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

Creator:

Divelbiss, John D.

Abstract:

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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my writing. Great thanks also to committee members Dr. Evan Gottlieb and Dr. Ray Malewitz, whose