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Disability Justice (Webinar)
Get PDFLearn how the definition of disability is different in this model compared to what is used in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the 10 principles of Disability Justice, and ways Disability Justice can impact work and learning
A Mixed Method Comparison: Instruction in Undergraduate Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Contemporary Dance Classes
Get PDFThis study aimed to identify the nature of instructional differences between beginning, intermediate and advanced contemporary dance classes. The study involved interviewing two dance instructors and observing their classes, as well as conducting focus group discussions to gain insight from students. Despite difficulties in comparing across three levels given that no single instructor was observed teaching all three levels, the mixed method comparison yielded some common themes at each dance level. Given that students at higher levels were more aware of and comfortable with their bodies, instructors moved through the class at a quicker pace. Students at each level were challenged in different ways whether it was in movement execution, feeling the movement or developing artistry in expression. While students at all levels were offered opportunities for improvisation, the nature of the constraints were very different, demanding increasing creativity and imagination at the higher levels. Both instructors were able to open space for self and student reflection in the classes they taught. While this contributed to students being aware of their responsibilities as dancers and as dance students. It was also evident that with increased proficiency, students at the intermediate level were more verbally articulate compared to beginning students. The advanced students were better equipped to implement feedback or new ideas quickly when compared to intermediate students
It Feels Like I Don\u27t Exist : An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of the Ace Citizen
Get PDFSexual citizenship is often used to enforce gender and sexual norms, to help construct the “Other,” and as a tool for national security. Because of the invisibility and invalidation of asexuality in the U.S., there is a lack of research on sexual citizenship discourses and a need for more research that utilizes intersectional feminism in asexuality studies. This master’s thesis uses an intersectional, transnational feminist, and queer lens to analyze how people who identify on the asexuality spectrum currently living in the U.S. are impacted by the concept of sexual citizenship. This research uses a qualitative survey, which 124 people, who were at least 18 years of age, completed. I argue that their experiences reveal the various ways they are made to feel invisible, alienated, and erased because of acephobia, amatonormativity, compulsory sexuality, and other systems of oppression. The findings consist of six main themes: 1) Amatonormativity, 2) Allonormative Medicine and Negative Experiences with Medical Practitioners, 3) Acephobia, 4) Exclusion from the Queer Community, 5) the Avoidance of “Coming Out” as Strategy, and 6) the Assemblance of the Ace Community. These findings demonstrate that many of them feel broken and outcasted from society unless they conform to systems like amatonormativity and allonormativity. While their aceness and other identities create unique forms of oppression that often deem them “noncitizens,” they are not victims who lack agency. Many of them also resist these systems of oppression through validation and empowerment from the ace community. This research aims to visibilize asexuality, highlight the voices and experiences of marginalized aces, and provide a space for aces to claim epistemic authority of their experiences. Thus, this thesis may also help others better understand some aces’ experiences and how to fight for social justice in a way that includes asexuality
The Bizzare Fantastic
No full textThe Bizarre Fantastic is a novel that explores historical and supernatural horrors gathered in a small port town in northern Minnesota in late August 1922. When a circus led by a southerner with attractions and games aimed at stoking the racial hatred in the White citizens of the town, three underdogs must band together to take down this racial existential threat any way they can. The reader will be entranced by the historical setting while being enthralled and chilled by vampires, goblins, and a book bound in human skin. This historical fiction/horror hybrid will inspire resistance, show the power of collective action, and unsettle the fainthearted
How to Prepare Expert Teachers of Reading
No full textKnowledge is important in any endeavor. It’s what separates novices from experts. Experts have more of it. Novices have less of it. Expert teachers have four kinds of knowledge:(a) content knowledge – knowledge of what they’re teaching. This would be math, if you’re a math teacher. Science if you’re a science teacher. And everything if you’re an elementary education teacher. (b) pedagogical knowledge. This is knowledge of basic teaching strategies such as discovery learning, question-asking, discussions, inquiry learning, and cooperative learning.(c) pedagogical content knowledge – This is knowledge of teaching strategies for specific content areas. In reading, this would reading methods. You have strategies for fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, etc.(d) and knowledge of learners and learning. You know how humans learn and develop. This is the ed psych stuff – which is the basis of all things. To move from novice to expert is a rather simple thing. Simply increase knowledge in all four areas. It’s not that complicated
Volume 46, 2023 Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal
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Jose Quiñones, George Mason University, 2023 Communication Analysis Event
No full textVideo of Jose Quiñones\u27 presentation for the final round of the Communication Analysis event for the 2023 American Forensic Association National Speech Tournament hosted by Santa Ana College
Henry Davenport, Illinois State University, 2023 Impromptu Speaking Event
No full textVideo of Henry Davenport\u27s presentation for the final round of the Impromptu Speaking event for the 2023 American Forensic Association National Speech Tournament hosted by Santa Ana College