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Inequality, oppression, and pessimism
(uga, 2009-05)
After the successful conclusion to the American Revolution, the architects of the new nation faced a host of pressing issues to solve and disparate ideologies to reconcile. While working to safeguard their political present, ...
The green glass ceiling
(uga, 2009-05)
The Green Glass Ceiling: Gender Inequality and Wahhabi Political Influence explores the relationship between gender development and Wahhabi Islamic political thought, with special attention paid to those countries most ...
What’s emotion got to do with it?
(uga, 2016-05)
This study examined how emotions were embedded within the planning, teaching, and discussion of literary texts within four secondary English teacher's classrooms in Northeast Georgia. To develop that understanding, this ...
Separate but equal?
(uga, 2010-05)
I estimated a linear fixed effects model using panel data collected from the Georgia Department of Education to analyze the impact changes in student body demographics have on African American student performance. The ...
The influence of education on spirituality
(uga, 2010-05)
Currently, little is known about the influence of formal education on the spiritual and religious beliefs of students. Despite a fundamental lack of understanding on beliefs, decisions about educational policy, parental ...
“Not to transform a culture, but to perpetuate it”
(uga, 2012-12)
In the summer of 1965, eleven years following the U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schooling unconstitutional, Chattooga County School Board voted to desegregate its public schools through a freedom of ...
"What is best for their little part of the world"integrating ethnobiology with K-12 science education
(uga, 2008-12)
The effect of written free list survey type and age on ethnobiological survey response was tested in St. George, SC (US). The research was designed to empower K-12 science teachers with methods to incorporate local ...
Place-based tourism
(uga, 2008-12)
Numerous world-famous tourist destinations are quickly losing their distinct identity due largely to the negative effects of mass tourism on local culture, environment and sense of place. As communities look to tourism as ...
Variable selection in longitudinal data with application to education
(uga, 2011-08)
Variable selection with a large number of predictors is a very challenging and important
problem in multiple linear regression. However, relatively little attention has been paid to
issues of variable selection in longitudinal ...
Mentor-mentee transactions
(uga, 2002-08)
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the mentoring needs of two beginning English teachers during their induction years as manifested in mentor-mentee transactions and to explore the complex sets of ...