About this Collection
The works in this student research collection have been approved by the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Ed.D. in Curriculum Studies from the College of Education.
Additional graduate student theses and dissertations are available at:
- All Electronic Theses and Dissertations (1964-present)
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject Area (1964-present)
- Legacy Theses and Dissertations (1964-2006)
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Motherhood: Exploring Generational Shifts as Roles and Responsibilities Increase, Marissa Beemer
Otherwise Futures Reimagined: Afrofuturism as Liberation for Black Women~A Black Speculative Fiction, Khristian Cooper
Letters to Myself ~ Reflections of a New Teacher ~ A Curriculum of Self, Sarah Brittany S. Greneker
The Magic in the Music: Using Hip-Hop in the Classroom to Engage African-American Males in Reading, Ke'Kenyette Heath
Navigating Barriers, Shattering Ceilings, and Beating the Odds: An Exploration of How Intersectional Oppression Impacts the Experience of Black Women School Leaders, Octavia K. Holloway
An Exploration of the Race and Gender Representations in Professional Wrestling in the United States: A Qualitative Case Study, Luther P. Lucas
Meeting the Moment: Seeking a Symbiosis of Economic Theory and Practice in Times of Crisis, Sallie Taylor Manning
White Woman in a Black Barbershop: Examining Racial Literacy Through Epistemic Curricula Spaces, Megan Paulk
Their Country: Black Women, Three Chords, and the Truth, Dmetri J. Smith
Contemporary Chinese Parenting Anxieties: A Multiperspectival Cultural Studies of A Chinese Telenovela – A Love for Dilemma, Yining Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Expanding Cultural Empathy Through Multicultural Children’s Literature: An Ethnographic Inquiry with First Grade Children in Rural Georgia, Marianna L. Anderson
Middle Savannah River: An A/r/tographic Ecopedagogical Ethnography Experimenting with Rhizomatic Perspectives, Lisa Augustine-Chizmar
For Black Girls, By Black Girls: Examining the Experiences of Black Women in Historically White Learning Spaces and Reimagining Spaces With Our Needs in Mind, Florence Takeshia Brown
Hearing Silent Voices: Counternarratives of African American Students Overrepresented in Special Education Programs, Janet Cooks
Toward a Curriculum of Wonder, Imagination, and Empowerment: Critiques on Neoliberal Infiltration in Education, Andrea L. Cramsey
Beyond Burden: A Curriculum of Caregiving as a Traumatic Event, Lora Hydrick
Utilizing Role-Play to Enhance Content Knowledge and Self-Efficacy Towards the IEP Meeting: A Qualitative Case Study, Courtney Toledo
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Exploring Fourth-Grade Girls’ Construction of Their Mathematics Self-Beliefs, Nicole Bernard
Vistas Y Experiencias: Exploring the Development of Professional Self-efficacy of Nonnative Spanish Foreign Language Teachers, Tiffany A. Howell
Voices Rising: Exploring the Tensions of Homeschooled Women Defining Themselves within a Religious Culture, Natalie S. Immings
Hyphenated Identity and Negotiated Intersectionality: A Memoir of a First-Generation Nigerian-American Male Teacher in an Inner City Title 1 Elementary School in Georgia, Gerald Chidiebere Nwachukwu
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Retention of African American Male College Students in East Georgia State College, Larry R. Braddy
How do Special Education Teachers View the Phenomenon of Black Male Overrepresentation in Special Education?, Lelon B. Jeffers
Culturally Contested Curriculum? African American Students and Classical Education, Mary E. Negley
Mothering Through our Pain: Single Black Mothers’ Narratives, Yolanda E. Surrency
Music and Me: Empathy, Scholarship, and Songwriting as Evidence of Transformation, Samuel A. Wilson III
Towards a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Learning from Black Teachers in Rural South Georgia, Leslee Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Schools for Profit or Schools for Education? A Christian School Principal’s Perspectives, Michael A. Crosby
Performing Identities of the Auditory-Verbal Deaf Students in the Classrooms: A Teacher's Performative Memoir, Tracy Edenfield
Looking Through a Culturally Proficient Lens: Georgia Elementary ESOL Teachers' Perceptions of School Leaders, Mary C. Houser
Rey-ifying a New Heroine: Interrogating the Curriculum of Femininity in Star Wars Films, Rebekah S. Morgan
Dare We Speak Of It: The Teaching Of Evolution In Private Schools Of An Urban Middle Georgia Setting, Eric J. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Impact of the Arab American Muslims’ Identities on Their Children’s Experience of the Mainstream Schooling in the United States, AbdulRahman FatehAllah Ali Alhawsali
Cultivating a Pedagogy of Empathy: Teaching Science Fiction in a Changing Biotechnological World, Kathy L. Avery
Libidinal Beasts within a Kingdom for The Civilized, Michael A. Baugh
Actor-Network Theory and Animal Therapy: Uncovering the Relational Ecology of the Exceptional Student Classroom, Kristin A. Blanton
FUTURE WORLD(S): A Critique of Disney's EPCOT and Creating a Futuristic Curriculum, Alan Bowers
More Than Fish and Guinea Pigs: Integrating Animal Studies into the Curriculum, Angela M. Burke
Cybernetics, Cyborgs, and Bionics, Oh My!!: Counterstories of the Intersection of Disability + Technology and Its Impact on Identities of Adults with Disabilities, Ellen M. Hotchkiss
Dis/ability, Difference, and Imagination: A Memoir of Becoming, Patty Cox McDonald
In-Between Epistemic Paradigms of Disablement: A Reflective Journey, Daniel James McNair
A Conversation on Curriculum as Aesthetic Text. The Powers of the Quilt: Renderings of Knowledge in a Geechee-Gullah Handicraft, Tahirih A. Pleasant
Poetically Composed, Educationally Imposed: Exploring Imagination and Poetics in Curriculum—A Memoir, Whitney J. Presnal
Teaching with Passion: Engaging in Indigenous Thought and Storywork, Ashley E. West
A Fiction of Fragmented Falsehoods: Curriculum of Unwanted Roads Traveled, Katherine Wyatt
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
I, Too, Am a Woman: an Emancipatory Text on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, Michelle M. Allen
Finding Voice in the Patriarchal South: A Memoir, Christina P. Altman
We Shall Not Be Moved: Finding Hope in the Stories of Elementary School Teachers in Rural Georgia, Allison Beasley
Embracing the Bounty: Countering the Curriculum of Deficit, Diana Bishop
The Exertion of a Choice: An Ecofeminist Vision ~ Aesthetic, Embodied, and Connected Learning, Sharon M. Eswine
The Curriculum of Horror: Or, the Pedagogies of Monsters, Madmen, and the Misanthropic, James V. Grant
The Long and Winding Road of Self-Reflection: Exploring Otherness Through the use of Currere, Educational Autobiography, and Creative Nonfiction, Julie S. Hamon Ms
A Phenomenological Study of Teachers' Emotional Responses to TKES, A High-Stakes Evaluation System, Kristina J. Hirsch
Like a Girl: How Illness and Advertising Affect Self-Image, Amber L. Jones
Newcomer Voice: Experiences of Korean Young Adults in Middle and High Schools in the Southeastern United States, Valena S. Kipling
"I'm Done!" Stories of Veteran Teachers Driven Out of the Profession, Jill L. Stassie
(re)Learning to Question: Curriculum Studies and (re)Thinking Science for the 21st Century, Anthony Jerome Stawiery
Factors Relating to the Multicultural Efficacy and Attitudes of Teachers, Donna L. Strickland
The Effects of Utilizing a Differentiated Model of Inclusion on Students with Disabilities Academic Achievement in Mathematics, Allison D. Vereen
Carving My Own Bench by the Road: Examining the Seats of Power for Black Women Educators Through Playwriting, Dawn C. Whipple
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Liberty's Hidden History: The Dorchester Center and Citizenship Education in Southeast Georgia during the 1960s, Amy Blanton
Meeting the challenges of 21st century education: Neoliberalism, vocational education, and critical media literacy, Jennifer P. Fitzner
Cultivating Ecological Literacy and Rethinking Our Connections to Nature, Sean Fretwell
Media Impact: Misfits in the Media, Ashley Gregory
Have Our Say: Shining Light on Necessary Voices in a Historically Black High School in Georgia, Marquez Hall
Puzzled Representations: Popular Media and How Educators Come to Know Autism, Vanessa N. Keener
Finding My Voice: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse, Diane LaFrance
Intuition and Curriculum: From Precognition to Agency, Sandra Martinaitis
After Demystification: Evangelical Hegemony and a Hidden Reading Curriculum, Jeremy A. McClain
A Comparison of Student Achievement and Behavior in Single Sex and Mixed Sex Classrooms in a Rural Georgia Middle School, Hannah Walker Murray
My Life is a Manifesto: From Rich, To Poor, To Teacher, Angela M. Pieniaszek
From the Big House to the School House Slavery by a Different Name #School: The Metaphorical Plantation, Samantha O.C. Reddick
“i’m Not Good at Math”: Mathematical Illiteracy and Innummeracy in the United States, G. Wesley Rogers
Teach Us To Teach You: Experiences Of Black Males In Urban High Schools In Georgia, Judy Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
“At-Risk” Rural Middle-School Students’ Perceptions of Problem-Based Learning in Mathematics, Deborah A. Bowers
Creating Spaces of Imaginative Engagement for Gifted High School Honors and Advanced Placement English Students, Patty T. Bradshaw
Seeking Space for Solitude in a World of Commodification, Stacey T. Brown
Teaching Through the Mythic: Comets, Dragons, and the Gods Within, Matthew P. Carney
The Need for Expertise: Becoming Education Professionals in Spite of a Neoliberal World, John H. Cato
From Tangled Roots To New Growth: Narratives Of Black Women Who Have Embraced Their Natural Hair While Navigating The Workplace, Neshika L. Coney-Devine
The Posthuman Curriculum and the Teacher, John P. Cook
Developing the Whole Teacher: A Phenomenological Case Study of Student Teachers' Emotional Experiences in One Teacher Education Program, Kathleen M. Crawford
A Phenomenological Study of Teachers' Perceptions of Kindergarten Retention: Are Standards to be Blamed?, Ginger DeLaigle
Moving Past Dissenting Voices: The Experience of Resilience in African-American Male College Graduates, Demetria Dixon
Engaging and Inequitable: The Impact of CTAE Courses in the Shaping of African American Graduates' Experiences, Stephanie F. Evans Mrs
From Boys to Men: The Influence of Commercialized Hip-Hop on the Adoption of Masculinity by Black Male Adolescents, Christopher Gaiters
Teacher Empowerment Through Instructional Coaching: A Qualitative Study on the Theory and Application of Partnership Principles, Aviva Goelman Rice
Play in the Culture of Standardization: A Critical Inquiry into Kindergarten Teachers' Perspectives in an Urban South Georgia Public School, Jerri J. Hendrix
The Muzzled Hope: Utilizing Black Protest Thought to Examine African American Males' Identity Development and Academic Success in the Rural U.S. South, Latoya D. Jenkins
Dancing With The Stars – Situations, Tasks, Action And Results – An Inquiry Into The Beliefs, Identify And Practices Of African American Women Assistant Principals, Anissa H. Johnson
Educational Reform as Pharmakon: A Theoretical Analysis of Competitive School Reform, Mary E. Joseph Ms
To Whom it May Concern: The Displaced Existence of Special Educators Longing to Connect, Andrea Kinney
African American Male Students’ Experiences in an Online Learning Program in an Urban Alternative School, Nekada Lewis
