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Creative Teaching: Using Creative Teaching Methods In A Student-Centered Esl Environment, Ivy Johnson
Creative Teaching: Using Creative Teaching Methods In A Student-Centered Esl Environment, Ivy Johnson
Master's Projects and Capstones
Creative teaching is a viable approach to education in the digital age. In addition, engaging students’ individual talents and abilities through a method of principled eclecticism involved in creative teaching will motivate them to learn English by engaging them as whole person (Duffy & Hoffman, 1999). All in all, what ESL students need now is not a place to acquire textbook knowledge of the English language through rote memorization, but a safe space to hash out, work with, and work through the language that involves a student centered curriculum, which relates directly to students’ lives. This type of curriculum, brought …
Papelitos: The Visual Testimonios Of Undocumented College Students, Olivia Munoz
Papelitos: The Visual Testimonios Of Undocumented College Students, Olivia Munoz
Doctoral Dissertations
This study investigated the role art played in the lives of nine undocumented college students at different universities in Northern California. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to examine how undocumented college students use art as a mechanism of resistance and activation of the political self related to their immigration status. This scholarship comes at the heels of the first year in office of the 45th president of the United States, who ran on a platform, in part, of anti-immigrant rhetoric. Much of the activism around undocumented immigrant rights has used art as a mechanism for collective action, allyship, …