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I am studying how grantmakers at educational foundations process sociopolitical moments of 2020-21, especially the COVID-19 pandemic and uprisingings/racial reckonings following the murder of George Floyd, in terms of how (if at all) their practices are or are not changing because I want to know how, if at all, their processes of making sense of their roles within power structures/hierarchies during these moments influences what they do to, all to help my reader understand conditions that underlie shifts in not just articulations but practices of these influential actors/elites.

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I am trying to learn about the the experiences of former music education students of color who have left their collegiate programs of study because I want to find out the reasons why they decided to no longer pursue a degree in music education in order to help my readers understand
how potential future music teachers of color may be funneled out or systematically excluded from the music teaching profession.

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I am studying participants in an Indigenous STEAM summer program engage in learning activity with the Chicago River and water in general.

I’m doing this because I want to find out how learning about complex socioecological phenomena can cultivate deeper relations with that phenomena and vice versa.

This study informs the design of outdoor learning environments by illustrating how the socioecological and axiological dimensions of field-based science learning mutually support one another.

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1. I am trying to learn about caregivers of young children’s experiences in a sectoral workforce development program with wrap around support.
2. because I want to find out how caregivers make meaning out of their transition from low-wage work and social service receipt towards more stable circumstances, and this feeds into their relationship with their child.
3. In order to help my reader rethink how we can best help families balance the pressures of work and family that our current systems do not support.

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I am trying to learn about social relationships and shared practices in an after-school community learning center for late adolescents and young adults

because I want to find out if shared communities of practice within this space contribute to autonomous peer learning and civic engagement

In order to help my reader demystify the mechanisms that contribute to the development of sustainable community learning centers aimed at youth development.

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I am studying parents' attempt to influence school reopening policy in the midst of the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021 because I want to find out how race and class play a role in the caregiver communities' response to this issue, how parents make sense of and justify their actions in these scenarios, and finally, if and how the tactics utilized serve to uphold the race-class hierarchy in these communities. This study should help my reader understand the patterns of behavior so they can foresee and plan to counteract similar community reactions in parallel circumstances with a goal of creating more racially equitable outcomes.

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I am trying to learn about the dynamics of working on co-design teams to design science curriculum because I want to find out what tensions emerge when working on teams with different expertise in order to help my readers understand how to think about the tensions present in this work and move toward resolutions.

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I am trying to learn about how people incarcerated to life sentences as adolescents talk about their ideological and political identities because I want to understand how people under direct state subjugation view the carceral state, in order to help readers understand the impetus for extreme sentencing policy in the United States.

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I am trying to learn about data visualization literacy, because I want to find out how experts talk about new visualizations and what specific skills students acquire as they develop expertise in data visualization, in order to help my reader understand what set of skills are useful in understanding data visualizations and how they might seek to acquire those same skills or teach them to others.

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1. I am trying to learn about school management and organization in a context of socioeconomic disadvantage, increased resources, and high-stakes top-down accountability.

2. Because I want to find out what managerial actions and strategies end up being effective in such contexts.

3. In order to help my reader understand what is feasible, and what is not, when designing a policy that combines increasing school support and establishing punitive consequences for not achieving minimum standards defined by policymakers. (the underlying issue of interest is how to design an effective accountability policy).

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I am studying gender diversity in music education because I want to find out how gender impacts the way music education is taught in order to help my reader understand the relationship between categorical structures and educational practice.

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I am trying to learn about the undertheorized and overlooked aspect of firm behaviors in facilitating the social acceptance of symbolic values for an emergent product category.  Because I want to find out what firms actually did if they pragmatically assume that consumers have insufficient attention and trust to their claims in order to help my reader understand how exchange value in an emergent market is created.

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I am studying internet-mediated networked music performance to examine the musical relationships that emerge in order to develop new theory regarding the use of synchronous remote music performance in music education contexts.

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I am trying to learn about ensemble identity development in a university women’s choir because I want to find out what experiences female singers describe as integral to a strong women’s choir ensemble identity and how a female-identified singing space might influence participants’ feelings of inclusion. I hope to help my reader better understand the importance of developing strong women’s ensemble identities that may provide female singers a sense of acceptance and empowerment and develop strategies to foster musical spaces in which women can break vocal barriers set by societal gender-role expectations.