108 research outputs found
The information use behaviors of graduate students in an online learning community
No full textAs online education expands, research should identify how students interact and learn online. Because of the technological, proximal and asynchronous uniqueness of online education, learners face challenges not native to face-to-face education. As such, online students may seek alternate relationships and methods of interacting, forming their own “Small Worlds.” Online students have their own “view of social reality, and ways in which they satisfy their intellectual, social, and physical needs” (Chatman, 1991, p. 438). Small Worlds allow people “to share a similar cultural and intellectual space” (Huotari & Chatman, 2001, p. 352), and members “share a repertoire of resources and sensibilities communally developed over time” (Wenger, 1998, p. 2). Chatman’s theory of Small Worlds is a spatial and social lens through which to examine information behavior; in this instance the online learning environment is a virtual space that fosters and shapes the information behaviors of its participants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the information use behaviors of graduate students in an online learning community, and to elucidate the information interactions and exchanges that occur within course threaded discussions. Additionally, this study intended to determine if and how graduate students in Library and Information Science programs created community in the online classroom, and how, if at all, the presence of community influenced information use behaviors. With respect to the learning online, the literature clearly addresses distance education, Internet communities, communities of practice, and the development of community in traditional on campus classrooms. Some of this research begins to encompass various aspects of human information behavior as applied to the online setting. However, the literature does not marry these components and does not examine nor address the specific information needs and dynamics that occur in an online graduate classroom. The goal of this research was to provide a detailed analysis of the nature and dynamics of information behaviors in an asynchronous graduate online classroom, to identify factors that shape these behaviors, and to determine their relationship to the process of knowledge construction.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Nicole Amy Cook
Accumulated testimony: layering French girls' diaries on the Algerian exodus
No full textIn 1997, French-Algerian author Leïla Sebbar published an illustrated children’s book, J’étais enfant en Algérie, juin 1962 (‘I was a child in Algeria, June 1962’) in which she creates the fictional account of a young girl from the interior of Algeria leaving her home during the great exodus of the French just prior to Algerian independence. Using the genre of diary writing, Sebbar’s text reads as testimonial of fleeing their country for a homeland they do not know. Although this text is intimate, Sebbar relies on accumulated scraps of collective experience that, when joined to her own, fill in the absence of her homeland. In 2013, French artist Nicole Guiraud published her personal diaries kept before and during her exodus from Algeria from April to July 1962. Her raw representation of traumatic upheaval is couched in a rich paratext including artwork, photographs, and German translations, that simultaneously intensifies her account and distracts the reader from the extreme pain behind her words. In this article I demonstrate how fictional and real accounts published in very different historical contexts convey the exodus experienced by almost one million individuals and how each author deploys a layering technique to simultaneously draw in and distance the reader from extraordinarily painful personal experience
Performance piece on the creativity of Maine woman of French-heritage. Include
No full textPerformance piece on the creativity of Maine woman of French-heritage. Includes profile of Patty Griffin, a singer originally from Old Town, and statements from Nicole Chaison, an author and blogger; Amy Bouchard, owner of Wicked Whoopie Pies and Isamax Snacks; and Lorraine Pelletier, regional coordinator of the 2014 World Acadian Congress
"Relationships of care": Care and meaning in Canadian academic librarian work during COVID-19
No full textIn March and April 2021, we conducted semi-structured interviews with academic librarians from across Canada about their experiences working through COVID-19 thus far. Topics included workload, collegiality, and overall satisfaction with their working conditions during a pandemic. Themes emerged around job security, meaningful work, workload shifts, working from home, relationships with colleagues and administrators, and hopes for the future. While individual experiences varied greatly, the biggest uniting factor was the care and deliberation that characterized both our participants’ framing of work that was meaningful to them as well as their ideal relationships with colleagues and administrators. This research connects to previous literature on vocational awe and emotional labour in libraries. For librarians, this study connects isolated individual situations with the overall picture of what our work looked and felt like during the COVID-19 pandemic. For library administrators, we have identified some general trends, which can provide insight in the areas of communication, flexibility, and institutional support as we work toward a post-pandemic new normal.Peer reviewedTheory and ResearchPublished in a journalacademic librarianslibrarian workloadCOVID-19care in librarieslibrary labouraffective labourbibliothécaires universitairescharge de travail des bibliothécairesle care en bibliothèquele travail des bibliothèquesle travail affecti
"Always at work": Canadian academic librarian work during COVID-19
No full textTo learn about the experiences of librarians working through COVID-19, we conducted semi-structured interviews with academic librarians from across Canada on issues such as workload, collegiality, and overall satisfaction with their working conditions during the pandemic. Themes emerged around job security, workload changes (both in terms of hours worked and the type of work being done), working from home, relationships with colleagues and administrators (including the perceived speed of the institution’s pandemic response and the state of communication from or with administration), and hopes for the future. This article focuses on the semantic elements of librarian work during COVID-19 uncovered during thematic analysis, including an in-depth discussion of how academic librarians’ workload changed; a second planned article will focus on latent themes on the caring nature of library work. This study connects isolated individual situations with the overall picture of what librarians’ work looked and felt like during the COVID-19 pandemic. For library administrators, we identify the ways in which institutional support helped or hindered librarians in doing their work.Peer reviewedtheory and researchpublished in a journalacademic librariansworkloadCOVID-19remote worklibrary labourbibliothécaires universitairescharge de travailtravail à distancetravail en bibliothèqu
Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
No full textTo ignore the strategies and structures through which stories are told, this thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing reformulation as an expansive, pluralist and contextualized critical discipline. Participating in this expansion, this
thesis evidences the pertinence and vitality of some narratological models and the limitations of others. It opens up alternative critical possibilities by drawing upon insights within contemporary critical theory, from poststructuralist philosophy to transcultural feminism to
sociolinguistics. Above all, my interventions proceed from close readings of innovative fiction by women writers hitherto all but unrepresented in, and therefore potentially subversive of, existing models: Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk.
The first chapter formulates an in-between critical space where feminist and postmodernist theories of narrative intersect. It re-examines metafiction through the lens of auto(bio)graphical practice and feminist poststructuralist theories of self, and introduces the notions of folds and
echoes to describe specific structural innovations. Chapter Two examines unconventional uses of second-person address and reconsiders existing narratological approaches in their light, focusing on the `push and pull of narrative' that the `you' form enacts. Chapter Three addresses the insufficient attention paid to multiply narrated novels, theorizing them as `narrative communities' and introducing terms to describe different internal relations between narrators, relations that can often be read as determinedly 'democratic'. The final chapter contests the
hegemony of temporal models of narrativity by formulating a 'spatial poetics' that accounts both for how spatial structures can be agents of narrative change and for the complexity of textual constructions of space, which frequently exceed static definitions of 'setting'.
Running throughout is a reconception of narrative as located not with the figure of the narrator, but in relations of intersubjectivity. The narratological criticism formulated here works towards a situated ethics of reading responsive to the politics of writing: it is engaged, relational, and ever in process
The effects of barometric pressure on first graders' behavior
No full textIncludes bibliographical references
“Pulling Back the Curtain” : Analyzing and Voicing the Identities of Characters in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
No full textxi, 69 p.Shakespeare was known for his ability to adapt and change other works, or blend his own works, like his sonnets, into other portions of his literature such as his plays. Shakespeare’s ability to also adapt his characters, by drawing parallels between them while not conflating them, inspired me to explore his characters. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare uses the traditional “comic” form of playwrights; however, he also uses an undercutting of tragedy to provoke questioning and unsettledness from the audience. The idea of questioning Shakespeare also incorporates within the characters of Twelfth Night themselves: Viola is disguised as Cesario, Feste plays a happy jester while actually a sad fool, Olivia veils herself from men while desperately seeking love and so on. Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian are confused for one another, and their true identities being revealed is what ultimately resolves the primary conflict of the play: identity. The author explores the problems of identity and duality in Shakespeare’s play in both essays and poems from the point of view of Olivia, Viola, Malvolio, Orsino and Feste
Northridge Review: Spring 1992
No full textNorthridge Review: Spring 1992 – Table of Contents Q. Wallick, Fidelia Monzon, p. 7 Astrid Ryterband, The City Where the Waves Begin, p. 10 Sandra Brown, To You Who Wait, p. 14 Piano Lessons, p. 15 Robert Wynne, (state your name) in America, p. 16 Janean L. Hall, Spectator Slowdown, p. 18 Andrew Comey, Inflicting Blues, p. 20 Scot Butwell, Dinner Date, p. 24 Catch Me If You Can, p. 26 Blair H. Allen, When Visions Boil Away to Residue, p. 28 Alan Kirk, Jesus Potato, p. 29 Helen Laurence, fragile, p. 32 Singing Bowl, p. 34 Jeremy Nave, Japanese fighting fish, p. 36 Pierre Grady, My Crayons, p. 37 Deb Lacusta, Regular Guy in Hollywood, p. 38 Hart Schulz, Red Jacket (From the Street), p. 47 Sideview (On the Freeway), p. 48 After Everything (Running on the Dunes), p. 49 Mary Yoder, Empty Space, p. 50 Damon Lewis, Charlie Ham, p. 51 Nicole Muraoka, Ordering Words, p. 54 Found Poem, p. 55 Jeremy Hight, untitled, p. 56 Carrie Etter, The Woman Waiting, p. 58 Amy Lam, Deadly Grapes, p. 60 The Garden, p. 62 Barbara Sigman, Night, p. 64 David Carper, Vaya con Amor, p. 66 Robin Lee di Perna, Being From Nothingness, p. 68 Craig Anthony, A Story and Its Telling, p. 72 Elizabeth Warren, (writing a) LOVE SONG, p. 76 Contributor's Notes, p. 7
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