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Transformative Storytelling: Informing Our Practice by Exploring Ourselves
No full textThis dissertation explores the need for and potential benefits of utilizing culturally relevant pedagogy and a culturally relevant curriculum in a homogenous – predominantly White – classroom environment. It further addresses how teachers might utilize a critical framework to interrogate and inform instructional practices. The study employs Apple’s Nine Tasks for the Critical Scholar (2012) as a critical lens for education practices and policies and the Transformative Autoethnography Model (2022) as a tool for both data collection and analysis. Autoethnography is used as the reporting vehicle with storytelling serving to illustrate how teacher experiences and beliefs impact instruction. The study particularly focuses on the importance of teacher self-assessment and reflection as strategies to minimize the risk of ignoring or marginalizing underrepresented voices in the curriculum. An additional goal of the study is to provide educators who hope to disrupt inequities and gaps in the traditional curriculum with an accessible model for both evaluating their practice as well as providing justification for utilizing a diverse curriculum within a homogenous student population
Addressing the Disparity: Examining the Barriers to Success for Economically Disadvantaged Students in Advanced Placement
Full text linkThere are perceived barriers that impede students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds who are identified as academically qualified for Advanced Placement coursework but do not enroll. Additionally, students from low socioeconomic backgrounds experience barriers to achievement while taking AP classes. These limitations impede students’ ability to perform optimally in a rigorous academic environment. The level of access students from low-SES backgrounds have once they enter AP courses is crucial. Equity can be an issue if there are barriers that need to be addressed for students and teachers. In terms of AP courses, existing gaps in the research need to be filled to understand the additional support students from low-income backgrounds would require while taking AP classes to succeed and reach their full potential. A qualitative interview approach is used to capture students’ lived experiences and the meaning they ascribe to those experiences. Findings in the study indicated that the AP Potential student perceived AP courses to carry an excessive workload. The AP Potential student also acknowledged they would have support from parents/caregivers and peers yet did not feel their school counselor offered sufficient information about taking AP courses. The AP Potential student affirmed the need to understand more about the benefits of taking AP classes. Additional findings indicate that current AP students from low-income backgrounds face many obstacles while participating in AP courses, including course workload, insufficient time to meet academic demands, issues accessing the content, and social and emotional challenges. Students perceive their support network of parents/caregivers, peers, and school counselors as positive yet need their school counselors to advise them about their course-taking. AP teachers recognize parental/caregiver involvement and peer influence as imperative to student success. AP teachers with limited experience teaching advanced content face challenges such as a lack of literacy instructional knowledge and a shared understanding of AP program processes, practices, and procedures. The study’s findings suggest the needs of AP Potential and current AP students from low-SES backgrounds must be recognized and addressed. AP teachers are not fully aware of the inequities that persist for their students. Educational practitioners must understand misconceptions that produce barriers to educating the whole student, even those potentially pursuing or currently pursuing advanced coursework. Additionally, the achievement and emotional well-being of AP Potential and current AP students from low-SES backgrounds must undergo further examination for future educational reform
Over Explaining Things Again: Poems
Full text linkThis thesis contains a collection of poems meditation on family, self, chronic illnesses, and the intersection of these themes. The collection seeks to question itself and make sense of personal history in its spiraling repetitions of subject that move from the abstract speaker into the concrete. The poems are accompanied by a critical essay
Mujeres hispanas y latinas: influencias culturales y religiosas en el uso de métodos anticonceptivos
Full text linkThis paper analyzes the importance of sexual and reproductive health for women’s overall wellbeing, focusing on how religious and cultural factors significantly influence contraceptive use in Hispanic and Latina communities. Religious affiliation, particularly within Catholicism and evangelical Christianity, promotes values that may discourage contraception, impacting STI prevention and family planning. Sociocultural constructs like machismo and familism reinforce these barriers, limiting women’s autonomy. Additionally, a lack of sexual education and distrust in healthcare systems contribute to unplanned pregnancies and increased STI risks. The analysis suggests that culturally sensitive educational programs could improve access to reliable information and empower women to make informed decisions, ensuring better sexual and reproductive health
La movida madrileña: Pedro Almodóvar y la representación de las mujeres
No full textThis paper is an exploration in the connection between La Movida Madrileña, Pedro Almodovar and the representation of women. This paper looks at what the Movida was, and what it meant for the people in Spain during the height of the movement. Following an introduction, the paper explores who Almodovar was and the role that he played during the movement, with several examples of his contributions and the way that his works demonstrates the ideas and thoughts of the movement. Finally, this paper mentions the connection between the movement and how women were represented during this time with examples of the representation of women in the works of Almodovar
Robert Wilson and the Baldwin Hotel
Full text linkDrake Mellie interviews historian Robert Wilson about the Baldwin Hotel.
Part one
YouTube: https://youtu.be/gERH6zAOd1E
Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/flannery-oconnor-institut/episodes/Collecting-the-Past-Podcast---Episode-26-Robert-Wilson-and-the-Baldwin-Hotel-Pt-1-e35nopf
Part two
YouTube: https://youtu.be/y-qphh64Lh4
Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/flannery-oconnor-institut/episodes/Collecting-the-Past-Podcast---Episode-27-Robert-Wilson-and-the-Baldwin-Hotel-Pt-2-e35nordhttps://kb.gcsu.edu/collectingthepast/1032/thumbnail.jp
First Checklist to the Diplopod Species of Georgia, USA with Notes on Distribution and a Key to Genus
No full textMillipedes are an incredibly diverse class of animals that impact soil structure and nutrient cycling. Despite their abundance, ecological importance, and wide distribution, they are understudied compared to other animal taxa, and biogeographical information is scant. Taxonomic resources for millipede identification in North America are slim, with few dichotomous keys to species. Furthermore, it is difficult to navigate to these specific keys from broader identification resources. Georgia, though the largest state by land area east of the Mississippi River, has largely been overlooked in any regional millipede checklists. The goals for this project are to compile a preliminary checklist of all millipede species in Georgia, provide maps indicating distributions, and to create a dichotomous key to make the study more accessible to amateurs, as well as to alleviate the need to rely on adult males to identify species
Sistemas de salud público y privado en El Salvador
No full textThis paper analyzes El Salvador’s healthcare system, divided into public and private sectors. The public system, managed by the government, provides accessible healthcare for most of the population, though it faces issues like long wait times. In contrast, the private sector offers faster, specialized services for those who can afford them. The study discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each system, highlighting the need to enhance public healthcare and address access disparities. Solutions include increasing healthcare facilities in underserved areas and fostering collaboration with national and international organizations to improve overall healthcare quality for Salvadorians
An Analysis of LIV Golf: Examining the Ethical and International Relations Issues Associated with Saudi Arabia’s Sportswashing Project
Full text linkLIV Golf (LIV) shocked the world with its emergence in 2022. This project explores the impact that LIV has had on the sport, as well as the broader societal implications of the new Saudi Arabian backed golf league. First, an analysis of how LIV is changing golf at the professional level is conducted, concluding that LIV is creating positive change due to the elevated compensation for athletes and increased attention on golf’s biggest tournaments. Following this discussion, the geopolitical impacts, as well as the ethical issues, tied to LIV are examined. Since LIV poses little to no threat to international relations, and the U.S. and Saudi Arabia already have many successful business relationships, it is determined that the condemnation LIV has received from the public is unjustified and often hypocritical. In sum, because of the benefits LIV has created for the golf community, as well as the lack of substance to the criticisms of LIV, this paper explains how LIV is a move forward for golf
Al Haslam and the History of Lake Sinclair
Full text linkEmily Brown interviews Al Haslam about the history of Lake Sinclair, his family-owned marina (one of the longest-operated in Georgia), and the impact of the lake on life in Milledgeville.
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