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Chinese Educators' Intercultural Dialogue with the Dao De Jing and Macbeth: A Hermeneutic Inquiry
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The limited scholarship available on the incorporation of Shakespeare’s plays into an intercultural curriculum has led me to contemplate the prospects of fostering dialogue between Shakespeare and the wisdom traditions of Chinese Daoism in higher education within a globalized context. This...
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Spring 2019
This theoretical dissertation asks: “How might an empathic-Thou lens inform ELA teachers’ values, decisions, and practices surrounding writing assessment?” Using a framework informed by Martin Buber’s I-Thou philosophy—and an approach informed by hermeneutics, autoethnography, and writing as...
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Rethinking Critical Thinking in Colombian High School Philosophy through Paul Ricoeur’s Phronesis: A Hermeneutic Inquiry
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Current times underscore the imperative to look for educational possibilities in Colombian schools that support a greater openness to listening to diverse voices. In my experience, the dominant training of critical thinking in high school philosophy courses is grounded in philosophical logic and...
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Social Theory Encounters Lines and Bodies: Engaging with the Visual Art of Betty Goodwin, Julie Mehretu, Guillermo Kuitca and Juan Munoz
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This dissertation examines the lines in the work of four contemporary artists – Betty Goodwin, Julie Mehretu, Guillermo Kuitca and Juan Muñoz – and explores how these lines invite a particular kind of embodied viewing. Through this analysis of visual art and my own bodily engagements with the...
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Spring 2024
Death is an ungraspable phenomenon that will grasp us all, and while humans may go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with death, it inevitably seethes its way into the psyche. The mortal condition of humanity warrants thoughtful and careful consideration, including the ways in which it is...
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Toward a Badiou-Inspired Eventful English Language Arts Curriculum: A Refractive Autoethnography
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The purpose of my autoethnographic study is to understand more fully how my experience of educational events and their emerging truths impact my identity and my curricular and pedagogical approaches as a seasoned English Language Arts teacher. My dissertation addresses the following research...
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Toward an Intercultural Ethics of "Original Difficulty" in ESL Curriculum: A Hermeneutic Inquiry
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Global occurrences in recent times have highlighted the degeneration of conversation and relationships at all levels, and the ways that education might disrupt such harmful grammars of engagement have been explored by scholars writing in the field of intercultural communicative competence and...