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Affiliation and Participation: What Fannish Practices Can Tell Us About Building Community in the Writing Center
Title
Affiliation and Participation: What Fannish Practices Can Tell Us About Building Community in the Writing Center
Author
Mayfield, Hannah
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Rhetoric
Description
This thesis examines the discursive activity of participatory fannish practices and the opportunities they afford the university writing center in responding to student writing. The project begins with an analysis of participatory fandom; specific...
Getting Schooled on Resistance: Dominant and Counter Narratives of Writing and the Circulation of Power in Urban School Reform
Title
Getting Schooled on Resistance: Dominant and Counter Narratives of Writing and the Circulation of Power in Urban School Reform
Author
Urbanski, Cynthia
Date Created
2012
Subjects--Topical
Education
Description
Michel Foucault argues that power is everywhere, all of the time. He describes it as concrete, "capillary," acting in, on and through the actual body. All "knowledge" and "truth" is an effect of that power which is why power and knowledge are inte...
On Improvisation, Learning, and Literacy
Title
On Improvisation, Learning, and Literacy
Author
Welsh, Ryan
Date Created
2014
Subjects--Topical
Education, Education--Philosophy
Description
Previously, improvisation has served as a term for describing a quality of the action taking place in classrooms between teachers and students. This project begins to theorize a way of understanding embodied literacies and scenes of learning throu...