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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"student identities"”.
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Filipino American college student identities: exploring racial formation on campus
… college environment to create racial and ethnic identities that are unique to individual campus communities and their surrounding geographic regions. Through the narratives of Filipino American college students in California and Illinois, I examine the ways that the Filipino American identities …
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Constitution and negotiation of rural student identities at an urban South African university
… constructivist lens, this study explores how students from rural areas consti-tute and negotiate their identities within an urban South African university. Much of the re-search on rurality in South Africa has focused on rural areas as places, and not on the people occupying them. Using a …
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English Higher Education as 'dressage': investigating academic and student identities within consumerist discourses
The study explores the construction of the student-consumer discourse in national higher education policy and higher education institutions - in particular through New Public Management policies. These policies were critically evaluated using Foucauldian discourse analysis. To gain an insight into …
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Gays Going Global: Institutional Scripting and Inclusion of Homonationalist Student Identities in Study Abroad
… of this includes study abroad programs, where students serve as representatives of the home nation by spreading skills, culture, and ideologies to the international real through subtle actions. Preparatory orientation programs serve as a sight where students are instructed on how to be …
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Living together in the classroom: the coparticipatory construction of preservice teacher and novice student identities
… construction for preservice teachers and novice students in a university child development school classroom. The theoretical perspective of the study is grounded in interactionist and social constructivist theories on the genesis of the self and in socialization theory (Baldwin, 1906; Cooley, …
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How to solve a physics problem: negotiating knowledge and identity in introductory university physics
… as critical sites in the development of students’ relationships with physics. Drawing on interviews with students, observations of classrooms, and analyses of textbooks, I compare introductory undergraduate courses in physics required for engineering majors, physics majors, and students …
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How Inequality in Education in Ireland is Produced, Reproduced, Justified, and Resisted at the Intersection of Disability and Social Class
… access initiatives, and interviews with ten student participants, to analyse how disability and social class, as social identities, intersect to influence progression, retention, and the experience of higher education. The findings from this research enhances our knowledge of complex …
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Troubling social justice in a single-sex public school : an ethnography of an emerging school culture
… culture vis-à-vis the intersectionalities of student identities. Findings suggest the conditions that facilitated the high achievement of the students in this study might be transferred under the right conditions including: a balance of strong leadership and principal and teacher autonomy; the …
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Tele-proximity : the experienced educators’ perspective of human to human communication in distance education
… of many universities worldwide, aiming to offer students opportunities for life-long learning and equitable access. Distant learners face many barriers and as a result, they drop out more frequently than on-campus students. Educatorsseem to be equally affected by the ‘transactional distance’ and …
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Mature non-specialist undergraduate students and the challenges they face in learning mathematics
… first year undergraduate university students studying mathematics as an ancillary subject. The challenges faced by such students taking mathematics as a subsidiary subject within their main degree have not been adequately addressed in the literature: this study seeks to address this …
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From Mainstream to East African Charter: East African Muslim Students’ Experiences in U.S. Schools
… and intended specifically for East African students. Describing their former experiences in mainstream schools through a lens that is altered by their current experiences attending the charter school, these youth present a failing relationship between mainstream schools and East African …
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Teachers' Perception of How Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Impacts Black Students’ Literacy Growth and Achievement
Background: Historically, Black students have often rejected their identity and culture to obtain academic success. Due to this deficit approach, Black students can be subjected to a mindset that suggests an underperforming academic profile, suggesting that they are falling behind in comparison to …
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Identity and Pedagogy in a University Context: A study of student experiences and critique in the work of anti-racism in education
… practices that aim to improve the situation that students and teachers face when challenging racism. This PhD study by publication begins to redress this by exploring student experiences and classroom dialogue. It adopts an interpretist methodological perspective and uses participant observation …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Situating the Identities and Experiences of Asian American Pacific Islander Students at an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution
… to raise awareness of the complexity of AAPI student identities and experiences by examining the experiences and conceptualizations of identity among a purposive sample of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) students attending an Asian American Native American Pacific Island Serving …
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Un camino de conocimiento: a marimacha's meditation on an LGBTQ inclusive charter school
… charter school that serves approximately 175 students who can enroll by choice or force. The vision and ultimate creation of an LGBTQ inclusive charter school is implicated in the context of educational reform efforts that have become saturated with the ideology of neoliberalism pointing to an …
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Repositioning teachers and learners in senior science for 21st century learning
… personalised to address and allow for diverse student needs and interests. However, in the reality of classroom life, a question remains as to if and how 21st century ideals might translate into practice. A social constructionist theoretical orientation directed attention to the way 21st …