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RETRACTED: Literacy lessons learnt from parents after attending a seven-week Home-School Partnership Programme
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Editorial expression of concern: The editor and publisher express a note of concern regarding this article “Literacy lessons learnt from parents after attending a seven-week Home-School Partnership Programme,” by Dowan Cozett and Janet Condy. It appears to be a duplicate publication triggered in the editorial office.
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The development of an enabling self-administered questionnaire for enhancing reading teachers' professional pedagogical insights
No full textWord processed copy.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-252).There have been many national and provincial studies on children's literacy levels in recent years in South Africa. However, none has determined the teachers' own understandings of the core indicators of an effective reading teacher. During a preliminary feasibility study, the researcher was surprised to discover how many under-qualified teachers there were who had a limited professional understanding of current primary school reading instructions, approaches and practices. To assess more accurately these experienced teachers' perceived professional competencies in teaching reading, the current study reports the development, refinement, validation and implementation of a conveniently self-administered profile of professional competencies designated the "Core Indicators of an Effective Reading Teacher Questionnaire" (CIERTQ)
Giving Evil a Name: Buffy's Glory, Angel's Jasmine, Blood Magic, and Name Magic
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Review of Tolkien, J.R.R., trans; ed. Christopher Tolkien. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
No full textReview of Tolkien's Beowulf translation focuses on its relation to his other works rather than the translation per se
Psyche in New York: The Devil Wears Prada Updates the Myth
No full textThe Psyche and Cupid story is a central myth of female maturation, among its other meanings. At its core, it is a story of a powerful older woman, a mother-figure, controlling a younger woman’s path to maturity, seemingly blocking her way by imposing impossible tasks, but through these tasks teaching her what she needs to learn to become an adult. In the Greek myth, the marker of maturity is full and socially sanctioned union with the god/husband; in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, the marker becomes a job that both “pays the rent” and that the young woman can hold with integrity and independence. I will also look at such diverse sources as the Tam Lin legend, Hayao Miyazake’s Spirited Away, C.S. Lewis’s retelling of the Psyche myth in Till We Have Faces, and the movie Julie & Julia as variants of the underlying “mother”/maiden conflict.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2012). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP.Peer reviewe
[Review of] Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern 4.1/2, editor in chief Thomas Honegger and Fanfan Chen; and Tolkien Studies XI, editors Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger, and David Bratman.
No full textReview of special issue of Fastitocalon and the eleventh issue of Tolkien Studies.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2015). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP
Review of The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium, ed. Chris Vaccaro
No full textReview of edited essay collection. Considers each item in the collection individually and the collection as a whole.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2014). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP
World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence
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Barrel-rides and She-elves: Audience and "Anticipation" in Peter Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy
No full textPeter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, to the audience that loved the Lord of the Rings films, is an exciting opportunity to revisit Tolkien’s fantastic world and see favorite characters acting out their earlier adventures. The reader of the books, though, is often likely to find the difference in tone between the children’s book and the vastly expanded films jarring. This talk will explore audience expectations, the difficulties of filming a “prequel” after a “sequel,” and issues of “anticipation” in relation to character development
Tolkien's Faerian Drama: Origins and Valedictions
No full textIn "On Fairy-Stories," Tolkien introduces the concept of Faerian drama: plays which the elves present to men, with a "realism and immediacy beyond the compass of any human mechanism," where the viewer feels he is "bodily inside its Secondary World" but instead is "in a dream that some other mind is weaving." It is "a potion too strong" and the viewer/participant can't help but give it primary belief while it is happening. Faerian drama is a form of Elvish art one can almost but not quite grasp and understand, something the witness/participant will ponder and work through for the rest of his life. I will suggest that Tolkien may have been influenced in his development of the concept by Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the dream-like events that Gawain experiences and what he learns from them. I will examine some examples of Faerian drama in Tolkien's fiction and poetry, concentrating especially on his final story, Smith of Wootton Major, and the experiences Smith has in Faery.This is the Version of Record (VoR) of the article originally published in Mythlore (2014). Mythlore is available in the electronic database Expanded Academic ASAP.Peer reviewe
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