Olga Gould-Yakovleva, Ph.D.
@buffalo.edu
Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Olga Gould-Yakovleva and Xiufeng Liu
Nova Southeastern University
This grounded in social constructivism yearlong ethnographic case study was conducted at the final stage of a larger, longitudinal, multisite, and multi-year project. The current research focused on a group of urban public elementary schoolteachers who volunteered to participate in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded interdisciplinary science and engineering partnership (ISEP) project. These teachers were enrolled in the professional development (PD) college courses in physics and engineering design, summer research in university laboratories, and interdisciplinary science inquiry (ISI) pedagogy sessions. This research sought to understand the factors which contributed to successful teamwork at the elementary school under investigation. Additionally, this study investigated the changes in the ISEP-participating educators’ teaching approaches, methods, and techniques upon their completion of their studies with the ISEP Summer Institute. Data were collected from the structured interviews with the participating teachers and their students and observations of the school-based activities during in-class and extra-curricular instruction. The researchers used Saldaña’s (2013) thematic and value coding and Miles and Huberman (1984) memoing for data analysis. This research found that the teachers’ team embedded their newly acquired research experiences and pedagogic knowledge into their instruction. Joint endeavors of the project participants lead to higher interest and engagement in learning processes in this school’s student population as well as greater involvement of the schoolchildren, their families, and the surrounding community in the team-organized science-based educational events and activities.
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Gould-Yakovleva, O. (2024). Demystifying the notion of charisma: Micro-ethnography on a veteran-teacher’s classroom practices. The Qualitative Report, 29(4), 1192-1211.
Gould-Yakovleva, O., & Liu, X. (2024). Mutualism as Mutual Trust: An Ethnographic Case Study on an Elementary-School Teacher-Team Participation in a Science PD Program. The Qualitative Report, 29(4), 915-938.
Gould-Yakovleva, O., McVee, M., & Fronczak, D. (2020). “Ready-Ready” to Teach: The Telling Case of a Reflective Teacher-Practitioner. The Qualitative Report, 25(2), 306-319.
Gould-Yakovleva, O. (2023). Seeking Remedy for Improving International College Students’ Reading Comprehension: A Qualitative Case Study on Using Multimodality for English Language Learning. International Journal of Higher Education Pedagogies, 4(4), 33–54.
Gould-Yakovleva, O. (2023). Voices from University Classrooms on Effects of Multimodality on Polylingual EAL College Students’ Meaning Making. International Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2(2), 1–19.
Gould, O. (2022). “To act or not to act?”: A qualitative case study in an elementary classroom. American Educational Research Association 2022: Cultivating equitable education systems for the 21st century. AERA Online Paper Repository DOI: 10.3102/
CONSULTANCY
Gould-Yakovleva, O. (2024). "The study guide I looked for": A book review by a university professor. [Review of the book Writing in college: From competence to experience, by A. Guptill]. Open Educational Resources. DOI: 10.5281/
Gould-Yakovleva, O. (2022). The sought resources for my students: A book review by a university professor. [Review of the book The word on college reading and writing, by M. Babin, C. Burnell, S. Pesznecker, N. Rosevear, & J. Wood]. Open Educational Resources. DOI: 10.5281/
Industry, Institute, or Organisation Collaboration
Gould, O., & Sultonova, M. (2021). Media literacy during the coronavirus pandemic: Microethnography on mass media-related anxiety in American college students.