dc.contributor.advisor | Peter, Lizette | |
dc.contributor.author | Summers, Lonna S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-18T15:48:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-18T15:48:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-08-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2673 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20994 | |
dc.description.abstract | This research presents an ethnographic understanding of the personal and professional lives of four emerging bilingual assistants (EBAs) who designed and implemented an additive bilingual program in preschool classrooms. Through a qualitative design that included participant observations, interviews, visual and narrative constructions, and video recording, I explore the EBAs' professional roles (including duties, challenges, collaboration with teachers, support, relationships and educational goals). I then examine their personal and family challenges, language ideologies, and changing practices and beliefs outside the school domain. These themes are analyzed through a conceptual framework that merges Freire's concept of empowerment with Bandura's notion of self-efficacy. My findings suggest that school and home domains intersect, transforming what the EBAs, their families, and friends believe about language, education, and themselves. I conclude that the effects of the EB program extend beyond the classroom and reach the lives of the EBAs, their family, friends, and community. | |
dc.format.extent | 172 pages | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Education, Bilingual and Multicultural | |
dc.subject | Education, Teacher Training | |
dc.subject | Bilingual education | |
dc.subject | paraeducators, self-efficacy | |
dc.subject | empowerment | |
dc.subject | additive bilingual program | |
dc.title | Empowerment and Self-Efficacy in the Lives of Four Emerging Bilingual Assistants in an Additive Bilingual Program | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Jorgensen, Karen A. | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Ng, Jennifer | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Curriculum and Teaching | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | MA | |
kusw.bibid | 6857314 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |