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Critical Pedagogy And Accountability: An Autoethnographic Analysis Of Race And Embodiment In Tennessee's Teacher Evaluations, Rebecca C. Napreyeva
Critical Pedagogy And Accountability: An Autoethnographic Analysis Of Race And Embodiment In Tennessee's Teacher Evaluations, Rebecca C. Napreyeva
Masters Theses
The current social climate within the United States has pushed antiracist pedagogies to the forefront of educational discourse in primary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions. Given the fact that the vast majority of public school teachers in primary and secondary schools are white females, the particular ways they approach the instruction of their minority students is of significant importance, as their cultural perspectives are disproportionately represented in classrooms across the country.
This study uses an autoethnographic approach combined with scholarship in critical pedagogy and critical race theory to examine 1) the particular ways that cultural conflict manifests between white female teachers …
The Political Turn In First-Year Composition: Student And Instructor Perspectives On Politics, Demagoguery, And Democratic Deliberation, Jacob T. Buller-Young
The Political Turn In First-Year Composition: Student And Instructor Perspectives On Politics, Demagoguery, And Democratic Deliberation, Jacob T. Buller-Young
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study is to examine the presence and perceptions of politics in first-year composition (FYC) courses. Though the “political turn” of composition studies has been the subject of much scholarship since the 2016 election, very little empirical research has been conducted in this area. As a result, this study seeks to fill that gap with empirical, mixed-methods research that examines the political perceptions of both students and instructors in FYC courses.
I begin this work by reviewing the long, fraught history of politics in rhetorical education and propose several frameworks that are helpful for clarifying this debate, …