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Fancy and imagination: Cultivating sympathy and envisioning the natural world for the modern child.
(2006)
This dissertation examines the attitudes that scientists, educators, and nature-writers held toward fancy and imagination in nature-study and nature books for children around the turn of the century. In a period where ...
Relational Health, Attachment, and Psychological Distress in College Women and Men
(Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2006-09-01)
Lisa L. Frey and Denise Beesley are Assistant Professors in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Oklahoma; Merle R. Miller is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Psychology at the ...
Integration and marginality: Narratives of commuter students.
(2006)
As an attempt to understand the experience of the commuter, a qualitative design was selected, with a phenomenological approach. Six commuter students, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four, were selected to participate ...
Early childhood preservice teachers' autonomy in constructing personal practical theories of teaching and learning.
(2006)
In the findings, the differences of four early childhood preservice teachers in the match or mismatch between their philosophy and personal practical theory related to the how preservice teachers have developed their ...
From Ethnic to Interethnic: The Case for Identity Adaptation and Transformation
(Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2006-09-01)
The academic literature for the past several decades suggests an increased tendency to conceive “ethnic identity” as an a priori and morally inviolable human condition exclusively attributed to a social group identified ...
Interviewer as Instrument: Accounting for Human Factors in Evaluation Research
(Evaluation Review, 2006-04-01)
This methodological study examines an original data collection model designed to incorporate human factors and enhance data richness in qualitative and evaluation research. Evidence supporting this model is drawn from ...
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 Computer-Aided Method to Expedite the Evaluation of Prognosis for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
(Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, 2006-08-01)
This study presented a fully-automated computer-aided method (scheme) to detect metaphase chromosomes depicted on microscopic digital images, count the total number of chromosomes in each metaphase cell, compute the DNA ...
Hyrdrogen [sic] bonding interactions and cation coordination effects in nitrogen-based polymer electrolytes and model systems /
(2006)
Studies of the model-salt solutions were considerably aided by the formation of crystalline compounds whose structures were solved by single crystal x-ray diffraction methods. The frequency shifts observed in the NH ...
Teaching in the 21st century: Merging critical theory and practice for the writing and rhetoric class.
(2006)
This dissertation seeks to assist teachers of first-year composition as they move into the 21st century. Focusing on the two-year institution, but also asking for the assistance of University Writing Program Administrators ...