xviii, 278 p. : ill. (some col.) / Two-way immersion (TWI) programs teach English Learners (ELs) and native English speakers in the same classroom using both languages in an immersion approach. Studies suggest that TWI programs result in greater student integration, thus providing a promising alternative for Spanish speaking ELs, who are frequently concentrated in high poverty, majority-minority schools. This study used a mixed methods research design to examine student integration issues in two elementary schools. Enrollment data from 1999-2009 were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Grounded theory was used to analyze data from interviews, focus groups, observations, and archival documents. The demographic analyses revealed trends that are consistent with demographic changes nationally: an increasing Latino population and a decreasing White population. In terms of instructional integration patterns, the following findings were consistent for both schools. Prior to the introduction of TWI, students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) were evenly distributed among 4th/5th grade classrooms. After TWI, significantly more students with IEPs were in the English only than in TWI classes. In addition, after TWI, significantly more English speakers who qualified for free/reduced meals were found in the English only classes. However, Spanish speakers, who were almost exclusively located in TWI, had significantly higher free/reduced meals rates than English speakers in either TWI or English only classes. The central theme to emerge in the grounded theory study was "Negotiating the Value of Spanish," a process that occurred over many years as both schools grappled with a growing Latino population. Using Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital, I suggest that the introduction of TWI commodified Spanish within the mainstream educational program, providing cultural capital gains for Spanish speakers as a result. TWI provided the justification and resources for hiring more bilingual staff, for purchasing Spanish curriculum materials, for providing professional development in Spanish and about Spanish literacy, for increasing outreach to Spanish speaking families, and for prioritizing Spanish speakers' access to the program. Spanish speakers and their families thus gained greater access to the curriculum and the life of the school, and staff began to see Spanish speakers differently. / Committee in charge: Joseph Stevens, Chairperson; Gerald Rosiek, Member; Edward Olivos, Member; Leanne Ketterlin, Geller Member; Lynn Stephen, Outside Member

Notre thèse, dans le champ de l’aménagement, souhaite contribuer à la compréhension des enjeux qui président à la gestion des espaces protégés au titre du patrimoine urbain. Nous abordons la question du désaccord entre conservation et renouvellement urbain par l’étude des conflits autour des demandes d’autorisation à construire dans les périmètres relevant de l’avis conforme de l’architecte des bâtiments de France (ABF). Pour trois protections (secteur sauvegardé, ZPPAUP/AVAP, PLU), et pour les trois villes de Lyon, Montpellier et Tours, les valeurs associées au principe de protection de chacun des espaces ont été comparées aux valeurs mobilisées du système d’acteurs, que nous avons défini. Nous avons recherché l’origine des verrous administratifs au sein de la procédure, de la règle ou du rapport à l’ABF. Nous avons traité la question de la responsabilité économique du coût des travaux comme frein à la réhabilitation patrimoniale. Le capital culturel se révèle une variable décisive. / Our thesis is part of the research field of territory development. Its purpose is to contribute to a better understanding of the stakes that govern the management of protected areas as urban heritage. We approach the question of the disagreement between conservation and urban renewal through the prism of the conflict studies around the requests for building permits in the perimeters due to the opinion of the architect of the buildings of France (ABF). For three protections (secteur sauvegardé, ZPPAUP / AVAP, PLU), and in three cities, Lyon, Montpellier and Tours, the values related to the principle of protection of each space have been compared to the values mobilized by our system of actors we have defined. We looked for the origin of the administrative locks within the procedure, the rule or the report with the ABF. We have addressed the issue of the economic responsibility of the cost of the works as a barrier to heritage rehabilitation. The cultural capital is a decisive variable.

Soon after the political handover in 1997, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government had introduced a series of education and curriculum reforms. Such reforms is said to be proceeded in response to teenagers' lack of national identification towards their motherland China, and also to the public discourse addressing the economic challenges and competition in the universal trend of globalization. Although a few studies had unveiled the underlying values of Confucianism, neo-liberalism and market ideology under these objectives, how the new definitions of "ideal citizens" is understood and promoted in the actual school settings, and how those values influence the process of students' identity construction and their vision on their life trajectories, remains unknown. Drawing on the data from an ethnographic research conducted in 2010, this thesis illustrates how the qualities of an "ideal citizen" propagated in the education and curriculum reform would be understood and transformed in two very different schools in Hong Kong. One is a long-established girls' school located in a middle-class district, which has a reputation of providing "all-rounded" education and nurturing future woman-leaders; the other one is being considered as a "academically-low band" school located in remote area, which struggled to survive and started to admit "Non-Chinese speaking" (NCS) students from Pakistan, Nepal and Philippines three years ago in order to solve the problem of insufficient intake of local students. Apart from the halfyear participant-observation in the two campuses, in-depth interviews of the 2 school principals, 13 teachers, 19 students and 2 alumni of the two schools have also been conducted. Other school documents including official school magazines, school reports as well as students’ publications have also been collected as supporting information. Due to the different historical background, the school management strategy and most of all, the composition of students from very different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, the two schools had developed very different ideas and definition of an "ideal citizen", and thus led to different directions of school policies and expectations on students. Through the examples of the provision of the “Other learning Experience” (OLE) and students’ participation patterns in Chapter Five, the different language policies and students’ ability in languages in Chapter Six, and the process of the construction of femininities of young girls in Chapter Seven, this study shows how the problematic of class, gender and ethnics domination still exist under the new context of education reform. This study also reveals that while Hong Kong policy-maker claimed that the education reform ‘bears upon the equity and balance of our society', the socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicity and gender which traditionally being viewed as factors that differentiate education outcomes in sociological studies are completely ignored in the reform.

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abstract: Guided by cognitive, socio-cognitive, and socio-cultural learning theories, large-scale studies over multiple semesters, multiple instructors and at two different institutions have been performed in order to understand the factors that contribute to student performance in general organic chemistry. Students’ cognitive abilities were assessed in a new way based on a categorization of problem types in a standard organic chemistry curriculum. Problem types that required higher cognitive load were found to be more predictive of overall course performance. However, student performance on high cognitive load problems was different when compared in terms of non-cognitive factors, e.g. whether they were pre-health students or not. These results suggested that organic chemistry performance may be significantly influenced by non-cognitive factors. Students’ motivation and related self-regulation factors were then studied using an instrument specifically designed for general organic chemistry, the Organic Chemistry Motivation Survey. Of all the factors examined, self-efficacy was found to be the most significant predictor of performance. Socio-cultural factors were also studied using a newly developed instrument for measuring college students’ cultural and social capital, the Science Capital Questionnaire (SCQ). Of the different socio-cultural variables measured by the SCQ, students’ social connections in college were found to be most predictive of organic chemistry performance. Finally, cognitive and socio-cognitive variables were studied together in the context of gender differences in organic chemistry. Females were found to underperform in comparison to the males. This gap was found to be alarmingly large on the basis of final letter grade, in some semesters the percentage of males earning an A grade was twice as large as that for females. Spatial ability was not a factor that contributed to this difference, nor was the gender of the instructor. Instead, self-efficacy was found to be both significantly different between males and females, and also the factor that connected most strongly to course performance. It is suggested that sociocultural factors be the subject of further study in college science courses. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Chemistry 2018

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Esta pesquisa à um estudo sobre o habitus leitor de professoras desenvolvido atravÃs de suas trajetÃrias biogrÃficas. De cunho qualitativo a pesquisa propÃs-se analisar a constituiÃÃo do habitus leitor de professoras da rede pÃblica e privada de ensino de Teresina â PiauÃ. Sob a Ãgide da indagaÃÃo de como se constituiu o habitus leitor, buscou-se compreender qual a relaÃÃo do capital cultural com a trajetÃria leitora de professoras. Amparou-se teoricamente na sociologia de Pierre Bourdieu (1992, 1994, 1998, 2007), sobre o conceito de capital cultural, habitus e as contribuiÃÃes da Praxiologia. Utilizou-se ainda os postulados da sociologia da leitura de Bernard Lahire (1997, 2002, 2005, 2006) acerca do conceito de disposiÃÃes, experiÃncias socializadoras e dissonÃncia, bem como na histÃria cultural preconizada por Roger Chartier (2002), sobre a leitura como uma prÃtica cultural historicizada. Para constituir as trajetÃrias, realizou-se entrevistas narrativas pela metodologia da histÃria oral e pela abordagem investigativa da histÃria de vida. Para apropriaÃÃo do perfil dos sujeitos aplicou-se um questionÃrio a quatro professoras entrevistadas. A constituiÃÃo das trajetÃrias permitiu desvelar as experiÃncias de leitura e sua relaÃÃo com a incorporaÃÃo das disposiÃÃes, dando suporte para compreender que existem implicaÃÃes diretas da aquisiÃÃo do capital cultural na formaÃÃo do leitor. Foi possÃvel destacar tambÃm que o significado da leitura para o leitor à constituÃdo atravÃs de suas prÃticas sociais e culturais, continuamente proporcionado por atividades socializadoras, desconstruindo em alguns casos a idÃia de reproduÃÃo, ressaltando as vozes dissonantes, cabendo por tanto novas apropriaÃÃes para o conceito de capital cultural. Em consideraÃÃes finais, esta pesquisa instigou o deslocamento da formaÃÃo leitora para o leitor em sua singularidade reconhecendo o lugar das experiÃncias culturais nesta formaÃÃo. / This is a research about the reading habitus of teachers developed along their biographic trajectory. The research has a qualitative aspect, which proposed to analyze the constitution of the reading habitus of teachers of the public and private teaching board of Teresina â PiauÃ. Under the questioning on how the reading habitus was constituted, it was searched to understand which was the relation between the cultural capital and the reader trajectory of teachers. It was supported by the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (1992, 1994, 1998, 2007), about the concept of cultural capital, habitus and the contributions of Praxiology. It was still used the proposal of the Sociology of reading of Bernard Lahire (1997,2002, 2005,2006) about the concept of dispositions, socializating experiences and dissonance, also in the cultural history recommended by Roger Chartier (2002), about the reading as a cultural historicized practice. To constitute the trajectories, it was made narrating interviews by the methodology of the oral history and by the investigative approach of the history of life. For the appropriation of the profile of the subjects, it was applied a questionnaire to four interviewed teachers. The constitution of the trajectories permitted to revel the experiences of reading and its relation with the incorporation of the dispositions, giving support to understand that there are direct implications of the acquisition of the cultural capital in the formation of the reader. It was also possible to detach that the meaning of the reading to the reader is built through his/her social and cultural practice, continuously proportioned by socializating activities, deconstructing in some cases the idea of reproduction, emphasizing the out of tune voices, therefore fitting new meanings for the concept of cultural capital. In final considerations, this research stimulated the moving of the reading formation to the reader in its singularities identifying the place of the cultural experiences in such formation.

Esta pesquisa analisou as dinâmicas internas em torno do ingresso em uma ETEC (Escola Técnica Estadual) bem conceituada no município de Franco da Rocha na periferia da região metropolitana de São Paulo. A partir de uma análise que buscou compreender a cultura escolar desta instituição por meio de um estudo sobre características sócio-demográficas dos estudantes e de observações de caráter etnográfico do contexto escolar. A expansão do acesso ao ensino superior, o aumento da concorrência nos vestibulares, juntamente com a baixa qualidade das escolas públicas do Ensino Médio, criaram novas tendências nas estratégias de entrada dos alunos nas grandes universidades paulistas. Entre elas, estas escolas públicas diferenciadas que oferecem o curso de ensino médio, configuram-se como uma alternativa de ensino público secundário que possui as maiores notas nos exames de qualidade no ensino (ENEM) e bons resultados na aprovação de seus estudantes nos vestibulares como a FUVEST. A partir da experiência como professor de uma ETEC, esta pesquisa busca compreender as dinâmicas e os dispositivos mobilizados para o ingresso em uma destas instituições na periferia da Grande São Paulo, destacando e acompanhando as iniciativas de engajamento de professores e alunos em um cursinho pré-ETEC que acontece em uma escola pública, de maneira voluntária e acompanhando as dinâmicas desta ETEC. Nesta pesquisa podemos perceber o resultado destas iniciativas em torno do ensino médio e seu impacto social nestes grupos analisando suas trajetórias e sua dinâmica cultural interna / This research analyzed the internal dynamics around the ingress in a reputable ETEC (State Technique School) on the county of Franco da Rocha, on the outskirts of the metropolitan area of São Paulo. From an analysis that went after understanding the school culture of this institution through a study about the socio-demographic characteristics of students by ethnographic methodology. The expansion of the access to higher education, the rise of competition in acceptance exams along with the low quality of high school public institutions, created new tendencies on the strategies for the admission of students in great São Paulo universities. This differentiated public institutions that offers high school, are configured as an alternative of public secondary education that have the highest grades on education quality exams (ENEM) and good results on approvals of it\'s students on admission exams like FUVEST. From the experience as a teacher from ETEC, this research go after understanding the dynamics and mobilized devices for the entrance in one of this institutions on the outskirts of Grande São Paulo, highlighting and following the initiatives of teachers and students engagement on preparatory classes for ETEC that happens in public schools, voluntarily and following the dynamics of this ETEC. In this research we can see the result of this initiatives around the high school and its social impact in these groups analyzing their trajectories and their internal cultural dynamics

A presente dissertação de mestrado apresenta a investigação de processos que estão na origem do envolvimento de sujeitos de grupos culturais de literatura nas periferias da cidade de São Paulo. A pesquisa se concentra nos estudos sobre cultura sob a perspectiva de Pierre Bourdieu, sobretudo no que se refere à aquisição de capital cultural, com ênfase na origem social e trajetória educacional. Entre os anos 90 e início de 2000, surgiu um movimento literário específico, constituído por escritores de regiões periféricas das grandes cidades do Brasil. E a partir dos anos 2000, disseminou-se a realização de saraus em bairros periféricos de São Paulo, sendo eventos nos quais são declamadas poesias, apresentações de cenas dramáticas, grupos musicais, além de críticas sociais e manifestações políticas.O estudo de campo foi realizado em quatro saraus de diferentes regiões da cidade. Foram realizadas análises sociodemográficas dos bairros onde acontecem, considerando índices de escolaridade, renda per capita, espaços culturais etc. Por meio de questionários foi realizado um perfil do público destes eventos. E foram realizadas entrevistas com poetas/escritores, dando importância, sobretudo, às disposições que, em suas trajetórias, influenciaram suas práticas.A recente mobilização de poetas/ escritores nas periferias, historicamente excluídos por condições objetivas e subjetivas do campus literário, cultural e politicamente constituído no Brasil, resulta de um capital cultural específico, estimulado por aumento do nível de escolaridade, dentre outros processos, constituindo uma nova fração de classes que se singulariza pelo engajamento em atividades historicamente não identificadas como pertencentes ao habitus das classes populares e operárias / This dissertation presents the research processes underlying the involvement of subjects of cultural groups of literature on the outskirts of São Paulo. The research focuses on the study of culture from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu, particularly as regards the acquisition of cultural capital, with an emphasis on social origin and educational trajectory. Between the 90s and early 2000s, there was a specific literary movement, made up of writers from outlying areas of the big cities of Brazil. And from the 2000s, spread to performing soirees in the suburbs of São Paulo, and in events which are declaimed poetry, presentations of dramatic scenes, musical groups, and social criticism and political demonstrations. The field study was conducted in four soirees of different areas of the city. Socio-demographic analysis of the neighborhoods where happen were made considering education levels, per capita income, cultural venues etc. Through questionnaires we conducted a public profile of these events. And interviews were conducted with poets / writers, giving importance mainly to provisions in their paths influenced their practices. The recent mobilization of poets / writers in the suburbs, historically excluded by objective and subjective conditions of the literary campus, culturally and politically constituted in Brazil, results from a specific cultural capital, stimulated by increasing levels of education, among other processes, forming a new fraction class that distinguishes by engaging in activities historically not identified as belonging to the habitus of popular and working classes

Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) can be understood as ‘alternatives’ to conventional, complex food chains that tend to dominate contemporary agri-food systems. They redefine producer-consumer relations through socially and physically ‘closer’, more transparent supply chains founded upon quality cues associated with provenance, whereby products become embedded with information about the spaces of production. It has been argued that SFSC can have significant socio-economic benefits for rural development, providing livelihoods for small-scale, independent food producers who would otherwise be marginalised from food markets. SFSC have received plenty of attention amongst ‘alternative’ agri-food scholars in recent years. However, empirical research has typically addressed SFSC in relation to a specific set of values, politics and traditions, examining a locale or region in relation to cultural structures ingrained in a particular context. This has resulted in vast amounts of agri-food literature with specific reference to the contexts of Europe, North America and other global North regions. Attention to countries from the global South has increased recently, but there are limited cross-cultural, comparative analyses between regions from the global North and South. This is surprising given that small-scale food producers the world over face similar obstacles associated with access to markets, adaptation to climate change, contradictory policies and development programmes and increased competition from imports. This research investigates how SFSC operate in context, drawing on evidence from case studies in rural regions of The Gambia, West Africa and East England; illustrative cases of the global North and South. This thesis adopts an inductive methodology, incorporating grounded theory and a range of qualitative methods and data analysis techniques. The regional food group Tastes of Anglia and social enterprise named ‘Gambia is Good’ served as gatekeepers and provided access to small-scale food producers in each case. The Sustainable (Rural) Livelihoods Framework as originally conceived by the Department for International Development (DFID) was used as a conceptual toolkit to guide data collection and analyses. This involved an amalgamation of the largely disparate ‘alternative’ agri-food literature with that of sustainable livelihoods, revealing the important role that horizontal embeddedness and vertical embeddedness have in the context of SFSC. This research has found that in The Gambia, limited access to capital assets, infrastructural constraints and a lack of social embeddedness between rural producers and customers in the high value tourist industry undermines SFSC as viable livelihood strategies. This is in contrast to the UK, where food producers have access to a wider set of resources and can also draw on established ‘quality’ cues associated with Product-Process-Place linkages to market their products. Results suggest this is due to the historical (agri)cultural trajectories of East Anglia and spatial-temporal synergies that enable products embedded with information to be differentiated in competitive marketplaces. The processes enabling this differentiation can be considered as a form of cultural capital. This cannot be as readily drawn upon in The Gambia given its different agricultural and political-economic histories, and comparatively weaker forms of vertical embeddedness. This raises questions about the relevance and transferability of SFSC models to contexts such as The Gambia and other ‘similar’ regions in sub-Saharan Africa and the global South. The broader implications of these findings are discussed and five future research agendas that explore the key processes of horizontal and vertical embeddedness in both the global North and South are presented.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Gerad D. Middendorf / A number of cities in Kansas have experienced rapid growth in Hispanic population during the last twenty five years, due to immigration related in particular to the development of the meatpacking industry in the region. Garden City, Dodge City, and Liberal in southwest Kansas and Emporia in eastern Kansas have undergone significant transformation due to the influx of immigrants, the large majority of whom are of Mexican background. The present research approaches these immigrants from a sociological perspective, observing their cultural characteristics in order to understand who they are, and the process they face when adapting to the receiving environment, as a process of acquisition of cultural capital (Bourdieu 1977). This study focuses on the elements from Midwestern culture that are adopted and adapted, as well as the elements from the immigrants' cultural backgrounds that are softened or modified in order to fit within the receiving environment. The study examines these processes, from the theoretical perspective modeled by Pierre Bourdieu, as an attempt to develop an interpretive and comprehensive approach of immigrant experiences.