In this book, Raider-Roth offers an innovative approach to teacher professional development
that builds on the intellectual strength and practical wisdom of practitioners. Focusing on …

This article discusses an action research study of a week-long Summer Teachers Institute
which immersed teachers in the study of Jewish historical and cultural texts. We investigate …

Can the disruption of teachers' relationships with themselves, as both teachers and learners,
be a source for professional growth? In this chapter the authors explore teachers' …

During the act of teaching, teachers are faced with numerous decisions on how to best meet
the varied needs of their students based on their awareness of those students' needs. This …

First-year community college students are often from underrepresented groups who are
unaccustomed to voicing their needs or to being recognized for having more and varied …

Disability scholars and theorists have proposed models of disability that contribute to
mainstream understandings of what disability is and how it operates as a state of being and …

Disability scholars and theorists have proposed models of disability that contribute to
mainstream understandings of what disability is and how it operates as a state of being and …

This dissertation examines how college students' participation in a Spanish service-learning
course affected their perceptions of language culture and community. Findings demonstrate …