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Roles of Music Making in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.
(2016)
People make music for a variety of different reasons. The motivations to make music - and the roles of music making - are as unique and idiosyncratic as are the musicians. There are a number of studies that explore the ...
Contextualizing instruction: Leveraging students' prior knowledge and experiences to foster understanding of middle school science
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-01)
Contextualizing science instruction involves utilizing students' prior knowledge and everyday experiences as a catalyst for understanding challenging science concepts. This study of two middle school science classrooms ...
Ideologies about Gender and Literacy in the Academic Lives of Young Men: A Qualitative Study in Three High School English Classrooms
(2017)
Since the turn of the 21st century, the media and educational scholars have both responded to, and fostered, panic about the alleged literacy deficits of young men (e.g. Smith & Wilhelm, 2002; Martino & Kehler, 2007; ...
Spatializing the Knowledge Economy: The Campus as a Discursive Project, Parallel Project, and More-than-Institutional Project
(2023)
In contrast to the normative scholarly and professional expectation that the university’s spatialization be tightly coupled with its institutional purposes and prerogatives, this dissertation posits that the institution ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...
"It's All Part of an Education": Case Studies of Writing Knowledge Transfer Across Academic and Social Media Domains Among Four Feminist College Students
(2018)
This dissertation consists of four micro-case studies of intersectional feminist college students’ experiences with writing across digital extracurricular and academic domains. These micro-case studies were selected from ...
More than Two Places to Stand: Tracing the Evolution and Effects of Standpoint Epistemology in Contemporary Social Justice Responses to Racially Salient Cultural Artifacts
(2022)
This dissertation tracks contemporary appeals to and uses of standpoint theory in an archive of popular late-20th-and-21st-century literary works, memoirs, museum exhibits, and public artworks that have been taken up as ...