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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Own Voices"”.
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From Their Own Voices: The Lived Experiences of African Americans Exposed to Jim Crow
… who were exposed to the racial caste system known as Jim Crow. This inquiry looked at transgenerational trauma, exploring exposure to decades of legal discrimination, while also illuminating experiences of resilience and posttraumatic growth. These lived experiences were examined within the …
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From their own voices: Nonnative English speaker students' opportunities for practical teaching experience in an MA TESOL program
… focus groups, the study captures NNS students' voices, which have rarely been heard before, as they talk about the problems they confronted as NNS TESOL students, render their opinions on the issue of NS-NNS dichotomy and discuss the nature of such problems. The findings unveil the complexity of …
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A Participatory Action Research Study with Bi-ethnic Children in South Korea on Bi-ethnic Identity Development
… thoughts and feelings of children, through their own voices, seems of paramount importance for a more secure and authentic identity development. The findings from this research provided evidence through their own storybooks that bi-ethnic Korean children had individual identity experiences in …
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Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language
… learners to establish their confidence in, and ownership of, the target language. This project is designed not only for discussing issues of improving the teaching and learning of English pronunciation, but also for explicating how students can gain their own voices and define their subjectivity …
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Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language
… learners to establish their confidence in, and ownership of, the target language. This project is designed not only for discussing issues of improving the teaching and learning of English pronunciation, but also for explicating how students can gain their own voices and define their subjectivity …
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From The Valley to the Mountaintop: A Case Study of Resilience and Persistence Among First-Generation African American Males Who Have Achieved Doctoral Success
… interviewed in order to gather data in their own voices about their educational experiences as first-generation African American Males (AAMs). Participants attributed their success to what can be categorized as sociocultural capital in the form of resilience and persistence factors. Based on …
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Personal Writing in the Composition Classroom: Passport to Success in an Academic Landscape
… which to help students discover and hone their own voices of authority, thereby fostering in them a mastery of skills in academic exploration, inquiry and dialogic communication, both oral and written. The author uses as evidence the realization and growth of her own voice as a writer and …
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Stories as theories: co-building critical and humanizing literacies’ spaces with Adivasi (indigenous) and De-notified tribal (DNT) youth in central India
… especially in environments where their voices and agencies are overbearingly marginalized. This work involves critical ethnography, humanizing practitioner-research, and sociocultural methods of understanding youth compositions. Through using mentor texts of several authors who have …
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Feminist pedagogy and the composing process: Bringing women to the writing table
… and empowerment, helps women explore their own historic marginalization and empowers them to break free from silence and to speak in their own voices. This study also examines how systems of authority, like the educational system, privileges men. Feminists challenge these traditional systems …
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Sensemaking: An Analysis of Participatory and Automated Methods
… from RealTalk@MIT to make sense of their own conversation and noted the differences (small or significant) between the themes produced by the researchers involved in the original sensemaking team and the workshop participants. From there, I evaluated the effectiveness of the new workshop …
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The experiences of African, Caribbean and South Asian women in initial teacher education
… student teachers. It is through the women's own voices that an insight is given into the experience of teacher training for black women. The women's motivations to enter initial teacher education (ITE), their perceptions of ITE, their experiences in ITE and their experiences as practising …
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Developmental Education: Resilience and Academic Success in Rural Appalachian Students
… serve as an impetus for the development of their own resilience despite being at-risk students. This qualitative dissertation study focuses on the lived experiences of ten community college students from rural Appalachia. This study tells their stories of success in their own voices. </p>
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Women's experiences in the gendered environment of outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand : "I felt a need to prove my right to be there" : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Adult Education, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
… students. Insights gained from listening to the voices of women sharing their lived experiences highlight costs and issues that must be addressed to create change for the future. This research was undertaken using a feminist narrative perspective. Purposive sampling was used to identify women who …
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Perspectives on curriculum and pedagogy in a private kindergarten in China
… liked the opportunities to develop their own interests in the areas of play provision linked to individual intelligences. Whilst practitioners and parents valued play-based activities in the MI programme, children conceptualised play differently and viewed some activities as 'learning' …
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Listening To Student Voices: Fifth Graders' Perceptions Of Their Mathematics Learning Within The Context Of A Mathematics Reform
… within the context of a reform effort. Students' voices are the focus of this study due to the paucity of literature on student learning from the students' perspective (Erickson & Shultz, 1992), particularly the elementary student (Gentilucci, 2004). The participants of this study, who in the past …
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Pictures on the wall of my life : photographs to life writing to fiction, an ekphrastic journey
… question as the pictures speak to her, in their own voices, of a world re-focused through their own lens. A critical commentary follows in three chapters: a chapter on ‘punctum’ discusses motivation and photography as a technical and creative driver for this work, and the following one on …
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Reflecting (on) the Orientalist Gaze: A Feminist Analysis of Japanese-U.S. GIs Intimacy in Postwar Japan and Contemporary Okinawa
… stereotypes of Asian women, while women's voices often are not heard. I use a feminist strategy and reverse the positions of those who gaze and those who are objects of the gaze to make Japanese women's viewpoints and personal experiences central to my analysis. Reversing the subject-object …
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Locating Citizenship of Indian Christians
… and films created by Christians to hear their own voices. These works haven't received much attention before, but they reveal how people live through discrimination and hope for change. By reading these texts together, the project shows how different forms of expression connect to larger ideas …
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