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Chasing the shadow: A heuristic look at reader-response.
(2006)
What is the experience of reader-response from the learner's and teachers' perspectives? The purpose of the research reported here was to explore the students' and teachers' perspectives regarding literature and the ...
How caring informs teaching.
(2006)
This study is a qualitative investigation into the concept of care based on a heuristic research design constructed by Clark Moustakas. The researcher relied on the belief that teachers are knowers through lived experience ...
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 ...
Mathematical embodiment through robotics activities.
(2002)
This naturalistic phenomenological study looked at the emergence of mathematical understanding in middle school students as they engaged in open-ended robotics activities. The study chronicled the mathematics they used, ...
Impact of culture circles on minority high school students in mathematics.
(2000)
Especially important to the findings of the study was the establishment of an environment for positive change in the students' performances by having the culture circle group meetings. The impact of the culture circle ...
Foster parents and parental involvement in the education of children in foster care.
(2006)
The sample for this study was drawn from a defined population of foster parents who parented children in foster care under the auspices of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Children and Family Services Division. ...
Learning strategies, cognitive strategies, and process variables used by high school students in social studies classes.
(2003)
This grounded theory study sought to understand how tenth grade public school students in average and advanced classes used strategies for learning material in their high school social studies classes. This study sought ...
Unpacking mathematical content through problem solving.
(2002)
Current calls for reform of preservice teacher education include suggested changes in the mathematics content courses required for elementary education programs. One suggestion is the inclusion of more complex problem ...
Intertextuality and the social construction of meaning.
(2006)
The purpose of this study was to examine intertextual links made by second grade students during a variety of reading experiences and how they create meaning through those links. The guiding questions for the study are: ...
Professional moral development in student teaching: Constructing an ethos.
(2001)
Two case studies of the professional moral development of early childhood majors during the first eight weeks of their student teaching were reported. The case studies involved classroom and context observations, interviews ...