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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Public pedagogy"”.
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Alternative media for public pedagogy: "Chief" concerns and human agency
To demonstrate how the growing influence of alternative media in civil society correlates with the rise of social movements and their influence on contemporary manifestations of resistance, this research uses critical ethnographic methodologies to document the narratives of alternative media …
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(Mis)Diagnosing Silence: A Cultural Criticism of the Virginia Tech News Coverage of Silence as Public Pedagogy
… the news coverage of Virginia Tech serve as a public pedagogy of silence? That is, I argue that the news coverage of Virginia Tech served as what Giroux (1994) calls "public pedagogy" in which the media educate and influence the public about how silence should be understood in the classroom. …
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Performing radical black womanhood: Black women artists as critical public pedagogues
<p>This project draws from research on critical public pedagogy to explore the pedagogical experiences of Black women artists and performers from Detroit, Michigan, using qualitative methodological components from autoethnography, ethnography, phenomenology, and art-based inquiry. The researcher …
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Exhibiting Climate Change: An Examination of the Thresholds of Arts-Sciences Collaborations in the Context of Learning for a Sustainable Future
… in the context of the development of public pedagogy about a sustainable response to climate change. The dissertation is an in-depth case study of a civil society group called Cape Farewell that is organizing collaborations between contemporary artists and climate scientists. Since …
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Pedagogy of the Amused: An Exploration of Writing Education for a Critical Sense of Humor
… optimistic about the role of humor as a critical public pedagogy that generates emancipatory spaces from which students can recognize social injustice and re-envision a more equitable society, I argue that the distance humor generates can be used to emancipate people from empathic responses that …
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Pop Up Pedagogy: Exploring Connections between Street Art, Feminist Literacy Practices and Communities
… art create pop ups of informal learning in public spaces, both online and offline? (2) How might street art, created by feminist street artists, be considered a feminist literacy practice that provides a point of entry for women, and those who identify as women, to participate in the shaping …
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CRACKING THE WORLD SYSTEM: MEDIATING PUBLIC PEDAGOGIES FROM THE “WORLD REVOLUTION” OF 1848
… Paulo Freire, the seminal theorist of critical pedagogy, this project couples WSA with the analytic lens of public pedagogy to overcome the conceptual limitations of ideology and of various postmodern critiques. Primary media sources are used for purposes of critical political economy, to …
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"Punk Has Always Been My School": The Educative Experience of Punk Learners
… experiences.</p> <p>Through the framework set of Public Pedagogy, Social Learning Theory, and Self-Directed Learning Development, this research aims to contribute to scholarship that brings learning contexts in from the margins of education rhetoric and into the center of analysis by better …
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The Ethics of Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Education: A Security and Freedom for the Other
… and intensive aims of FLE and EE signal their public pedagogic character a term I borrow from Henry Giroux to stress that FLE and EE lessons are taught through various media texts (e.g. debt and investment television programs, policy documents, FLE and EE video games, soap operas, newspaper …
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Imperfect art: working in public: a case study of the Oakland Projects (1991-2001).
In Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art (1994) the author called for a new language of critique for the transient and publicly located art practices known today as social, or public, practices. Since that time authors have taken up the challenge to site the work in art historical, …
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In Search of Mother: The Libratory Effects of Performance Pedagogy in the Mothering Practices of Black Women
… that I name as an Africana Feminist Performance Pedagogy. This methodology harnesses female power to the service of humanity. By linking these multiple identities: Black, mother, educator, performer and social activist, I have recovered cultural retentions that connect the work of Africana female …
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The IRA and the shadow of the informer : punishment, governance, and dealing with the past
… against it, using the case-study of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The research argues that the IRA’s policies and discourses in relation to the practical and political threat of informing are located within their wider governance efforts, during and after the Northern Ireland conflict. The …
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A case study of Tracie Morris's Project Princess
… framework consisted of intertextuality theory, public pedagogy, and performance studies, to explore the ways in which sites of resistance emerge from the poet’s narrative of lived experiences and social realities. Data was collected from page poetry, spoken word poetry, video, an audio interview …
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Becoming otherwise: two thousand and ten reasons to live in a small town
… seen a 'cultural turn' in urban planning, and public art has become an important component within urban design strategies. Accordingly, public art is most commonly encountered in the urban literature as commissioned public sculptures. Simultaneously operating are a range of critical, …
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Social Media and Critical Digital Museum Pedagogy: A Multicase Study of Institutions in Alberta
… understand and engage with critical social media pedagogy? Further sub-questions included: How do museums engage in nonformal pedagogical activities on social media? What values and priorities drive these approaches? What assumptions or intentional choices about their audiences do museums make …
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Inclusive education; challenges and barriers for people with intellectual disabilities accessing further education.
… as ‘both an economic theory and a powerful public pedagogy and cultural politics’ that has a destructive force on the civil liberties and the social contract; (Giroux 2004, p. 107). The restructuring of the VEC and SOLAS to form the Education and Training Board (ETB) has depersonalised the …
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Worlding through popular culture: Sport as a race/ethno making project in Korean America
… I attempted to articulate how sport works as a public pedagogy that specifies Asian racialization. My argument in this dissertation is straightforward: Sport is what I term a race/ethno-making project that has narrowed the scope of citizenship overdetermined by race. I hold that sport is a …