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Resisting Readin’, Writin’ and ‘Rithmetic: Stories from Inside a Classroom Panopticon

Sales-Driscoll, Heidi (12-20-2012)

This study is an account of teacher resistance in an intermediate classroom. It is an examination of the ways in which resistance to dominant school Discourses was possible, and sometimes not possible. This study involves ...
Holographing the page

Luce-Kapler, R.; Walsh, Susan (1996)
Beginning Professors and the "Reform" Agenda: Reform or Response?

Cole, Ardra; Knowles, Gary (1996)
Reform and "Being True to Oneself": Pedagogy, Professional Practice, and the Promotional Process

Cole, Ardra; Knowles, Gary (1996)

Drawing on one educator's experiences as a beginning professor, the article discusses the prospects of teacher education reform and beginning teachers as change agents, commenting on values conflicts within schools of ...
Reforming Teacher Education through Self-Study

Cole, Ardra; Knowles, J. Gary (Caddo Gap Press, 1998)

Excerpt from Chapter: "In this chapter we provide an overview of the general nature and purposes ofself-study research and work, its current role and status in the academy, and its emerging role and status in the teacher ...
Reform and “being true to oneself”: Pedagogy, professional practice, and the promotional process

Knowles, J. Gary; Cole, Ardra (Cado Gap Press, 1998)
Setting and Defining the Context of Reform

Cole, Ardra; Knowles, J. Gary (Caddo Gap Press, 1998)
Developing a Procedure to Transfer Geometrical Constraints from the Plane into Space

Knoll, Eva (International Society for Geometry and Graphics, 1998)

Topology teaches us that the two dimensional plane and three dimensional space have a comparable structure. In fact, this apparent parallel is deeply rooted in our consciousness and is applied in many domains, including ...
Barn-Raising an Endo-Pentakis-Icosi-Dodecahedron

Knoll, Eva; Morgan, Simon (Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, 1999)

The workshop is planned as the raising of an endo-pentakis-icosi-dodecahedron with a 1 meter edge length. This collective experience will give the participants new insights about polyhedra in general, and deltahedra in ...
Writing with the dark

Walsh, Susan (Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal, 2000)
"Expectation" and Teaching: Mirrors, Bridges and the Space-Between

Walsh, Susan (English Quarterly, 2000)

I had begun teaching this course on the heels of my doctoral candidacy examination; one of the texts that I had read in preparation was Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach (1998). I have taught a number of undergraduate ...
Decomposing Deltahedra

Knoll, Eva (International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture, 2000)

Deltahedra are polyhedra with all equilateral triangular faces of the same size. We consider a class of we will call ‘regular’ deltahedra which possess the icosahedral rotational symmetry group and have either six or ...
From the circle to the icosahedron

Knoll, Eva (Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, 2000)

The following exercise is based on experiments conducted in circular Origami. This type of paper folding allows for a completely different geometry than the square type since it lends itself very easily to the creation ...
Polyhedra, Learning by Building: Design and Use of a Math-Ed. Tool.

Knoll, Eva (Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, 2000)

This is a preliminary report on design features of large, light-weight, modular equilateral triangles and classroom activities developed for using them. They facilitate the fast teaching of three dimensional geometry ...
Opening the underside of teaching: Tremblings

Walsh, Susan (2001)
Writer's Block, Procrastination, and the Creative Process: It's All a Matter of Perspective

Cole, Ardra (Backalong Books/Centre for Arts-informed Research, 2001)
Circular Origami: a Survey of Recent Results

Knoll, Eva (A.K Peters, 2001)
Race, Class, and Gender: A Snapshot of African Nova Scotian School Experiences

Bernard, Candace (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001-03)

This thesis explores multiple oppression based on race, class, and gender in relation to the school experiences of African Nova Scotians. An Africentric paradigm guides this exploratory, qualitative study. It attempts ...
Rethinking the Nature of Youth Smoking Behavior: Investigating the Biopsychosocial Factors

Clark, Jennifer L. (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001-08)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the biopsychosocial factors that influence youth smoking behavior. Sixty-four high school students completed surveys for one phase of the study. Thirty-six other students ...
The Relationship Between Selective Aspects of Metalinguistic Awareness and Degree of Second Language Acquisition in Emergent Readers

Clare, Lauren (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001-09)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether knowing a second language would be related to having greater phonological and word awareness skills than their monolingual peers. Three groups of kindergarten children, ...

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