Filters: Department:"Education, Culture & Society" Collection:"ir_etd" Publication Type:"dissertation" Format:"application/pdf"
| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | "Every least thing": reading Cormac McCarthy's literary ecologies for a practice of thinking ethics | Call, Christy | Agency; Cormac McCarthy; eco-pedagogy; ethics; network theory; ontology | Cormac McCarthy's novel The Crossing presents an ecocentric cosmology that diverges radically from the traditional anthropocentric model, which centralizes the primacy of humans. McCarthy's vision of "joinery" reformats the place of humanity to a position of equality with "every least thing." My fo... | 2015 |
| 2 |  | A critical case study of peer mediation at an alternative high school | Fetzer, Marcy | Alternative; Conflict; Education; Mediation; Negotiation; Peer | At the crossroad of peer mediation and alternative education, discursive and structural tensions emerge. Through critical discourse analysis of student discourse at one alternative school, the examination of the practice of peer mediation within the context of alternative schooling is centralized. S... | 2014-05 |
| 3 |  | A study of the development and history of projects in homemaking with special reference to methods, attitudes, values, and purposes | Cox, Jean | Home economics | The facilities afforded by the home economics department of the average high school are inadequate for the best training in homemaking activities and in establishing ideals. The department work is not closely enough related to either the needs of the girl or to actual home conditions. Thoughtful t... | 1922 |
| 4 |  | Adaptive theory - Educational implications and an exemplary earth science curriculum | Scott, Kay vernon Parkinson | Education -- Philosophy; Earth sciences -- Study and teaching (Secondary) | In this study, a general theory of adaptation based on statistical graphics was proposed for the purpose of providing perspective in complex situations. The educational implications of the theory suggested an adaptive curriculum design that would embrace most existing educational models. To exempl... | 1975 |
| 5 |  | Capitalizing on boundaries: creating new schools and districts, creating inequality | Humbert-Fisk, Paul Charles | boundaries; education; school districts; municipal structuration; Salt Lake City; geographic information systems | People "shopping for schools," which is paying a premium for homes that are in areas within the attendance zones of prestigious schools, routinely do not consider test scores, curriculum, or teachers when defining what is a "good school." This dissertation argues that suburban mayors use incorporati... | 2018 |
| 6 |  | The carceral State of disposability: creating a new caste of disposable youth to maintain the color line | Unzueta, Robert G. II | This dissertation is a theoretical explanation of how and why Brown male bodies have been the second-largest population of students to be adversely impacted by zero-tolerance school discipline policies in compulsory schooling. Though school discipline literature highlights the fact that LatinX men h... | 2020 | |
| 7 |  | Chicana scholars: narratives of spiritual activism | Fierros, Cindy O. | activist pedagogy; Chicana feminisms; Chicana studies; Chicanx educators; feminist pedagogy; spiritual activism | This study examines the spiritual activism of seven Chicana@ higher education faculty through a Chicana feminist epistemological framework. Through this framework, spirituality is identified as an epistemological source that grounds the professors’ scholar activism. This work is in response t... | 2017 |
| 8 |  | Chinese international students' experiences in the figured world of first-year composition courses | Jensen, Erin B. | Chinese international students; critical discourse analysis; figured worlds; first year composition; positionality; space of authoring | Figured world theory and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) provided the theoretical lens and methodological tools to critically examine the experiences of Chinese international students in First-Year Composition (FYC) courses in this qualitative study. Through in-depth interviews and an online surve... | 2018 |
| 9 |  | Colonial legacies and preservice teacher subjectivities in mali: A critical examination of two teacher training programs | Abdoulaye, Talatou | educational evaluation; education history; teacher education; education philosophy | The main goal of this dissertation is to identify major characteristics of French colonial education in Soudan Francais (present day Mali) before discussing ways in which, despite major education reforms, legacies that relate to those characteristics continue to, either consciously or unconsciously,... | 2017 |
| 10 |  | Courageous journeys: developing equity mindsets | Spencer-Christy, Kathleen E. | courageous conversations about race; urban education; multicultural education | The passion for this study is grounded in my hope for assuring an excellent and equitable education for all students. Under current school conditions, we can have a better chance of achieving this when we focus our attention on transforming school culture by promoting social justice and mindset shif... | 2016 |
| 11 |  | Deterritorializing multicultural education: re-conceptualizing social justice curriculum and teaching | Atasay, Engin | Deterritorialization; Neoliberal discourse; Social justice education; Subjectivity; Tantrum; Territorialization | In an effort to begin rethinking multicultural education, this dissertation intends to problematize multicultural education social justice discourse. I analyze multicultural education's territorial assumptions about power-and the subsequent social arrangements of power (social justice, equality and ... | 2014-08 |
| 12 |  | Development and evaluation of instructional television laboratories for general education chemistry | Driscoll, Jerry Adams | The University of Utah's general education chemistry curriculum has necessarily omitted a student laboratory experience due mainly to time, cost, and facility limitations. The main objective of this study was the develop and assess a series of instructional television laboratories to achieve in some... | 1974 | |
| 13 |  | Engaging with Latin@ "Eth(n)ical Issues" in Middle School Spanish: using translanguaging and comprehensible input approaches to advance Spanish Proficiency and social justice goals | Delavan, Michael Garrett | Foreign language education; Social studies education; Latin language; Questions; Sociocultural theory; Case studies; Videotape recordings; Intelligibility; Spanish; Language teaching methods; Student teacher relationship; Topic and comment; Middle school education | This dissertation reports on practitioner inquiry into a year-long curriculum in middle school Spanish II built around Latina/o cultural topics with social justice implications. A comprehensible input approach supported both the development of a core vocabulary in Spanish and discussion of these iss... | 2017 |
| 14 |  | Entre lineas: experiences of chicana/latina prospective teachers in a predominantly white teacher education program in Utah | Martinez, Andrea Garavito | The experiences of Chicana/Latina prospective teachers in predominantly White teacher education programs provide cautionary tales and intellectual insight to better understand and improve the current state of teacher education in the United States. This study engages in borderland analysis, which st... | 2018 | |
| 15 |  | Examination of how white adoptive parents racially socialize black/biracial adoptees | Smith, Darron | African American Studies; Social work; Individual & family studies; Ethnic studies; White people; Adoption; Multiracial people | This dissertation was concerned with the efforts of White adoptive parents to promote enculturation and racial inculcation processes by helping their adopted Black children to develop a positive racial identity and strategies for effectively coping with racism. This dissertation study, drawing from... | 2010 |
| 16 |  | Fostering critical counterspaces in the borderlands: Engaging latin@ elementary youth in Chican@ studies | Morales, Socorro | Multicultural Education; Elementary education; Ethnic studies | Chican@ and Latin@ students have persistently had low high school graduation rates, as well as low college matriculation and completion rates. A wide range of literature suggests that ethnic studies-based educational approaches can positively engage students of color academically, in ways that marke... | 2016 |
| 17 |  | From community colleges to four-year universities: Korean international students' preparation for college writing in the United States | Whitney, Justin Grant | The institutional access and educations offered by community colleges, and the transfer to universities they facilitate, make a college education in the U.S. available for many Korean international students who otherwise could not gain access. This dissertation explores how the backgrounds and futur... | 2018 | |
| 18 |  | Homeplace: unearthing and tracing the oral traditions and subjugated knowledge of a multigenerational woman-centered African American family | Cross, Paulette Theresa | African American family; African American genealogy; African American women; Black family; Black feminism; Black women | The purpose of my research study was to examine the resistance approaches African American families used to connect members and groups to the historical struggle for equality in the United States. As the researcher, utilizing a bounded case study in -writing lives‖ of my ancestral grandmothers and... | 2014-05 |
| 19 |  | I've got a bird's eye view: portraits of Asian American women educators practicing hip-hop pedagogy | Huynh, Cindy | Asian American Education; Asian American Studies; Asian American Women; Critical Pedagogy; Hip-Hop Pedagogy; Womanism | Existing research on Asian American educators is typically limited to a few select areas of inquiry including the absence of Asian American educators, Asian Americans as honorary “Whites†and model minorities, and racial microaggressions experienced by Asian American teachers and faculty... | 2017 |
| 20 |  | Korean transnational family language planning efforts and youth identities: language ideologies and the maintenance of Korean in the United States | Kim, Hyesun | Although many immigrants are living thousands of miles away from their original country, most are able to maintain transnational ties with their country of origin due to globalization and digital technologies. However, the neoliberal economy that globalization has promoted has resulted in the commod... | 2018 | |
| 21 |  | The language of light: articulating tonality in 21st century literacy education | Jorgensen, Heather Fitzgerald | The concept of tonality is an idea emerging through Mikhail Bakhtin's conceptualization of the chronotope. The chronotope is a meshing of space and time intoned by historical value that suggests words such as equality, freedom, or liberty do not represent a one-size-fits-all experience. Words, inton... | 2018 | |
| 22 |  | Market exposure: neoliberalism, corporate school reform, and the precarious politics of education | Slater, Graham Bryan | This dissertation examines the current phase of educational reform in the United States. Premised primarily on a market-based, economistic vision of the purpose of schooling, along with a punitive, technocratic approach to educational policy and practice, the corporate school reform movement has exa... | 2018 | |
| 23 |  | Mentoring the imagination: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth engaging and expanding mentoring in Utah | Hackford-Peer, Kimberly Ann | Bakhtin; Mentoring; Narrative; Queer; Utah; Youth | There has recently been a slow steady growth of formal mentoring programs for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. These mentoring programs provide resources, information, advice, assistance, and support to LGBTQ youth as they come out and develop LGBTQ identiti... | 2010-12 |
| 24 |  | The Mormon Church and its private School system in Utah: the emergence of the academies 1880-1892 | Monnett, John D. Jr. | Early Mormon education reflected church attitudes stressing both practical and theological aspects of schooling. Frontier schools were usually an extension of Mormonism and directed curriculum to church ideals, attitudes, and teachings.Offensive to non-Mormon arrivals, Utah education became a battle... | 1984 | |
| 25 |  | Persisting from the margins: the journeys of three women of color to and in higher education | Kessel, Barbara F. | Education; Feminist Theory; Higher Education; Narrative Research; Postsecondary Education; Race | Grounded in poststructural feminist theory and feminist race theories, this qualitative study explores the education trajectories of three Women of Color for insights into their persistence to and in higher education. Specifically, through narrative analysis of the participants' authoring and re-aut... | 2016 |