Peabody College: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-05-15)There is a disparity between social classes, when it comes to accessing mental health support. 14.9 million students that attend city schools are part of the low middle class that does not have easy access to mental health ...
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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, 2016-07-15)Students come to beliefs about what mathematics is through a host of factors. One of these is through the way that they are assessed. Through summative, standardized achievement tests, students are evaluated on what it is ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-07-18)Discussions about education tend to revolve around K-12 schooling; adult education is generally not a part of the conversation even though it was an incubator of social change and progress at many points in history. Much ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)This capstone examines the possibilities of writing instruction to support the reading development of young children in late preschool through early first grade who are just beginning to understand the alphabetic principle. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)Although research on Black students disproportionality in suspensions and expulsions has been conducted since the 1970s, it has mainly centered Black male students (Smith-Evans et al., 2014). For decades, there has been ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016)While research has suggested that pretend play can give children invaluable experience in such literary practices as story ideation, creation, and renegotiation, character development, and reading and writing rehearsal, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-04)This project is a one‐year investigation of the nature of academic supports afforded to limited English proficient students in the Jefferson County Public Schools district in Louisville, KY. Surveys, interviews, observations, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-05)In attempts to understand and then maximize its student success rates, Birmingham Southern College (BSC) has asked a team of Vanderbilt doctoral candidates to conduct a study of retention on its campus. The Vanderbilt team ...
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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, 2016-06-15)Effective professional development for teachers has been a controversial topic in education for many years. Schools beg to answer the question: how do we continue to educate teachers so that student learning will increase? ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)Play in the lives of children of all ages is on the decline. This decline is even more dramatic in the middle grades, as in this context, play is almost non-existent and has been replaced with a rise in negative qualities ...
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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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(2005-03-22)The Final Report contains a comprehensive overview of the completed three-year (2001-2004) project, including an executive summary, scale development information, model revisions, a sample of findings from individual ...