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Middle School Technology And Media Literacy: An Action Research Case Study, Mekisha Renaé Parks
Middle School Technology And Media Literacy: An Action Research Case Study, Mekisha Renaé Parks
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This qualitative action research case study seeks to modify a Middle School Computer Science Course at a medium‐sized private school in North Atlanta, Georgia by examining the intersection of media literacy, technology, and adolescent teens. The main purpose of this project is to improve the course by incorporating media literacy skills into the curriculum. Guided class discussions, active participant observation, participant journals, and participant projects will be used to learn more about students’ experience with Media Literacy education. Centering on reflective practices, teacher‐student dialogue, and peer collaboration, this project aims to identify, engage, and explore issues critical to the effective …
The Mystery Of The Body: Embodiment In The Nancy Drew Mystery Series, Katie Still
The Mystery Of The Body: Embodiment In The Nancy Drew Mystery Series, Katie Still
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis investigates the ways in which ideas about class, gender, and race are produced and articulated through the body in the Nancy Drew Mystery series in the 1930s. Physical descriptions and bodily movements, as well as material surroundings, work together to reify and contradict dominant ideas of normalcy and deviance being located on the body.
Power And Surrender: African American Sunni Women And Embodied Agency, Lisa Renae Frazier
Power And Surrender: African American Sunni Women And Embodied Agency, Lisa Renae Frazier
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis addresses the lack of scholarly attention devoted to African American Sunni women by examining how they use collective memory to negotiate embodied agency. Through an analysis of African American Sunni women’s narratives of testifying conversion, and vignettes from diaries and interviews, I show how African American Sunni women utilize racial, religious, and spiritual memory in the form of ritual practices and Islamic texts to multiply construct their bodies, and how this construction allows them to enact multimodal and nomadic forms of agency. A contextual analysis also illustrates how environment and interpretation (tafsir) further mobilizes forms of agency, articulating …
Searching For The Womanist Within, Carmela L. Pattillo
Searching For The Womanist Within, Carmela L. Pattillo
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Searching for the Womanist Within is a play about self identity and the daily experience of African-American women who are at the intersecting oppressions of race, gender and class. The unique life perspective of Afeican-American women is explored through the retelling of stories from the writer’s life as well as the lives of other black women. In Feminist, Black Feminist, Afrocentric and Womanist drama it is common to steer away from conventional theatrical structures, Solo drama, a less conventional structure, was selected for this play. In addition to the play is an essay about the writing process, as well as …