Browsing by Author "Eodice, Michele"
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The Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Encounter with the Medical Mis-education of Women: A Conceptual and Historical Inquiry
Karns, Diane Ursula Zachary (2017-05-12)This study of the educational thought of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (BWHBC) uses Jane Roland Martin’s concept of cultural miseducation (2002) to theorize the “medical mis-education of women,” which is revealed ... -
Collaborating Accountably: Interpersonal Antiracist Activism as a Site for Feminist Invitational Rhetoric and Writing Center Pedagogy
Coenen, Hillary M. (2019-05-01)This dissertation applies participatory action research and feminist ethnographic methods to study The Conversation Workshops, which teaches strategies for interpersonal antiracist activism using concepts from invitational ... -
COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHOICE AND CAMPUS EXPERIENCES OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED STUDENTS
McCullar, Alicia (2021-05-14)The design of higher education is a stratified system to funnel the most academically prepared students from the highest earning households to the most selective higher education institutions. Conversely, students who are ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS OF BANGLADESH AND FINLAND
Afrin, Sadia (2017-05-04)This thesis compares the educational system of Bangladesh, a democratic South Asian country, with the educational system of Finland, a Scandinavian country that scores high in international comparisons on tests, such as ... -
"Creation Care is a Matter of Life": The Rhetoric of Pro-Life Evangelical Environmentalism
Woodward, Jordan (2017-05-12)Evangelical groups have often been considered politically conservative on issues such as climate change and abortion. However, some evangelical groups employ pro-life rhetoric as a tool to influence pro-life evangelicals ... -
Examining the curricular approach in student affairs as a tool for critical praxis
Simpson, Erin (2023-08-04)This qualitative content analysis examines the integration of theoretical frameworks and critical praxis in the curricular approach within student affairs. Data from three departmental curricula at a single institution ... -
Exploring Educational Interests and Preferences of Older Adults
Wachter, Hans-Peter (2018-12-14)This qualitative study examines the lived experience of 12 older adults aged 55 – 86, participants in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and living independently in the Midwest of the United States. The primary data ... -
Exploring the careers of professional academic advisors at Oklahoma community colleges: a multiple-case study
Crain Engelbrecht, Misty (2022)This qualitative, multiple-case study explored the career choice and development of academic advisors at Oklahoma community colleges Data for this study were derived from participant interviews and information about the ... -
Learning to Live a Rhetorical Life: A New Strategy for Teaching First-Year Composition
Layton, Geoffrey (2022-12-16)Finding a Pedagogical Path to a Rhetorical Life: The received history of first-year composition (FYC) pedagogy seems to present itself in almost Darwinian evolutionary terms, first emerging from the swamp of Susan Miller’s ... -
Monstrous Miseducation: Frankenstein as Educational Thought on the Modern Problem of Terror
Holzer, Kristen (2016-12)Seeking to understand terror as an under-theorized educational problem with critical implications for contemporary schools and societies, this dissertation is an inquiry into the life, work, and influence of Mary Shelley ... -
Pivotal Moment: Personal Histories of First-Year Composition
Gerdes-McClain, Rebecca (2017-05-12)This project links historical close readings of pivotal figures in the creation of first-year composition (FYC) labor practices to contemporary debates about how to best advocate for and reform contemporary labor conditions, ... -
Red State Re-Claimed: The Transrhetorical Recovery of Resistance in Oklahoma
Jackson, Rachel Constance (2016-05-13)My project argues for critical attention to local rhetorics and characterizes Oklahoma as a unique site for understanding their impact on student writers and writing instruction. Despite rhetorical suppression from dominant ... -
Science Writing Instruction Efficacy Beliefs of Secondary and Post-Secondary Science Instructors
Miller-DeBoer, Carrie (2015-05-08)Discipline-specific writing standards at the secondary level and writing intensive course requirements at the post-secondary level require science teacher and science instructors to teach science writing skills. However, ... -
Students' Perspectives and Applications of Their Writing Instruction as Illustrated through Portraiture
Williams, L. Ureka (2019-05-10)This study explores the communication experiences of the researcher's former students through Portraiture. The researcher collects a journal, past writing assignments, conducts an interview with the participants and one ... -
White Women Doing Racism: A Critical Narrative Inquiry of White Women's Experiences of College
Ozias, Moira (2017-08)College campuses continue to be inequitable spaces for students as access and experiences are stratified by race, gender, and class, among other social categories. As access to higher education has broadened, white women ...