Lizzy Carroll and Mira Debs with 2017 Education Studies Scholars

2017 Capstones

The 2017 capstones were advised by Elizabeth Carroll. View a listing of student Education Studies capstone projects abstracts below. To access the full text of a capstone, please email Talya Zemach-Bersin, senior capstone coordinator. 

The capstone arguments and research are those of the individual student. They are not endorsed by Yale, nor are they official university positions or statements. 

Theory and Research

  • Jessica Liang (2017) American Sign Language: Why Is It a Fallback Language?

  • Kate O’Brien (2017) Yale Athletes in the New Haven Community: Learning from the Past in Building to the Future

  • Lucas Riccardi (2017) Attitudes Towards School Choice of Parents of LGBTQ Students

  • Natalie Rose Schwartz (2017) Scaffolding Critical, Anti-Bias Literacy in the Early Childhood Classroom

  • Israel Tovar (2017) Critical Race Education: Ethnic Studies as a Payment to the National Education Debt

  • Pablo Uribe (2017) Whose Common Ground?: student and adult perspectives on student voice and social justice education at Common Ground high school; relevant frameworks from Critical Pedagogy

Policy

  • Liza Rodler (2017) Sex Education in New Haven: The Case of the Michigan Model for Health

  • Cindy Xue (2017) Caring 24/7: Family child care as a solution to the paradox of nonstandard schedules and child care accessibility in the 
    post-welfare reform era

  • Kaylyn Williams (2017) Culturally Responsive Early Childhood EducationL An Analysis of the Implementation and Importance of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education Programs

Pedagogy/Practice

  • Nathaly Basto-Camargo (2017) Proposing an Intergenerational Interaction Space

  • Emma Hathaway (2017) ‘The Things We Fight For’: Insider Reflections on the Next Great High School Musical (music)

  • Liliana Santos (2017) Bodies in a Classroom Space (photography)

  • Fortney Stark (2017) ‘Caitlin’s Big Idea’: Creating A New Social-Emotional Learning Video Series for Preschoolers (film)

  • Abdul-Razak Zachariah (2017) ‘Their Own Set of Wings’: Themes of Representation in Multicultural Children’s Literature (creative writing)