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)
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- Legacy Theses and Dissertations (1964-2006)
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Conspiracy to Resurrect Life and Social Justice in Science Curriculum with Henrietta Lacks: A Play, Dana Compton McCullough
Lost in Politics and Standardization: Exploring the Standards for Mathematical Practice in a Postmodern Mathematics Curriculum, Casey McNeely
"We're in the Business of a Good Education": Schooled to Profit or Educated to Create?, Nicole Nolasco
Unrolling Common Core Georgia Performance Standards: A View from the Inside, Rebecca Ansley Thompson Rogers
Experiences of Stakeholders Participating in an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme in Southeast Georgia, Anna J. Wiles
Becoming OpianChocTaliRican: A Black Man in a Multiracial World, Michael Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Children Want to Write...If We Let Them: A Case Study of Writing in the Elementary Classroom, Charlene A. Andrews
Perception of the School Experiences of Five Generations of Deaf Students, Charles DePew
Young, Gifted, Black, and Blocked: A Critical Inquiry of Barriers That Hinder Black Students' Participation in Gifted and Advanced Placement Programs, Elizabeth Anne Evans
The Feminist Stall: Othered Women, Atheism, and Curriculum, Teresa Ferguson
Understanding A Sense of School Membership for Students with Disabilities in Two Middle Schools, Heather Holland
The Football Plantation in the South: Dismantling the Run Game, Robert B. Horner
A Retracing in Praise of the Unretraceable: Jazz Improvisation, Theatre Games and Curriculum, Barry E. Krakovsky
Multicultural Attitudes of Construction Management Students in a Rural Southern University, Clinton D. Martin
Curriculum as a Traumatized Body: Rehabilitating School Through the Arts, Lolita N. Morales
Blending Cultures, Identities in Transition: Nursing Students from African Countries in a South Georgia University, Kathy T. Morris
Dr. Eugene Grigsby's Connections to Art, African American Life in the South, and Social Justice Education: Implications for Art Education Curriculum, Reggie A. Stephens Mr.
Poetics of Curriculum, Poetics of Life: An Exploration of Poetry in the Context of Selves, Schools, and Society, Mary Elizabeth E. Vaquer
Symbiosis and the Human Niche: Understanding Interdependence through Curriculum Studies, Ecopedagogy, and Technological Relationships, Mary R. Wells
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Screen Speaks: Disability, Media & Schooling, Alicia S. Campbell
The Need for Reform: Exploring Historical and Cultural Representations of Identity and Equality in Irish National Schools, Eileen M. Emerson
Transition from brick and mortar to online teaching: Middle-grade teachers' perspectives, Cathy Griffin
May I Walk Beside You? Exploring the Journey into the Careers of African American Women in Childcare Through Their Stories, Lisa K. Heusel Dr.
Chaos Theory, Theology, and Curriculum: Striving Towards the Impossibility of the Gift, Thomas B. Jones
Classworks as a Means to Gaining Equity in the General Education Math Classroom: Perceptions of Students Receiving Special Education Services, Diane Marshall
A Mixed Methods Case Study Exploring the Outcomes of Implementing a Digital Learning Management System In A Fourth Grade Language Arts Classroom, Sarah C. Mayberry
The Caring Beliefs and Practices of Effective Teachers, Barbara D. McCollum
Educational Technology and Mindful Learning in the Classroom, Shelly Geiger Nelson
Teacher Perceptions of the Relationship Between Professional Development in Differentiated Instruction and Student Outcomes in High School Social Studies, Cathy G. Powell
Suspensions, Expulsions, and The Black Masculine Student-Body: The Problematization of Exclusionary Discipline in Schools, Melvin T. Ratcliff
Cultivating Voice Through Web 2.0-Infused Critical Media Literacy: Pedagogy for African American Girls, Dawnique Steel
Untold Stories and Silenced Voices: Lives Inside a North Georgia Elementary School, Donna S. Troupe
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Testimonies of Black Women's Experience of Desegregation in the South, Marketa Bullard
Casting Minority Gifted Students: The Pedagogical Impact of Cinema on the Culture of Schooling, Deborah F. Burnette
Two Small Rural Schools Under Siege: An Oral History 1969-2012, Deborah Costlow Cartee
The Cultural Studies of Science Education, Karen D. Chassereau
"A Song for You" As Tribute to the Daughters of the South: Illuminating the Work of Black Women Principals, Beverly Cox
Muffled Voices: The Academic Paths of Three African American Males, Charlotte S. Eisel
The Voices of Reason: Counterstories of the Urbanization of a Suburban Black School in Georgia, Shana Hunt
Housing Patterns, Academic Performance and School Choice: An Inquiry into the Relocation Experiences of African-American Families, Courtney Jones-Hall
The Laughter Behind: Curriculum of Place, the Hypermasculine Imperative, and the Critical Education of a Southern Cop, Frank Gene Jordan Jr.
Southern Discomfort through the Metaphorical Wings of the Vampire, Marni E. Kirkland
Powerful Print: Identifying the Influence of Narrative Reading over Student's Opinion Formation, Sarah A. Lord
Teachers' Perceptions and Satisfaction With PBIS in a Southeast Georgia School District, Deidra C. Martin
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Environmental Justice in Higher Education, Marjorie M. Nussbaum
Are Best Practices in Literacy Culturally Relevant? An Investigation into What Primary Literacy Teachers Do to Teach Literacy Skills to Minority Students, Tammie Pittsley
Digital Echoes of the iGeneration: An Examination of Digital Media Used in 21st Century Education, Monica Greenway Radcliff
Intentionally Diverse: A Historical Investigation of a Southern Private School's Ten-Year Diversity Initiative, Brad Schultz
Inquiry, Efficacy, and Science Education, Heather Christa Scott
Gifted or Disabled: An Oral Histories of African American Malesdefying Special Education Marginalization, Pamela Scott
And Then the Wall Rose: Counter Narratives of Black Males' Experience of Elementary Schooling in Urban Georgia, Katrana Michelle Seay
From a Northern Home to a Southern School: Cultural Imperialists or Just Stubborn Yankees, Janel Janiczek Smith
Telling The Stories of My Life as a Twin: Understanding Sisterhood through Black Women’s Feminist Life Narratives, Marilyn Thomas
Reimagining the Liberal Arts in an Age of Technoscientific Progress, Melanie Moore Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Understanding the Occupational Choices of Rural White Southern Males, Rhonda Morrison Amerson
Perceptions of the Influence of Teacher of the Year Awards upon Teachers' Personal, School, and Professional Morale, Sherri Baker Butler
One Story, Two Perspectives: A Mother's and Daughter's Experiences in Special Education in Public Schools, Terrie Compton
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Bronfenbrenner's Ecology of Human Development, Carol Medders Denis
Curriculum Circus: Juggling Curriculum, Science, and The Arts, Domenica Devine
A Curriculum of Place: Who Are We? Southerners Beneath the Red Clay and the Black Dirt, Patsy D. Faulkner
Through Smoke and Mirrors: Constructing Identity between the Myths of Black Inferiority and a Post-Racial America, Gwyneira Yvette Dixon Ledford
Reflecting Society's Mirror Image: Identifying Factors that Contribute to the Academic Success of Young African American Males in School, Anita Lumpkin-Barnett
Rainbow in the Clouds: Oral Histories of Black Homosexual Male Graduates' Experience of Schooling in Augusta, Georgia, Stacey Nicole Mabray
Empowering Students with Autism: An Investigation of School Practices Through the Lens of the Special Education Administrator, Jenny Rebecca McClintic
Curriculum and the Life Erratic: The Geographic Cure, Leslie B. Nissen
Equal or Not? An Exploration of Eighth-Grade Students' Experience of Algebra, Janice L. Reyes
Frankenfoods: Are We Bioengineering Our Children and What Can Curriculum Do?, Patra Rickman
Leveling the Playing Field: Curriculum Studies and Fast Pitch Softball, Melinda M. Roberts
Can we Teach if We Don't Know?: A Middle Class White Female Special Education Teacher and Students of Color in Rural Georgia, Donna Jill Roy
Moments When the Weak Gained Ground: Viral Video as a Curriculum of People, Michael J. Ryan
Traditional and Digital Methods of Responding to Literature and the Impact on Student Writing, Anna Savage
A Critical Analysis of the Culture of Consumption: A Running Curriculum, John Sutlive
Complicated Conversations on the Dis/Ease of Mental Illness: The Ebb and Flow of Bipolar Disorder, Doreen Louise Williams
The Stares to Achievement: African American Youth Resist Risk and Rhetoric to Achieve Academic Success, Ch́e Yvette Wyatt
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Memoir of a Black Female Social Worker: Re-Collections on Black Women Parenting and Parental Involvement in the Education of Black Children, Jacquelyn Hodges Anthony
Overcoming the Odds: The Success Story of an African American Gifted Male Student, Jhondra Anderson Barnes
Intertwined Cultural Journeys: An Autoethnography of Learning, Teaching, and Affirming Diversity through Multicultural Music, Kathryn Blackmon
The Curriculum of Capitalism: Schooled to Profit or Schooled to Educate, Douglas O. Carroll
Speaking the Unutterable: White Teachers and Black Children, Amy Rene Dalton
Contamination Running Deep: Oral Histories of Environmental Racism, Injustice, and Outrage of One Family in a Southern African-American Community, Deborah M. Dean
A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Social Aggression as a Form of Bullying among Female Students, Tina Martin Debevec
The Effects of Simulation on Junior Level Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Self-Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation, Michelle E. Dykes
Effective Literacy Instruction Strategies among Teachers in Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Grade Ranges, Melodie D. Fulcher
Buried Treasure? Excavating Active, Meaningful, and Worthwhile Learning from an Elementary Time Capsule, Michelle Martin Gowan
Reading the Word and the World through Graphic Novels: A Graphic Portrayal of Young Adult Literacy Development in a Ninth Grade English Literature Classroom, Sandra Jane Greene
If You Can't Find Me in the School Room: Oral Histories of African American Educators and Students During the Albany Movement, Maqueta N. Griswold
Curriculum Studies Gone Wild: Bioregional Education and the Scholarship of Sustainability, Nathan Stewart Hensley
Separate but Equal? A Postmodern Analysis of Educational Structures for Individuals with Disabilities, Donna Manning
Reaping What You Sow: Southern Cultures, Black Traditions, and Black Women, Cynthia Mikell
The Intersection between Liberal Education and Health Profession Education at Armstrong, Andi Elizabeth Mincer
A Knock at Midnight: A Pedagogy of Womanist Spirituality, Valerie Moss
Images of Experience: Decolonizing Medicine, Colleen Hill Patton
Killers or Keepers of the Dream?: An Exploration of Race and White Privilege With White, Female Teachers From A Rural Southern School District, Jacqueline Terry Peebles
