Adan, Jane (PhD, 2000)

Taking liberty: Resistance, estrangement, loss, and other trivialities in a child's relation with adults and the finite world. Critical stories, experimental pieces

Traversing the usual divide between the social sciences and the humanities, blurring the lines of traditional genres, taking as its intellectual context the continuing crisis in representation, the dissertation uses narrative, memory fragments, aesthetic intervention, feminist bending of the language, and radical theories of (ethical) democracy and the lived body to explore resistance, estrangement, loss, and other trivialities in a child's relations with adults and the finite world. Three adult practices or tendencies the dissertation takes up are the tendency to perceive children in terms of lack or deficiency, the tendency to underestimate or misconstrue children's experiential subtlety, and the tendency to interact with children as if the underestimations are authoritative truths. Regarding the child, children, various or selected individual members of this cultural category (as well as their metaphorical counterparts) in terms of a complex dynamic of cultural othering, the dissertation explores the ways the noted adult tendencies promote induction of children into ascendant cultural practices or a status quo (an existing "crowd" or mainstream) with little apparent regard for children's critical capacity and creative impulse where extant culture is concerned. A main implication of the dissertation is that the noted adult tendencies are at cross purposes with educational relations that value a strong sense of agency and voice among individual members of an interdependent, creative (not communitarian, not majoritized) "community" citizenry.

Ahlborn, Patricia (MA, 2005)

What Effects will the Use of an Editing Checklist have on First Grade Students’ Use of Punctuation and Capitalization in their Independent Writing?

Ahn, Karen (MA, 2005)

Shedding Light on New Teacher Support: Defining my Role as a Mentor in the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Program

Allan, Heather (MA, 2007)

The “I” in Writing

Allard, Jennifer (MA, 2004)

Case Study: A Kindergarten Student Struggling with Phonemic Awareness

Altschule, Elizabeth (MA, 2006)

Seeing Spelling: The Implementation of Visual Spelling Strategies in a Sixth Grade Classroom

Anguiano, Beatriz (MA, 2006)

Does Practice Make Writing Perfect?: Expressing Content Knowledge Through Writing

Ankerstar, Alison (MA, 2005)

Moving Beyond Counting On: Teaching Students to Use the Addition Strategies Make Ten and Doubles Plus One to Solver Unknown Addition Facts

Atalla, Lara (MA, 2006)

Bridging the Analytical Gap: An Exploration of the Correlation between Analytical Reading Strategies and Improved Use of Analytical Support in Student Writing

August, Cynthia (MA, 2005)

Hearing is Reading: The Positive Effect of Echo Reading

Austin, Phiroz (MA, 2006)

Students in Jeopardy! Will Weekly Quizzes Strengthen he Weakest Link, or End Up Creating a Family Feud?

Azevedo, Amber (MA, 2007)

Integrating Algebra Content in a Geometry Class Through the Use of Daily Openers

Bagtas, Michelle (MA, 2006)

What Engages Students in Writing? Directed vs. Undirected Writing

Basker, Elizabeth (MA, 2006)

"I Know! Birthday starts with letter b!" A Study of Letter Identification, Sound Identification and Phonemic Awareness in Kindergartners

Baty, Jacob (MA, 2006)

Gently Nudging Students to Enjoy Reading: Conferencing, Contracting, Modeling for SSR Success

Becker, Emmaley (MA, 2007)

I Love the Pictures! Using Interesting, Well-illustrated Picture Books to Promote English Language Development