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Showing 1 to 20 of 253 for “"Curriculum studies"”.
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Curriculum Studies the Creative Student: A Winnicottian Literary Analysis
… The second body of literature that addresses the curriculum aspects of creativity includes Maxine Greene, Madeleine Grumet, Marla Morris, Mary Aswell Doll, Deborah Britzman, and Martha Nussbaum. These authors are directly concerned with sparking creativity and imagination through literature in …
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Leveling the Playing Field: Curriculum Studies and Fast Pitch Softball
… identity formation. Through the lenses of gender studies and cultural studies, the lived experiences of a female high school athlete are described. This study traces the challenges and successes women have experienced trying to gain entry into the institutionalized world of sport since the …
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Curriculum Studies Gone Wild: Bioregional Education and the Scholarship of Sustainability
… dissertation I explore the intersections between curriculum studies and sustainability. The educational possibilities of intensifying our ecological attunement are investigated with a focus on advancing environmental sensitivity and place consciousness. More specifically, I inquire into the …
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Spatial confinement of metallodielectric eutectic alloys and related outreach curriculum studies
… applications and the second focused on outreach curriculum understanding for increased female engagement in STEM fields. Spatial Confinement of Metallodielectric Eutectic Alloys There is a large drive to develop new fabrication techniques for metamaterials; a subclass of materials with unique …
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Curriculum Studies as an international conversation: cosmopolitanism in a Latin American key
My work addresses the field of Curriculum Studies as a worldwide interdisciplinary field, its difficulties, complications, and possibilities. It primarily focuses on the relations between the Anglo-Saxon field of Curriculum Studies and the Latin American educational tradition. Looking at these …
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This corner of Canaan: curriculum studies of place and the reconstruction of the South
… the self and society, then it is central to curriculum studies that relate the individual and the social. This theoretical autobiographical research seeks to encourage progressive conversation and social political movement in the South by attending to the anomalous forms of Southernness that …
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Symbiosis and the Human Niche: Understanding Interdependence through Curriculum Studies, Ecopedagogy, and Technological Relationships
… to exist in the natural world. In the context of curriculum studies, I discuss the relationship of the human niche and human psyche to nature and technology and the educational settings that work to catalyze our understanding of how we work and live in these arenas. Interdependence and how the …
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Learner participation and satisfaction in decision-making in school governance within the Vhembe District of the Limpopo
Department of Curriculum Studies and Education Management.
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The role of African literature in enhancing critical literacy in first-genaration entrants at the University of Namibia
… of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University
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W. E. B. Du Bois and Critical Race Theory Toward a Du Boisian Philosophy of Education
… of restoring Du Bois to the history of curriculum studies and making Du Bois relevant within the context of contemporary curriculum studies.</p>
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Progressive Education in Transition: An Intellectual History
… education. The developments within the field of curriculum studies during the late 1800s transitioned through changes in the 1950s and 1960s and the movement forward with the reconceptualization of the field in the early 1970s were discussed. This reconceptualization of the field in the early …
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The Need For Revision: Curriculum, Literature, and the 21st Century
This dissertation argues that curriculum, especially as it is practiced in high school education, needs revision, that literature is the place to start that revision, and that literature class itself needs to be revised to incorporate a much broader understanding of the texts to be studied so that …
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Hidden Pedagogical Entanglements: A Depth Hermeneutic Study of Intercultural Dynamics
… and ideas through a collection of essays. Using curriculum studies, hermeneutics, Jungian, and post-Jungian psychology, I seek to uncover layers of the hidden yet felt interplay between psyche, culture, and the ways the unconscious (personal, collective, cultural) manifests in unseen …
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Different Lattitudes, Different Attitudes: Educator Narratives of a Professional Development in Honduras
<p> Author's abstract:The curriculum studies field is marked by two significant concerns-the desire for a complex conversation about connection and diversity and the drive to address structural inequities. Drawing from the rich theoretical field of post positivist realism and in the intellectually …
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The Need for Reform: Exploring Historical and Cultural Representations of Identity and Equality in Irish National Schools
… textual evidence from within the field of Curriculum Studies. Statistical data from the Irish census was reviewed in order to examine the affect of newcomer migrant populations upon existing Irish educational frameworks. Interviews were conducted in Ireland with key stakeholders including …
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Casting Minority Gifted Students: The Pedagogical Impact of Cinema on the Culture of Schooling
… teacher perceptions intersect in the field of curriculum studies. Media literacy will be utilized to critique popular films by gifted endorsement teacher-students and myself. Due to the low number of states that require pre-service teachers to study gifted characteristics of children it is left …
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Chaos Theory, Theology, and Curriculum: Striving Towards the Impossibility of the Gift
… and is always to come, becomes meaningful. Curriculum studies allows for many wide ranging topics to be discussed and because of its wide ranging influence it is the avenue through which creating positive change in the world could occur. Inspiring, or even more specifically, resacralizing …
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Recovered Voices: Fairy Tales and the Reading Child
… serve as the selected literature. The field of curriculum studies is concerned with recognizing contexts, and working to understand how these many contexts contribute to the education of children. Located within the field of literary criticism, interpretive communities have been selected as a …
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