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Teachers' Perspectives on the Efficacy of Inclusion for the General Education Student
(2016-05-11)
Laws require special education students to be educated in the least restricted environment, which often means placing special education students with their general education peers in inclusion classroom settings. Inclusion ...
AT THE INTERSECTION OF CRITICAL THINKING AND ECONOMICS EDUCATION: EXPLORING WHETHER LEARNING ECONOMICS AIDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
(2018-08-28)
Teaching students to think critically is the fundamental aim and overriding ideal of education. It has become increasingly clear that today’s high-tech, knowledge-based economy demands excellent critical thinking skills. ...
Testing Theories and Measures for Promoting Dietary Change
(2019-06-04)
Many Americans do not consume enough healthy food and overconsume sugar and meat products. As a prominent food desert, this trend is particularly rife in Arlington/Ft. Worth, TX especially among low-income individuals. To ...
Balancing the Theoretical Toolkit: A Quantitative Examination of Social Mobility and Culture
(2019-05-17)
Stratification researchers of the last four decades have contributed a multitude of information on how class-origins, culture, and social psychological factors affect class reproduction. However, scholarship has spent ...
Intentionally Cultivating Diverse Community for Radically Open Access Makerspaces
(Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative (HEMI), 2018-08)
Academic makerspaces which are discipline-agnostic face the daunting task of trying to meet the needs of a humbling array of approaches to inquiry while maintaining a sustainable and safe environment for making. Establishing ...
Scaling the DIY Approach: Do-It-Together with Student Service Learning
(Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative (HEMI), 2017-09)
This paper endeavors to reflectively analyze the process of building a fleet of large, durable tables with student workers’ labor, primarily using the tools in our FabLab. Exploring causalities between experiences gained ...
What Motivates Secondary Social Studies Teachers to be Politically Active: A Phenomenological Study
(2017-05-12)
Members of countries with democratic governments rely on the political involvement of its citizens to elect individuals to positions of power as well as to approve legislative initiatives that are presented for voter ...