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Supporting Teachers in Developing Multicultural Family Engagement
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone projectDepartment of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Curriculum Design for the Integration of Literature Circles and Project Based Learning to Promote Close Reading
No full textThis project, as a requirement for EDUC 3680, Capstone Seminar, under the advisement of Dr. Kristen Neal, describes how project-based learning and literature circles could be integrated together to better teach close reading. The project is broken up into sections analyzing each teaching strategy and how they can be done simultaneously, an outline of the curriculum design, and the reasonings behind the decisions made
Indo-Persian Performative Identities and the Harlequin: Agency and Subversion in The Wonders of Vilayet and The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan
No full textEnglish Department Honors Thesis. English 290B Honors Thesis. Professor Humberto Garcia.
This thesis explores how, through the adoption of performative art identities (especially that of the Harlequin), Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin and Mirza Abu Taleb Khan were able to produce an ambivalence and hybridity, as defined by Homi Babha, that subverted English hegemony and Orientalism.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc
Marijuana Localism
No full textarticle published in law reviewThe states have wrested control of marijuana policy from the federal government, but they risk losing some of their newfound power to another player: local governments. Hundreds of local communities are now seeking to establish their own marijuana policies, from legalization to prohibition and a variety of idiosyncratic regulatory schemes in between. These local efforts raise one of the most important and unresolved questions surrounding marijuana law and policy: What authority, if any, should states give local governments to regulate marijuana? This Article provides some guidance on this question. It starts by identifying two competing considerations that help determine whether local control is normatively desirable: (1) the extent to which local communities prefer different policies; and (2) the extent to which residents of one community care about policies adopted elsewhere. The Article then examines the strength of these considerations in the context of marijuana policy. It suggests that local communities do indeed prefer different marijuana policies. At the same time, however, it warns that residents care strongly about how other communities regulate the drug. Because marijuana and the people who use it are mobile, policies adopted by one community can have a large impact on the well-being of other communities across the state. Indeed, the Article suggests that the nation’s sobering experience with local alcohol control should curb enthusiasm for marijuana localism. The Article reviews how states have addressed the marijuana localism issue to date. It then makes some tentative recommendations concerning the extent to which states should devolve control of marijuana policy onto local governments
The Interpretive Dimension of Seminole Rock
No full textarticle published in law reviewA lively debate has emerged over the deferential standard of review courts apply when reviewing an agency’s interpretation of its own regulations. That standard, traditionally associated with Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. and now more frequently attributed to Auer v. Robbins, states that a court must accept an agency’s interpretation of its own regulations unless the interpretation is "plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation." This Article argues that a court’s choice of method for interpreting regulations — including how it determines which agency interpretations are inconsistent with the regulation — may be just as important, if not more important, to the outcome of review as the standard of review the court applies. The point that the outcome of review is a function not only of the standard but also of the interpretive method is long-acknowledged in the debate over Chevron. It applies to review of the interpretation of regulations as well. If the ultimate framework of review is a problem with two important dimensions — the standard of review and the interpretive method — then there is reason to evaluate the likely effects of different methods of regulatory interpretation. The Article then argues that a purposivist approach, one which requires readings of regulations to be consistent with those in the regulation’s preamble, identifies a narrower range of acceptable readings and offers greater notice of the regulation’s meaning than relying on the regulation’s text alone. As a result, this regulatory purposivist method holds promise for addressing many of the concerns motivating challenges to the Seminole Rock/Auer standard whether or not that standard is retained
Creating a Congruent Third Space in the Middle School Writing Classroom
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone projectAll students have linguistic and cultural capital that contributes to their developing identities within the literacy space (Risko & Walker-Dalhouse, 2012). The experiences, skills, and resources students bring into the classroom from their families and communities are known as ‘funds of knowledge,’ which can be leveraged within instruction, strategies, and assessments as assets to support student learning (Allen, 2007). This capstone will explore the application of third space theory, the integration of a student’s home discourse into the school discourse, through the creation of a ten-lesson writing unit to demonstrate how students’ funds of knowledge can be authentically integrated into a writing curriculum (Moje, Tehani, Carrillo, & Marx, 2001). In this unit, students will write a memoir using “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie as a mentor text, supported by strategies and cultural texts that reflect authentic writing practice. As the writing experts in the classroom, the teacher’s role in the unit is to guide student writing by exploring personal mindsets regarding linguistic diversity, cultivating linguistic awareness through modeling and discussion, and leveraging the linguistic and cultural differences of students as assets rather than deficits within the curriculum (Risko & Walker-Dalhouse, 2007). Teachers are able to legitimize the experiences of students by representing them within the official curriculum of school (Ladson-Billings, 1994). By seeking to understand student communities and valuing the identities afforded to students through their linguistic and cultural histories, teachers are able to responsively select texts, implement instruction, and assess writing.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Seeing it Through: Persistence and Completion of Low-Income Students at the University of Memphis
No full textLeadership Policy and Organizations Department Capstone ProjectVanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Leadership Policy and OrganizationsPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
The Journal of Saint Anna
No full textFinal creative project for Eng 243: Approaches: Literature, Science, and Technology; Fall 2014. Creative work is accompanied by reflection paper
A Study in Empathy: Cognitive Disorders Exposed in First Person Narrators
No full textEnglish Department Honors Thesis, ENGL 290B, Professor Humberto Garcia.
My thesis navigates the intersection between cognitive studies and literary analysis, specifically detailing how unreliable narration can be connected to cognitive impairments in first person narrators of early twentieth century American novels. The stories told by character narrators such as Nick Carraway from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and Benjy Compson from William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" are revealed, through exploration of the biology behind empathy and social interaction, namely "theory of mind," as complex and skewed versions of reality.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc
Borders Blurred: Internalizing the Other in Tropic of Orange
No full textFinal project for ENGL 277 Asian American Literature; Spring 2015 --Stranger in a Home Land: Asian American Literature and the Mechanisms of Alienation