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The shrinking city school: following trajectories of shrinkage across three decades of an urban school desert
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
of the spatial (2008) to explore a) the trajectories of shrinkage (out-migration, economic shifts, and housing) which require negotiation by the Saint Louis Public Schools and b) the resultant uneven distribution of educational access and academic pathways for St...
Constructing children : one educator's dichotomy between ideology and pedagogy regarding children and achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
as lacking ontology; a premise that guides educational policy and practice. These discourses become problematic since they shape the way educators view and treat children and, in turn, their experiences. Working toward a (re)imagining of schooling...
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 ...
Black families as embodied policy : politics of dignity transforming colonized policy procedures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
own racist attitudes to work with the mothers in a more humane manner. Chapters 5 and 6 demonstrate the mothers' postcolonial survival strategies that confronted local dehumanizing geopolitics, demanding more of their personal situation, while ordering...
Funding belonging : the relationship between higher education funding and sense of belonging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
to attempt to answer the question: which college functional areas have the strongest relationship with sense of belonging. A three-block hierarchical regression model found the Adjusted R2 moved by less than .01 for expenditure variables. Most expense areas...
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)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Chinese students account for about one-third of the international students at U.S. universities from 2013 to the present year 2020; however, many of ...