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"Identity" Constructions in Online Learning Events: Gender, Subjectivities, and the Productive Effects of Power
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ABSTRACT Advances in computer technology have created powerful opportunities for learners to engage with others, producing very different contexts for learning, and for negotiating our very way of being. Yet, engagement in these virtual learning environments also raises many questions around how...
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"Stories Matter:" A Narrative Inquiry Exploring First-Generation University Student Persistence
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Though postsecondary participation has increased overall, the rate of participation has risen more sharply for middle-class students compared with working-class students (Knighton & Mirza, 2002). Especially pronounced is Krahn’s (2009) finding that children from families where at least one...
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(De)colonizing global citizenship: a case study of North American study abroad programs in Ghana
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Over the last few decades, the concept of global citizenship has emerged in policies and vision statements of higher educational institutions without clarity of what it means or how to educate for it. In North America the discourse of global citizenship study abroad has become increasingly...
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Spring 2014
Abstract The purpose of my doctoral research was to address the question, “How have school improvement strategies been instrumental in school and school system leadership development?” Several authors have indicated that the strength of school leadership is second only to classroom teaching as...
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A Critical Ethnography of Dispossession, Indigenous Sovereignty and Knowledge Production in Resistance in Samoa
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Samoa’s independence in 1962 came with high expectations for sovereignty and freedom from colonial domination. The continued struggle against material and social dispossession during fifty-four years of independence, however, suggests that the tentacles of colonialism are hard to dislodge....