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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
“In The Midst Of Experience:” Civic Education Through Narrative Creation, Jeff Spanke
“In The Midst Of Experience:” Civic Education Through Narrative Creation, Jeff Spanke
Language Arts Journal of Michigan
Through employing a narrative, reflective approach, I discuss how the experience of working with international students during a summer institute informed the developed and implementation of a civically minded project in a college Young Adult Literature seminar. The project sought to frame "America" as an actual teenager, relative to other, more "adult" countries in the world, and asked students to construct a conventional YA narrative featuring America as the primary character. Through this narrative, I explain the various successes of the project and ultimately argue that students' stories and original compositions offer a viable mechanism for progressive, democratic citizenship education …
Void, Bethany Fink
Void, Bethany Fink
Honors Projects
This is a work of fiction. It forays into topics such as mental illness and how it affects relationships with friends and family. Trigger warnings include anorexia, self-harm, depression, and suicide ideation.
“We Are The Walking Dead”: Morality In Robert Kirkman’S Comics Series, Amy L. Jacobs
“We Are The Walking Dead”: Morality In Robert Kirkman’S Comics Series, Amy L. Jacobs
Masters Theses
Despite widespread cultural success, Robert Kirkman’s comics series, The Walking Dead, has received little critical attention in the literary canon. The limited critical attention it has received fails to provide an in-depth examination of the work’s morality. This could be a result of the ever-present influence of Frederic Wertham’s claims in his 1954 work, Seduction of the Innocent. However, when viewed through the frameworks provided by John Gardner’s On Moral Fiction and Wayne C. Booth’s The Company We Keep, Kirkman’s zombie narrative exhibits morality in multi-layered and complex ways with every turn of the page. Through the …
Midwestern Writers Need Midwestern Historians, Bonnie Jo Campbell
Midwestern Writers Need Midwestern Historians, Bonnie Jo Campbell
Studies in Midwestern History
These remarks were given on a plenary panel titled "Writing on the Midwest," held at the Fourth Annual Midwestern History Conference in Grand Rapids on June 6, 2018. Bonnie Jo Campbell received her MFA in creative writing from Western Michigan University. Her 2009 book, American Salvage, published by Wayne State University Press, was a finalist in fiction for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Magic 8-Ball, Emily Rose Doran
Magic 8-Ball, Emily Rose Doran
Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing
No abstract provided.
Char, Michelle Tiesma
Char, Michelle Tiesma
Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing
No abstract provided.
An Ode To Best Friends, Lamont Arrington
An Ode To Best Friends, Lamont Arrington
Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing
No abstract provided.
It's A Boy, Annelise Trout
It's A Boy, Annelise Trout
Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing
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A Wood Comes Toward Dunsinane: The Synthesis Of Traditional And Constructivist Methodologies, Randall L. Kaplan
A Wood Comes Toward Dunsinane: The Synthesis Of Traditional And Constructivist Methodologies, Randall L. Kaplan
Language Arts Journal of Michigan
Education professionals now favor Constructivist and project-based strategies for learning over Traditional methods, which include such frowned upon practices as rote memorization and recitation. The Constructivist approach is being taken to its natural apex by educators like Larry Rosenstock who have created Constructivist utopias such as High Tech High in San Diego, the school put under the microscope in the 2015 documentary film Most Likely to Succeed. Project-based, experiential units of study are effective, exciting, and edifying for both students and teachers. They promise to prepare students for the type of world they will inhabit, a world whose economy …