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  • 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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    . Giroux, Peter McLaren, and Allan Luke, whose theories embrace both emancipatory education and media

  • Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

    Creator:
    Barbour, Nancy Staton
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    This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...
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    Paul Treanor, neoliberal ideology forces individuals to “act in conformity with market forces,” and

  • A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

    Creator:
    Vega-Peters, Susan T.
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    Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
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    action. Paul VI, Principles, Prophecy and a Pastoral Response: An Overview of Modern Catholic Social

  • Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

    Creator:
    Rust, Stephen
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    Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative, responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious...
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    squashing of dissent, and a symbol of corporate and individual greed. Henry Giroux is among those critical

  • The infinite margin : living in reading

    Creator:
    Kleiman, Alicia J. Alicia J.
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    This thesis, a collection of creative non-fiction essays, explores the nature and influence of reading and school in the author's life. After a brief introduction explaining the title, part one describes the sensory dimensions of reading. Part two discusses the author's work as a student and teacher and the contradictions...
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  • Conjuring September 11, 2001 : Midwest Narratives in the Time of Death

    Creator:
    Josten, Jonathon M.
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    Over the past fourteen years since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Americans of varied political persuasions have continually identified the day as a defining moment in the history of the nation, which caused a rupture in the cultural rhythm and psyche. This sensibility is...
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    Franzen pivots away from New York City in favor of experience in St. Paul, Minnesota and Washington, D.C

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    Streufert, Mary J.
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    Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
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    sense of ultimate reality, to use theologian Paul Tillich's phrase for the sacred. This is evidenced

  • Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

    Creator:
    Faris, Michael J.
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    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
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    Literacy, James Paul Gee wrote after reading our blog: I have looked at your Blog and am just really

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    , maintenance, and monitoring in the light of scientific knowledge. (Paul Durbin, Critical Perspectives on

  • The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

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    West, Rex Alan, 1967-
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    A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...
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