Dissertation Information for Katherine Marie BrownNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Creating community in middle schools: Interdisciplinary teaming and advisory programs
Abstract: "Reflecting the admonitions of John Dewey that ""the school must itself be a community life"" (Dewey, 1966, p.358), middle school reformers advocate advisor-advisee programs and interdisciplinary teaming to create a ""small community of learning"" (Carnegie Task Force, 1989). This study reviews the literature regarding the rationale, structure, advantages and disadvantages of these two essential middle school components. The current status, strengths as well as shortcomings, of advisory programs and the interdisciplinary organization of team teaching is investigated. In addition, the reader is presented with an outline of the theoretical/conceptual framework which served as the lens through which the data were analyzed--care and community. A multi-site qualitative case study design was employed to insure that an emic perspective would result. A total of 42 in-depth, semi-structured student, teacher, and principal interviews were conducted in six diverse middle schools. |
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Students under Katherine Marie Brown
ADVISEES:
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COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Alenka Sauperl - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1999)