ScholarWolf
Welcome to ScholarWolf, the institutional repository for the University of Nevada, Reno. Managed by the University Libraries, ScholarWolf is an open access database and the home of scholarly works by University members, including the electronic theses and dissertations of our graduate students, journal articles, conference presentations, and more.
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Item TEST Blood Falls: A Novel(2021)When Richard Freeley decided to give a presentation on the controversial subject of Antarctic sea ice expansion at a conference, he never expected a rival to humiliate him onstage and backlash to follow from every corner of the media landscape. Though eccentric energy executive and billionaire Jed Baton offers Richard a chance at redemption through a lavishly funded private research expedition to the Antarctic, Richard would rather decline, but his wife, a struggling filmmaker named Julie Asgard, has other plans. The couple join Baton and an idiosyncratic team on the icebreaker ship Sarmiento. Soon they discover that someone is sabotaging their work, leading to perilous incidents on board the ship. As the voyage heads inexorably toward a mysterious Antarctic glacier called Blood Falls, nothing is what it seems, and Richard and Julie find themselves pitted against each other in a conspiracy which could upend the global economy.Item TEST Mirrors and Windows: Exploring the Intersection of Reflective Practice and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy(2025)This qualitative case study examined preservice teachers’ experiences in secondary education preparation programs, particularly emphasizing reflective practices in their Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) and teaching practices. A cultural proficiency self-assessment and reflection, semi-structured interviews, and self-created lesson plans or instructional strategies were explored with six pre-service teachers. Three themes were identified as the findings of this work: Teaching Preparation: Foundation with Gaps, Classroom Experiences: Where Practice Puts You to the Test, Reflective Practices: The Engine for Professional Growth. Recommendations include conducting longitudinal studies to examine preservice teachers’ sustained cultural proficiency, comparative case studies across multiple teacher preparation programs, the mentorship experience, and amplified document analyses to understand how CRP is applied in practice. Finally, seeking a mixed-methods approach to more fully capture the impact of reflective practice on teacher development is recommended in order to illuminate more unique areas in this work.
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