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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Rhetorical education"”.
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Voices From On High: Rhetorical Education in a Jewish Women's Writing Center
… mission statement at one institution of higher education--Yeshiva University (YU)--establishes rhetorical education for its undergraduate students. The research site for this study of rhetorical education and institutional mission is the college writing center at YU's women's campus, Stern …
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Bureaucratic Modernity and the Erosion of Practical Reason: A Rhetorical Education as an Antidote
… <em>ethical discourse and action</em>, and <em>education</em>. The dynamics of bureaucratic modernity function as an informal cultural pedagogy that reshapes knowledge, ethics, and formal education for its own purposes and after its own model of human life and sociopolitical community. This …
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Rhetoric and feminism in the Americanization Era: The YWCA's rhetorical education program for immigrant women
… of the movement was its work in the area of rhetorical education for non-English speaking immigrant women. Using a feminist, administrative historiographic methodology, this project positions the work of the International Institute’s administrators ecologically among other Americanization …
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Archiving the sacred: Austin Phelps and the adaptation of nineteenth-century rhetorical education at Andover Theological Seminary
… project expands the canon of nineteenth-century rhetorical history by providing a broadened understanding of how professional rhetoric was taught, learned, and practiced in nineteenth-century America. To do so, I examine the rhetorical theory, writing pedagogy, and pulpit oratory of Austin …
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The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: Medieval Rhetoric as Educational Praxis
… what are the implications of John of Salisbury's rhetorical theory for his approach to education? The Metalogicon, John's defense of the trivium, represents the primary text analyzed throughout the project. John's medieval rhetorical theory explicated the reciprocal relationship between rhetoric …
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We Must Teach Wisely and Lead Aright': Civic Literacy and Writing Pedagogy In Late Nineteenth Century American Women's Journalism
… civic literacy among readers; and 3) enact rhetorical education and/or writing instruction. Black, Mossell, and La Flesche use journalism as a site of important pedagogical work by encouraging reading, writing, and public participation among their readers--particularly through specific …
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Place, Literacy Learning, and Civic Engagement: A Case Study of Adventure Risk Challenge
… takes place. Finally, my work illustrates how rhetorical education and consideration of "citizenship" can be implemented into place-based education to build a more comprehensive model of Greenwood's critical pedagogy of place. These findings have implications for practitioners interested in a …
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The Need, Feasibility, and Means of Establishing a Speech Center
… and considered necessary for a well-rounded education. If today's society is inarticulate, then how can eloquence and articulateness be reintroduced as staples of a successful person in today's society? The answer is easy - through the study of rhetoric. After examining the study of rhetoric …
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The curriculum of coming out: queer pedagogies, literacies, and rhetorics in LGBTQ lives
… people’s need to learn literacy and rhetorical practices that equip them to take decisive action in debates and discussions surrounding sexuality. While scholars in writing studies have long been interested in studies of everyday literacy and rhetoric in a range of extra-institutional …
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Ars rhetorica et sacrae litterae: St. Patrick and the Art of Rhetoric in Early Medieval Briton and Ireland
<p>This dissertation is the first intensive rhetorical analysis of the writings of St. Patrick. This analysis, informed by interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies, contributes to our understanding of the rhetorical nature of St. Patrick's writings, as well as the nature of rhetorical …
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Jurists and Orators: Rhetorical and Legal Perspectives on the Roman Family
… texts in order to ascertain connections between rhetorical training and juristic writing. Specifically, I will focus on Roman family law, as many of Quintilian’s declamations are devoted to this topic and there is also a large body of juridical evidence that is roughly contemporary. In addition, …
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Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum
… part, a response to arguments that claim higher education fails to prepare students with fundamental communication skills necessary for everyday life and indicative of "educated" persons. Though the validity of such arguments is contestable, they nonetheless reflect fundamental inadequacies in …
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Reconfiguring racial uplift: church-sponsored African American rhetorical work in the early twentieth century
… white locations via the display of their rhetorical work, which black audiences received with pride and support, but white ones have utterly ignored. I critically examine here the rhetorical work of a Midwestern African American congregation, Bethel AME Church located in a then smaller …