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  • Piers Plowman, Healthcare Praxis, and the Corporal Mercies

    Creator:
    MacDougall, Eric W.
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    I argue that Matthew’s seven acts of corporal mercies provide a means of reading Piers Plowman within a framework familiar to medieval audiences, but also exposes the different models of health that are at work within the poem and the soteriological significance of these healths. In chapter one, I focus...
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    Masters Thesis
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    XVII of Piers Plowman’s B-text, a rendition which illustrates Christian premodern healthcare in the

  • Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

    Creator:
    Divelbiss, John D.
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    This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    4 “standard” of context and content: If standard “A” is appropriate for state “B,” how can the