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A case study of building leaders' experiences with strengths-based coaching and feedback
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
trained in positive psychology and strengths-based coaching by the Gallup organization, and in specific strengths-based coaching and feedback protocols through the Regional Professional Development Center/ Missouri Leadership Development System workshops...
How far can they go? : English language learners' math course taking in high school and school practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Over the last three decades in the U.S., schools have endeavored to provide more equitable access to rigorous courses, especially for racially or socioeconomically marginalized students, and increased those students' participation in higher level...
A qualitative case study of how an English language program at a U.S. university prepares Chinese students for U.S. undergraduate programs and communicative competence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
(ILP), a full-time program of an English language center at a Midwestern public university that is designed to support international students. Using theoretical frameworks on college readiness (Conley, 2010a, 2014b) and communicative competence (Canale...
Quality and quantity : gender representation in teacher discourse and kindergarten math curriculum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
We know that women are underrepresented in math-intensive fields despite marginal gender differences in mathematical performance. Some researchers believe that societal factors contribute to this problem and have called ...
Generational status, social capital and family engagement in immigrant families
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study highlighted the importance of social capital in understanding the disparity in family engagement across immigrant generations. Using the national representative data, the ELS:2002, confirmatory factor analysis ...
Academic capitalist regime in Colombia : discourses from national research policies and professors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation is centered on whether and how the production (research) and transmission (education) of knowledge are considered public or private goods. Drawing on the theories of academic capitalism and neoliberalism as an important underlying...
Deconstructing dominant English language discourses in the Ghanaian curriculum : reimagining a curriculum centered on Ghanaian languages and literacies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
continue to call for stakeholders to decolonize the curriculum by centering Ghanaian languages, culture, and knowledge in schools (Dei, 2005). This study heeds that call. Grounded in studies and theories of English linguistic imperialism and critical...
Constructing children : one educator's dichotomy between ideology and pedagogy regarding children and achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
structures and truth regimes that produces a binarized either/or. Instead, this inquiry implies that power/knowledge is relational allowing space to (re)construct ways in which to view and interact with children within the current structures of public...