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    Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Publication Year 2010 Subject Term Education Journal Title ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

    1. Afro-Caribbean women teachers recruited for U.S. urban schools: A narrative analysis of experience, change, and perception

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Beck,Makini (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    New York: University of Rochester
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    Explores the experiences of Caribbean women teachers who are recruited to teach in a mid sized Southern city. Narrative methods were used to analyze four Barbadian women teachers' perspectives on their: initial experiences and challenges; teaching philosophies and approaches to teaching American students; and successful transition into Louisville, Kentucky's public schools after five years of teaching. In an age where school districts across the nation seek educators from overseas to address the well-documented teacher shortage, this study has implications for helping future international teacher candidates transition into U.S. public schools.

    2. Improving parental involvement and reading achievement of Caribbean immigrant adolescents through differentiated instruction

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Robert,Joshua (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Florida: Nova Southeastern University
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    96 p., The purpose of this applied dissertation study was to determine the relative impact of parental involvement, parental school perception, student generation status, and Caribbean adolescents' own attitudes and behavior towards academic achievement and reading comprehension skills. For this study, 45 Caribbean parents from Grenadian, Guyanese, Haitian, Jamaican, and Trinidadian backgrounds reported in survey form on their involvement, volunteerism, school perception, student behavior and educational achievements of students at the school of study. Students' course grades were obtained from their official school records and were broken down by generational status.

    3. The Production of Racial Logic in Cuban Education: An Anti-Colonial Approach

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Kempf,Arlo (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Canada: University of Toronto
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    380 p., This work brings an anti-colonial reading to the production and maintenance of racial logic in Cuban schooling, through conversations with, and surveys of Cuban teachers, as well as through analyses of secondary and primary documents. The study undertaken seeks to contribute to the limited existent research on race relations in Cuba, with a research focus on the Cuban educational context. Teasing and staking out a middle ground between the blinding and often hollow pro-Cuba fanaticism and the deafening anti-Cuban rhetoric from the left and right respectively, this project seeks a more nuanced, complete and dialogical understanding of race and race relations in Cuba, with a specific focus on the educational context. This work investigates and explicates an apparent contradiction inherent in teachers' work and discourse on the island, revealing a flawed and complex form of Cuban anti-racism.

    4. Youth expression with video surveillance technology

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Jean-Charles,Alex (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
    Notes:
    289 p., This qualitative study examines five young Afro-Franco Caribbean males in the Diaspora and their experiences with systems of technology as a tool of oppression and liberation. The study utilized interpretive biography and participatory video research to examine the issues of identity, power/control, surveillance technology, love and freedom. The study made use of a number of data collection methods including interviews, round table discussions, and personal narratives.