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The Bauhaus 1919-1928 At The Museum Of Modern Art, N.Y., 1938; The Bauhaus As An Educational Model In The United States, Adrijana Sajic Jan 2013

The Bauhaus 1919-1928 At The Museum Of Modern Art, N.Y., 1938; The Bauhaus As An Educational Model In The United States, Adrijana Sajic

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Social Context & Its Influence On Performance In School, Reuben Quansah Jan 2012

Social Context & Its Influence On Performance In School, Reuben Quansah

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"The following study looks at the academic performance of black students and how variations in their social context can trigger high or low achievement. In order to analyze the differing outcomes in student performance, I look at their social context on the basis of 3 contextual categories: (1) home characteristics (e.g., parent background, number of guardians, and/or locale) (2) schools characteristics (e.g., enforced school policies, school location, and/or class size) (3) student behavioral characteristics (e.g., student report cards, at10tiveness, and/or at10dance). Also, this study considers the po10tial of using factors among high performing students to impact low impact low performing …


Classical Education Programs For The "Generation Y" Museum Visitor, Hannah Boles Jan 2012

Classical Education Programs For The "Generation Y" Museum Visitor, Hannah Boles

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The Social Construction Of Authorship: An Investigation Of Subjectivity And Rhetorical Authority In The College Writing Classroom, Johannah Rodgers Feb 2007

The Social Construction Of Authorship: An Investigation Of Subjectivity And Rhetorical Authority In The College Writing Classroom, Johannah Rodgers

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Although we use the term author on a daily basis to refer to certain individuals, bodies of work, and systems of ideas, as Michel Foucault and other critics have pointed out, attempting to answer the question “What is an Author?” is by no means a simple proposition. And, starting from the position that there is no single, or definitive answer to this complex question, this dissertation seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion of the genealogy of authorship by investigating the ways in which conceptions of the author have informed models of the writing subject in the field of rhetoric …