School superintendents--United States; School management and organization--United States; School principals--United States; Leadership--United States; Ethics--United States; Teaching
The need for moral leadership in schools compels us to seek new models for school leadership. This self-study captures the actual experience of a beginning principal using a reflective practitioner methodology in an effort to explore the...
Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects; Narration (Rhetoric)--Study and teaching
My dissertation examines instructor responses to a popular personal writing assignment, the literacy narrative. Previous studies have shown this assignment to be popular with instructors because of the reflection it is thought to generate; however,...
This quantitative dissertation examines outcomes of a required service-learning program at a faith-based institution. Two hundred and ten students completed a pre/post survey administered to a sophomore level class about background, educational...
Mathematics teachers--Training of; Student teaching; Mathematics teachers--In-service training
Teacher candidates enter teacher preparation programs with grounded beliefs
about teaching and learning. These beliefs are especially problematic in the area of
mathematics, as they hinder instructional decisions (Karp 1988, 1991; Kolstad &...
Various vision tasks are usually confronted by appearance variations due to changes of illumination. For instance, in a recognition system, it has been shown that the variability in human face appearance is owed to changes to lighting conditions...
School principals--Attitudes; Educational leadership; Teacher-principal relationships
This dissertation builds on the work of Argyris and Schön (1974), who explained
patterns of organizational learning using a concept called theories of practice, cognitive
formulas for professional problem solving. Theories of practice consist of...
Musical meter and rhythm; Music--Instruction and study
This qualitative study examines the effect of two different syllable counting systems on four sixth-grade band students. The goal of this study was to see the differences and similarities between rhythm learning and performance between these...
Self-knowledge in literature; Feminism in literature; Mind and body in literature
That Terrifying Center is a creative and philosophical experiment in the transmission of corporeal experiences and socio-cultural knowledge through poetry. I am bringing together the seemingly disparate threads of my studies into one...
Industrial management--Data processing; Supervision of employees--Data processing; Decision making--Data processing
This paper models a realistic problem involving workforce assignment and training for a large manufacturing environment. In this particular environment, the workforce is undertrained and most assignments will result in necessary training. This...
Zimmerman, Leo W., 1924–2008; Art, Abstract--Kentucky--Louisville; Kinetic art--Kentucky--Louisville; Mural painting and decoration, American--Kentucky--Louisville
Leo Zimmerman is a contradiction: A man who was both highly collaborative and deeply influential in the Louisville art scene but was a misanthrope who became increasingly reclusive over the years. He produced prolifically yet chose to never sell...
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Great Britain--History--16th century; Great Britain--History--17th century
Of all the arts drama is the most democratic. Other forms of artistic and aesthetic expression, literature, music, painting, may be cultivated in solitude. Not so the drama. It is demanded by the public; produced for the public and unless it is...
Creative writing (Higher education)--Study and teaching--United States; Composition (Language arts)--Study and teaching; English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)
The trend in writing curriculum has been to diversify and separate courses. This dissertation looks at one set of divided curricula--creative writing and composition--in order to examine the ways in which writing pedagogy has been affected by this...
"Another stylistic shift in Picasso's work that was influenced by Cubism has been called Surrealism. This term literally means 'above real' and denotes a truer reality than that of the visible world. In the Girl before a Mirror of 1932,...
"Another stylistic shift in Picasso's work that was influenced by Cubism has been called Surrealism. This term literally means 'above real' and denotes a truer reality than that of the visible world. In the Girl before a Mirror of 1932,...
This experiment was performed by the use of a Spectrometer using the customary methods of measurements usually adopted for this work. Method "A" The telescope having a Gaussian eyepiece attachment, the telescope's cross-hairs are...
Self-portrait of André Jeunet taken from a reflection in a large wardrobe mirror. He is wearing civilian clothes and sitting at a table with his hand on the camera. According to Jeunet's family, André was 21 years old and the photograph was taken...
Self-portraits; Closets; Military uniforms; World War, 1914-1918--France; Mirrors
Self-portrait of André Jeunet taken from a reflection in large mirror. He is sitting on a table, wearing his army uniform. According to Jeunet's family, André was 21 years old and the photograph was taken while he was on leave in Jougne, France.
Paintings; Oil paintings; Eyes; Body parts; Clouds; Puns (Visual works)
"Magritte's False Mirror of 1928 depicts a large eye (from which the familiar CBS logo is derived). The black circle at the center can refer both to the pupil and to the eclipsed sun. The observer is thrown off balance by the unusual close-up...
"In a border of inverted rows of stepped pyramids (omitted in the picture) one of the most popular episodes of Greek mythology, the rescue of Andromeda by Perseus, is represented. […] To the right, identified by an inscription in Greek,...
