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What Did You Learn In School Today? The Recursive Relationship Between Media Coverage Of Public Education And The Crafting Of Education Policy, Elisabeth Reinkordt

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Theses and Other Student Research

How does the public learn about issues in contemporary education policy? While changes in the economics of the media industry have shifted the mass media landscape, local communities continue to receive information about the state of their local schools primarily through local newspapers or television stations. It is arguably the most important task of a local paper to provide education coverage, as the schools are often the primary beneficiary of local tax revenues. This thesis reviews the literature surrounding the interface between education reporting and the crafting of education policy, examines the way in which education stories are framed by …

English In South Asia And Pedagogical Implications, Brittany R. Ehret

Senior Honors Theses

English at present maintains a significant role as a second or foreign language in the region of South Asia as well as globally. In a discussion of this topic, it is important to explore a brief history of the expansion of English and its origins in South Asia. It is also essential to provide a background of South Asian English and its unique linguistic characteristics as well as its use in different contexts of South Asia. The perspectives of linguists and educators who are native to the region of South Asia should be included as much as possible in this …

Women In Leadership: How A Woman’S Background Affects Her Leadership Style, Serena Bahe, Richard Ruiz, Armando Tejeda, Steven Sill

Verbum Incarnatum: An Academic Journal of Social Justice

Stereotypes and beliefs about women have often kept them from equality with men. What is more striking is that women perpetuate the stereotypes and beliefs as much as men and society as a whole. This literature review focuses on three areas in a woman’s background that influence her ability to lead: a) triggers that propel her into a leadership position, b) the “intersectionalities” or multiple identities and personalities a woman must have to be an effective leader, and c) how the context of where she leads affects her leadership behavior. It also addresses the need for more research to identify …

“A Hidden Part Of Me”: Latino/A Students, Silencing, And The Epidermalization Of Inferiority, Jason G. Irizarry, John Raible

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Latino/a Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) as analytical tools, this article examines the experiences of a seven Latino/a high school students at various points of engagement with the school-to-prison pipeline. Building on and extending Franz Fanon’s (1952) concept of the epidermalization of inferiority, the authors demonstrate the nuanced ways that institutional racism and other interrelated forms of oppression function to contribute to a sense of internalized oppression among Latino/a youth. We critically examine the ways in which dialogue and collaborative research undertaken in a supportive classroom atmosphere can help students move from feeling shame and …

Teaching Australian Literature In A Class About Literatures Of Social Reform, Per Henningsgaard

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article presents an intriguing thesis about proximity and identification, distance and empathy based on the experience of teaching Sally Morgan’s My Place to American university students alongside Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in a class examining literature as an agent of social change. Indeed, its response to the question, “How does the Australian production of My Place influence its American reception?” will surprise many people. Students more readily demonstrate empathy with characters and are prepared to ascribe their unenviable life circumstances to social structures that propagate oppression when reading literature about cultural groups …

The “Outsider/Insider” Assignment: A Pedagogical Innovation For Teaching Cross-Cultural Understanding, Angela Garcia

Natural & Applied Sciences Faculty Publications

In this paper, I describe an innovative assignment for teaching undergraduate students cross-cultural understanding. The Outsider/Insider assignment simultaneously teaches facts about cultural difference and skills for managing cross-cultural encounters. Briefly, the assignment is to write two short papers, one in which the student describes a situation in which he or she was the outsider, and the other a situation in which he or she observed a newcomer to a group where that person was an insider. The paper begins by reviewing previous research on cross-cultural interaction and its relevance for pedagogy, and describing the course, its goals, and the “Outsider/Insider” …

Peering Into The Discourse Of Industrial Design Training Through A Sustainability Lens, Norman M. Su, Haodan Tan, Eli Blevis

Design Thinking Research Symposium

Now well established in HCI, the lens of sustainability may be applied to educational practices in industrial design and interaction design. By sustainability, we mean to include notions of mitigation of the environmental effects of climate change. In this paper, we present an analysis of student projects in a junior and senior industrial design class dataset. Drawing from discourse analysis, we examine how the industrial design classroom serves as a space to socially construct the philosophies and goals inherent in “good” design. We then examine how the lens of sustainability is implicated into the industrial design “way” as espoused by …

Undergraduate Instructor Assistants (Uias): Friend Or Foe, William J. Seiler, Jenna Stephenson Abetz

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Undergraduate students have been and continue to be employed as instructor assistants (UIAs) in a variety of courses across disciplines. However, relatively little empirical research has been published regarding the educational merits for them or their students. The present essay extends such research by focusing specifically on UIAs’ perceived value of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) on their learning and personal growth. The authors conducted in-depth interviews with six former UIAs and employed a qualitative thematic analysis of their responses. Perceived benefits that emerged from the analysis include, for example, learning how to balance many different roles and responsibilities, …

Not A Hearing Loss, A Deaf Gain: Power, Self-Naming, And The Deaf Community, David J. Thomas

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

Self-naming has long stood as the primary assertion of power for disenfranchised communities in the western world. While person first language (e.g. person who is deaf) has been the preferred language of disability and disability services for the last 20 years, members of the Deaf community have asserted their cultural capital, and indeed, their Deafhood, or defining the experience of being ‘deaf in the world’, through the power of self-naming. This research examines attitudes toward language, self-naming, and disability in the Deaf community and seeks to move toward a more attentive, sensitive, and responsive language policy in the academy.

Historically, …

Not You/Like You, With You: Toward A Praxis Of Love, Learning, And Liberation In Teaching Efl Writing — On Zombies, De-Colonial Feminisms, And Freire In Efl Contact Zones, Jessmaya Morales

MA TESOL Collection

This paper explores EFL writing as a critical contact zone in which identity and subjectivity are found, denied, contested, de/constructed and occupied. The author opens with an account of a dream, utilized as a metaphor to examine EFL learning through the analytical lens of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The paper’s first section is a self-reflexive discussion of Freire’s pedagogy and why his unambiguous analyses of power, subjectivity, and the “banking system of education” are vital to the field of ELT. In the second section, the author discusses subjectivity, identity, and intersectionality as rooted in the work of …

Tripping With Stephen Gaskin: An Exploration Of A Hippy Adult Educator, Gabriel Patrick Morley

Dissertations

For the last 40 years, Stephen Gaskin has been an adult educator on the fringe, working with tens of thousands of adults in the counterculture movement in pursuit of social change regarding marijuana legalization, women’s rights, environmental justice issues and beyond. Gaskin has written 11 books about his experiences teaching and learning with adults outside the mainstream, yet, he is virtually unknown in the field of adult education. He lists his religion as hippy; he is a member of the Counterculture Hall of Fame (inducted 2004), a convicted felon, a United States Marine, a Korean War combat veteran, and a …

Information Literacy In The Workplace: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Faculty and Staff Publications

This cross-cultural study has two main purposes: to investigate how information literacy is perceived in the workplace and to discover how employees obtain information to carry out their jobs in an effective and timely fashion. This project applies a mix of research methods, including site visits, interviews, and a survey. More than 120 participants from forty companies were involved in this study. They were from a wide variety of industries in Taiwan and Silicon Valley, in Northern California, where many companies base offices or operations from around the world. Major obstacles in conducting cross-continent research are cost, time demands, scheduling, …

Maintaining Or Disrupting Inequality: Diversity Statements In The University, Linda A. Merkl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of my study was to identify whether university Diversity Statements aid in maintaining or disrupting inequality in the university. Using critical discourse analysis, I analyzed an initial sample of eleven Diversity Statements to develop a list of common themes found within the diversity statements. Using a maximum variation method, I then reduced my sample to four universities to provide breadth of information for the final study (Miles & Huberman, 1994). In my case analysis, I first conducted an individual analysis of each of the four Diversity Statements using the common themes from my critical case analysis, common functions …

Mañana, Mañana..., Silvia Cuevas-Morales

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.

Cuatro Poetas Cubanos Transterrados, Madeline Cámara

Revista Surco Sur

Presenta a cuatro poetas cubanos de la diáspora, que radican en Europa, donde encuentra una continuidad del sentimiento de nostalgia y arraigo a los orígenes, con poetas cubanos también transterrados a lo largo del siglo XIX y XX. Al señalar el peso de las relaciones sociales y políticas que determinaron su condición de exiliados, dice la autora: Pero ellos son poetas y ya sabemos que el oficio no está institucionalizado porque el poema no tiene casa, es más, no requiere Casa más allá de la Metáfora que él mismo cre. Su autonomía es su libertad.

Pasando La Frontera, Nivaria Tejera

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.

Poema De La Extranjera, Alberto Lauro

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.

Conversación En Bahía Con El Pintor Ángel Alonso, José Antonio Michelena

Revista Surco Sur

Las artes plásticas en Cuba, durante la década de 1980, tuvieron una energía, una fuerza expresiva en su irreverencia, en su alcance social, que conmocionaron las estructuras artísticas y culturales de una manera que no ha vuelto a repetirse en la Isla. Con su accionar, los jóvenes pintores, escultores, grabadores, dibujantes, les abrieron espacios, no solo a sus colegas, sino igualmente al resto de los artistas y escritores, insuflando un huracán de aire fresco en la creación artística y literaria, amordazadas en la década anterior. Ángel Alonso Blanco, apenas recién graduado de la Academia San Alejandro, se involucró activamente en …

Entrevista A Felipe Lázaro, Director De La Editorial Betania, Teresa Dovalpage

Revista Surco Sur

Betania se fundó en 1987 como un proyecto cultural dedicado –inicialmente- a publicar libros de poesía de autores españoles e hispanoamericanos. No obstante, como bien dices, fuimos ampliando otras colecciones, sobre todo, la de narrativa (novela y libros de cuentos) y la de ensayo (literario e histórico), aunque también lo seguimos intentando con la literatura infantil y las obras de teatro, que son más difíciles de trabajar, u otras colecciones como las de Arte, Ciencias Sociales, etc. En definitiva, más de 500 títulos en estos 24 años de labor editorial, de donde un 80% son libros de poesía (poemarios y …

Lunes Niuyorkino, Etnairis Rivera

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.

Calendario, Miguel Reyes

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.

La Ilustre E Ignorada Historia De Las Letras Hispanas En Estados Unidos, Kenya C. Dworkin Y Méndez

Revista Surco Sur

Un tema que se ha puesto de moda desde hace unos años — esto de rescatar la memoria. La memoria, a veces tan efímera y elusiva, significa en su primera acepción “ facultad de conservar ideas anteriormente adquiridas”, y es tan sólo en su sexta acepción que este esmerado vocablo establece alguna conexión entre las ideas conservadas y lo escrito. Entonces, memoria, como relación, nos permite acercarnos un poco más al tema de hoy — el desmantelamiento de la Historia Oficial, o sea, la Memoria Oficial. Nos urge esta labor porque si nos quedamos o permitimos que nos dejen en …

Langsam, Isel Rivero

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.

Escribir A La Sombra De Otro Idioma: Escritores Latinoamericanos Mantienen El Español En Los Estados Unidos, Johanny Vázquez Paz

Revista Surco Sur

Emigrar es buscar un nuevo espacio donde vivir, dejar lo conocido por voluntad propia para empezar una nueva vida en otra parte del mundo. Entonces, ¿por qué no despedirse también del idioma y adoptar la lengua que ahora nos rodea? Y si se es escritor, ¿por qué insistir en escribir en un idioma que limita al tratar de publicar en el país donde se reside?, ¿por qué escribir en español cuando se vive en Estados Unidos? Éstas son algunas de las preguntas que exploraré en este ensayo desde varias perspectivas descritas por algunos escritores reconocidos, proponiendo posibles causas y motivos …

Lezama En Lunes, Lunes En Lezama, Elizabeth Mirabal, Carlos Velazco

Revista Surco Sur

En este ensayo, los autores valoran las posiciones del escritor José Lezama Lima con la publicación Lunes de Revolución, en la que se expresan las complejas contradicciones entre los más importantes escritores cubanos de la época, entre ellos y en relación con la política cultural de la Revolución Cubana. Las posiciones de escritores como Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Heberto Padilla, José Rodríguez Feo, Virgilio Piñera y otros, se aprecian no solo en sus relaciones con el autor de Paradiso, sino en las complicadas conexiones con la orientación de la revolución.

Caminos Y Puentes, Raúl Dorantes

Revista Surco Sur

Durante varios meses viví en las camas que en de los hoteles de lujo de Milwaukee. Me dedicaba a lo que es mi naturaleza: chupar poco a poco la sangre de los hombres. Un día de primavera conocí a María Luisa, quien entonces se hacía acompañar de un tipo al que llamaba sin ternura “Señor comisionado”... Ya en el verano abandoné el Hilton y me fui con ella en su neceser. Así, en cuestión de días, vine a saber del ingeniero. Ahora tengo acceso a la memoria del ingeniero. Entre otras cosas sé que después de pasar su última tarde …

Crítica De La Técnica Y Humanismo Comprometido En Ernesto Sábato, Damián Pachón Soto

Revista Surco Sur

Interesa señalar aquí que, para Sábato, en la actual sociedad se han perdido la solidaridad, el afecto, la vergüenza; se ha renunciado, en medio de lo que podemos llamar el fervor del “enclaustramiento por lo técnico” de la “forma-vida-frenesí”, a experiencias profundas como el amor y la amistad; nos hemos despojado de la entraña, nos hemos vaciado más y vagamos con la “conciencia arrobada” y con la atención fragmentada por los destellos del espectáculo, del brillo de los desfiles de moda, la suntuosidad de las estrellas del entertainment y la sociedad hipermasificada, la mercancía y los millones de bites de …

Hablando De Sábato, Nanci María Vilalta

Revista Surco Sur

Desde la irrupción editorial de la figura de Roberto Bolaño en los 90, se ha hablado de la literatura mexicana, española y chilena de este autor. Sin embargo, quiero proponer que su literatura es el producto de un escritor transnacional, quien definía su patria como su biblioteca. Mi propósito en estas líneas es utilizar el término de Stephen Clingman de literatura transnacional en la obra de Bolaño. A diferencia del concepto de literatura globalizada que pondera la relación de centro-periferia o que homogeniza realidades, el concepto de una literatura que problematiza los términos de la identidad parece más apropiado para …

La Construcción De Una Po(Ética): Desterritorialización, Colectivización Y Politización En El Discurso Daltoniano, Juana M. Ramos

Revista Surco Sur

Hablar de Roque Dalton requiere sumergirnos en la historia de El Salvador, en los conflictos entre la oligarquía y la clase obrera, las injusticias y desigualdad social, en una generación de poetas cuyo propósito fue ofrecer al lector la realidad socio-política salvadoreña: una generación de poetas comprometidos. En este ensayo, me interesa hacer un breve análisis de la construcción de una (po)ética daltoniana desde la noción de “literatura menor” desarrollada por Deleuze y Guattari, en tanto que cumple con las tres características que la definen: desterritorialización, colectivización y politización del discurso

Ladrillos Flotantes, Rubén Soto Rivera

Revista Surco Sur

Mientras que, por ineluctable necesidad, yo hacía subir casi infinitesimalmente el nivel del agua, veía maravillado cómo un ladrillo flotaba río abajo empujado por la corriente del Kaikos. ¿Hasta dónde lo llevará la corriente? Tal vez, lo orille o se encaje entre rocas salientes en algún tramo del lecho poco profundo. Sigo mirando el arcillesco barquito a la deriva hasta perderlo de vista. Quizás, náufrago, desemboque hasta el mar y éste, en su vaivén de flujos y reflujos, lo haga encayar en un arrecife de coral cercano a las costas del Ática, o hasta arribe así en arenas del Pireo. …