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Author-Centered Approaches in ELA Instruction: A Multiple Case Study of Secondary English Teachers
No full textLiterary authors are often neglected in secondary ELA (English Language Arts) literary instruction. Teachers are unsure how to teach about the author and how much time to spend on establishing the context for the text when the goal is to “cover” a variety of literary texts as part of a planned curriculum during the school year. Acknowledging the role of authors’ intentions as well as their experiences and aesthetic decisions in the production of literature may provide new entry points into literary texts for students. This multiple-case study of secondary English teachers and their high school students in a “bounded system” of five classroom contexts located in a northeastern public high school is being conducted to analyze how teachers plan and implement curriculum for teaching about the author in literary instruction. Grounded in a framework of Sociocultural theory and Activity theory, this study will examine each classroom as an activity system using multiple data sources such as a teacher questionnaire, student and teacher interviews, observations, and student and teacher documents/artifacts. The following research questions will direct this inquiry: (1) What are secondary English teachers’ thoughts about literary authors and their works? (2) How do secondary English teachers think about literary authors and their works in planning literary instruction? (3) How do secondary English teachers think about literary authors and their works in teaching literary instruction? A central assumption of this study is that how teachers treat the author in instruction has a profound impact on student learning. Findings were that teachers utilized the author as a tool and a resource to teach literature to increase student engagement in support of literacy development, but each teacher responded from their past experiences as learners to form practices in which they displayed varied levels of appropriation of the author and supporting resources. Theoretical and practical implications were that authorial intention, once derogated as unnecessary speculation in literary analysis by the New Critics, was found to be pedagogically useful in teaching about the lived experiences of authors as a way into a literary text; also, from a deconstructionist standpoint, the author was viewed as dead in theory circa 1970, but was found to be pedagogically foundational for teachers. Practical implications were that author-driven professional development and collaboration could be positive sites of foundational change in which the author in literature may be utilized to support culturally-responsive teaching and learning
Labour and Production Relations
No full textIn this chapter, the author (Ela Callorda Fossati) first reviews the relevant literature, before introducing gender as a dimension of characterization that is crucial to understanding the functioning of labour and production relations in developing countries. The statistical analysis shows that labour-sector governing institutions are differentiated along three main lines: the extent of decommodification (versus informal labour), the degree of openness and flexibility (versus closed labour force and rigid contracts) and the range of democratic-representative (versus authoritarian-paternalistic) patterns of labour institutionalization. Five distinct labour and production relation governance models are then identified in the 139-country sample. Surprisingly, most emerging economies exhibit liberal or coordinated labour and production relations to some extent similar to what can be observed in mature liberal and coordinated market economies. By contrast, the informal type of labour market governance includes many of the poorest world economies. The other emerging economies exhibit paternalistic or idiosyncratic labour governance models
hook’d on Ebonics and Black Texts: Enacting an Engaged Pedagogy in an 11th Grade ELA Classroom
No full textIn this article, the author discusses the process of creating an engaged pedagogy (hooks, 1994), one that prioritized authentic, engaging, and equally rigorous engagement activities that were ongoing preparation for standardized tests and embedded in core ELA instruction. These learning experiences were not only academically necessary, but they were also integral in developing positive racial identity. The author shares three ways to amplify reading instruction that prepares students for skill-based standardized tests and beyond
ELA for M/S: A Guidebook for Beginning Teachers
No full textELA for M/S: A Guidebook for Beginning Teachers (ELA for M/S is an acronym: English and Language Arts for Middle-and-Secondary schools) is designed to enable ENGL 478: Literature for Middle and Secondary Schools and ENGL 480: Internship students to develop competence in their field. The book also prepares ENGL 579: Professional Semester and Follow-up students to transition into professional life. The book\u27s contents includes 13 chapters: 1. Eight Pedagogical Imperatives; 2. Four Theories: Bloom, Gardner, Piaget and UDL; 3. Three Teaching Approaches; 9. Constructing Tests; 10. Writing Templates; 11. Tragedy for non-English Majors; to name a few. ELA for M/S is illustrated with 15 photos I took during The Little Red Schoolhouse Project, when my research assistants were Laura Allgood and Lindsey Lockhart (now Viets) of the Honors College. The Project\u27s western terminus is the Sunny Side School located at The Little House on the Prairie site in Independence, Kansas; the eastern terminus is Avonlea School (where Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables books, taught; Anne Shirley, like Laura Ingalls, teaches in a one-room schoolhouse) on Prince Edward Island off the coast of Canada.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/oer-english/1000/thumbnail.jp
A fiscalização ambiental e o papel do batalhão de polícia militar ambiental do Distrito Federal
No full textO trabalho trata da possibilidade da atividade de fiscalização ambiental realizada pelo Batalhão de Polícia Militar Ambiental do Distrito Federal, a partir da experiência vivenciada pelo autor. Para tanto, é apresentada a questão ambiental e de como ela foi apropriada pelo direito, em especial pelo direito brasileiro: a Lei n. 9.605/98, que define as infrações penais e administrativas contra o meio ambiente; as normas gerais sobre a fiscalização ambiental e em especial as normas do Distrito Federal. É ressaltado o trabalho da Polícia Militar Ambiental do DF para o cumprimento da legislação ambiental. _____________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACTThis study reveals the possibility of environmental fiscalization activity by the Batalhão de Polícia Militar Ambiental of Distrito Federal, since the experience being by the author. The environmental question is presented and how it was approprieted by the Law, specifically by the Brazilian Rights, law 9605/98, which defines the penal and administrative infractions against the environmental, the ground rules about the environmental fiscalization, speacially the Distrito Federal rules. Instead of that, the work realized by the Polícia Militar Ambiental of Distrito Federal to accomplished the environmental legislation
A vida como ela é: um fenômeno comunicacional
No full textEsta dissertação compreende a análise da capa do livro de contos de Nelson Rodrigues A Vida como ela é..., publicado pela editora Companhia das Letras, em 1992. Tendo como metodologia a Semiótica Francesa e partindo da hipótese de que a capa é a condensação das principais idéias do livro, vamos compará-lo com as demais capas dos outros volumes da coleção, assim também com os diversos produtos da indústria cultural nos quais A Vida como ela é... oi transformada. A obra em questão é um fenômeno comunicacional para a história das mídias brasileiras, pois está constantemente em evidência ao longo dos últimos 55 anos nos mais variados formatos. O autor Nelson Rodrigues, jornalista atuante e sempre polêmico, sofreu diversas interpretações e críticas na história da nossa cultura. Chegou a ser considerado, no início de sua carreira, autor de subliteratura. O reconhecimento de sua obra teatral começou nos anos 40, com a peça Vestido de Noiva, valendo-lhe o marco da dramaturgia moderna brasileira. Entretanto, no campo jornalístico, seu reconhecimento ocorre a partir dos anos 90 com as reedições de suas crônicas..This thesis is about the analyze of the A vida como ela é... book-cover, by Nelson Rodrigues, published by the Companhia das Letras Editor. The ethodology used is the French semiotics. At first it starts from the hypothesis that the book-cover is a condensation of the book's main ideas. We will compare it with the others book-covers of the Nelson Rodrigues's collection. We will also compare it with the several items of the cultural industry that A vida como ela é... have been transformed. It is a communication phenomena to the brazilian history of media, because it's frequently reviewed in the last 55 years in different formats. Nelson Rodrigues, an acting journalist and always polemic, has had a lot of critics in our culture history. At his career beginning, he has been considered a trashy literature author. His work o theater has been acknowledged at the beginning of the forties, with the play Vestido de Noiva, which gave him the brazilian modern dramaturgy mark. However, his acknowledgement in the journalistic field started only at the nineties, with his chronics publication.Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES
Evaluation of moments of ratios of quadratic forms in normal variables and related statistics
No full textQuale letto per Sir Gawain? Trasformazioni del meraviglioso nella letteratura inglese del medioevo
No full textSir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the most ambiguous texts of Middle English literature, will be here analyzed from the perspective of its author’s approach to the marvelous. The paper aims at showing the way the anonymous author presents the scenes where, according to literary conventions, the supernatural is at work, and reshapes the marvelous and the fantastic elements by placing them in a sort of realistic frame. This kind of marginality of the supernatural can be seen in the so-called “temptation episodes” that happen upon a bed. The paper argues that the author employs, as a starting point, the traditional adventure of the lit merveille, that appears in many works of different literary traditions dealing with Gawain, deprives the scene of its marvelous nature and transforms the adventure into a fight where the Lady of the Castle seems to be more dangerous than the weapons and the ferocious lion which elsewhere attack Gawain on the marvelous bed
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