Browsing Teaching & Learning Capstone Projects by Title
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)The purpose of my capstone essay is to situate prison education as an issue of justice and critical pedagogy as the catalyst for transformation. The prison population is disproportionately from non-dominant culture and is ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-09-15)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-06-15)The practice of critical discourse analysis examines the relationship between language, institutions, and power. This capstone essay critically examines the bimodal, culture-bound, racialized discourses to describe both ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)The practice of critical discourse analysis examines the relationship between language, institutions, and power. This capstone essay critically examines the bimodal, culture-bound, racialized discourses to describe both ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-03-01)Conceptual restructuring emerges from children’s experiences in multiple contexts. This paper explores the interactions of school-based science education and informal science education through the lens of conceptual change. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-15)Established within the context of adolescent literacy and its challenges, this review of literature presents the case for developing culturally responsive literacy instruction to meet the needs of African American adolescents. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)This paper explores the concept of culturally relevant instruction based mainly on the research and study of Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit, and Sonia Nieto. It explores the problems of the achievement gap and skewed ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-04-20)My fundamental thinking on the issues and ideas in educating EL students are influenced by two courses EDUC 3530: Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners by Prof. Lisa Pray and EDUC 3590.01: Issues in ELL ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2009-08-08)Singapore and U.S. schools face similar challenges in preparing students for life in the 21st Century workplace, home and community. As globalization proceeds apace, future graduates are expected to possess 21st Century ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-10-12)This paper argues against the sense of inescapable reality engendered by capitalism and discusses how playing out a re-imagined reality at school could defy this world. I utilize the concept of “figured worlds” as a lens ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-03-15)Within this paper, I am going to synthesize the most effective implementation of democratic principles applied within a school setting. The end result I hope to achieve is to make schools more responsive and relevant to ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015)In this paper, I explore what it might mean to take the body as the focus of design to support learning in mathematics classrooms, and more specifically, to support learning to work with graphs. I will provide an overview ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-07-15)Intergenerational literacy programs (i.e. family literacy programs) seek to raise the literacy level of both parent and child by linking their education and treating them as a learning unit. Though intergenerational ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-04-16)While other traditional schools and types of education place more emphasis on subject content and discipline knowledge, the purpose of Waldorf education is not to train students for the future professional world, but to ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-07-29)The ArtQuest gallery is a space at the intersection of informal learning and arts education, built for all ages, but especially for young children. At first glance, it appears to be highly successful at achieving some of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-22)Latino immigrant students and families are among the fastest growing populations in the United States, but are among the most academically vulnerable groups. Though they initially enter the country brimming with hope and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-06-15)