Donna J Grace
Biographic Data
| ID | 6487578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna J Grace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna J |
| FAMILY NAME | Grace |
| SIGNATURE | GRACE D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kindergartners’ Development of Privileged Subjectivities within an Elite School
This case study investigates how kindergarten children thought and talked about their school in three socially stratified school settings: public, charter and private, and the extent to which they grasped sociocultural understandings related to social class. Data included field notes, interviews with the children and teachers, and parent surveys. A Bourdieuian lens illuminated emergent themes. Results indicate that children in the elite setting h…
Ready for Success in Kindergarten
In Hawaii, state agencies and foundations are poised to support readiness efforts to improve educational outcomes for children. Developing a shared understanding of the construct of readiness is key to these efforts. The purposes of this research were to (a) discover the perceptions and beliefs held by Hawaii parents, teachers and administrators affiliated with four- and five-year-olds about children ready for school and schools ready for childre…
We Don’t Want No Haole Buttholes in Our Stories”
This study investigates the place of popular cultural texts in the construction of the gendered and cultural subjectivities of seven eight-year-old girls growing up in Hawai‘i. Within the context of weekly literature circles held over a period of four months, Grace and Lum sought to understand how these young “local” girls engaged with a book series privileging white, middle-class, mainland values, and how they located themselves within dominant …
We Don’t Want No Haole Buttholes in Our Stories”
This study investigates the place of popular cultural texts in the construction of the gendered and cultural subjectivities of seven eight-year-old girls growing up in Hawai‘i. Within the context of weekly literature circles held over a period of four months, Grace and Lum sought to understand how these young “local” girls engaged with a book series privileging white, middle-class, mainland values, and how they located themselves within dominant …
Ready for Success in Kindergarten
In Hawaii, state agencies and foundations are poised to support readiness efforts to improve educational outcomes for children. Developing a shared understanding of the construct of readiness is key to these efforts. The purposes of this research were to (a) discover the perceptions and beliefs held by Hawaii parents, teachers and administrators affiliated with four- and five-year-olds about children ready for school and schools ready for childre…
We Don’t Want No Haole Buttholes in Our Stories”
This study investigates the place of popular cultural texts in the construction of the gendered and cultural subjectivities of seven eight-year-old girls growing up in Hawai‘i. Within the context of weekly literature circles held over a period of four months, Grace and Lum sought to understand how these young “local” girls engaged with a book series privileging white, middle-class, mainland values, and how they located themselves within dominant …
Ready for Success in Kindergarten
In Hawaii, state agencies and foundations are poised to support readiness efforts to improve educational outcomes for children. Developing a shared understanding of the construct of readiness is key to these efforts. The purposes of this research were to (a) discover the perceptions and beliefs held by Hawaii parents, teachers and administrators affiliated with four- and five-year-olds about children ready for school and schools ready for childre…
Kindergartners’ Development of Privileged Subjectivities within an Elite School
This case study investigates how kindergarten children thought and talked about their school in three socially stratified school settings: public, charter and private, and the extent to which they grasped sociocultural understandings related to social class. Data included field notes, interviews with the children and teachers, and parent surveys. A Bourdieuian lens illuminated emergent themes. Results indicate that children in the elite setting h…
Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works)