Dissertations from 2024
What Exactly Does Identity Have to do with Teaching? Exploring the Connection Between a Teacher's Racialized Identity and their Teacher Identity, Lizette Aguilar
A Praxis of Radical Collectivity: Centering Justice and the Poetics of Racialized Progressive Leadership, Alisa Algava
Teaching in the “Home Language” Is not Enough: Navigating Spanish Raciolinguistic Ideologies in a Dual Language Bilingual Program, Gladys Yacely Aponte
Reviewing Inclusive Sex Education Curriculum: A Policy Analysis of California’s Healthy Youth Act (2015), Patrick P. Buzzell
Choreographing a Journey of Self-Discovery: An Exploration of Dance, Embodied Knowledge, and Identity, Francie Johnson-Sealey
Toward Otherworlding the Teaching-Learning of Psychology With Community College Students, Francisco Medina
Teacher Perceptions of Restorative Justice Practices in New York City Schools, Brian Pew
“Community Thinking Spaces”: Exploring the Openings and Possibilities of a School-Based Intergenerational Community of Practice, Lucy A. Robins
Critical-Race Elementary Schooling: Critical-Race Teacher Change Agents Are Challenging Whiteness in Elementary Schools, David R. Rosas
Radical Co-teaching: How Building Relationships Creates Radical Co-teaching Partnerships, Meagan L. Serrano
Play in the Undercommons: The Transformative Power of Fugitive Practice in a Multiracial, International Teacher Inquiry Collective, Kushya Sugarman
The Role of Language Ideologies in Curriculum Design: Possibilities in Computational and Digital Literacies Integration in Teacher Education, Jessica Velez Tello
Dissertations from 2023
Searching for Mami & Abuelita: Reimagining Ethnic Studies Praxis Through Women of Color Feminisms, Art, and Archiving, Wendy S. Barrales
Diggin’ in the Racial Literacy and Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Crates, Jordan Bell
Educating the Diaspora: In Search of Liberatory Educational Experiences, Daicy Diaz-Granados
Coloniality, Western Science, and Critical Ethnic Studies in STEM Education, LaToya M. Strong
This Little Light of Mine: The History of The Amalgamated Nursery School, Kimberly F. Vanderbilt
Somebody Gave Somebody Some Kind of Heat About Something: Teaching Controversial Topics in the Politically Polarized Suburbs, Melanie Waller
Dissertations from 2022
Free Improvisation Pedagogy: An Arts Based Research Approach to Promoting Student Agency And Embracing Difference, Nicholas Catino
Learning Beyond Measure: Critical Numeracy and Resistance to Racial Capitalism, Atasi Das
Time-to-Degree: Bachelor’s Degree Completion for Latine First-Year and Transfer Students, Robert E. Kunicki
Cùng với nhau chung tay: A Collaborative Project with Vietnamese American Youth, Khanh Le
A Queens Community Teacher Storytelling Project: A Qualitative Research Study of Five Local Afro-Caribbean and Latina Public School Teachers and Community Teachers in New York City, José Alfredo Menjivar Ortéz
The Persistence of Exclusion in Developmental Math Courses in Community Colleges: The Search for Equity and Justice in Math Education, Dora P. Trujillo
Maternal Wellness: Self, Matrescence, Obstetric Violence, and Self-Care, Vanessa V. Vales-Lewis
Dissertations from 2021
Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu
Teacher Wellbeing in a Juvenile Detention Facility, Elizabeth G. Baker
Por Ellas: A Latina’s Autoethnography on Emotions, Achievement and Agentic Learning, Ivonne Barreras
Bridging the Educational Technology Gap: Issues of Equity and Access in New York City Teacher Preparation, Christina Basias
Spilling the TEA in Bilingual Latinx New York City Department of Education School Social Workers: Towards Entre Nos, Cindy M. Bautista-Thomas
Deserving to Belong: Complex Narratives of Working and Learning in Self-Contained Spaces, Emily B. Clark
Coalition and Creativity on the Bridges and Fringes with Immigrant Student-Contributors in Nonprofit Adult Education, Katherine E. Entigar
The Lopez Effect Remixed: The Significance of Mattering Through a Hip-Hop Lens in Education and Beyond, Kashema Hutchinson
Embracing the Emergent Nature of Research in Early Childhood Education and in Life, Anna Malyukova
Counterstories of Black High School Students and Graduates of NYC Independent Schools: A Narrative Case Study, Kahdeidra M. Martin
A Student Conduct Administrator’s Journey to Wellness, Corie Amanda Marie McCallum
Mentorship and Support Matters: A Praxis of Resilience for Black and Latinx Males in an Academic Context, Lisa R. Millsaps-Graham
Teaching for Transformation: Developing Agency and Solidarity Consciousness in a Critical-Transdisciplinary, Garden-Based Urban Environmental Studies Program, PIeranna Pieroni
From the Voices of Five African American Teenage Girls: Demystifying the Role of Stress in School, Selena M. Williams-Yii
Dissertations from 2020
The Medium of Liberation: Kurdish Language and Education Activism in Turkey, Demet Arpacik
Jumping into the Cloud: Privacy, Security and Trust of Cloud-Based Computing Within K-12 American Public Education, Erik Carl Bennett
Being and Becoming: Voice and the Performance of Self by Black and Brown Women Members of An Educational Space Organized in Whiteness, AnaMaria Correa
Positioning and Repositioning: Transnational Identity (Re) Construction and (Re) Negotiation by American-Senegalese Children, Aminata Diop
A Teacher Educator's Narrative Journey into Mindfulness, Al-Karim H. Gangji
Modeling Where it Matters: Redesigning Mathematics Education with Adolescent Girls of Color, Kara L. Imm
Campus Design and the Community College Experience: An Exploration of Stress, Belonging and Scholarly Identity, Vanita Naidoo
Overcoming Adversity in The STEM Classroom: Examining Learned Helplessness in First-Year Community College Students Using Salivary Cortisol, Surveys and Interviews, Diane M. Price Banks
Stealin' the Meetin': Black Education History & the Black Panthers' Oakland Community School, Robert P. Robinson
Maryland’s Historically Black Institutions: In Pursuit of Equity in Higher Education, Maureen Samedy-Cooke
A Quantitative Examination of Black and Hispanic Students’ Time-to-Graduation, Ferdinand A. Verley II
Dissertations from 2019
Using Oximeters Heuristically: A Case for Emotionally Adaptive Pedagogy, Corinna Brathwaite
A Space to Learn, Amy R. Goods
Guilty by Association: A Critical Analysis of How Imprisonment Affects the Children of Those Behind Bars, Whitney Q. Hollins
Teaching for Whose America?: Corporate Education Reform and Students Labeled as Disabled, Barbara A. Hubert
Towards a Pedagogy of Life Purposes, Manny Lopez
Impacts of the Erosion of State Funding for Public Higher Education: Longitudinal Case Studies of Four State Systems – California, Georgia, New York and Wisconsin, Meghan M. Moore-wilk
Transforming Through Power: Teachers and the Negotiation of Authority in Schools, Madhu Narayanan
A Deep-er Practice for Educators: Reflecting, Unpacking and Confronting Racism through Critical Performative Pedagogy, Natalia Ortiz
Know(ing) Thyself: Examining Complementary Practices of Health and Wellness Through a Teacher's Standpoint, Ernest Andre Poole
Perspectives of Student Dis/engagement in Youth Attending an Alternative School as Viewed Through a Lens of Respect and Relationships, Daniel Vallee
The Challenge of Teaching in Urban Schools: A Dialogue with New York City Mathematics Teachers, Martin S. Wilson
Dissertations from 2018
Doing Their Best: How Teachers in Urban Social Studies Classrooms Integrate Culturally Relevant Pedagogy with Historical Literacy Instruction, Maria Akinyele
Exacerbating Inequality: Public Schooling in the Era of Neoliberal Standardization, Johanna Panetti Barnhart
Finding Light in the Caves: Achieving Professional and Personal Bliss on a Journey in Cheeseworld, Mitchell Bleier
“Yo Soy Su Mama”: Latinx Mothers Raising Emergent Bilinguals Labeled as Dis/abled, Maria Cioe Peña
Teaching | Learning is Emotional: Interpretive and Impressionistic Approaches to Exploring Emotions in Science and Science Teacher Education, Katelin Corbett
Critical Paradigm Theory: A Deconstruction of the Dominant Discourse Shaping Public Education in America, Kevin Froner
The Tuskegee Revolt: Student Activism, Black Power, and the Legacy of Booker T. Washington, Brian P. Jones
Exploring Shifting Moments of Remediation: An Analysis of Policies of Developmental Education Policies in the City University of New York, Charles Jordan
P.S. 25, South Bronx: Bilingual Education and Community Control, Laura J. Kaplan
Development and Transfer of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) of Special Education Teachers, Aleksandra A. Kaplon-Schilis
A Democratic Conundrum: A Study of Online Student Performance at Community Colleges, Lavita McMath Turner
Musicking and Literacy Connections in the Third Space: Leveraging the Strengths of a Latinx Immigrant Community, Angelica Ortega
Using Authentic Inquiry to Unpack Emotions and Thorny Issues Within Teaching and Learning, Leah Denise Pride
When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning, Cristina A. Trowbridge
Using Cogenerative Dialogue To Catalyse Change, Carol A. Woodburn-McDonald
Teachers Have Emotions Too: An Intra | Interpersonal Approach to Exploring Emotions in Teacher Preparation Courses, Shequana Wright
Dissertations from 2017
The Racial Politics of Elementary School Choice for Black Parents Living in Brooklyn, NY, Shannon N. Allen
Using Video in a Collaborative Teacher Team Within a Special Education School: A Case Study, Belinda Akua-Kisiwaa Amoako
Musicalization: Early Childhood Music Access, Discourse, and Praxis in NYC Charter Schools, 2014-2015, Andrew Aprile
The Socioemotional Impact of Disparate Student Discipline: An Examination of Racial Bias and Out-of-School Suspensions, Amelia Barbadoro
Narrating School, Narrative Self: Identity, Agency and the Hidden Curriculum of (Hetero)Normativity, Mikela Bjork
Language Ideologies and the Schooling of Caribbean Creole English-speaking Youth in New York City, Dale M. Britton
Examining School Leadership in New York City Community Schools, Stacey Campo
Haitian Linguistic and Cultural Practices: Critical Meaning-Making Spaces for Haitian Learners, Marie L. Cerat
Enhancing and Evaluating Scientific Argumentation in the Inquiry-Oriented College Chemistry Classroom, Annabel D'Souza
Escribiendo para desahogarme: Release and Resistance in a Middle School Bilingual Writing Workshop, Carla Espana
Seeing and Being Seen: A Multimodal Inquiry of Multilingual High School Newcomers and Their Contributions to Educational Communities, Ivana Espinet
Translanguaging Practices for Educational Equity: Moments in a Bilingual Middle School Classroom, Luz Y. Herrera
Networked: New York City’s Charter Schools and the New Profiteers, Christina Johnson
The Impact of Teacher Perception of Professional Learning Communities on Student Algebraic Achievement, Tyrone John