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Re-Viewing Literacy : A Language Arts Teacher's Perspective

Creator:: Van Develder, Pamela A.
Abstract:: A controversy regarding literacy lies at the heart of debates over the current state of American education. In response to the debate, this study reviews and analyzes the literacy theories of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Walter Ong, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, Shirley Brice Heath, and Paulo Freire. The author presents...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Vai is a response to the Great Divide theorists (see Jack Goody and Ian Watt, Eric Havelock, and

A Rhetorical Analysis of William Wilberforce's First Official Proposal for the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Creator:: Zach, Anne M.
Abstract:: The abolition of the Atlantic slave trade was a long struggle in British Parliament between the slave trade defenders and the abolitionists. The Act of 1807 officially abolished the Atlantic slave trade, eighteen years after the initial abolition proposal to Parliament. William Wilberforce was a member of a committee that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: economic circumstances that have been overlooked.13 Eric Williams details the point of view and arguments

In Pursuit of Literacy

Creator:: Freemole, George Maynard
Abstract:: My teaching experiences raised questions about the nature of literacy, especially about its relationship with education and schooling. Common sense, straightforward definitions of literacy failed to address those questions adequately, and that inadequacy led to the study which culminates in this thesis. In Pursuit of Literacy focuses on literacy in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: " (Gutek 5). However, Suzanne de Castell and Allan Luke point out in "Defining 'Literacy' in North

Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

Creator:: Bryan, Frederick Clark
Abstract:: The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Teacher-Researchers in Composition Studies : Subverting Education's Political Hierarchy

Creator:: Hardin, Holly E.
Abstract:: This study focused on composition teachers in elementary and secondary schools who researched their own teaching practices. Specifically, it examined political implications of their work within the larger context of the education hierarchy. Central to this examination were teacher-researcher (t-r) perceptions of and interactions with other members of the education...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Giroux, Peter McLaren, and Allan Luke, whose theories embrace both emancipatory education and media

"We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

Creator:: Becker, Jade M.
Abstract:: Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics and ontology that consider the social constitution of the subject. However, these approaches to ethics, exemplified in Judith Butler’s work in Giving an Account of Oneself, often neglect the problem of antiblackness, which Afro-pessimist scholars argue operates at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your

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

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

Creator:: Jameson, Sara
Abstract:: Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , encouragement, and knowledge have supported my efforts. I would also like to thank Eric Hill and Wayne

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Creator:: Baker, Carlee A.
Abstract:: In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Re-Viewing Literacy : A Language Arts Teacher's Perspective

A Rhetorical Analysis of William Wilberforce's First Official Proposal for the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade

In Pursuit of Literacy

Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

Teacher-Researchers in Composition Studies : Subverting Education's Political Hierarchy

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

"We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

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

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

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