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 2011
A Delayed Birth of Freedom? Public School Graduates' Perceptions of School Choice Viewed through the Pragmatic Lenses of the American Ideal, Donald B. Porter
An Educational "Clip": Arab Students' Experiences of Curriculum in a U.S. University, Daad Adel Rizk
Currere, Illness, and Motherhood: A Dwelling Place for Examining the Self, Michelle C. Thompson
Their Story, My Story, Our Story: Oral Histories of African American Women Educators Paradoxical Navigation of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Vanessa Sims Tossie
Teacher Candidates' Digital Literacy and Their Technology Integration Efficacy, Rona Lynette Tyger
Purgatory's Place in The South: A Black Woman's Journey to the Promised Land, Consuela Jean Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Unsettling Nostalgia: The Difficult Journey Home, Susan Shiver Barrow
Beauty, Breasts, and Brains: An Exploration of Using the Adolescent Female Body as a Resistance Site, Hanna Andrews Beall
String Theory and Our Relationship with Nature: The Convergence of Science, Curriculum Theory, and the Environment, Virginia Therese Bennett
Encircled by Sisterhood: Mentoring Experiences of African American Women in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Francene Amaris Breakfield
Resegregation and Educational Apartheid in Macon/Bibb County, Georgia: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same, Ashley Paige Briandi
A Study of Teacher Induction in High Schools of an Urban School District in Georgia, Shaundra Fears
Implementation of Interactive Whiteboards by High School Mathematics Teachers: Case Studies of Change, Jeffrey Scott Hall
The Power of the Picturebook: Examining Aesthetics and Critical Literacy for Imagination, Margaret Parker Helmly
Curriculum, Autophotography, and Jungian Depth Psychology: A Trinity of Social Change, Rachel Guernica Jones
The Confrontation of White Supremacy: A Consciousness Raising Group Experience, Vickie S. King
Now I Speak: The African American Males' Perspective as to Whether His Identification with Hip-Hop Culture Affects His Academic Achievement, Chiquetta O. Mitchell
Racism in Sports in Southeast Georgia High Schools., Michael Landon Nelson
The Need For Revision: Curriculum, Literature, and the 21st Century, David P. Owen
Cultivating Global Citizenship? Life In Transit, Jeffrey Matthew Palis
Curriculum and the Elements of The Earth: Deconstructing Sustainability and Reconstructing Responsibility, Elizabeth Alford Pollock
Examining Aspects of Role and Practice Changes for School Psychologists in Georgia: A Mixed Methods Analysis, Bruce A. Rogers
Performing Ethnographic Inquiry into America's Black Youth Culture: The Impact of Hip Hop and Rap Music on Today's Youth Society, Rose Cummings Spikes
A Delphi Study Analyzing Perspectives of School Library Media Specialists' Attitudes toward 21st Century Literacies, Rebecca W. Warren
One Drug, Two Drugs, Three Drugs, More: A Critical Habilitative Narrative Inquiry into Autism Spectrum Disorder, Virginia Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Military Children and Holistic Education: A Narrative Reflection on Classroom Practice, Edith Allison
The Relationship of Teachers' Motivational Perceptions and Instructional Integration of the Internet: An Inquiry of Elementary Teachers in one Georgia School District, Starla Stone Barker
School Leadership: Narratives of Title I Distinguished Middle School Principals, Cindy L. Boyett
Towards a Critical Coaching Curriculum, Hunter M. Chadwick
America Inc.: The Rise and Fall of a Civil Democracy, Keith W. Edmonds
"Courageous conversations": Rural South Georgia Teachers Reflecting on the Role of Race and Racism in the Education of Rural South Georgia Students, Lawanda P. Gillis
Y'all Think We're Stupid: Deconstructing Media Stereotypes of The American South, Karen C. Hamilton
Different Lattitudes, Different Attitudes: Educator Narratives of a Professional Development in Honduras, Polly Stewart Holder
Growing Up Biracial in a Southern Elementary School, Julie M. Kight
High School Transformation: The Lived Experience of Teachers Moving to Small Learning Environments, Reginald Lawrence
Beliefs and Practices of the Turnaround Teacher, Theresa Bryant Martin
Nappy Roots, Split Ends, and New Growth: An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry into The Experiences of A Black Female Educator, No Lye, Michel Linee Mitchell
Vaccination Nation: A Bioethical Feminist Inquiry into the Political, Social and Ethical Controversy Surrounding the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine, Kirsten Keller Morin
Critical Narrative of Multiracial Women's Personal Journey: Negotiating the Intersectionallity of Race and Gender Issues in a Monoracial Paradigm, Geralda Silva Nelson
Curriculum Studies the Creative Student: A Winnicottian Literary Analysis, Stephanie Leigh Perry
Reading In-Between the Lines: Exploring the Experience of Cultivating Cultural Awareness with White Teacher Candidates in a Liberal Arts University in Georgia, Holley Morris Roberts
Intersecting Spaces: A Narrative Exploration of Intersectionality and African American Female School Psychologists, Natasha Vannoy
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Examining Roberts County Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs Regarding the Nature of Mathematics and Their Classroom Learning Environment, Elizabeth P. Brechin-Harrison
Educating Black Youth Moral Principles through Black Art, Mariah Spann Buchanan
Vanishing Voices: The Impact of Life Behind the Barbed Wire on World War II Prisoners of War, James Reginald Burgess
It'S Time to Face The Music: Singing the Praises of Popular Music in Today's Curriculum, Shannon Flatt Dasher
Special Education Directors: Identification of Their Role in the Implementation of Policies, Procedures and Practices to Address Disproportionality, Kathryn Lynne Ellis
Teaching Science in the Bible Belt of the South, Carole Crosby Gilbert
Cultural Aesthetic Experience: Perceptions of Learning Developed through Cultural Immersion, Nicole Renai Harper
Preparation for High School Mathematics Reform in the Northeast Georgia Resa District: A Stage of Concerns Approach to Examining Professional Learning, Kay Smith Haugen
Oppression of Obesity, Brad Johnson
Recovered Voices: Fairy Tales and the Reading Child, Jennifer Beaumont Lossing
Lessons from the Segregated Classroom: An Oral History of the Experiences and Practices of Three Retired African American Teachers, Saundra Melinda McKoy
Women in Science: Stories from the Margins, Laura Mathis Mulvanity
Case Study of an Urban Elementary School's Transition from Failing to Distinguished School Status, Carla Brice Ross
Effects of Online, Collaborative Discourse on Secondary Student Writing: A Case Study of the History and Ecology of an Electronic Exchange, Julie Henderson Rucker
Bridging Aesthetics and Community : A Story of a Successful School, Julie Marie Sessions
Blinded by the White: Soul-Searching for the Pedagogical Possibilities of Otherness in the White Hearts of Parents Raising Children of Color, Debra Clark Sukaratana
Unto The Third & Fourth Generation of African-Americans: Kaleb Norris's Stories of Generational Poverty And Inequality In The South, Derrick Marcel Tennial
Tracing the Threads: A Curriculum Study of the Dialogue of Otherness in the Histories of Public and Independent Schooling, Kelley Jean Waldron
Unveiling the Masculinity of Science: A Journey into the Reactions and Reflections of Female Science Teachers to the Nature of Science, Tina Marie Wilkins
Paradigm Shift in African American Funeral Customs: Looking through the Lens of Oral History and Consumer Culture, Carol Thomas Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Study Analyzing the Perspectives of National Board Certified Media Specialists, Melissa Ann Allen
Issues of Blondeness: Identity, Education, and Experience, Kelly C. Blackston-Cail
Phenomenology, Film and Curriculum Theory: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Persona of Teachers, Tara Danielle Britt
New Voices in the Old South: Latino Immigrant Students' Experiences at one Georgia Middle School, Lucy Joanna Bush
Postmodern View of the Hidden Curriculum, Linda W. Dickerson
Performance-Based Assessment within a Balanced Literacy Framework: An Analysis of Teacher Perceptions and Implementation in Elementary Classrooms, Amy McGowan Duke
Progressive Education in Transition: An Intellectual History, Carolyn J. Faust
All for One, but Not One for All: The Knowledge/Power Struggle and Its Effect on Teacher Autonomy, Amy Phelps Fouse
Quiet Awakening: Spinning Yarns from Granny's Table in the New Rural South, Angela McNeal Haynes
Lived Experiences of Female Science Majors at a Two-Year College, Lisa Norton Howell
New Technology in Education as Viewed through the Utopic and Dystopic Worlds of Science Fiction, Vivian Elaine Jackson
US Health Care Crisis: Implications for Education, Medical Praxis, and Democracy, Michael W. Kleinpeter
Exploring The Role of Technology in the Educational Resilience of African American Male Students, Reginald Dennis Leseane
Women's Athletics and the Athletic Patriarchy, Cynthia Jane Lynes
Learning through Living: Freedom, Fear and Reading in the Classroom, Leslie Bailey Mashburn
Illness Dwelling in Curreré: Fleshing through Education, Pragmatism, and Spirituality, Leigh Rogers Medders
Understanding the Multicultural Experience of Lep Adolescents, Sharlene Snead Monahan
Creating Nomads: The Importance of Education in Forming the Multitude, Cecil Steven Page
Race, Class, and Tracking: What Keeps African American Males from Pursuing College Degrees?, Sonja Renee Richardson-Shavers
Self, Other, and Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs of African American Women, Wynnetta Ann Scott-Simmons
Trailer Park Royalty: Southern Child Beauty Pageants, Girlhood and Power, Elisabeth Blumer Thompson
Cultivating Cultural Workers through Service Learning in Teacher Education, Melanie Williams Thornton
Spoken Self: Recognizing, Renaming, and Reclaiming, Gayle Frances Tremble
Understanding the Influences on the Homework Experiences of Low-Socioeconomic, African American, Kindergarten Students, Sheryl Florantine Venable
Cultivating Passion in Teaching English Language Learners: A Critical Analytical Inquiry, Victoria Vazquez Webbert
Black Feminist Autobiographical Inquiry into the Experiences of a Teen Mom, Advis Dell Wilkerson
Inquiry into the Latin and Spanish Cultural Presentations of Spanish First Year Textbooks, Max Joe Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Teaching with Passion: A Narrative Inquiry into Elementary Teachers' Identity Development, Personal and Professional Knowledge, and Love of Teaching, Evelyn Lightfoot Aimar
How Kindergartners' Talks and Drawings Inform Our Ways of Developing a Curriculum of Caring and Imagination, Lisa Audet Aliotta
Contagious Discourse: Germs, Mass Media, and the Shaping of Reality, Amy Richardson Ballagh
Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry into Language, Culture, and Identity Development of Three High School Female Immigrant Students and Their Mainstream Schooling Experience in Atlanta, Georgia, Joanna Stoughton Cavan
Derrida, Deconstruction and a Dialogue on the Contemporary Nursing Curriculum, Catherine Louise Gilbert
Principles for Education of The Social Reconstructionists and Critical Theorists: A Yardstick of Democracy, Laurie Gertrude Hill
Stitched from the Soul: An Auto/biographical Inquiry Into one Black Woman Administrator's Voice and Vision, Sonya D. Jefferson
Landscapes of Imagination: A Critical Analysis of Art Textbooks, Lynda C. Kerr
Curriculum of Imagination Beyond the Walls of Standardization, Robert Lewis Lake
Pedagogy of Social Justice: An Inquiry into the Experiences of African American Adolescent Males, Natalie Ann Lambright
Teaching Bodies: Curriculum and Corporeality, Julie Garlen Maudlin
