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Author:

Diefendorf, Emily Jane

Title:

Students' written argumentation structure from an introductory oceanography course: Analysis and evaluation

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

written argumentation
writing
argumentation
oceanography
discourse

File:

Download Diefendorf_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory John Kelly, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Mc Donald, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carla Zembal Saul, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hwang, Joonho

Title:

DECONSTRUCTING THE DISCOURSE OF THE GLOBAL DIGITAL DIVIDE IN THE AGE OF NEO-LIBERAL GLOBAL ECONOMY

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

the global digital divide
neo-liberalism
global economy
discourse
technology
development

File:

Download Dissertation-Joonho_Hwang.pdf

Committee Members:

Jorge Reina Schement, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Denny Taylor, Committee Member
Krishna Prasad Jayakar, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Ortega, Leticia Eugenia

Title:

Digital Practices and Literacy Identities in English Education: From Deterministic Discourses to a Dialectic Framework

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

discourse
new literacies
digital practices
teacher education
educational policy
collaborative inquiry
literacy technologies

File:

Download Leticia_Ortega_dissertationFINALRev.pdf

Committee Members:

Jamie Myers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Steve L Thorne, Committee Member

Author:

Torregano, Michelle Early

Title:

Clean Slate: Making Sense of Public Education in the "NEW" New Orleans

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

social equity
school reform
public education
race
Rebuilding and Transforming
privatization
politics
Bring New Orleans Back Education committee
charter schools
critical policy analysis
discourse
educational equity
greenfield
history of public education in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina
interviewing
National Coalition for Quality Education in New Or
natural disaster
neoliberalism
teacher unions
United Teachers of New Orleans

File:

Download METDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Emilie Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Brady, Miranda Jean

Title:

Discourse, Cultural Policy, and Other Mechanisms of Power: The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Identity
Native
Museum
Native American
American Indian
Media
National Museum of the American Indian
discourse
cultural policy
cultural studies
Foucault
governmentality

File:

Download dissertation_m_brady_8_28.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy S Packer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Karl Davis, Committee Member
Mary Coffey, Committee Member
Carla Mulford, Committee Member
Jane Juffer, Committee Member

Author:

Yanez-Prieto, Maria-del-Carmen

Title:

On Literature and the Secret Art of (Im)possible Worlds: Teaching Literature-Through-Language

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

literature
language
discourse
conceptual learning
development
pedagogy
creativity

File:

Download YanezPrieto_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Lantolf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Lipski, Committee Member
Guadalupe Martí Peña, Committee Member
Steve L Thorne, Committee Member
Ronald Carter, Committee Member

Author:

Drake, Ryan Thomas

Title:

The Limit of Life: The Ethics of Discourse in Plato's Protagoras

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Plato
discourse
measure
ethics
politics
dialectic
interpretation

File:

Download Drake_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Sallis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Joseph Conway, Committee Member
Charles Edward Scott, Committee Member
Mark Munn, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yasong

Title:

THE EXAMINATION OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN TOURISM REPRESENTATION DISCOURSE

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

identity
tourism
discourse
representation

File:

Download Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Duarte B Morais, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Duarte B Morais, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Garry Chick, Committee Member
Christine Buzinde, Committee Member
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member

Author:

Duran Urrea, Delfina Evelyn

Title:

A community-based study of social, prosodic, and syntactic factors in code-switching

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

code-switching
discourse
bilingual speakers
New Mexico
New Mexican Spanish
intonation units
language attitudes
syntactic factors
word classes

File:

Download DuranU_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chip Gerfen, Committee Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member
Catherine Travis, Special Member

Author:

Boyer, Elisebeth Connolly

Title:

Preservice Elementary Teachers’ use of a Discursive Model of Meaning Making in the Co-construction of Science Understanding

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

elementary
science
preservice
discourse
argument

File:

Download Boyer_Dissertation_7-16-12.pdf

Committee Members:

Carla Zembal Saul, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carla Zembal Saul, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Susan G Strauss, Committee Member
Glendon Wilbur Blume, Special Member

Author:

Perera, Muditha Kaushalya

Title:

Discourses of militarisation in Sri Lankan universities

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

militarization
discourse
education
universities
academia

File:

Download perera_dissertation_FINAL_2015_ii.pdf

Committee Members:

Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Athelstan Canagarajah, Committee Member
Gail Louise Boldt, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member

Author:

Reagan, Kevin Michael

Title:

An Investigation Into Identity Formation Via Participation In Sports And Consumption Of Mediated Sports

Graduate Program:

Humanities

Keywords:

Sports
ideology
identity
Ideological State Apparatus
discourse

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Jones Kareithi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kirker, Jessica Lynne

Title:

Drawing from Discourse: Autoethnographic Reflections of Race, Gender, and the Practice of Teaching Art

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

art education
race
gender
discourse
teacher discourse
autoethnography

File:

Download Kirker_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Treat Keifer Boyd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Booker Stephen Carpenter Ii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kimberly Anne Powell, Committee Member
Jeanine M Staples, Special Member

Author:

Johnson, Matthew Michael

Title:

Failure is an option: Reactions to failure in elementary engineering design projects

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

engineering education
epistemic practice
discourse
sociolinguistics
failure
improvement

File:

Download Matthew_Johnson_Dissertation_Final_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

William Carlsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory John Kelly, Committee Member
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Danny Glynn Sykes, Committee Member
Christine M Cunningham, Special Member

Author:

Brooks, Earl Holmes

Title:

On Rhetoric and Black Music

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
black music
jazz
ragtime
public sphere
discourse
Scott Joplin
Duke Ellington
John Coltrane
Mary Lou Williams

File:

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Committee Members:

Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John "Jack" Selzer, Committee Member
Cheryl Glenn, Committee Member
Paul C Taylor, Outside Member

Author:

Cronin, Neil

Title:

Safety Nets, Safety Valves, and True Alternatives: How Competing Discourses Shape Leaders’ Understandings of Alternative Education

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

alternative education
discourse
narratives
beliefs
leadership
safety valves
safety nets
innovation
counter-narrative
complex meanings

File:

Download N.Cronin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah Lynn Schussler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Lynn Schussler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger Shouse, Committee Member
Marsha Elizabeth Modeste, Committee Member
Dana Lynn Stuchul, Outside Member