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Building University Community: A Phenomenological Study of Faculty In Residence
(2009)
In this hermeneutic, phenomenological study, the Faculty In Residence (FIR) program at the University of Oklahoma is explored through the following guiding research questions:
The effectiveness of the South African Schools Act to desegregate the schools of the Gauteng Province.
(2000)
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there has been a noticeable trend in the inter-racial migration of learners within the Gauteng Province of South Africa after the enactment of the South African Schools ...
Perceptions of female school superintendents.
(2002)
This qualitative study involved female superintendents in the state of Oklahoma. A survey questionnaire designed to gather demographic information was sent to the 48 practicing female superintendents during the 2000--2001 ...
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 ...
Schools as learning organizations: Relationships between professional learning communities and technology-enriched learning environments.
(2005)
During the last decade there has been a significant increase in the availability of technology in schools; unfortunately, research indicates the integration of technology in the teaching and learning process has been minimal ...
The Impact of Interdisciplinary Lesson Study on Teachers' Instructional Decisions and Technology Use
(2009)
Schools are complex institutions in which change occurs almost constantly. As each new piece of information is learned, the learner is changed, never to return to the same state they were prior to the act of learning, ...
Vestiges of glory: Iraq's universities and female students in the midst of tyranny, sanctions and war.
(2006)
This historical dissertation examines the intersectionality of sanctions, war and autocratic rule as it manifested itself on Iraqi university campuses and, more specifically, the impact on female students. While much has ...
Elementary principals' perspectives in developing and sustaining professional learning communities.
(2007)
The purpose of this study was to answer through the perceptions of experienced elementary principals, how do elementary principals develop and sustain an evolving professional learning community? Based on the interviews ...
How and why the presence of social category diversity dictates procedures during mediation.
(2006)
Through a multiple case study of the perceptions' of four mediators, this dissertation addresses how and why social category diversity dictates mediation procedures. The researcher delves into the world of governmental, ...
The concept of brand identity in relation to students' intent-to-persist.
(2001)
The partial correlation findings revealed that all the six brand identity attributes had a positive correlation with students' ratings of their academic and social integration. Amongst the student characteristics, gender, ...