There is a gap in educational research regarding teachers’ narratives of teaching in diverse classrooms, especially in East Africa. It is essential to investigate teachers’ beliefs and perspectives because these are strong indicators of their planning, instructional decisions, and classroom practices and can also frame their perception of classroom transactions. In this study, I asked a group of Kenyan primary teachers at an informal settlement school about their perspectives on Kenya’s diversity; how they teach curricula reform objectives such as citizenship for all in their classrooms; and how experiences from their personal lives have shaped their stances on matters related to identity, nationhood, citizenship, and other related concepts. These teachers’ localized meaning-making revealed their citizenship consciousness and their considerations of history, power, and politics, which in turn impelled agency, action, and increased accountability in this place-specific project of citizenship education. I considered the school itself both as a liminal space, forgotten within Kenya’s urban planning and governance policies, and also as a relational, pluralistic, and intellectual space that merited scholarly research on pedagogy and practice. This study’s findings created space for new and different frameworks for conceptualizing teachers’ knowledge. Specifically, this study helped make teachers’ narratives of their experiences teaching in this context more visible and valuable, underscoring the importance of teacher education research as an area of onto-epistemological inquiry. Learning how teachers understand, think, and teach in complex urban borderlands can contribute to an emergence of shared understandings about belonging and identity in multiethnic spaces, particularly in postcolonial sites. This critical narrative case study collected responses to interviews and focus group discussions and also included classroom visits to observe how teachers made meaning of curricular objectives and understood concepts of sociocultural plurality, identities, citizenship, and belonging. The narratives that teachers held contained the potential to reimagine constructions of difference; invited a reconceptualization of ideologies related to language and inclusive spaces; and highlighted the need to consider inter-epistemic synergetic approaches within the fields of teacher education and curriculum studies in order to design pedagogies of pluralism to facilitate teaching and learning in diverse classrooms.

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between self-concept, expressed sexual knowledge, and attitude toward sex education of a group of experienced elementary teachers. A second dimension of the problem was to investigate the relationship of the three variables above with certain other factors that could possibly influence the effectiveness of the elementary teacher of sex education. These factors were age of the teacher, sex of the teacher ,grade level of teaching, educational level of the teacher, teaching experience, marital status of the teacher, number of siblings of the teacher, and church preference or affiliation of the teacher.

作者 張滿常 = A study of the relationship between the ... / 據手稿本影印. / 附加書名頁題: 在職小學敎師訓練課程之畢業班學員對科學之態度之硏究. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院敎育學部. / Ju shou gao ben ying yin. / Fu jia shu ming ye ti: Zai zhi xiao xue jiao shi xun lian ke cheng zhi bi ye ban xue yuan dui ke xue zhi tai du zhi yan jiu. / zuo zhe Zhang Manchang = A study of the relationship between the ... / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan jiao yu xue bu. / 作者簡歷 --- p.i / 誌謝 --- p.ii / 圖表目次　 --- p.ix / 論文提要 --- p.xiv / Chapter 第一章 --- 導　言　 --- p.1 / 問題背景　 --- p.1 / 香港在職小學教師訓練課程的發展　 --- p.6 / 研究的意義 --- p.10 / 研究的目的 --- p.11 / 研究的問題　 --- p.11 / 重要的名詞闡釋 --- p.13 / 文獻評述 --- p.15 / 測量科學態度的意義 --- p.15 / 與態度有關的文獻參攷 --- p.23 / 與科學態度有關的文獻參攷 --- p.28 / 本研究的理論基礎：Haladyna Olsen及Shauqhnessy (1982) 的理論模式 --- p.41 / 與本研究中學員回憶中三時期經驗有關的文獻參攷 --- p.60 / Chapter 第二章 --- 研究方法 --- p.64 / 研究的對象與取樣　 --- p.64 / 研究工具 --- p.65 / 研究設計 --- p.76 / 研究程序 --- p.76 / 資料分析 --- p.81 / Chapter 第三章 --- 結果與討論 --- p.83 / 本研究中全體學員對科學的態度及男女學員對科學的態度的差異 --- p.83 / 相關分析結果與討論　 --- p.85 / 複迴歸分析結果與討論 --- p.99 / Chapter 第四章 --- 總結、限制與建議 --- p.124 / 總結 --- p.124 / 研究限制 --- p.129 / 建議 --- p.132 / 參攷書目 英文部分 --- p.138 / 中文部分 --- p.153 / 附錄 --- p.158 / Chapter 　附錄一 / 甲部：學生、教師、學習環境量表 Haladyna 239}0Μ¡Shaughnessy：The Inventory of Affective Aspects of Schooling (IAAS） --- p.158 / 乙部：科學態度量表 Shriqley 239}0Μ¡ Johnson Science Att.tnde Scale (SAS) --- p.162 / Chapter 　附錄二 / 甲部：IAAS　量表中各分項的信度係數及量表的效度 --- p.163 / 乙部：SAS量表的信度係數及其效度 --- p.166 / Chapter 　附錄三　 --- 第一次預試中，IAAS量表內各分項的內在一致性信度 --- p.169 / Chapter 附錄四 --- 第二次預試中，IAAS量表內各分項的內在一致性信度 --- p.172

關明佳. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-392). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Guan Mingjia.

With the recent adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards in Oregon, there is a great need for teachers to be trained to effectively implement the three dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in their teaching. Time and location are the largest constraining factors that affect teacher participation in professional development trainings. To address this constraint, Tryon Creek State Park offered a NGSS professional development training opportunity for teachers that was integrated within a field trip that they took their students on. Before the field trip, teachers were introduced to the NGSS through a set of NGSS pre-field trip materials which informed them about the NGSS and how aspects of it would be integrated into their students' field trip. Teachers accompanied their students on a two-hour long field trip at Tryon Creek State Park where teachers observed nature guides model NGSS-aligned activities for the students. My research aimed to answer the following question: How will an informal science education program at Tryon Creek State Park affect K-2 teachers' awareness of the Next Generation Science Standards? Outcomes were measured through a pre/post retrospective survey and follow-up interviews. On the survey teachers reported little awareness of the three dimensions of the NGSS and very few of the teachers increased their understanding after the treatment. On the other hand, most had a high level of awareness and confidence in teaching factual information supporting the NGSS prior to treatment, resulting in a ceiling effect. Interviews suggested that few teachers read the materials sent in advance of the field trip, but teachers who did read the materials indicated increases in understanding of the NGSS. During the field trip several of the nature guides were effective in modeling science and engineering practices. These findings suggest that this method of professional development is promising, but needs further refinement.

Figures from the 2010 Census indicate that there are 50.5 million Latinos (16% of the total population) living in the United States (US) today. From 2000 to 2010, the Latino population experienced a very rapid growth rate of 43%, which accounted for over half the total population growth. More and more Latino students are entering our public schools and face the reality that 62 years after the Brown V. Board of Education ruling to integrate schools and equalize educational opportunities, schools are more racially and economically segregated and more unequal than they were more than half a century ago. As a group, Latinos continue to struggle academically and there is a large academic achievement gap between Latino students and White students. Using the lens of Latino Critical race theory, this narrative study was an attempt to understand the educational experience of five Latino students in a two-way immersion program within a racialized public education system in which negative stereotypes, such as lack of intellectual abilities, could create a threatening environment hindering their academic success. This narrative inquiry study sought to understand how, if at all, Latino students in a fifth grade two-way immersion program experienced anxiety about the ways they believe to be perceived in the classroom and school settings by their teachers and other classmates. Finding of this study confirmed the relative success of two-way immersion programs educating Latino students and highlighted the urgent need to conduct more research in bilingual settings trying to understand the role stereotype threat might play in the educational experience of Latino students. The fact that Latino students were still lagging behind their native English-speaking counterparts in the TWI program is a reality that must be researched further to understand the lived experiences of Latino students in bilingual programs.

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education