Nathaniel Ward
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 681118 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nathaniel Ward |
| NOMBRES | Nathaniel |
| APELLIDO | Ward |
| FIRMA | WARD N |
| AFILIACIONES | East Tennessee State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0355-9278 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Feeling Their Way Through It
Context: The study is situated in Tennessee, following the 2022 passage of the Age-Appropriate Materials Act (AAMA). This legislation required schools to maintain and publicly disclose a complete list of educational materials while implementing review processes to ensure content appropriateness relative to student age and maturity levels. The AAMA’s scope extended beyond school library collections to encompass all materials accessible to students…
English Language Arts curriculum design and use
This study examines how preservice teachers (PSTs) at a predominantly white, rural institution in the southeastern United States interpret and plan to implement an adopted elementary English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum. Grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogy and inquiry as a stance, the research analyzes PSTs’ survey responses to a curriculum analysis assignment. Findings indicate that while PSTs generally viewed the curriculum as a useful…
Peer tutoring as an empowering literacy practice for bilingual Students with Interrupted Formal Education
Heightened attention to the importance of equitable educational practices in today's schools reveals a growing number of emergent bilingual students who have not received consistent formal education and may be struggling with overall literacy. Labeled as Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE), these learners require novel educational approaches to address their specific academic and social needs. The purpose of this discussion article …
Dialogic meditations on (de)coloniality
Developing pre-service teachers’ adaptive expertise through STEM-CT integration in professional development and residency placements
This paper focuses on how one innovative teacher education model, that included a unique residency model and the integration of computational thinking and digital teaching and learning in elementary classrooms, supported the development of adaptive expertise in pre-service teacher education programs. The theoretical frame applied in this study is adaptive expertise through the lens of sociocultural theory, and it employs tenets of ethnographic re…
Her Chinese name means beautiful
Purpose Naming practices reflect culture, language and identity considerations. This study aims to explore Chinese American naming choices, revealing nuanced and complex linguistic, cultural and pragmatic considerations for teachers of literacy. Design/methodology/approach The authors interviewed Chinese parents who are now living with their school-aged children in the USA on the naming choices of their students. By using content analysis, this s…
Understanding Culturally Sustaining Practices Through the Lens of Chinese Immigrant Families in the United States
Discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic re-exposed racist tropes about Asian Americans, with verbal and physical attacks on people of AAPI heritage. There is much to learn about the people and cultures within the AAPI designation, yet only recently has research acknowledged this. Schools can be fertile spaces for improving knowledge and dispelling myths. First, a nuanced analysis of school experiences of AAPI families is needed. Using culturally s…
Refugee-background students and the institutional responsibility of schools
Necessitated by a heightened focus on global migration and its impact on educational realities across the globe, this study examined how educational experiences of students with refugee backgrounds are characterized in US educational news outlets. 385 articles from three online education news sites in the US were examined using a narrative-discursive approach. Analysis demonstrated how mutually dependent narrative patterns constructed students as…
Negotiating the limits of teacher agency
This study analyzes discussions from online language teacher education to understand how conversations between monolingual and bilingual preservice teachers (PSTs) in the US create and delimit structural constraints on teachers’ agency, (re)positioning teachers’ capacity to act in the instruction of emergent bilingual students (EBs). Employing positioning theory within a critical discursive psychology approach, findings demonstrate how bilingual …
How do you get the courage to stand up?’ Teachers’ constructions of activism in response to education policy reform
This study explores how six teachers worked up becoming and being activists in response to education reforms in the southeastern US. The reforms, which involved increasing student testing and implementing high-stakes teacher evaluations, were enacted following the authorization of the Every Student Succeeds Act, federal legislation governing elementary and secondary education. Discourse analysis of interview data demonstrates how engaging in acti…
This is my new normal’
In this study, we seek to illuminate teachers’ constructions of US teacher evaluation policies through close analysis of the way teachers in one district describe these policies. We conducted a thematic discursive analysis of 60 teachers’ speeches, recorded during local school board meetings in a Tennessee school district. Using discursive psychology as a lens, analysis focuses on the teachers’ constructions of teacher accountability policies and…
Agents in time
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the Indigenous people of Australia. The prevalence and burden of chronic disease among them is significantly higher than that of non-Indigenous Australians. This paper describes the chronic illness experiences of 19 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in urban areas in terms of their strategic representations of self. Participants in this study used techniques of revealing and conce…
It hinges on the door
This paper explores how the structuring of places and time influence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient and carer experiences of health services. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes, chronic heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as family carers (N = 19). Content analysis was undertaken. Participants report that each element of th…
With good intentions
Certain locations of responsibility are anxiety producing. Family carers must be supported in appropriate education so that they can provide both solicited and unsolicited support in effective ways. Such educational support would have the added benefit of helping to reduce carer anxieties about caring roles and responsibilities. Mainstream health services would benefit from fostering environments that encourage informal interactions that facilita…
The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam
This is my new normal’
In this study, we seek to illuminate teachers’ constructions of US teacher evaluation policies through close analysis of the way teachers in one district describe these policies. We conducted a thematic discursive analysis of 60 teachers’ speeches, recorded during local school board meetings in a Tennessee school district. Using discursive psychology as a lens, analysis focuses on the teachers’ constructions of teacher accountability policies and…
Refugee-background students and the institutional responsibility of schools
Necessitated by a heightened focus on global migration and its impact on educational realities across the globe, this study examined how educational experiences of students with refugee backgrounds are characterized in US educational news outlets. 385 articles from three online education news sites in the US were examined using a narrative-discursive approach. Analysis demonstrated how mutually dependent narrative patterns constructed students as…
Dialogic meditations on (de)coloniality
Understanding Culturally Sustaining Practices Through the Lens of Chinese Immigrant Families in the United States
Discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic re-exposed racist tropes about Asian Americans, with verbal and physical attacks on people of AAPI heritage. There is much to learn about the people and cultures within the AAPI designation, yet only recently has research acknowledged this. Schools can be fertile spaces for improving knowledge and dispelling myths. First, a nuanced analysis of school experiences of AAPI families is needed. Using culturally s…
How do you get the courage to stand up?’ Teachers’ constructions of activism in response to education policy reform
This study explores how six teachers worked up becoming and being activists in response to education reforms in the southeastern US. The reforms, which involved increasing student testing and implementing high-stakes teacher evaluations, were enacted following the authorization of the Every Student Succeeds Act, federal legislation governing elementary and secondary education. Discourse analysis of interview data demonstrates how engaging in acti…
Agents in time
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the Indigenous people of Australia. The prevalence and burden of chronic disease among them is significantly higher than that of non-Indigenous Australians. This paper describes the chronic illness experiences of 19 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in urban areas in terms of their strategic representations of self. Participants in this study used techniques of revealing and conce…
The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam
With good intentions
Certain locations of responsibility are anxiety producing. Family carers must be supported in appropriate education so that they can provide both solicited and unsolicited support in effective ways. Such educational support would have the added benefit of helping to reduce carer anxieties about caring roles and responsibilities. Mainstream health services would benefit from fostering environments that encourage informal interactions that facilita…
It hinges on the door
This paper explores how the structuring of places and time influence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient and carer experiences of health services. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes, chronic heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as family carers (N = 19). Content analysis was undertaken. Participants report that each element of th…
Agents in time
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the Indigenous people of Australia. The prevalence and burden of chronic disease among them is significantly higher than that of non-Indigenous Australians. This paper describes the chronic illness experiences of 19 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in urban areas in terms of their strategic representations of self. Participants in this study used techniques of revealing and conce…
This is my new normal’
In this study, we seek to illuminate teachers’ constructions of US teacher evaluation policies through close analysis of the way teachers in one district describe these policies. We conducted a thematic discursive analysis of 60 teachers’ speeches, recorded during local school board meetings in a Tennessee school district. Using discursive psychology as a lens, analysis focuses on the teachers’ constructions of teacher accountability policies and…
Negotiating the limits of teacher agency
This study analyzes discussions from online language teacher education to understand how conversations between monolingual and bilingual preservice teachers (PSTs) in the US create and delimit structural constraints on teachers’ agency, (re)positioning teachers’ capacity to act in the instruction of emergent bilingual students (EBs). Employing positioning theory within a critical discursive psychology approach, findings demonstrate how bilingual …
How do you get the courage to stand up?’ Teachers’ constructions of activism in response to education policy reform
This study explores how six teachers worked up becoming and being activists in response to education reforms in the southeastern US. The reforms, which involved increasing student testing and implementing high-stakes teacher evaluations, were enacted following the authorization of the Every Student Succeeds Act, federal legislation governing elementary and secondary education. Discourse analysis of interview data demonstrates how engaging in acti…
Developing pre-service teachers’ adaptive expertise through STEM-CT integration in professional development and residency placements
This paper focuses on how one innovative teacher education model, that included a unique residency model and the integration of computational thinking and digital teaching and learning in elementary classrooms, supported the development of adaptive expertise in pre-service teacher education programs. The theoretical frame applied in this study is adaptive expertise through the lens of sociocultural theory, and it employs tenets of ethnographic re…
Her Chinese name means beautiful
Purpose Naming practices reflect culture, language and identity considerations. This study aims to explore Chinese American naming choices, revealing nuanced and complex linguistic, cultural and pragmatic considerations for teachers of literacy. Design/methodology/approach The authors interviewed Chinese parents who are now living with their school-aged children in the USA on the naming choices of their students. By using content analysis, this s…
Understanding Culturally Sustaining Practices Through the Lens of Chinese Immigrant Families in the United States
Discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic re-exposed racist tropes about Asian Americans, with verbal and physical attacks on people of AAPI heritage. There is much to learn about the people and cultures within the AAPI designation, yet only recently has research acknowledged this. Schools can be fertile spaces for improving knowledge and dispelling myths. First, a nuanced analysis of school experiences of AAPI families is needed. Using culturally s…
Refugee-background students and the institutional responsibility of schools
Necessitated by a heightened focus on global migration and its impact on educational realities across the globe, this study examined how educational experiences of students with refugee backgrounds are characterized in US educational news outlets. 385 articles from three online education news sites in the US were examined using a narrative-discursive approach. Analysis demonstrated how mutually dependent narrative patterns constructed students as…
English Language Arts curriculum design and use
This study examines how preservice teachers (PSTs) at a predominantly white, rural institution in the southeastern United States interpret and plan to implement an adopted elementary English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum. Grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogy and inquiry as a stance, the research analyzes PSTs’ survey responses to a curriculum analysis assignment. Findings indicate that while PSTs generally viewed the curriculum as a useful…
Peer tutoring as an empowering literacy practice for bilingual Students with Interrupted Formal Education
Heightened attention to the importance of equitable educational practices in today's schools reveals a growing number of emergent bilingual students who have not received consistent formal education and may be struggling with overall literacy. Labeled as Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE), these learners require novel educational approaches to address their specific academic and social needs. The purpose of this discussion article …
Dialogic meditations on (de)coloniality
Feeling Their Way Through It
Context: The study is situated in Tennessee, following the 2022 passage of the Age-Appropriate Materials Act (AAMA). This legislation required schools to maintain and publicly disclose a complete list of educational materials while implementing review processes to ensure content appropriateness relative to student age and maturity levels. The AAMA’s scope extended beyond school library collections to encompass all materials accessible to students…
Sociology (11 obras) · Pedagogy (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Mathematics education (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 obras) · Negotiation (4 obras)