In this thesis, I address the absence of intersectionality in feminist scholarship, particularly in the study of feminist composition pedagogy. As a discipline, Rhetoric and Composition concerns itself with shifts in social...
Mot-clé:
Composition, Feminism, Feminist Pedagogy, Intersectionality, Pedagogy et Rhetoric
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Feminist theory -- Study and teaching (Higher), Queer theory -- Study and teaching (Higher), Gender identity -- Study and teaching (Higher) et Intersectionality (Sociology)
Having grown up on a farm in rural North Carolina in my youth and remaining an avid gardener through the all stages of my life -I have developed a deep appreciation and awareness of the environment and its natural systems. As...
Mot-clé:
Art, Climate Change, Making, Meta-Modern, Painting et Regenerative
The present research was designed to extend the current literature on the social consequences of exposure to sexist humor. The effects of sexist humor on expressions of both explicit and implicit discrimination were examined....
Mot-clé:
hiring, humor, microaggression, micro-aggression, sexist humor et women
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Sexism -- Humor -- Psychological aspects, Sex discrimination against women -- Psychological aspects et Sex discrimination in employment -- Psychological aspects
The Oxford online dictionary defines adolescence as the period of development between childhood and adulthood (Oxford Online Dictionary, n.d.). Adolescents, while maturing in physical ways, still have the minds of children. The...
Mot-clé:
adolescent, disquisition, teacher training et well-being
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Teenagers -- Health and hygiene -- North Carolina, High school students -- Mental health -- North Carolina -- Davidson County, Teacher-student relationships et Adolescent psychology
Community colleges have a long-standing history of providing higher education to countless individuals who might not otherwise have been offered access. Research demonstrates that faculty members wield an abundance of power in...
Mot-clé:
belongingness, community college, culturally relevant pedagogy, improvement science et social justice
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Community colleges, Racial justice in education, Belonging (Social psychology), Culturally relevant pedagogy et Social justice
While playing and investigating with an array of materials, objects, and processes in the studio, I try to make sense of how I experience the world around me. This experimentation and play, combined with an ever-present...
Mot-clé:
Drawing Machine, Electronic Art, Installation, Kinetic Art, New Media et Sculpture
An examination of sites of archival practice within the human lived experience—artists as archivists, erasure and archival silences, materials which keep time, and the topography of intersections between art making and archival...
Mot-clé:
Archives, Craft, Photography, Public Practice, Social Engagement et Textiles
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Archives, Crafts & decorating, Photography, Public art, Critical theory -- Art et Textiles
This quasi-experimental study examined the dissociability of thought constraint from task relatedness (i.e., whether thoughts are related to the task at hand) and the rank-order stability of thought constraint. The study also...
Mot-clé:
freely-moving thought, individual differences, measurement et mind wandering
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Thought and thinking, Attention, Mental health, Attention—Testing et Task analysis
The following study presents a novel investigation of the moderating role of social norms in the suppression of stereotype-related thoughts and the subsequent rebound effect, hypothesizing that suppressing stereotyping thoughts...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the timber industry in Jackson County, North Carolina. It is hoped that the study may also shed light on lumbering in the Appalachian region. By adapting Ronald D Eller's chronology for...
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Lumber trade -- North Carolina -- Jackson County -- History et Logging -- North Carolina -- Jackson County -- History