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Submissions from 2015
Examining the Type, Frequency, and Interpretative Complexity of Visual Displays Appearing, Gregory Schraw and Antonio P. Gutierrez
Starting Young: Emergent Black Masculinity and Early Literacy, Alma D. Stevenson and Sabrina N. Ross
Creating a Reading and Writing Community with “Teens for Literacy”, Patricia Wachholz, Anne Katz, Jaime Berry-Coyne, Allen Berger, and John Hobe
Submissions from 2014
Fromm’s Dialectic of Freedom and the Praxis of Being, Vicki Dagostino and Robert L. Lake
Guardian of the Status Quo or Agent of Change?: An Exploration of the Role of Identity in the School, Lorraine S. Gilpin and Delores D. Liston
A Flipped Classroom Professional Development Initiative of Mathematizing Reading Instruction for Primary and Elementary Grade Mathematics Teachers, Jackie Hee-Young Kim, Anne Katz, Joshua K. Lambert, and Trica Brown
Click, Create, Compose: Unpacking the “I Am From” Poetry Project, Anne Katz
Click, Create, Compose: Unpacking the “I Am From” Poetry Project, Anne Katz
Teens for Literacy: Students Leaders Celebrate and Promote Literacy among their Peers, Anne Katz
Examining the Flipped Classroom Model through Literacy and Math Integration: Lessons Learned from a Teacher Quality Professional Development Grant Initiative, Anne Katz and Jackie Hee-Young Kim
The Politics of Currere in Alienating Times, Tricia M. Kress and Robert L. Lake
Effects of Self-Perception of Reading Skill on Absolute Accuracy of Metacomprehension Judgements, Heekyung Kwon and Tracy Linderholm
Diddley Bows, Cross Harps, Banjars, and Backbeats: The Rhythm and Sounds of Personal Agency from Southern African America, Robert L. Lake
Review of Agitation With a Smile: Howard Zinn’s Legacies and the Future of Activism by Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, and Joshua Yesnowitz, Robert L. Lake
Pre-Reading Instructions to Self-Explain: Facilitating Multiple Text Comprehension for Adult Readers, Tracy Linderholm, Heekyung Kwon, and David J. Therriault
Multiple Science Text Processing: Building Comprehension Skills for College Student Readers, Tracy Linderholm, David J. Therriault, and Heekyung Kwon
Loss, Melancholy and Reverie in Education, Marla Morris
Posthumanist Education and Animal Interiority, Marla Morris
Neo-Post-Urban-Noir Graphic Novels and Critical Literacy: The Hard Connection, William M. Reynolds
Reforming the Schooling of Neoliberal, Perpetual Zombie Desire, William M. Reynolds
Where are The Mockingjays? The Commodification of Monstrous Children and Rebellion, William M. Reynolds
Diversity and Intergroup Contact in Higher Education: Exploring Possibilities for Democratization Through Social Justice Education, Sabrina N. Ross
Kindergarten Case Study: An In-Depth Analysis of a Phonemic Awareness Assessment, Michalle Ruble and Anne Katz
Exploring the Tensions Between Narrative Imagination and Official Knowledge Through the Life of Pi, Laura Rychly and Robert L. Lake
Metacognitive Strategy Instruction That Highlights the Role of Monitoring and Control Processes, Gregory Schraw and Antonio P. Gutierrez de Blume
Exploring a Three-Level Model of Calibration Accuracy, Gregory Schraw, Fred Kuch, Antonio P. Gutierrez de Blume, and Aaron S. Richmond
Toward a Posthuman Education, Nathan Snaza, Peter Appelbaum, Siân Bayne, Dennis Carlson, Marla Morris, Nikki Rotas, Jennifer Sandlin, Jason Wallin, and John A. Weaver
Posthuman(ist) Youth: Control, Play and Possibilities, John A. Weaver and Nathan Snaza
The Influence of Culture on Emotions: Implications for Education, Meca Williams-Johnson and Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby
Submissions from 2013
Developing a Topic-Centered First-Year Seminar with an Emphasis on Information Literacy at a Large Regional University, Wendy L. Chambers, Lisa Smith, Jessica N. Orvis, and Christopher Caplinger
Building ePortfolio Development throughout an Online Graduate Program, Elizabeth Downs, Stephen J. Jenkins, Stephanie Jones, and Kenneth Clark
Evidence-Based Learning: Threading e-Portfolio Development throughout an Online Graduate Program, Elizabeth Downs, Stephen Jenkins, and Judi Repman
Positioning Students in a New Lens: Art Historians, Readers, and Writers, Anne Katz
Using Picture Book Biographies to Cultivate Effective Comprehension among Struggling Readers, Anne Katz
A Dialogue Between Marx and Freire, Tricia M. Kress and Robert L. Lake
Bridges are Made for Movement, Robert L. Lake
Sailing with Septima: A Curricular Journey Through the Jim Crow South, Robert L. Lake
Constructing a Community of Thought: Access Through Epistolary Understanding, Robert L. Lake and M. Cathrene Connery
Converging Self/Other Awareness: Erich Fromm and Paulo Freire on Transcending the Fear of Freedom, Robert L. Lake and Vicki Dagostino
The Cognitive Psychology of Multiple Text Comprehension: What Can Educators Garner from the Literature?, Tracy Linderholm
Taking Toll: The Impact of Sexual and Gender Harassment in the Lives of Middle and High School Students, Delores D. Liston and Regina Rahimi
Forced to Learn: Community-based Correctional Education, Ron Mottern, C. Amelia Davis, and Mary F. Ziegler
Campus Conflicts: College Students' Perceptions of Heterosexism and Homophobia in Colleges and Universities, Regina Rahimi and Delores D. Liston
I Won’t Back Down: Counter-narratives of Visibility and Vulnerability in a Bleak House, William M. Reynolds
Liberation Theology and Paulo Freire: On the Side of the Poor, William M. Reynolds
Militainment and War: How Long Must We Sing This Song?, William M. Reynolds
The Era of Recruitment: The Militarization of Everything, William M. Reynolds
The Stubborn Persistence of Hope, William M. Reynolds
Examining the Role of Facilitated Conflict on Student Learning Outcomes in a Diversity Education Course, Sabrina N. Ross
The Politics of Politeness: Theorizing Race, Gender, and Education in White Southern Space, Sabrina N. Ross
Accreditation of Graduate Online Degree Programs in a College of Education, Cordelia Zinskie, Judi Repman, and Elizabeth Downs
Submissions from 2012
"A play is not a journal article:” A review of Johnny Saldaña’s Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage, C. Amelia Davis
My Sister, Our Stories: Exploring the Lived Experience of School Leavers through Narrative and Poetics, C. Amelia Davis and Jennifer L. Pepperell
Social Networking Postings: Views from School Principals, Marlynn M. Griffin and Robert L. Lake
Introduction, Ming Fang He and Sabrina N. Ross
Reigniting Radical Hope and Social Imagination in "Dark Times", Tricia M. Kress and Robert L. Lake
Affirmation, Incubation, and Metaphoric Connection: A Journey Through Your Books, Robert L. Lake
Imagination, Play and Becoming the Text, Robert L. Lake
Letters as Windows Into a Life of Praxis: Using the Epistolary Genre to Explore the Tensions Between the Private Self and Public Action, Robert L. Lake
Looking Deeper than the Gradebook: Assessing Cultural Diversity Attitudes Among Undergraduates, Robert L. Lake and Kent Allan Rittschof
On the Cognitive Benefits of Cultural Experience: Exploring the Relationship between Studying Abroad and Creative Thinking, Christine S. Lee, David J. Therriault, and Tracy Linderholm
The Accuracy of Metacomprehension Judgments: The Biasing Effect of Text Order, Tracy Linderholm, Xuesong Wang, David J. Therriault, Qin Zhao, and Laura Jakiel
A Curriculum of Critical Compassion, William M. Reynolds
Fast Spinning in the Middle: Running toward Social Justice within the Culture of Cruelty, William M. Reynolds
The Iron Man Nation: Democracy and Critical Media Literacy, William M. Reynolds
The Way of the Soldier—Jarheads and Hurt Lockers: Perpetual War, Identity, and Critical Media Literacy, William M. Reynolds
Why Popular Culture in Education Matters, William M. Reynolds
Ethical Caring in Cultural Context, Sabrina N. Ross
(Re) Configuring the Public University in New Times: A Report to the Provost of Georgia Southern University, John A. Weaver, Brenda Marina, M. Morris, M. He, M. Moore, and J. Green
Submissions from 2011
Corporatizing Sports: Fantasy Leagues, the Athlete as Commodity and Fans as Consumers, Daniel Chapman and John A. Weaver
It’s Not Better or Worse, It’s Just Different.’: Examining Jamaican Teachers’ Pedagogical and Emotional Experiences During Their First Year of Teaching in the Us, Dionne I. Cross, Ji Hong, and Meca Williams-Johnson
From Generation Y to Z: Instructional Strategies for 21st Century Learners, Stephen J. Jenkins, Terry D. Diamanduros, and Elizabeth Downs
Metaphor: The Language of the Imagination, Robert L. Lake
Race, Class, and Emerging Adolescent Sexuality: Teacher Perceptions and Sexual Harrassment in Schools, Regina Rahimi and Delores D. Liston
Teachers Perceptions of Adolescent Sexuality: Hip-Hop and BET vs. Mayberry and the Moral Majority, Regina Rahimi and Delores D. Liston
Modern Measurement Information Graphics for Understanding Student Performance Differences, Kent A. Rittschof and Wendy L. Chambers
Guest Editors' Note, Donyell L. Roseboro and Sabrina N. Ross
Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD), Sabrina N. Ross
Popular Culture in the United States or the Potential to Create Knowledge in Schools, John A. Weaver and Leslie Mashburn
Submissions from 2010
Living Beyond Walls, Robert L. Lake
Reconstructing Multicultural Education through Personal Story: Transcending the Essentialist/Relativist Dichotomy, Robert L. Lake
Reflections on Multicultural Education in the US: A Complicated Conversation, Delores D. Liston and Lorraine S. Gilpin
Derridan Thought, Marla Morris
Eleven Kind Words, William M. Reynolds
In Memoriam, William M. Reynolds
REJOINDER: Debate, Nostalgia and Ressentiment, William M. Reynolds
Field dependence–Independence as Visuospatial and Executive Functioning in Working Memory: Implications for Instructional Systems Design and Research, Kent Allan Rittschof
Critical Race Theory, Educational Equity, and Democracy in The U.S., Sabrina N. Ross
From Moral Outrage to Moral Activism: the Role of Critical Race Theory in Educational Transformation, Sabrina N. Ross
Submissions from 2009
Transformative Education in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: An Analysis of SoTL Literature, Lorraine S. Gilpin and Delores D. Liston
Preparing Gen "Y's" to Teach Gen "Y's", Stephen J. Jenkins, Terry D. Diamanduros, and Elizabeth Downs
A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization, Robert L. Lake
What Does She Expect When She Dresses Like That?: Teachers' Perceptions of Emerging Female Adolescent Sexuality, Regina Rahimi and Delores D. Liston
Educational Psychology Perspectives on Teachers’ Emotions, Paul A. Schutz, Lori P. Aultman, and Meca Williams-Johnson
The Posthuman Condition: A Complicated Conversation, John A. Weaver
