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The Cultivation of a Teacher in a Classroom Community

Abstract

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The purpose of this study was to examine the dilemmas and tensions the researcher encountered as a teachers in a university-based lab school. Specifically, she examined the tensions within the context of the seemingly contradictory role expectations that were required of her as a student who was also a teacher. This autobiographical form of self study was based on the principles of action research, of linking theory and practice through a cyclical process of action and reflection. The findings were reported in a narrative form and describe the process of how one woman came to know and understand herself as a teacher and an individual through her life inside and outside of the classroom.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Science
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Human Development
Department dc:contributor.department
Human Development
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2003

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Mottley, Melinda
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Stremmel, Andrew J.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Hill, Lynn T.
  • Fu, Victoria R.
  • Barksdale, Mary Alice

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-05232003-133755
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/42778

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2026-07-22
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citation

Mottley, Melinda. The Cultivation of a Teacher in a Classroom Community. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42778