New to the profession, new to their workplace, and often new to the lifestyle of a working professional, early career teachers undergo several transitions as they step in[...]

This Foucauldian genealogy traces the production of sexual and reproductive health with immanent regimes of truth, systems of knowledge, and power relations in the United[...]

AFTER LISELL-B: DRAWING ON ANT TO EXPLORE THE TERRAIN OF SUSTAINABILITY AND PROFESSIONAL LEARNINGbyAMANDA MARGARITE LATIMER(Under the Direction of Cory A. Buxton)ABSTRACT[...]

By conducting photo elicitation interviews with twenty-seven U.S. high school students, this dissertation study explores what aspects of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) and [...]

Special education teachers leave the field at rates higher than other teachers, with the highest rates demonstrated by beginning special education teachers (Boe, Cook &am[...]

Westheimer and Kahne (2004) connect the creation of a good citizen to the foundations of a good society (p. 238) as long as being a good citizen means being personally re[...]

The purpose of this study was to explore the daily practices of working single mothers using the ancient Greek practice, care of the self, described by Michel Foucault. [...]

This is a study about twenty-two elementary-aged children negotiating belongings with their peers in a diverse social space. Surprisingly little research exists on how ch[...]

It has been recognized that the experience of Black girls, especially those of Black girls with disabilities, may not conform to dominant forms of girlhood (Aapola, Gonic[...]

The purpose of this study is to discover collective actions of material and human actors in a pre-kindergarten block play area by attention to moments when the blocks mak[...]

This case study analyzed the implementation of a classroom observation feedback process aimed at improving the feedback that teachers receive from evaluators. Research qu[...]

This dissertation study explores the dialogic and intra-active engagement of young children, aged 4 to 6, with robotic manipulatives (BeeBots and Cubelets) in two early c[...]

The purpose of this study was to understand Black womens relationship to land and their perspectives on access to land and land ownership as an environmental justice conc[...]

Researchers have begun addressing ways to prepare pre-service and in-serviceteachers to partner with culturally and linguistically diverse families. However, studies exam[...]

This study explores childrens power relations and civic dialogue in a culturally diverse classroom after the US 2016 presidential election. Drawing on poststructural theo[...]

While White women continue to dominate the American teaching force, the student population becomes more racially diverse. Teachers' White racial identity permits the pres[...]

Black male students find themselves in a problem when they walk into the school building each day. There is often a desire to be educated, but a gradual breaking down of [...]

Fueled by neoliberalism, the United States of America has entered the third decade of the 21st century in a state of divisiveness, mistrust, and inequity. Positioned as [...]

In this qualitative case study, I examined in-service elementary school teachers’ learning of coding and robotics in a blended course developed and delivered through the [...]

This dissertation names Cartesian binary logic underlying early childhood pedagogical encounters (Davies & Gannon, 2009) from my experiences with one early childhood [...]

This dissertation explores preservice teacher preparation by studying how practices that matter, images of childhood, and reiterations in becoming teachers-to-be work dur[...]

This study critically engages with the liminal space between theory and practice to challenge the constitution of language in its intersections with knowledge and knowing[...]

This dissertation undertakes the question, what are the implications of engaging climate crisis in social studies education? Employing the theoretical notion of difficult[...]

In this community-based, philosophical experiment in thought, I engaged Foucauldian philosophies of neoliberalism as well as posthuman and Black feminist relational ontol[...]

Social media spaces are increasingly sites where people learn about the political and social landscape. Because social studies teachers can play a significant role in hel[...]