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Constructing children : one educator's dichotomy between ideology and pedagogy regarding children and achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Historically speaking, educational discourse and practices tend to objectify children through biological and psychological units of analysis. These socially accepted assumptions have created regimes of truth (Foucault, ...
How far can they go? : English language learners' math course taking in high school and school practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
achievement. Particularly for ELLs, the finding suggests that training content area teachers may help ELLs more readily access academicarformance. Most importantly, considering taking advanced math in high school is a critical issue for ELLs in regard...
Deconstructing dominant English language discourses in the Ghanaian curriculum : reimagining a curriculum centered on Ghanaian languages and literacies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Decades of research in language-in-education policies in Ghana can be summed up in the statement: "Ghanaian languages matter but they matter only as tools for learning English." Although researchers continue to call to ...