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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Schooling Experiences"”.
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The schooling experiences of minority ethnic students in Northern Ireland
This thesis investigates the experiences of minority ethnic students in mainly white schools and how they come to make sense of their experiences and negotiate their identities. Based upon a qualitative case study of Northern Ireland, and informed by Critical Race Theory, the thesis presents the …
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Explorações educacionais (educational explorations) : schooling experiences of second-generation Portuguese Canadian students
This study explores the stories and experiences of second-generation Portuguese Canadian secondary school students in Southern Ontario, Canada. The purpose of this research was to understand the educational experiences of students, specifically the successes, challenges, and struggles that the …
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Classed Schooling, Classless Identity: Schooling Experiences of Returning Dropouts in South Korea
… school (Chapter 6), their elusion of mainstream schooling through their own culture (Chapter 7), and their return to the school (Chapter 8) all confirm their marginal positions. I focused on politically deployed identities to examine how they ended up relegating themselves as the status of …
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Narratives of Latina Teacher Candidates on Subtractive Schooling Experiences and Their Language Identity
… the context of their K–12 and higher education experiences. The study used narrative research centered on four Latina teacher candidates enrolled in an undergraduate bilingual education program at a Hispanic Serving Institution in the Midwest. Data were collected through semi-structured …
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"""La escuela es para estudiar"": Representations of Chicana schooling experiences in young adult literature"
This study examined Chicana schooling experiences represented in young adult literature texts written by Chicana authors and explored how Chicanas grappled with their identity formation and current realities within their schooling experiences as depicted in selected texts. Guided by Chicana …
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Indigenous Children in Urban Schools in Jalisco, Mexico: An Ethnographic Study on Schooling Experiences
… voices, rather than the other voices and experiences within the school setting. The study was conducted in two schools in the municipality of Zapopan, in the State of Jalisco, Mexico. Over a period of 14 months, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 22 indigenous children, balanced …
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An exploration of schooling experiences of persons living with severe haemophilia in the Western Cape, South Africa
This retrospective study explores the schooling experiences of learners living with the chronic health condition, haemophilia, which is a bleeding disorder. Descriptive and Interpretive phenomenological analyses were used as theoretical, methodological, and analytical tools to explore the schooling …
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Educating Queerness: An Exploration of Identity Construction Through the Schooling Experiences of Transgender and Non Binary Adults
… young adults as they matriculated through U.S. schooling institutions to contribute data to the conversation regarding schooling experience and its impact on the formation and application of gender binary identity construction for transgender people.</p>
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Teaching normalcy, learning disability - the risky business of special education : exploring the retrospective reflections of schooling experiences by learning disabled post-secondary students
… meaning of their prior and current educational experiences in relation to special educational policies, services and programs. The author begins by theorizing that such disabilities may medicalize social problems while still preserving a veneer of equality. However, since not all labels have …
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Crossing Jordan: An exploration of academic optimism in the schooling experiences of low-income African American female students and their perceptions of their academic lives
… academic optimism and its manifestation in the schooling lives of low-income, African American females who have obtained post-secondary educational status. The study also examined the facilitators and barriers the participants have encountered on their academic journeys towards the attainment of …
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Latina Immigrant Mothers' Counterstories of Education: Challenging Deficit Myths
… the following areas: 1) the educational and schooling experiences and academic aspirations of the mothers, 2) the educational and schooling experiences of their children and grandchildren along with the mothers’ academic aspirations for them, and 3) the mothers’ schooling and …
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Relative effects of coeducation and single-sex schools on students' schooling, affection, and career choice: Exploring conventional and feminist perspectives
… and coeducational school--yield different schooling processes and outcomes, four major questions were raised: (a) Do the single-sex secondary schools affect students' schooling experiences? (b) Do the single-sex secondary schools directly or indirectly affect students' affective …
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The Perspectives of Male Inmates Regarding Their K-12 Educational Experiences
… inmates aged 18-30 regarding their educational experiences, this study's data illuminated how school personnel and the schooling process may theoretically contribute to negative outcomes such as incarceration. The focus of the study was to identify commonalities and phenomena in relation to …
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Tongan Conceptions of Schooling in New Zealand: Insights and Possible Solutions to Underachievement
… of Tongans' conceptions of New Zealand secondary schooling is fundamental to behavioural and professional development interventions that may help promote academic achievement. The purpose of the thesis is to investigate Tongan attitudes, beliefs and intentions relating to their secondary schooling …
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The educational experiences of Black individuals with late-diagnosed autism
… the diagnostic processes, services, educational experiences, resources, and success of interventions for autism in young populations. Though this research is important, it fails to address the experiences of autistic adults, especially those diagnosed with autism beyond childhood. This can be …
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Haitian Linguistic and Cultural Practices: Critical Meaning-Making Spaces for Haitian Learners
… heritage, knowledge and epistemology in the schooling experiences of Haitian students has the potential to improve their academic production and performance through increased self-esteem, pride and confidence, as well as increase familial engagement.</p>
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Finding Voice along the Appalachian Mountains: An Autoethnographic Journey of a Female Immigrant Student
… explores a female immigrant student's lived experiences in education in China, and in the United States. The theoretical framework of this study is critical autoethnography. In the study, I present my lived experiences in poems, narratives, and stories as the storied scholarship (Boylorn and …
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The School Experiences and Achievement of Black Males: The Voice of the Students
… public schools. What are the challenges of the schooling experience and contradictions of achievement for Black males, according to the students themselves? The answers to these questions are unclear, because they have not been given sufficient attention. Despite decades of research on …
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A Deweyan Perspective on Knowledge Producing Schools: Re-creative technologies for communities of inquirers
… that reforms that traditional structures of schooling and the connections between schools and the communities in which schools are embedded. KPS schools attempts, through New Literacies, to bring out-of-school practices into schools, in an effort to make students' schooling experiences …
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