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Sunday, April 09, 2006

 

Rural Education SIG Dissertation Awards

As promised in the last entry, the 2006 Dissertation Award winners for AERA's Rural Education SIG are as follows:
  1. Caitlin Howley
  2. Jerry Johnson
  3. Stephanie Starcher

Thanks for Dr. Paul Theobald and the awards committee for their work in this selection process.

In the coming weeks, I will endeavor to obtain copies of these dissertations to post to the website. This has actually been a project that has been in the works for a number of weeks now, with all of the previous winners having also been contacted.

For your own reference, past winners of the dissertation award include:

2005

  1. Dr. Kim Jones: The Influences of Context on Superintendents Allocation of Time (Ohio University)
  2. Dr. Terri Hopkins: Gender Issues in Mathematics Achievement in Tennessee: Does Rural School Locale Matter? (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
  3. Dr. Eric Brown: The Effect of Number of School-To-School Transitions on District Performance (Ohio Univerrsity)

2004

  1. Dr. Brenda Haas: A comparative case study of administrator stability in two rural Appalachian school districts (Ohio University)

2003

  1. Dr. Alice Samson-Cordele received the Rural Education Dissertation of the Year award for her study Exploring the Relationship Between a Small Rural School in Northeast Georgia and Its Community: An Image-Based Study Using Participant-Produced Photographs. Dr. Samson-Cordele received her doctoral degree from the University of Georgia in Athens. One of the reviewers stated that Samson-Cordeles dissertation was & quintessentially rural in character, and the dissertation wrestles with profoundly rural interpretations of central issues in education and sociology. Dr. Samson-Cordele is on the faculty at North Georgia State College and University in Dahlonega, GA
  2. Dr. Phillip E. Morgan, for his research, entitled A Comparative Study of Rural School District Cooperatives: A Qualitative Study. He received a doctoral degree from the Washington State University College of Education in May 2001. Dr. Morgan is currently on the faculty in the Department of Teaching and Learning at WSU. A reviewer commented that&The rural context for the work is well developed both in educational historical terms and in terms of cooperative theory.
  3. Dr. Laura Payne-Bourcy received the third place award for his research for her study, Multiple Literacies on Main Street and in the Academy: A Longitudinal Study of Two Working-Class, Rural Adolescents. Dr. Payne-Bourcy received her doctoral degree from Syracuse University. Reviewers found that the dissertation addressed interesting questions about intellectual, with considerable voice and reflection. Dr. Payne-Bourcey is in research and development working in a cooperative with 18 rural schools in Watertown, New York

Once we create this section of the website, I will post a message informing everyone where to locate this new resource.

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