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A qualitative study of General (Retired) Gordon R. Sullivan, former Army Chief of Staff.
(2006)
It may sound melodramatic, but leadership without commitment from others is like a tree falling in the forest without anyone hearing the sound. Leadership requires people and actions more than words. Leadership and team ...
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 ...
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. ...
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: ...
Exploring the transition from a pre-modern to modern conceptualization of the natural world: Implications for a more connected approach to contemporary education.
(2006)
Modernist science is a discourse that separates us externally from our environment, socially from one another, and internally within ourselves. This study not only examines the role education plays in developing our ...
Preservice teachers' beliefs about young adolescents and their impact on grade level teaching preference.
(2006)
Middle level education programs need qualified, specifically trained teachers to best address the needs of their young adolescent learners. However, despite extensive information as to what constitutes appropriate middle ...