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Full-Text Articles in Education
Using Social Media To Build Community Disaster Resilience (Powerpoint), Neil Dufty
Using Social Media To Build Community Disaster Resilience (Powerpoint), Neil Dufty
Neil Dufty
No abstract provided.
Using Social Media For Natural Disaster Resilience (Booklet), Neil Dufty
Using Social Media For Natural Disaster Resilience (Booklet), Neil Dufty
Neil Dufty
No abstract provided.
Engagement Or Education?, Neil Dufty
Implications Of Recent Research In Community Flood Education, Neil Dufty
Implications Of Recent Research In Community Flood Education, Neil Dufty
Neil Dufty
No abstract provided.
(Be)Coming Home: The Complexity Of Home As Revealed In Young Adult Novels Of Disaster, Charity Elise Cantey
(Be)Coming Home: The Complexity Of Home As Revealed In Young Adult Novels Of Disaster, Charity Elise Cantey
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Inspired by the researcher’s work with five displaced New Orleans teenagers in the months after Hurricane Katrina, this research examined twelve young adult novels in which characters face a loss of or damage to home in the wake of a natural or humanly-caused disaster. The study sought ways in which home is represented in young adult literature of disaster by analyzing passages in which characters discuss, remember, imagine, and rebuild or reestablish home after its damage or loss. A phenomenological approach was used to examine these fictional experiences of home in order to discern their contribution to an understanding of …