201 research outputs found
Perspective, Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1980
No full textThis issue of Eastern Washington University\u27s (EWU) alumni magazine contains articles about a campus production of Jesus Christ Superstar, the expanding roles of women in the workplace, a banking symposium co-sponsored by EWU, the speech pathology and audiology department, charitable giving to EWU, author and English professor John Keeble, and team teaching by EWU educated teachers Gary Bervan and Dean Largent.https://dc.ewu.edu/alumni_pubs/1103/thumbnail.jp
Finals during COVID-19
No full textThe author provides journal entries from March 8, 2020 and March 15, 2020. During this time, she learns that Eastern Washington University (EWU) moved finals week up a week, allowing students to move out for Spring break a week early. She also describes the escalating mitigation steps that resulted in general quarantine and movement of all EWU classes online.https://dc.ewu.edu/covid/1038/thumbnail.jp
Easterner, Volume 37, No. 28, May 22, 1986
No full textThis issue of the Easterner contains articles about a campus talk by author Tom Wolfe, nuclear peace activist Shaun Sullens, Outstanding Student Leadership Award winner Gregory S. Deckard, Parents\u27 Weekend activities, an RTV produced television show Technical Difficulties, Art Department award winners, the Cowabunga Fun Run, mother and daughter Eastern students Rita and Denise Lafreniere, the EWU orchestra performance, Associated Students (ASEWU) candidates, the Pence Union Building (PUB) video arcade, Bloomsday, a formal invitation to the wrestling team to join the Big Sky Conference, and the track and baseball seasons.https://dc.ewu.edu/student_newspapers/2435/thumbnail.jp
Increasing multimedia literacy in composition for multilingual writers: a case study of art analysis
No full textThis multiple case study/critical ethnography/autoethnography was done in two composition classes for multilingual writers at EWU in order to explore ways to foster multimodal literacies in English Language Learners (ELL\u27s). Digital composing environments force writers, readers, and texts to change .... Today, more than ever before, attention is being given to the role of the arts, multi-modality, and new literacies as they relate to research and practice in English language arts classrooms and operate within 21st century literacies (NCTE.org, 2016; Jocius, 2016). Following the call from the NCTE, the author urges us to consider postmodern views of reading and writing through different voices, different lenses, and different technologies--to go beyond print media. The author reports on a writing unit requiring students to select, analyze, and present works of art to increase their own multimodal literacies. She analyzes student essays for insights about their diverse cultures, world views, and preferences for art analysis. Recommendations for incorporating art analysis and material cultural artifacts are offered --Leaf iv
Identifying as author: exploring the pedagogical basis for assisting diverse students to discover their identities through creatively defined literacy narratives
No full textThis thesis explores the current discourse surrounding the redefinition of concepts such as text and authorship in the field of composition studies. Drawing from scholarship on topics ranging from multi-modal composition to feminist historical-appropriation, the author builds a case for redefining these concepts to include a broader range of texts and author-voices from which instructors can draw for course readings. By focusing on the particular instance of selecting readings to teach a literacy narrative unit in a first year college composition course, the author shows how redefining and broadening concepts of text and authorship may allow for students to more easily identify with a literary heritage and identify themselves as authors whose literacy-related experiences have something significant to add to the academic conversation. The chapters present a review of literature, introduce methods and processes for teaching a literacy narrative unit in a freshman composition course, offer the reflections of the instructor on teaching the literacy narrative, and justify a process of selecting texts which aren\u27t necessarily identified as literacy narratives as models for student literacy narratives --Leaf iv
ESL ABE, VESL, and bell hooks\u27 Democratic education: a case study of four experienced ESL instructors
No full textThis Master\u27s thesis is a case study of four experienced ESL instructors of Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Vocational ESL. (VESL). All are alumni of the Master of Arts in English Program with a Teaching English as a Second Language emphasis at Eastern Washington University (EWU). The primary focus of the case study are the theses these four professionals--all of whom currently have at least 15 years of ESL teaching experience, primarily in the Spokane Community College system with many years in the Institute for Extended Learning (IEL) on Monroe Street and/or in the Hillyard community where many recent immigrants and refugees live. Popchock (1999) wrote about workplace English and included several Vietnamese working in a local company where she offered English instruction, and more recently she developed a community-based literacy project and taught it at several levels to foster community engagement and English. Nardecchia (2002) presented a longitudinal single case study of a Russian immigrant working in a boat factory and trying to acquire English in the workplace with some occasional classes at the adult learning center where she was teaching. Roberton (2009) presented the Spokane VESL programs, including interviews with instructors, while Black (2013) focused her research on preliterate adult refugees and the challenges they face in the United States as they try to find employment. A major question being asked in recent research is whether English literacy is liberating or colonizing learners (MacDonald, 2015). As a proponent of democratic education, the thesis writer discusses the role of critical consciousness as well as the purposes of job training, which some would view as filling slots in industry. Democratic education should free learners from constraints related to country of origin, ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, educational level, religion, gender, and age. ABE and VESL would ideally offer job opportunities and freedom of choice to learners. Democratic education transforms a learner into an active participant who has a sharp sense of self-awareness and social responsibility. The author reviews literature about the role of literacy in learners\u27 lives while exploring bell hooks\u27 and Paulo Freire\u27s definitions of emancipatory education that lays a foundation for self-actualization where full participation in a democracy would help workers not feel like machines. He argues that the ESL classroom should be a site of resistance, and the author discusses his own experiences in culinary arts vocational program. He writes that he felt like a cog in the food industry\u27s machine to make a profit. Implications for teaching and recommendations for future research are needed --Leaves iv-v
Opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThe author describes job opportunities during the pandemic, which allowed the author to purchase a used car and save up for college.https://dc.ewu.edu/covid/1047/thumbnail.jp
Determination of the reasonable proportion of ecological water used of river ecological system
No full textModels of the proportion of ecological water requirement (EWR) and ecological water used (EWU) were put forward. Using the models, the EWU proportion based on EWR, and reasonable proportion of EWU suitable for the local situation of water resources and social economic development were calculated with overall consideration of actual social economical water use. Then, EWR of river ecological system was calculated with an objective renewing the ecological system of the Haihe river to the level in the 1970s. The thresholds of the EWR were 16%-66%. The proportion of actual EWR of the Haihe River during 1999-2002 revealed that the EWU has not been satisfied. Considering the coordination with the social economic development of the Haihe area, the reasonable proportion of Haihe EWU should be maintained within threshold value of 16%-46%
A Mother\u27s Dilemma
No full textThis entry describes the author\u27s challenges with mental health and contains a short essay describing the sacrifices made by the author\u27s mother during the COVID-19 pandemic.https://dc.ewu.edu/covid/1056/thumbnail.jp
Uncertainty, music, and the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThe author describes the pressures and anxieties arising over uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. These pressures related to employment, schoolwork, violence against people of color, and the inherent health concerns of living during a pandemic. The author describes the music she listened to during the different phases of her pandemic experience.https://dc.ewu.edu/covid/1048/thumbnail.jp
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