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Education And Literature In The Third Reich, Maegann L. Hardison Nov 2016

Education And Literature In The Third Reich, Maegann L. Hardison

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This research examines education in the Third Reich and specifically focuses on children's literature. German children were exposed to different persuasive techniques and influences that dramatically impacted their culture and mindset. The purpose of this research is to explain how the propaganda used in the educational system was directed towards the German youth. The use of this propaganda reveals the reasons why many children grew to defend the Führer and their Volk.


Facilitating Service Learning In The Online Technical Communication Classroom, Danielle Nielsen Apr 2016

Facilitating Service Learning In The Online Technical Communication Classroom, Danielle Nielsen

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

Drawing from the author’s experience teaching online technical communication courses with an embedded service-learning component, this essay opens the discussion to the potential problems involved in designing online service-learning courses and provides practical approaches to integrating service learning into online coursework. The essay addresses specifically those classrooms where students may be required to develop or find their own service opportunities, whether those opportunities are within their community, on the college or university campus, or in another community. The essay argues by implementing service learning into online classrooms and requiring students to locate their own agencies, students not only build a …


Art For The People: Wpa Prints And Textiles From The Permanent Collection, Antje K. Gamble, T. Michael Martin Apr 2016

Art For The People: Wpa Prints And Textiles From The Permanent Collection, Antje K. Gamble, T. Michael Martin

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

As the first major, nationalized support system for artistic production in the United States, the New Deal’s Federal Art Project (F.A.P.) strove to create a holistic vision of art for the American people. Debates among art historians and political pundits alike pointed to the perceived-lack of a truly-American modern art. Cultural critic Lewis Mumford articulated that, opposed to European Modernism, “[w]hat American taste recognizes [is] that there is more aesthetic promise in a McAn shoe store front, or in a Blue Kitchen sandwich palace than there is in the most sumptuous showroom of antiques…” In accordance, the F.A.P. supported artists’ …


Courting Controversy: How I Became An Opportunistic Improvisationalist, Joshua Adair Jan 2016

Courting Controversy: How I Became An Opportunistic Improvisationalist, Joshua Adair

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

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Exiled From Main Street: Improvisational Teaching/Life, Paul Walker Jan 2016

Exiled From Main Street: Improvisational Teaching/Life, Paul Walker

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.