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Title: "Fifty-cent sybils" : occult workers and the symbolic marketplace in the urban U.S., 1850-1930
Creator: Stone-Gordon, Tammy
Date: 1998
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Fight the power" : an exploration of the Black Student Activist Scholar
Creator: Quinney, Dominick Nelson
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation explored the lived experiences of eight Black Student Activist Scholars on the campus of a Predominantly White Institution (PWI). Through the use of Critical Race Theory, and Sociopolitical Development, it was discovered that Black students understand their activist and civic engagement to be that of a 'duty of knowledge' wherein students expressed the importance of raising social awareness amongst their peers, colleagues, and the larger campus community. Furthermore, their...
Show moreThis dissertation explored the lived experiences of eight Black Student Activist Scholars on the campus of a Predominantly White Institution (PWI). Through the use of Critical Race Theory, and Sociopolitical Development, it was discovered that Black students understand their activist and civic engagement to be that of a 'duty of knowledge' wherein students expressed the importance of raising social awareness amongst their peers, colleagues, and the larger campus community. Furthermore, their lived experiences as scholar activists expanded their worldview of committing to social justice from a humanistic approach. Additionally, this dissertation is descriptive as well as prescriptive, as it highlights implications for Black Studies. -- Abstract.
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Title: "First you steal a chicken ..."
Creator: Heard, Linda Nagy
Date: 2002
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Flipping" educational technology professional development for K-12 educators
Creator: Spencer, Daniel
Date: 2012
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: As the demand for more effective professional development increases in K-12 schools, trainers must adjust their training methods to meet the needs of their teacher learners. Just as lecture-heavy, teacher-centered instruction only meet the learning needs of a small minority of students, "sit and get" professional development rarely results in the teachers gaining the skills and confidence necessary to use technology effectively in their instruction. To resolve the frustrations of teachers...
Show moreAs the demand for more effective professional development increases in K-12 schools, trainers must adjust their training methods to meet the needs of their teacher learners. Just as lecture-heavy, teacher-centered instruction only meet the learning needs of a small minority of students, "sit and get" professional development rarely results in the teachers gaining the skills and confidence necessary to use technology effectively in their instruction. To resolve the frustrations of teachers related to ineffective professional development, a "Flipped PD" training model was developed based on the learning needs of adult learners, the integration of technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK), learning activities, and the Flipped Classroom concept. Under this model, training shifts from a passive, trainer-centered format, to an active, learner-centered format where teachers learn to use technology in their classrooms by first focusing on pedagogical issues, then choosing the options that work best for addressing those issues in their unique situation, and completing "learn-by-doing" projects. Those who participate in "Flipped PD" style trainings tend to have more confidence upon completion that they can use the tools they were trained on in their teaching, as well as believe that the PD was engaging and a good use of their time.
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Title: "Flooding oil" : investigating poor health in vulnerable communities in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
Creator: Barry, Fatoumata Binta
Date: 2018
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been exploited for decades due to extensive oil and gas deposits that have led to devastating livelihood and health consequences. In addition to oil and gas industry impacts, floods are intensifying in Niger Delta communities that have annual flooding during the rainy season (April to October). In 2012, Nigeria experienced a severe flooding event that damaged infrastructure and livelihoods with virtually no studies completed about the health consequences....
Show moreThe Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been exploited for decades due to extensive oil and gas deposits that have led to devastating livelihood and health consequences. In addition to oil and gas industry impacts, floods are intensifying in Niger Delta communities that have annual flooding during the rainy season (April to October). In 2012, Nigeria experienced a severe flooding event that damaged infrastructure and livelihoods with virtually no studies completed about the health consequences. This dissertation research study aims to fill this scholarly gap by disentangling the emerging health concerns in Niger Delta oil communities with particular attention to women and children as they are sensitive indicators of population health. It utilizes a mixed-methods approach with the inclusion of Eco-Syndemics and African womanism theoretical perspectives. It was found that the Niger Delta has multiple pre-existing vulnerabilities that put the population at more risk during flooding events. Also, through an evaluation of airborne concentrations of chemicals released by gas flares and a retrospective, cross-sectional comparison, women and children in Uzere (oil community) have greater exposure levels to toxic chemicals released and more health concerns than similar women and children in Aviara (non-oil community), even though both communities are located in flood-prone areas in the Niger Delta. Overall, this dissertation research advances our understanding of the complexity of health hazards in communities close to oil and gas activities in the midst of more severe flooding. It also enriches scholarly and policy debates by providing an initial assessment of the link between climate variability and health in vulnerable communities. -- Abstract.
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Title: "For God's sake do something" : white-slavery narratives and moral panic in turn-of-the-century American cities
Creator: Lagler, Amy Rae
Date: 2000
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "For a girl, you can really throw down" : women DJs in Chicago house music
Creator: Rowley, Margaret Lynn
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Forest beatniks" and "urban Thoreaus" : Beat literature and nature
Creator: Phillips, Rodney L.
Date: 1996
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Four years of arduous service" : the history of the Branch-Lane brigade in the Civil War
Creator: McDaid, William Kelsey
Date: 1987
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Framboidal" chalcocite from White Pine, Michigan
Creator: Alyanak, Nancy
Date: 1973
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Freedom" of the press in Turkey : journalist imprisonments during the last decade, 2002-2012
Creator: Kanver, Duygu
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The noticeable increase in the number of imprisoned journalists in the past three years drew national and international attention to the problems of press freedom in Turkey. Arrests of distinguished reporters of Turkey's mainstream media, along with the ongoing limitations on the freedom of Kurdish and socialist press, caused the country to be referred as "the world's biggest prison for journalists" by the non-governmental press freedom organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and the...
Show moreThe noticeable increase in the number of imprisoned journalists in the past three years drew national and international attention to the problems of press freedom in Turkey. Arrests of distinguished reporters of Turkey's mainstream media, along with the ongoing limitations on the freedom of Kurdish and socialist press, caused the country to be referred as "the world's biggest prison for journalists" by the non-governmental press freedom organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Statements of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government authorities claiming that the imprisoned journalists are "not journalists but terrorists," and their reluctance to amend the laws that cause hundreds of journalists to be jailed led to questioning the influence of politics on journalist imprisonments.This study explores the problems of press freedom with a focus on imprisoned journalists. Based upon in-depth interviews with journalists who were behind bars in the last decade, this study aims to answer the questions of what has changed in terms of freedom of expression in the last decade under AKP rule, for what obvious and underlying reasons the journalists are imprisoned, whether censorship has been a part of the problems of press freedom in the last decade, and how limitations on the freedom of expression affect the public.
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Title: "Gaming" genre : serious games, genre theory, and rhetorical action
Creator: Sherlock, Lee
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Give me the worst of them, and I'll make them the best" : an ethnographic study of a successful alternative school for at-risk African American children
Creator: Khalifa, Muhammad A.
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Gliding through our memories" : the performance of nostalgia in American musical theater
Creator: Edney, Kathryn Ann Tremper
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Gothified Histories" : eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women's gothic novels and enlightenment historiography
Creator: Swender, Catherine Ann
Date: 2003
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Gowned Vultures" : anti-legal attitudes in Elizabethan-Jacobean literature
Creator: O'Connor, Thomas Francis, 1931-
Date: 1974
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "HOW IS THIS MAKING MY INSTRUCTION BETTER AT ALL?" : CENTERING TEACHERS' VOICES AND STRIVING FOR HUMANIZATION IN AN INVESTIGATION OF HIGH-STAKES EVALUATIONS
Creator: Guenther, Amy R.
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation investigates teachers’ perceptions of high-stakes evaluations and examines the methods used to conduct this research. While the evaluation of teacher performance has been a long-standing practice in the United States, recent education reform policies have placed a much greater emphasis on teacher evaluation (Cohen & Goldhaber, 2016). These neoliberal policies largely focus on assessing performance to hold teachers accountable (Papay, 2012) and have resulted in many states...
Show moreThis dissertation investigates teachers’ perceptions of high-stakes evaluations and examines the methods used to conduct this research. While the evaluation of teacher performance has been a long-standing practice in the United States, recent education reform policies have placed a much greater emphasis on teacher evaluation (Cohen & Goldhaber, 2016). These neoliberal policies largely focus on assessing performance to hold teachers accountable (Papay, 2012) and have resulted in many states adopting performance-based teacher evaluation systems with high-stakes attached to them (Goldstein, 2014; Lavigne, 2014). These reforms have significantly changed both how teachers are evaluated and the implications of their evaluations. The purpose of this dissertation is to better understand the professional and personal consequences of these high-stakes evaluation systems on teachers, as well as how this research might be conducted in humanizing ways. Thus, I examine the lived experiences of teachers from three elementary schools in different suburban districts in Michigan, as well as aspects of humanizing research (Paris, 2011: Paris & Winn, 2014) that I incorporated into my research methods. This three article dissertation highlights the perspectives of teachers and reveals potential reasons for the ineffectiveness of high-stakes evaluation to improve practice, as well as several harmful consequences that high-stakes evaluations can have on teachers. At the very least, this current evaluation system does not encourage teachers to work together to improve their practice. At its most consequential, it appears to be encouraging isolationism and creating adversarial relationships among some teachers. Thus, I argue, by implicitly and explicitly discouraging collaboration, the current evaluation system is decreasing teachers’ access to the social capital that could help them be more effective in their practice. Additionally, while doing little to enhance their practice, these high-stakes evaluations are negatively influencing teachers’ identities. This finding is particularly significant when one considers teachers’ identities have been linked to their commitment, well-being, sense of agency, and effectiveness (Day & Kington, 2008). Therefore, I argue, it is doubtful that the current evaluation system, which focuses on accountability, is producing the desired effect of improved teaching and may actually be counterproductive, negatively influencing both teachers’ practice and their identities. I contend that teachers’ voices should inform necessary changes to teacher evaluation to produce evaluation systems that actually improve their practice and enhance their identities as teachers. Furthermore, in describing and reflecting upon my efforts to make my research more humanizing for my participants, this dissertation offers methods and a rationale for utilizing aspects of humanizing research amidst neoliberal policies. Such methods can implicate and counter the deprofessionalizing and dehumanizing effects of neoliberal policies on teachers.
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Title: "Hatucheki Na Watu" : Kenyan hip-hop artists' theories of multilingualism, identity and decoloniality
Creator: Milu, Esther
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "This is a qualitative research study that constellates several theoretical and methodological approaches to understand why and how three Kenyan Hip-hop artists, Jua Cali, Nazizi Hirji and Abbas Kubbaff, engage in translingual communicative practices."--Abstract.

Title: "Have your cake and eat it too" : negotiating a friends with benefits relationship
Creator: Bisson, Melissa A.
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Homeland" of the mind
Creator: Obadare, Ebenezer
Date: 2001
Collection: Glendora Books Supplement
Description: Review of: Manthia Diawara. In search of Africa. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998

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