Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Critical race counterstories give people the space to share their racialized stories with the world. These stories work to expose different forms of racism like color-blind racism. Critical race counterstories originated from the work done in critical race theory (CRT). In this thesis, Brooklyn Raines makes the case for how hip hop functions as a method of critical race counterstory. Because of hip hop’s ability to reflect the social, political, and economic conditions in the world with an emphasis on the role race plays, Raines promotes the use of counterstories in their pedagogy with hip hop as a particular instance for incorporating counterstory in first-year writing courses to equip students with liberating tools. These tools include skills like critical thinking, rhetorical knowledge, and text interpretation. In this thesis there’s a literature review of how hip hop has been incorporated in classrooms as well as two chapters dedicated to units for educators that want to bring hip hop as a form of critical race counterstories into their classrooms. The first unit is based around Kendrick Lamar’s rhetorical exchange with Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera. The second unit is created around the backlash Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion received from their empowering record WAP. The hope for this project is educators can equip students with tools like media literacy skills, the ability to interrogate notions of White supremacy, and the ability to form their own opinions with the assistance of responsible research. Educators deserve to know there is exciting curriculum outside of the cannon of what is expected to be taught that is oftentimes rooted in White supremacy.

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Syftet med detta arbete var att ta reda på vilket stöd det finns för språkminoritetselever, dvs elever i USA som inte har engelskan som modersmål, i de amerikanske klassrummen. Jag intervjuade fem amerikanska lärare i Atlanta. Jag ville ta reda på hur medvetna dessa lärare är om de speciella behov språkminoritetselever har. De fem intervjuade lärarna kände till grundläggande ideer om att undervisa språkminoritetselever i sina klassrum men ingen av dem hade läst om det under sin utbildning. Undersökningen indikerar att andra språk än engelska inte har så stor betydelse i skolor i Atlanta och att lärare inte får tillräckligt med undervisning om språkminoritetselever. Något som är överraskande eftersom det är förutspått att år 2020 kommer tjugofem procent av de amerikanska eleverna ha ett annat modersmål än engelska. / In order to find out what support there is for ELL students, students with a first language other than English in mainstream classrooms in the US, I have interviewed five teachers in Atlanta. I was interested in seeing how much these teachers know of the special needs these students have. The five teachers interviewed knew basic idea of how to instruct ELL students in their mainstream classroom but no one had been taught anything about second language acquisition or theories about the needs of ELL students in their education. This study also indicates that other languages than English are not of importance in the schools in Atlanta and teachers are not taught how to deal with ELL students. This is surprising since predictions say that in 2020 twenty five percent of students in the US will speak a first language others than English.

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The purpose of this study was to present issues relating to the achievement of general education students in inclusion settings. Specifically, the study addressed the following question: Does the full-time inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms affect the achievement outcomes of non-disabled general education students in such settings? The variable under investigation in this study was achievement of general education students in third, fourth, and fifth grade inclusion classes--heterogeneous groupings of students with disabilities and their non-disabled general education peers. The comparison classes were those with only non-disabled general education students--homogeneous groupings. The dependent variables were achievement measures obtained from the Vocabulary, Spelling, Reading Comprehension, Language, Social Studies, and Science subtests of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. The results of this study suggest that there are differences in achievement of non-disabled general education students from inclusion classrooms and those of similar non-disabled general education students on all six subtests. The most notable results were at the fifth grade level. / Ed. D.

Verificamos atualmente no Brasil o fortalecimento de uma Educação tecnicista, impregnada com o ideário da racionalidade capitalista, que amplia e barateia a mão de obra nacional. Esse projeto de Educação foi fortalecido principalmente por meio dos acordos MEC USAID durante a ditadura militar (1964-1985). Ao mesmo tempo em que a população concebe a Educação escolar como possibilidade de escapar das agruras sociais, mais as escolas públicas se tornam mais semelhantes às prisões: grades, sirenes, muros, portões, salas como celas, longos corredores e professores como carcereiros. E isso, contraditoriamente ocorre num espaço público que é em si, a possibilidade concreta de se construir uma sociedade mais democrática. Coloca-se como urgente a adoção de novas estratégias de ensinoaprendizagem. Assim, os estudos sobre salas ambiente apresentam-se como possibilidades. Essa urgência foi revelada, em 2015, nas ocupações das escolas públicas. Nelas, a apropriação dos espaços escolares fez com que estudantes acreditassem que a realidade escolar podia ser mudada se agissem e se eles se reconhecessem como parte integrante e ativa nas decisões escolares. Salas ambiente são entendidas como formas de estruturação física das escolas, em que os professores ficam fixos em determinadas salas de aula e os alunos são os que se movimentam para seus estudos entre uma disciplina escolar e outra. Salas ambiente aliviam o corpo e a mente num ambiente de confinamento; podem contribuir para a diminuição da violência e da evasão escolar além de colocarem as ações pedagógicas em primeiro plano. A análise do lugar Escola, a sua observação e descrição, a comparação entre sala ambiente e sala fixa, e finalmente a análise combinada de tudo isso produziu essa Tese. Ela se projeta no campo do conhecimento, com essas ferramentas essencialmente geográficas, como uma forma de contribuição para as pedagogias escolares. / We presently verified in Brazil the strengthening of a technicist Education, pervaded by the ideology of the capitalist rationality, which amplify and cheapen the national labor. This Educational Project was strengthened mainly by means of the MEC USAID agreements during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). At the same time the population sees School Education as a possibility of escaping the social hardships, the public schools become more similar to prisons: grids, sirens, walls, gates, classrooms as cells, long corridors and teachers as jailers. And all this occurs, contradictorily, in a public space which is itself the concrete possibility of building a more democratic society. It is, therefore, urgent to adopt new learning/teaching strategies and the studies on shared classrooms present themselves as a possibility. This urgency was revealed in 2015 by the occupations in public schools. In them, the appropriation of the school space made the students to believe that the school reality could be changed if they acted and if they could recognize themselves as integral and active participants in the school\'s decision process. Shared classrooms are forms of physical structuring the schools in which the teachers remain fixed in specific classrooms and the students are the ones to move between one class and the other. Shared classrooms alleviate the body and the mind in a environment of confinement; they can contribute to diminish the violence and the school dropout and, in addition, put the pedagogical actions in the foreground. The analysis of the school place, its observation and description; the comparison between shared classrooms and fixed classrooms and, ultimately, the combined analysis of all this, produced this thesis. It projects itself in the knowledge field, with these essentially geographic tools, as a contribution to the school pedagogies.

Verificamos atualmente no Brasil o fortalecimento de uma Educação tecnicista, impregnada com o ideário da racionalidade capitalista, que amplia e barateia a mão de obra nacional. Esse projeto de Educação foi fortalecido principalmente por meio dos acordos MEC USAID durante a ditadura militar (1964-1985). Ao mesmo tempo em que a população concebe a Educação escolar como possibilidade de escapar das agruras sociais, mais as escolas públicas se tornam mais semelhantes às prisões: grades, sirenes, muros, portões, salas como celas, longos corredores e professores como carcereiros. E isso, contraditoriamente ocorre num espaço público que é em si, a possibilidade concreta de se construir uma sociedade mais democrática. Coloca-se como urgente a adoção de novas estratégias de ensinoaprendizagem. Assim, os estudos sobre salas ambiente apresentam-se como possibilidades. Essa urgência foi revelada, em 2015, nas ocupações das escolas públicas. Nelas, a apropriação dos espaços escolares fez com que estudantes acreditassem que a realidade escolar podia ser mudada se agissem e se eles se reconhecessem como parte integrante e ativa nas decisões escolares. Salas ambiente são entendidas como formas de estruturação física das escolas, em que os professores ficam fixos em determinadas salas de aula e os alunos são os que se movimentam para seus estudos entre uma disciplina escolar e outra. Salas ambiente aliviam o corpo e a mente num ambiente de confinamento; podem contribuir para a diminuição da violência e da evasão escolar além de colocarem as ações pedagógicas em primeiro plano. A análise do lugar Escola, a sua observação e descrição, a comparação entre sala ambiente e sala fixa, e finalmente a análise combinada de tudo isso produziu essa Tese. Ela se projeta no campo do conhecimento, com essas ferramentas essencialmente geográficas, como uma forma de contribuição para as pedagogias escolares. / We presently verified in Brazil the strengthening of a technicist Education, pervaded by the ideology of the capitalist rationality, which amplify and cheapen the national labor. This Educational Project was strengthened mainly by means of the MEC USAID agreements during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). At the same time the population sees School Education as a possibility of escaping the social hardships, the public schools become more similar to prisons: grids, sirens, walls, gates, classrooms as cells, long corridors and teachers as jailers. And all this occurs, contradictorily, in a public space which is itself the concrete possibility of building a more democratic society. It is, therefore, urgent to adopt new learning/teaching strategies and the studies on shared classrooms present themselves as a possibility. This urgency was revealed in 2015 by the occupations in public schools. In them, the appropriation of the school space made the students to believe that the school reality could be changed if they acted and if they could recognize themselves as integral and active participants in the school\'s decision process. Shared classrooms are forms of physical structuring the schools in which the teachers remain fixed in specific classrooms and the students are the ones to move between one class and the other. Shared classrooms alleviate the body and the mind in a environment of confinement; they can contribute to diminish the violence and the school dropout and, in addition, put the pedagogical actions in the foreground. The analysis of the school place, its observation and description; the comparison between shared classrooms and fixed classrooms and, ultimately, the combined analysis of all this, produced this thesis. It projects itself in the knowledge field, with these essentially geographic tools, as a contribution to the school pedagogies.

This is a study of assessment in mathematics classrooms and assessment is here regarded as a concept with broad boundaries including e.g. diagnostic tests, portfolios, and acts in teacher-student communication. The study’s purpose is to analyse and understand assessment acts in discursive practices in mathematics classroom communication in terms of affordances for students’ active agency and learning. Five mathematics classrooms are visited and the main data consists of video-recordings and written classroom material. In the study, I examine assessment acts, focuses of assessment acts, and roles of semiotic resources (symbols, gestures, speech etc.). With these findings as a basis, four discourses of assessment in mathematics classrooms are construed. A main conclusion is how the construed discourses hold different affordances for students’ active agency and learning. One discourse, “Do it quick and do it right” has similarities to a traditional discourse of assessment described in previous research. In a second discourse, “Anything goes”, students’ performances that can be regarded as mathematically inappropriate are left unchallenged. In both these discourses the affordances for students’ active agency and learning of mathematics are considered low. In a third discourse, “Anything can be up for a discussion”, the focuses of assessment acts are mainly on mathematics processes and available semiotic resources are connected to these focuses. The fourth discourse, “Reasoning takes time”, takes it one step further with a lower pace and an emphasis on mathematics processes such as reasoning and problem-solving. In these two latter discourses the affordances for students’ active agency and learning of mathematics are high. I contend that there is positive power in an increased awareness of discourses like these. The four discourses of this study can be powerful in discussions about, understandings of, and positive changes in assessment practices in mathematics classrooms.