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ePortfolios go to the parks: Lessons learned from honors immersive service-learning and leadership academic programs.
No full textDive into a compelling collection of case studies derived from PebbleBash 2024, showcasing the transformative impact of PebblePad across diverse educational contexts. These selected studies highlight educators’ innovative use of PebblePad, the Learning Journey Platform, to create dynamic learning experiences that scaffold, support, and surface learning for student success. Each case study is grounded in the themes and streams that form the conceptual backbone of this book and conference. Key Themes Explored: Authentic Assessment: Discover innovative assessment strategies that promote deeper learning, provide meaningful outcomes beyond traditional methods and prepare students for the world of work. Flexible Learning Design: Explore how educators customize learning experiences to meet diverse needs, enhancing engagement and personalization. Belonging and Wellbeing: Learn about practices that cultivate supportive environments, fostering a positive community and enhancing student success. Employable and Future Ready: See how PebblePad prepares students with essential skills and reflective practices for success in a competitive global landscape. Professional Identity and Capability: Explore case studies illustrating how educators guide students in developing capabilities and skills for career and life success This collection not only highlights the powerful capabilities of PebblePad but also inspires educators to reimagine the possibilities of teaching, learning and assessment in the digital age. About PebblePad In a rapidly evolving educational landscape, PebblePad stands out as the only eportfolio, workbook, and assessment platform that unifies the entire learning journey. From pre-arrival to alumni status, PebblePad empowers students with a holistic view of their educational experiences, both within and beyond the curriculum. This versatility extends across disciplines and initiatives, supporting, scaffolding, and surfacing learning at scale while enabling authentic assessment
The silences of Annie Dillard
No full textThesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of EnglishThis research began as an investigation into Annie Dillard's An American Childhood with the intention of discovering if her memoir could be considered nature writing. Though I had intended to limit myself to her memoir, my research in nature writing and in ecocriticism continued to expand the breadth of Dillard's work that I included. The underlying theme that became a focal point for my research was that of the spiritual language in Dillard's writing, which I examined through Max Picard's definition of silence. After merging varied ways of seeing nature writing and spiritual writing in Dillard's work, it became apparent, even before reading the Afterword" in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that Dillard's writing was pointing toward silence and darkness. The via negativa, a Christian aesthetic path toward unknowing, is what I traced through three of her books: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm, and An American Childhood. Not only does Dillard join a tradition of nature writing along with Henry David Thoreau and the Romantics, but her contributions remain shrouded because her words leave space for possibility: enchantment, bewilderment, or both, paradoxically
Convenient disguise: Engaging Lee in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden
No full textThesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English.East of Eden (1952), which John Steinbeck considered his masterpiece, constitutes a decidedly strange narrative universe, with characters residing simultaneously in the seemingly contradictory worlds of fiction/myth and nonfictional/biography. Into that frame Steinbeck places one of his most interesting but overlooked characters, the Chinese servant known simply as “Lee,” who becomes central to the development of Steinbeck‟s major themes in the novel. Yet Lee is significant for another reason, too, for he might well represent Steinbeck‟s most ambitious attempt to demonstrate the precariousness of ethnicity. At first he appears as a narrow stereotype of a Chinese servant, but several scenes later he emerges from that disguise as a thoughtful, educated, well-spoken man who has intentionally chosen a life of servitude and obscurity for the multiple benefits it affords him. People are unable (or unwilling) to understand him, he observes, perhaps in part because they are unable to really see him. He tells his friend, Samuel Hamilton, “You are one of those rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect” (161). Thus Lee is a character in tension, a man of dual identities created by his position as an ethnic minority. To follow him throughout the novel, then, is to engage Steinbeck‟s apparent interest in Lee‟s cultural identity. While Steinbeck could not fully escape the surrounding culture or his own white, masculine perspective, his portrayal of Lee in East of Eden demonstrates a willingness to question the validity of mainstream views, especially with regard to some of the more common ethnic stereotypes
Home and abroad: Elizabeth Bishop’s poetics of placement in Questions of Travel
No full textThesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of EnglishWho is Elizabeth Bishop? In spite of the vast number of studies done on Bishop and her work over the last twenty-five years, cohering Bishop the poet with Bishop the person is hardly any less difficult than it was upon the poet’s death in 1978. Bishop leaves behind four collections of poetry as well as a handful of unpublished and uncollected works in addition to her posthumously published letters and prose. For their part, critics have approached Bishop from as many critical lenses as offered by the theoretical schools flourishing during the second half of the twentieth century. A survey of critical responses from the last ten years alone yields scholarship on Bishop’s feminism, her tourism, her formalism, and even her brief forays into socialism.
As wide-ranging as the contemporary academic opinions of Bishop, the responses of creative writers reveal her pervasive influence on generations of poets who appreciate her adherence to form and close attention to the object. Equally appealing to her colleagues is Bishop’s retention of mystery and irresolution in her poems that rewards repeated readings of her work. Contingent with current Bishop scholarship, I plan to discuss the ways in which Bishop’s poetry at once seeks to construct and evade stable identity and how her time in Brazil provided the perfect setting for such negotiations. With an emphasis on her poetry written while in Brazil, as well as her letters and other biographical resources, my work will focus on Bishop’s displacement in Brazil as a facilitator to her creativity
Walden and A New Home, Who'll Follow?: Recovering Eve in nineteenth-century nature writing
No full textThesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of EnglishCanonization of nineteenth-century American authors often separates Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? and Henry David Thoreau's Walden into diverse literary genres. Although the authors wrote in different but popular forms during the nineteenth-century, both Kirkland's realist A New Home, Who'll Follow? and Thoreau's transcendental Walden confront issues of community, partnership, and an environmental ethic. In contrast to authors like James Fenimore Cooper who depicted the recreation of Eden on the expanding American wilderness, Kirkland and Thoreau sought out to rediscover Eden in their respective landscapes. While neither actually considers a complete return to primitivism, both endorse a return to simplicity by actively promoting a partnership with the landscape through the science of observation. For both Kirkland and Thoreau, the earth is an autonomous agent, capable of action. Their environmental partnerships are best interpreted through Carolyn Merchant's theory of the Recovery Narrative, outlined in her book Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. Through this interpretation of natural history and culture, Kirkland and Thoreau rediscover an American Eden within the eco-feminist Recovery Narrative. Additionally, their reciprocal partnerships with the earth suggest that Kirkland's Mary Clavers and Thoreau as the protagonist in Walden represent scientific Eves within their existing Edens. Kirkland and Thoreau's recognition of a dynamic earth challenges the fixed, natural order to which many still clung during the nineteenth century. In a world governed by middle-class expectations and rules, Kirkland and Thoreau rediscover an Eden on earth and find that it is willful and independent from human law. The self-governing environments that these authors observe exemplify the changefulness of nature. If nature cannot be controlled or fixed, neither can human nature
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
New World literature? Crossing borders with Isabella Bird and Winnifred Eaton
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Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature by Jennifer Rae Greeson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010.
No full textClick on the DOI link below to access the article (may not be free).Review of the books: David Wyatt. Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. + pages. Notes, works cited, and index. 39.95
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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