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Challenged Gender Norms Surrounding the Vietnam War as Portrayed in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
Get PDFCornrowed Literacy & Lives: A Qualitative Case Study on Teachers Lived Experiences Through Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction
Get PDFThis qualitative case study explores the lived experiences of thirteen certified elementary educators who teach literacy to students of color. The theoretical framework that guides this study is Abolitionist Teaching (Love, 2019). This study’s data collection is based on teacher surveys, conversational interviews and an artifact analysis. This study was centered on the following questions: (1) What are the lived experiences of certified elementary educators who teach literacy to students of color? (2) What are the lived experiences of certified elementary educators in planning and implementing culturally responsive literacy instructional practices? The themes that emerged from this study were teachers\u27 reflection of implicit bias, teacher accountability, instructional equity, professional developments and developing cultural depth
Saving The Profession: A Post-COVID-19 Era Examination of the Association Between Grit, Experience, and Burnout in Student Affairs Professionals
Get PDFCurrently, student affairs, as a profession, is in a state of emergency due to The Great Resignation and residual effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the apparent need for exploration, there has yet to be a concentrated or comprehensive effort to resolve this pervasive issue. This study aimed to explore the post-COVID-19 relationship between burnout, grit, and years of experience in student affairs professionals at small colleges and universities in NASPA Region III (Southeastern United States). The researcher used survey research and quantitative analysis to explore this association and to answer three posed research questions. Following data collection (n=104), the study found a statistically significant correlation between grit and burnout. Another critical finding provided evidence that the odds of the condition can be predicted using the constructed binary logistic regression model. Lastly, professionals identifying as women, single, and working in registration were among those most susceptible to burnout risk and exposure. The results from this study can be used to drive change and transformation in the student affairs profession, thus saving the profession from attrition
What\u27s In a Name? Plant Naming as Cultural Artifact and Story in the Midwestern United States
Get PDFThis project sought to collect and contextualize the historical and contemporary names given to plants by inhabitants of the Midwestern United States, understanding plant names as cultural artifacts that can offer insight into the communities in which they were created and evolved. Formatted as a series of entries, this collection gathered these names and contextualized them within other artifacts of cultural significance, such as art or poetry, and alongside historical research on their origins and cultural environments. Examining plant names through the fields of linguistics, semiology, anthropology, cultural studies, taxonomy, and ethnobotany, this work traces the names of various plants across the historical communities of the land now known as the Midwest for consideration as artifacts encoding cultural values, uses, and relationships
And No Birds Sing : The Environmental Ethics of Carson, Keats, Sagan, and Oliver
Get PDFThis project aims to create resonances and synchronicities between the works of science writers Rachel Carson and Carl Sagan and poets John Keats and Mary Oliver. It puts their environmental ethics in conversation with one another with a focus on shared literary practices and ecocritical and ecocentric sensibilities. Is the work of poetry, particularly poetry participating in the Romantic tradition, compatible with science writing? The ultimate goal is to demonstrate the symbiosis between science and literature and the necessity of bridging scientific and poetic discourse in regard to addressing climate and the environment. Each chapter pairs a science writer with a poet, identifies similar threads or themes in their writings, and showcases how these connections come together to elucidate compatible environmental ethics across disciplines
Small Moments: Anthropological Poetry
Get PDFHave you ever perhaps overheard a conversation and thought it reminded you of your own life, or someone you knew? You most likely moved on, and you most likely completely forgot about who you overheard. This collection of poetry was written to urge thought on these secret moments of connection which most people experience every day. Every poem in the collection was written from something I overheard in public, as though I were reading prompts. The pieces are fictional in the sense that I really know so little of the full context, but real in the sense that when I wrote them, and hopefully when you read them, we see someone we know or even ourselves. The poems are surrounded by research on other anthropological poets, and a thoughtful dive into the background of each poem in the collection. The aim of the poems is to spur vehement empathy and affirmation of the human experience
