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The Role of Guiding Principles in Pre-Service Teachers' Conceptualization and Utilization of Technology
(2011-02-16)
Although research demonstrates the positive impact of technology integration on K-12 student learning, it also indicates a lack of effective teacher preparation in technology. This study examined the efforts of an undergraduate ...
Tongue-Tied in America: The Decline of Foreign Language Education in an Age of Globalization
(2013-06-19)
In the United States the ratio of modern foreign language enrollments to total course enrollments in higher education today is half of what it was in the sixties. The Modern Language Association (MLA) reported in 2009 that ...
Imagined Landscapes: Geography, Identity, and Gender in the Early American Republic, 1785-1835
(2015-07-01)
In the decades that followed the American Revolution, members of the new nation began to embrace the American landscape as a point of connection between themselves and their fellow citizens. At the same time, geography ...
Education in Exile: Cultural Preservation and Promotion Among Tibetan Refugees in India
(2015-06-09)
Education is a key part of forming a national identity, particularly for diasporic communities. Through ethnographic research at the Central of Tibetan Studies (CUTS) in Sarnath, India, I examine how CUTS preserves and ...
The Effects of Elite Prep School Education on Society
(2017-07-05)
This paper explores the ways in which secondary education at elite boarding schools affects its attendees’ sense of meritocracy, privilege and attainment of success. Stemming primarily from Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of ...
Decolonizing English: Reimagining English Language Learning and Teaching through Critical Pedagogies
(2013-12-16)
At the turn of the century, nearly a quarter of the world’s population (1.5 billion people) was estimated to speak English with some fluency. English has gained an official or special status in at least seventy-five countries ...
Testing It Right: Assessing Vocabulary Breadth and Depth and Their Roles in Adult's Reading Comprehension
(2017-05-14)
This study examined relationships among vocabulary breadth, vocabulary depth, and
reading comprehension in adults. The focus of the study was to determine the construct of
vocabulary knowledge and how these components ...