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Performative Poetics: Intersections of rhetoric and gender politics in Margaret Cavendish’s Loves Adventures, Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, and The Contract
No full textEnglish Department Honors Thesis.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc
Designing Science Museums for Enriching Parent-Child Interactions
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone project (EDUC 3680, Capstone Seminar, Professor Kristen Weeks Neal) - Parent-child interactions and conversations serve as a means for increased, meaningful learning experiences, particularly for children with a developing interest and sense of expertise. Many parent-child conversations, particularly in science museums, involve limited sense-making practices. Through design and collaboration with other domains (e.g. libraries), museums can create a space to enhance parent-child dialogue, increasing collaborative learning and shared knowledge.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Building Trust in High School Math Classrooms: Strategies for Mitigating Social Risk to Support a Collaborative Learning Environment
No full textThis capstone paper explores how teachers can provide identity resources (norms, participation structures, and discourse strategies) to high school math students to encourage a reconciliation among mathematic, social, cultural identities. By providing positive identity resources for students and increasing opportunities for competence construction, teachers simultaneously reduce the social risk which inhibits many students and therefore support a collaborative learning environment.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
The American Dream: Through the Lens of the American Film Industry
No full textFinal creative project for Eng 199: Foundations of Literary Study; Fall 2014. Creative work is a YouTube video at http://youtu.be/Wk3vr1_TaoM. Reflection paper is here in the repository
Robin Jensen and Patout Burns on Christianity in Roman Africa
No full textIn this podcast, Chris Benda, theological librarian at the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, interviews Vanderbilt Professors Robin Jensen and Patout Burns about their book Christianity in Roman Africa: the Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
Eating Disorders and Life Span Development
No full textThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the
Honors Program in the Psychological Sciences.
Under the direction of Dr. David G. Schlundt.Current research shows a relationship between age and eating disorder diagnoses but does not fully understand how symptoms manifest at different stages of Life Span Development (LSD). To identify the difference of eating disorder symptoms by age, the study analyzed existing EDI-2 scores and other demographic data from 2247 female adolescent and adult patients at a commercial residential eating disorder treatment center. Results from this study showed that anorexia nervosa is most common in female adolescents and older adults, but bulimia nervosa emerges as the most common diagnosis for young adults. Levels of comorbid psychopathology and EDI-2 scores are lower for young adolescents but higher for young adults. Comorbidity decreases slightly in the older adults, but perfectionism remains high. As age increases, eating disorder treatment needs to focus more on comorbidities. Further research can explore if treatment effectiveness can be improved by paying attention to an individual’s developmental stage.Vanderbilt UniversityPsychologyCollege of Arts and Scienc
Asian Americans as Leading Men: Reexamining Masculinity in Situational Comedies
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
Catching a Tiger by its Tail: A Deconstruction of the Tiger Mother Stereotype
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
Social Anxiety as a Moderator in the Relationship between Social Emotional Fluency and Eye Gaze
No full textSocial emotional fluency (SEF) is proposed as the qualitative and temporal dynamics of nonverbal social behavior. Social anxiety has been studied as affecting the production of many nonverbal behaviors, most notably eye gaze. It was predicted that social anxiety would moderate the effect of SEF on eye gaze behavior. Limited support was found for social anxiety as a moderator of SEF on eye gaze behavior.
The research was conducted under Dr. Jo-Anne Bachorowski for the Honors Seminar PSY- 296B.Emotional intelligence and interpersonal sensitivity have been identified as key individual-difference abilities that are important for optimal social functioning. Social emotional fluency (SEF) is proposed as a behavioral component of these two constructs. SEF is focused on qualitative aspects and temporal dynamics of nonverbal social behavior. Social anxiety has been studied as affecting the production of many of these nonverbal behaviors, most notably eye gaze. It was predicted that social anxiety would moderate the effect of SEF on eye gaze behavior. Twenty-four dyads participated in a trip-planning paradigm designed to elicit a moderate amount of social anxiety. It was predicted that individuals with high SEF/low social anxiety would display the highest amounts of eye contact and that those with low SEF/high social anxiety would display the least. Limited support was found for social anxiety as a moderator of SEF on eye gaze behavior. Future research should investigate finding more support for social anxiety as a moderator of SEF on eye gaze behavior, as well as investigating whether the moderating effects extend to the production of other nonverbal behaviors.Vanderbilt UniversityPsychologyCollege of Arts and ScienceThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Science
Critical Pedagogy in Prison Education: Teaching for Democracy, Liberation, and Civic Engagement in an Institution of Control
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone projectThe purpose of my capstone essay is to situate prison education as an issue of justice and critical pedagogy as the catalyst for transformation. The prison population is disproportionately from non-dominant culture and is further disenfranchised through incarceration and the criminal justice system. Critical pedagogy is appropriate, effective prison pedagogy because it addresses injustice in the lived experiences of the prisoner-students, and in societal institutions and structures, such as schools and public policy; further, it is adaptable to the needs of diverse learners from non-dominant culture. Additionally, critical pedagogy can be employed to promote democracy, liberation, and participatory learning that transforms the culture of the prison and has implications for urban communities, where many ex-offenders return. This essay will explore the sociopolitical and historical context of prison education and address implications for urban communities, diverse learners, educators, and justice broadly. The learner of my capstone essay is situated as society at large, and policy makers and educators more specifically, as I demonstrate the ways that policies and public perception shape the prison experience and reintegration outcomes for those who are or have been incarcerated. Ultimately, critical pedagogy will yield positive outcomes in terms of rates of recidivism, successful reintegration, and transformation of the inside prison culture that carries over to influence urban communities. As the environment of the prison is educative and breeds violence and oppression, critical pedagogy must transcend this schooling and call for critical thought and liberation. In summation, the essay will address the learner, urban context, and diversity through a critical view of the educational opportunities in the prison systems of the United States, the best practices for prison education, and the implications of critical pedagogy on rates of recidivism, community vitality, and justice.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen