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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"educational discourse"”.
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A critical discourse analysis of the construction of otherness in the 4T government of Mexico through official educational discourse
… the concept of “otherness” within official educational discourse. Employing a hybrid methodological design that integrates Thematic Analysis with Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study examines foundational policy documents—the 2022 Study Plan for Preschool, Primary, and Secondary …
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W. E. B. Du Bois and Critical Race Theory Toward a Du Boisian Philosophy of Education
… the race problem in America. His racialized discourse at once captivated and repulsed a nation. His intellectual voracity regularly traversed disciplinary boundaries with stunning precision, relevance, and scholarship. While one of the most prolific writers of his era, Du Bois' discursive …
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Process Writing in the Classroom: The Reality Lived Out
… for this study is to bring into the realm of educational discourse an understanding of the lived experience of the teacher who uses process writing in her classroom, as well as the lived experience of the child who participates in process writing. Experiences of teachers and children are often …
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Exploring the meaning of being a cooperating teacher
… for teacher education rests in bringing to the educational discourse another perspective on teacher preparation toward informed and appropriate action through raised awareness of the nature of the lived experienced of the cooperating teacher.
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Threatening Discourse: Cultural and Contextual Challenges to Constructing Antiracist Narrative and Practice Among One Elementary School Staff
… on creating schools and teaching aimed at educational empowerment for students of color. It also interrogates the ways that the dominant American cultural narrative, dominant educational discourse, local politics, community histories, and personal stories all work to inscribe and maintain …
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White teachers, critical race theory and aboriginal education
… the emphasis on Aboriginal culture in dominant educational discourse. Secondly, this project examines the potential of anti racist pedagogy (accompanied by a knowledge base in CRT) to provide professional development for white teachers to assist us in meeting the needs of not only Aboriginal …
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Snapshots to re-imagine teacher quality in southern Chile
… teacher evaluation is considered a priority for educational policy makers. This dissertation addresses three issues related with teacher quality and teacher evaluation in Chile. The first paper examines the political-educational discourse that underpinned the design of the National Teacher …
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Considering Religious Discourse and Debates Concerning American Public Education
… are generalizations which can be made about this discourse cannot negate the very real difficulties that we face in the manifestations of religiously-motivated concerns over public education. This dissertation focuses on three of the many issues that are of contemporary importance in the …
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An emergent model of the teaching of iingoma zamagqirha based on three case studies in the Western Cape, South Africa
… indigenous knowledge system and worldview as the educational discourse still tends to focus on Western music as the dominant culture.
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Senegalese Novel, African Voice: Examining the French Educational System through Aminata Sow Fall’s L'appel des arènes and Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s L'aventure ambiguë
… thesis examines representations of the French educational system in Senegal as presented in L'aventure ambiguë and L'appel des arènes. Each unfolding respectively within a colonial and postcolonial Senegalese context, the novels problematize the French school system by incorporating …
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Experiences of precarity: Oral histories of K12 dance teachers in Delhi
… teachers are the fulcrum on which dance and educational discourse in India engage with each other. Yet the K12 dance teacher, who they are and what they do, is all but missing from the literature in both dance and education. This dissertation project takes an oral history approach to collect …
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Seeds of truth : J. Krishnamurti as religious teacher and educator
… Part One assesses his religious teaching and educational thought. It contains biographical details, a literature survey and a discussion of Krishnamurti's ideas. Some weaknesses in Krishnamurti's work are identified, notably a tendency towards assertiveness in argument and an over-emphasis on …
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Towards a reconceptualisation of skill: a study of skills in higher education
… skill has become increasingly important in the discourse of education over recent years and now appears to have assumed a central position in the debate surrounding the purpose and function of higher education. Skill is a construct which is now required to function as a unifying principle and …
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Towards the democratization of instructional leadership in South African schools: current trends and future possibilities.
… that affects school policy. Unfortunately educational leaders have generally not been empowered to make a meaningful contribution to the transformation of the schools into democratic teaching and learning organizations. This motivated the decision to undertake this thesis. The focus on the …
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Troubling creativity discourses: A Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis of the idea of ‘creative subjects’ in public texts and in the context of A level decision.
… a Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, the thesis casts light on hidden discourses of creativity in the public sphere and in a school context. The thesis aims to reveal the current dominant discourse about creativity in education and how it might this affect subject …
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Interpreting the skills strategy: discourse in post-16 learning and workforce development
Post-16 educational discourse reflects government policy that, as a conceptual framework, it is shaping a new model of learning, skills initiatives and workforce development. This qualitative research examines the debate concerning the Skills Strategy (DfES 2003) and impact of 21st century skills …
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Discourses in drug treatment: ‘Exploring the meaning of drug treatment in the Crinan Youth Project’
… The research looks critically at the discourses of medicine, therapy and education through which the Crinan Youth Project is constructed. Theatrical language is used at times to present the complexity of drug treatment as a drama and point of convergence between conflicting scripts, …
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Making youth matter: Exclusion and its impact on the school lives of African-American students
… exclusion in their K–12 schooling viewed their educational experiences. In addition to the voices of youth, the perspectives of parents, social workers, and coaches were presented and analyzed. Key themes that emerged from the study were lack of care, lack of belonging, disrupted education, …
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Teaching Symbolic Rhetoric for Multicultural Education
The dissertation is an attempt to move the educational discourse on multiculturalism forward to meet the new challenges of an increasingly multicultural and global society. New conditions of rapid cultural change, intercultural engagement, and the instability of traditional notions of identity …
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Facilitating Creative Learning: Engaging in a Practice of Care
… contributing to the broader and evolving discourse on constructionism. It also makes the case for seeing facilitation as an ethical and political practice. In a time when educational discourse is increasingly shaped by ideals of efficiency and optimization—and the world faces rising …
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