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Contemporary Educational Criticism: An Analysis and Appraisal
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Constructing Educational Criticism Of Online Courses: A Model For Implementation By Practitioners
… By combining prior works related to educational criticism and qualitative research case study with original innovations, I develop a model for studying the instructional experiences of online courses. I then apply this approach in the study of one specific online course at the …
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The Dual Role of a Teacher and Teacher Leader: An Auto-Educational Criticism Examination
… said research. Through the methodology of auto-educational criticism, I have analyzed a journal of the trials and tribulations of the work of a dual role teacher as well. Using my expertise in the world of teacher leadership, I wasable to critique these entries and shed light on an area of …
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Engaging Young Children in the Art Museum: An Educational Criticism of an Art Museum Summer Class
… Eisner’s theory on qualitative research, educational criticism and connoisseurship (1998), the researcher interviewed, observed, and received responses to a questionnaire in order to describe, interpret, and analyze the educational event of the summer class. By identifying the intentions …
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Surveying the Soul: Shaping Auto-Criticism with Reflective Arts-Based Inquiry to Assess a Female Doctoral Experience
<p>This dissertation is an arts-based auto-criticism assessing the author's experience in her doctoral program. It is also perhaps the first dissertation elaborating on a method called auto-criticism, as derived from educational criticism and connoisseurship. The process of inquiry is rooted in …
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A. B.A.L.A.N.C.E.: A Well-Being Research Study
… known as A. B.A.L.A.N.C.E.. The method of educational criticism and connoisseurship was used as the qualitative method. Educational criticism is rooted in the process of expressing the specific qualities of one’s observations, while educational connoisseurship is rooted in the process of …
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Intentions, Operations, Beliefs, & Dispositions of Teachers at Culturally Diverse Schools: Examining the Intricacies and Complexities of Great Teachers
… is an increasing focus on teacher quality in educational reform, a lack of empirical research on exactly what culturally responsive teaching looks like, and a great deal of confusion on how teacher dispositions may be important in education. This study seeks to examine what great teachers …
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Effective Teaching
… and examined through the lens of Elliot Eisner's educational criticism and connoisseurship. Through in-depth interviews, these effective teachers identified and interpreted experiences that have contributed to them being considered "effective" teachers: Personal Experiences, Motivational …
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Power of Equality Myths: A Transdisciplinary Study Examining the Influence of Equality Policy on Teaching and Learning
… democracy. Using the combined methodologies of educational criticism, critical discourse analysis, and self-ethnography, this transdisciplinary investigation describes, interprets, and evaluates the way staff members in a Head Start/early childhood education organization conceive of, and act …
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Do-It-Together: Informal Transformative Sustainability Education
… This study sought to close these gaps by using educational criticism and connoisseurship to explore the experiences of undergraduate students placed in an informal sustainability internship program at their university. This study demonstrated the transformative power of allowing students to …
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Creating Life-Long Relationships With the Arts: A Caring Philosophical Approach
… these questions, this qualitative study adopts educational criticism and connoisseurship, a method developed by Eliot Eisner. The participating teachers established caring relationships with their students as understood through Noddings’ ethic of care and demonstrated teaching methodologies …
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Photographs in my Mind, Through Darkness and in Light: An Auto-Criticism of a University Teacher
<p>This dissertation is an auto-criticism, a new qualitative inquiry founded in educational criticism and arts-based research, which describes and analyzes my lived experience as a female university teacher. The purpose of this study is to describe, interpret, evaluate and thematize my experiences …
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Restorative Justice & a Dean of Students: An Auto-Criticism of the Role of Care in School Discipline in a Poverty Impacted Public High School
<p>This qualitative study is an auto-criticism, an approach that allows researchers to study themselves. This emergent methodology is derived from educational criticism and connoisseurship, which fits under the broader category of arts-based research. School discipline is a programmatic component …
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Teaching on the Möbius: Exploring the Inner and Outer Landscapes of Teacher Practice
… on renewed significance in today’s changing educational landscape. In the quest for transformative teaching and learning, there are both familiar and unfamiliar paths to be traversed. While significant contributions are being made by culturally responsive pedagogies, less is understood about …
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Evolving Minds: Helping Students with Cognitive Dissonance
… evolution. I selected the qualitative method of educational criticism and connoisseurship to organize and categorize my data.</p> <p>From the interviews, the following findings emerged. Experienced teachers increased their confidence in teaching evolution by pursuing outside professional …
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Student Expressions of Aesthetic Learning Experiences
… do, and create?</p> <p>My research employed an educational criticism and connoisseurship approach to perceive, disclose, and appraise qualities inherent in student aesthetic learning experiences through three sources of data: classroom observations, teacher and student interviews, and …
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Waldorf Kindergarten and Reggio-Inspired Kindergarten: Documenting Value and Effectiveness of Two Arts-Based Approaches
… childhood education that are viewed as strong educational alternatives to traditional education and serve as sources of inspiration for progressive educational reform. This study describes, interprets, and appraises the intentions and operations of two Waldorf kindergartens and two …
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Digital Media's Transformative Role in Education: Beyond Potential to Essential
… school students' interaction with the entire educational process. The goal was to rethink the role of digital media in transforming schooling. Based on classroom observation and interviews with the teachers and students from four middle schools in Denver, Colorado, the qualitative method of …
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An Exploration of Rural Advanced Placement Differentiation
… in AP classes. The purpose of this qualitative educational criticism was to describe, interpret, and evaluate the differentiation practices that are presented by rural Advanced Placement teachers to gifted students. Five rural teachers engaged in virtual observations, artifact submission, and …
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Attending High School Algebra I: In Search of Well-Managed, Engaging, Culturally Relevant, and Caring Classrooms
… interviews, the researcher employs the method of Educational Criticism and Connoisseurship to answer the research question. The question that guided this study was: What practices do effective algebra teachers employ in high poverty, diverse high school algebra classrooms to implement the …
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