Browsing by Subject "Education, Sociology of."
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Classroom interaction: A study of undergraduate teaching examining the existence of gender bias in freshman english instruction
(1991)This study over a four month period of freshman English Composition classrooms provided a data based analysis for determining if the independent variables of (1) Instructor gender and (2) Instructor Gender Communication ... -
Coming of age in Oklahoma: Stories girls tell about learning to live wisely and well.
(2006)These questions arise in response to new scholarly and popular literature on girls (Harris, 2004; Brown, 1999; Pipher, 1994) and to the reported comparatively low status of women in Oklahoma (Community Council of Central ... -
A comparative study of indigenous content of multicultural teacher education textbooks in Canada and the United States.
(2004)The focus of the most currently published Canadian textbooks was on indigenous education and, to a lesser extent indigenous history and culture. The focus of the most currently published United States textbooks was on ... -
The dilemma of addiction and recovery during adolescence.
(1998)The study probes how the process of substance use, abuse, and addiction affects the lives of users during their adolescence. Using qualitative research methods, it investigated the lives of seven adolescent substance users ... -
Fleshing out the voices: The psychological effects of physical punishment in school.
(2005)This qualitative study examined school corporal punishment from a phenomenological perspective using individual interviews and oral history narrative gathered from participants by audiotape recordings. The research focused ... -
Hope in education: A dialogue with educators.
(2007)Contemporary educators (and students) continue to struggle within challenging social, political and educational contexts of power and conformity that often result in despair. Historically, humans have responded to despair ... -
The influence of public schools on residential growth in the urban fringe of Oklahoma City.
(1997)In the United States highways and expressways, affordable automobiles and cheap gasoline have increased the zone of influence of cities and metropolitan areas by encouraging the growth of residential suburbs. Also, preferences ... -
Interactive competence in a multilingual English language school.
(1999)This study examined the language use in a multilingual English as a second language school located in the Midwest. The primary objective of this study was to uncover and display the ways in which members of this setting ... -
Is there still a chill? Student perceptions of gender bias in the college classroom.
(1997)This study investigates student perceptions of gender bias in the college classroom. Utilizing the Student Perception Questionnaire, Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, and student perceptions of teacher immediacy, ... -
Parents' perceptions of a change in parental involvement in an urban school.
(2001)This qualitative study examined one urban school's successful attempt to increase parental involvement. The phenomenon was examined from the parents' perspective in order to expand the current literature base, to inform ... -
Pleasing the teacher: An exploration of the construct and its behavioral and motivational patterns.
(1997)The current study examined motivational patterns related to high school students reasons for pleasing the teacher, and motivation in classes where they like and dislike the teacher. One hundred and twenty-five high school ... -
Popular participation in Cochabamba, Bolivia as an ameliorative policy treatment affecting public education.
(2005)Popular Participation is a public policy characterized by decentralization and devolution of responsibility and resources for a wide range of public services, including public education, from the national to the municipal ... -
The school experiences of Native American and Alaska Native students: A closer look at self determination theory.
(2006)Multiple regression was performed to examine how well need satisfaction predicted the G.P.A. and well being scores of American Indian college students. In addition, open ended questions asked students about perceived ... -
Social interaction phenomena in the first-year college experience.
(2005)The transition from high school to college is not an easy process. New freedoms and new independence provide for an exciting first year. There is little debate as to the importance of starting college off well. However, ... -
Successful socialization of an organizational culture: A critical analysis of the messages of student members of Southern Nazarene University.
(2002)The purpose of this study is to examine students' messages, gathered through post-exit interviews, in order to compare how they talk about membership in the organizational culture of Southern Nazarene University with the ... -
TEACHER UNDERSTANDING OF CARE: USING EMPIRICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS TO EXPLICATE THE MEANING OF CARE AS REFLECTED IN THE RELATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE CLASSROOM
(2014-05-10)Care theory is a complex theory to understand, and interpreting its meaning involves a close investigation of the context in which it is both employed and explored. In this study, both conceptual and empirical literature ... -
Understanding public school teachers' accounts of conflicts: An ethnographically based, ethnomethodological investigation.
(2001)The data for this project are narrative descriptions or accounts of conflict episodes written by public school teachers. Two categories of research within the Language and Social Interaction tradition---the ethnography of ...