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A narrative inquiry into the experiences of two beginning physical education teachers' shifting stories to live by
DownloadFall 2010
The purpose of this research was to inquire into the phenomenon of beginning teacher attrition, and more specifically, beginning physical education teacher attrition and retention. Utilizing the methodology of narrative inquiry, I first studied my own autobiographical stories that brought me to...
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Co-Composing Knowledge Communities and Curricula: A Narrative Inquiry into Student Teachers’ and a Teacher Educator’s Experiences
DownloadFall 2022
What is knowledge? Whose knowledge matters? How can we build connections with people, share knowledge, and promote one another’s growth? These and many other wonders were embedded in my tension-filled stories about knowledge, curricula, and communities, both as a university teacher of English in...
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Fall 2022
“Teacher identity” is a popular topic for discussion and reflection in teacher education programs. We ask pre-service teachers to consider pervasive cultural and personal images of teachers (as expert, caregiver, authoritarian, and so on) in order to accept or resist these images as they...
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The relationship between biology teachers' identities and their integration of the outdoors
DownloadFall 2018
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the identities of biology teachers and their integration of outdoor settings with their practice. In the context of this study, teacher identity is considered as enacting and being recognized as a particular kind of teacher at a...
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Toward a Badiou-Inspired Eventful English Language Arts Curriculum: A Refractive Autoethnography
DownloadSpring 2023
The purpose of my autoethnographic study is to understand more fully how my experience of educational events and their emerging truths impact my identity and my curricular and pedagogical approaches as a seasoned English Language Arts teacher. My dissertation addresses the following research...