The intent of this qualitative critical incident study was to explore the interpretation of equity by White equity-trained suburban educators (WETSE) and minoritized parents (MP) in a Midwestern suburban school district to address and change inequitable student outcomes. WETSE a…
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The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic circumscribed a new educational reform and challenged economic policies in the world's education system. The institutional movement was momentous and unprecedented in at least a hundred years of history; impacted the competency-based leadership…
This dissertation takes up the topic of simulations in social studies education. Though simulations are taken up widely by social studies educators, and though they are described as best practice in social studies standards documents and teacher evaluation rubrics, the term lack…
In this dissertation I defend the thesis that consumer education should be an essential component of public education on the basis of civic, economic, and environmental ethical frameworks. The first task of the dissertation is to define what is meant by the concept of consumer e…
Sacred Mission: A Study of Hiring for Mission in Catholic Schools via Self-Described Hiring Practices of Administrators is a doctoral problem-based learning project examining the value of hiring for mission through a study of Catholic school administrators' self-described hiring…
Purpose and Method of Study: Character education has been a priority in schools in the United States for four centuries. Researchers have studied the effectiveness of character education in public schools, but research in the religious private school is lacking. Many experts in …
Findley B. Edge taught religious education at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for over forty years, spanning his entire academic career. Among his many contributions, Edge advocated for an educational philosophy based primarily on experience by combining elements of pr…
For the past 50 years Earth Day has offered an annual opportunity for humanity to come together and focus on the planet. This dissertation celebrates this occasion by contributing four middle school lesson plans to the growing field of “ecozoic education.” Students are invited t…
Rural places afford significant differences in learning opportunity than their urban and suburban counterparts, and are often viewed from deficit perspectives, with a focus on the challenges that are specific to rurality. This locally-focused, qualitative research explored how c…
The purpose of this study is to equip church teachers experiencing difficulties to train the next generation leaders in postmodern era through the education of Christian epistemology. In the current project, both qualitative and quantitative methods had been applied to the proje…
I begin the project with prefatory descriptions of Lewis’s uses of the terms education, learning, and vocational training. Then I consider the relationships between classical studies, English studies, and American Great Works programs, noting that American Great Works programs d…
Teaching in the service of social justice requires an understanding of how our belief structures and identities inform our practice. For that reason, the experience of secondary social studies teachers as they develop and reflect on their critical consciousness was the focus of …
This dissertation has attempted to discern the presuppositions and influence of James R. Estep Jr.'s faith-learning integration theory by analyzing the epistemology and anthropology underlying in his method of integrating theology and social sciences.
John Dewey's epistemological understanding of the concept of `experience' in education causes a critical problem by rejecting absolute truth. Dewey's epistemological understanding of truth and knowledge is based on the concept he termed `experience' that gives students authority…
This dissertation develops a public practical theology of education. It argues that education is a practice that “schools the imagination,” forming individuals and communities to operate within social imaginaries that have been shaped by a latent, anti-material, and individualis…
Opportunities to participate in dialogic practices are essential to the co-construction of meaning. Such opportunities not only afford deeper learning for the individual, they open up different kinds of possibilities for the community as a whole. Participating in dialogic practi…
This dissertation examines the ways in which educators that self-identify as religious produce themselves as ethical subjects within the pseudo-secular space of public schools. This inquiry has its foundations in poststructuralist theories such as Derrida’s deconstruction (deepl…
Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom (UK) is changing, prompting universities to reconsider their position in a complex and uncertain sector. This thesis argues that university business models have not evolved to become responsive to change - unlike new providers who do n…
Prior research has well outlined, detailed, and critiqued the effects of post-colonialism on schooling in Trinidad and Tobago and throughout the Caribbean, but there is a glaring absence of teacher voice regarding its legacy in teaching, learning, and schooling. The literature l…