, Racial justice in education, and Teacher-student relationships
The Pre-AP Program, introduced nationally in 2018, aims to provide students with the necessary support to excel in challenging classroom experiences. However, due to the culturally responsive school leadership (CRSL) knowledge...
Subject:
Culturally relevant pedagogy, Advanced placement programs (Education), Racism in education, Educational leadership, and Students, Black
