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  • On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

    Creator:
    Stoller, Kevin R.
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    William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
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    history and shaped my scholarly growth. Jeff Sklansky and Paul Farber, my other committee members, have

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

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    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

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

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    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

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    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

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    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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  • “I couldn’t bring myself to say it” : challenging heteronormativity in teacher education programs

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    Ollivier, Amélie G.
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    School is a hostile environment for many LGBTQ youth. Teachers participate, consciously or unconsciously, in perpetuating oppressive heteronormative expectations in the classroom both through the overt and covert curriculum. Yet, pre-service teachers are under-trained about questions related to gender and sexuality during their teacher preparation. This qualitative study explores the...
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    Gorski, Paul C., Davis, Shannon, N., Reiter, Abigail. “An Examination of the (In)visibility of Sexual

  • Conjuring September 11, 2001 : Midwest Narratives in the Time of Death

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    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

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

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    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

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    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

  • Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

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    Wind, Thad A.
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    How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate the conflicting tensions between their client’s desire to experience the wild and the extractive nature based tourism of their role as fishing guides? How do they position their services relative to the environment and an imagined landscape that...
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    (Seamon 1984). In the first half of 2000, Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer sketched out their