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Author:

Posey, Catherine Ruth

Title:

READING BEYOND: CHILDREN’S LIVED SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES OF FANTASY LITERATURE

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

children's literature
spirituality
language arts
reader-response
elementary education

File:

Download cposey_dissertation_final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Dean Hade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann M Trousdale, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Ammon Jr., Committee Member
Alison Alene Carr Chellman, Committee Member
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Member

Author:

Chou, Wan-Hsiang

Title:

The Strange Case of Disconnection: Co-sleeping, Attachment, and the Imported Picture Books about Bedtime in Taiwan

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Taiwan
childrearing practices
fear
transitional objects
children's literature
picture books
attachment theory
parent child relations
sleep

File:

Download wan_hsiang_chou_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Dean Hade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Ewald Johnson, Committee Member
Steven Herb, Committee Member
Karen Treat Keifer Boyd, Committee Member
Dr Mary Galbraith, Committee Member

Author:

Hudock, Laura Anne

Title:

THE PICTUREBOOK PROJECT: A META/ETHNOGRAPHICALLY INFORMED CASE STUDY ON THE AESTHETIC RESPONSES OF CHILD READERS AT AN URBAN COMMUNITY CENTER

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

picture books
picturebooks
reading response
aesthetic stance
glowing data
children's literature
case study
environment
affordances
affordance theory
metafiction
boundary-breaking
loose parts
sociocultural context
elementary-aged children
community center
out-of-school
urban
ethnographically informed
microethnography
microethnographically informed
Common Core
reader response theory
literacy
multimodal
subversion
imagination
creativity
metapicturebooks

File:

Download Hudock_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Shannon, Committee Member
Daniel D. Hade, Committee Member
Christine Thompson, Outside Member

Author:

Rowland Storm, Cuthbert Jas

Title:

Problematizing the Promises of the American Library Association's Awards that Recognize Difference

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

American Library Association
children's literature
children's literature awards
Coretta Scott King Awards
Pura Belpré Award
Schneider Award
Stonewall Award
Newbery Award
difference
normalcy

File:

Download Problematizing_the_Promises_of_the_American_Library_Association_s_Awards_that_Recognize_Difference_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Shannon, Committee Member
Steven Herb, Committee Member
Wanda Knight, Outside Member

Author:

Slagle, Colette

Title:

Reimagining Her Quest: Representations of the Material in Girls' Fantasy Literature

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)

Keywords:

children's literature
girlhood studies
fantasy
materiality
feminist
quest
hero

File:

Download Slagle-Final_Formatted_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Smith, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kimberly Powell, Major Field Member
Gail Boldt, Major Field Member
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kimberly Anne Powell, Program Head/Chair