- Literacy (re) constructed: a critical analysis of textbook and educational policy discourse
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This qualitative research study aimed to critically examine developmental reading textbook and educational policy discourse situated in the California Community College System in order to uncover implicit assumptions about literacy, textbooks, college reading instruction, the instructor's role, and the role of developmental students. A theoretical framework combining Norman Fairclough's (2001) three-stage method of Critical Discourse Analysis with sociocultural theory and critical pedagogy wa...
Jennifer M Rodden.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Lilia Savova.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Love, labor and knowledge: how informal social groups disseminate and enforce dominant ideologies in select victorian novels
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This dissertation examines the ideological power of informal social groups in the Victorian novel. It fills a gap in scholarship on the period, created by the considerable which focuses on official institutions and relationships. Informal ties have gone largely undiscussed in terms of their ideological activity. This project demonstrates how these relationships perpetuate and apply dominant ideologies. It examines three types of relationship. First, it looks at close emotional ties and how...
Brett Robert Wallen.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Orchard, Christopher Committee members: Christopher Kuipers; Kenneth Sherwood.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Manufacturing culture: a comparative spatial analysis of the film industry in three rust belt cities
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The purpose of this mixed methods dissertation was to comparatively explore the impact of the film industry in three Rust Belt cities. In doing so, this study creates a regional composite of the film industry as an engine of economic development in the Rust Belt. Additionally, it assesses the effect of state sponsored film production incentives on regional economies. Qualitative analysis of interviews with regional film commissioners was synthesized with Geographic Information Systems ana...
R. James Wertz.
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Advisors: Leidman, Mary Beth Committee members: Nurhaya Muchtar; Jeff Ritchey.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- A mixed-method exploration of school organizational and social relationship factors that influence dropout-decision making in a rural high school
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This explanatory mixed-method study explored the dropout phenomenon from an ecological perspective identifying the school organizational (academics, activities, structure) and social relationship (teachers, peers) factors that most significantly influence students' decisions to leave school prior to graduation at a rural high school in south central Pennsylvania. The quantitative phase of the study utilized a 40 question, forced choice survey to isolate the school organizational and social...
Andrea J Farina.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Smeaton, Patricia; Machado, Crystal Committee members: Douglas Lare; Faith Waters.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- A mixed methods study of cyberbullying: student, educator, and parent/guardian perspectives and implications for prevention and intervention
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the perspectives of the three groups most directly affected by cyberbullying: (1) the students involved in incidents, (2) their parents/guardians, and (3) educators such as teachers, school administrators, counselors, social workers, and school psychologists. There have been ineffective or nonexistent cyberbullying prevention and intervention strategies used by all three groups, partly due to their different perspectives on this issue, education needs,...
Shannon Phillips-Shyrock.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Jalongo, Mary R. Committee members: Beatrice Fennimore; Timothy Runge.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Movie genre effects on destination image, place familiarity, and visitation interest among undergraduate students: a film tourism study
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This pretest-posttest experiment explored the effects of genre on cognitive destination image, affective destination image, place familiarity, and visitation interest with regard to a single destination placed within multiple movies in order to contribute to the growing field of film tourism. The experiment consisted of four genre treatment groups-action, comedy, drama, and horror-and a control group. Participants completed a post-survey both immediately after the experiment and two weeks aft...
Catherine A Rudowsky.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Wilson, B. Gail Committee members: Nurhaya Muchtar; Mark Piwinsky; Theresa Wajda.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Negotiating ethnic and american identities in contemporary multiethnic american drama
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Some of the critical discourse concerning American identity and ethnic identity has tended to be represented as an inherent contradiction. Such contradiction has been articulated in terms of a hyphenated identity, which is a negative representation that is both assimilist and separatist. Unlike this approach, this dissertation focuses on showing the positive role played by ethnic American individuals who successfully negotiate their ethnic, American, and personal identities and that the uneas...
Sameer Mohammad Eid Al-Shraah.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: Christopher Orchard; Thomas Slater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- The novels of deirdre madden: expanding the canon of irish literature with women's fiction
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In this first comprehensive study of Deirdre Madden's novels, I examine her work through a variety of critical lenses, and position Madden within the contexts of Irish fiction and women's fiction. I consider Madden's significance as an Irish writer who situates herself among various traditions and themes: nature and place writing, mother-daughter relationships, the Irish "Troubles," expatriate experiences, art and the artist, and children's literature. Feminism provides the groundwork for man...
Carly J Dunn.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Cahalan, James M. Committee members: Christopher Kuipers; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Nursing faculty experiences teaching students with learning disabilities
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Learning disabilities are the most prevalent disability reported in higher education, including nursing education. Yet, despite cognitive abilities for educational success, students with learning disabilities have a reportedly lower graduation rate than their non-disabled peers. Factors related to this phenomenon remain vastly unknown. With the current nursing shortage and predicted need for future nurses to meet societal demand, the importance of gaining understanding is imperative. Nursing ...
Darlene A Ardary.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Poorman, Susan G. Committee members: Michele Crytzer; Joyce Shanty.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- On being an island: a grounded theory study of being a wpa and the only composition scholar at an institution
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This study investigates the impact of being the only composition scholar on writing program administrators' work, relationships, and identities. The study data illuminates the experiences of a segment of the writing program administration population that is currently underrepresented: writing program administrators who are also the only composition scholars at their institutions. Twenty-two current or previous only-composition-scholar writing program administrators were surveyed to establish ...
Robin Gallaher.
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Advisors: Williamson, Michael M. Committee members: Bennett Rafoth; Susan Welsh.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Peer tutoring in college learning assistance centers: a qualitative study of sociotransformative theory in action
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The purpose of this study was to examine how tutor/tutee interactions affect the dynamics of the teaching/learning experience in a university -based learning assistance center. A study of exemplary tutoring centers in higher education can provide direction in the process of tutor selection and training to meet the academic needs of today's college students. Consequently, information can be used to provide a guide for designing and refining tutoring programs, to identify academic skill devel...
Patricia A Johnson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Jalongo, Mary R. Committee members: Susan Fello; Laurie Nicholson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Perceptions of teachers regarding the promoting of self-determination skills in students with specific learning disabilities
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Field et al. (1998) defined self-determination as a set of skills, beliefs, and knowledge that allows an individual to self-regulate and assume responsibility autonomously. This qualitative, multi-method (Creswell, 2011) study aims to explore the perceptions of teachers in the field of special education in regards to the promotion of self-determination in students with a specific learning disability (SLD) in third through ninth grades prior to the implementation of the transition plan of the ...
Annah Lea Hill.
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Advisors: Helterbran, Valeri R. Committee members: Shirley Johnson; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Personal values, professional lives: toward fulfilling composition instructors' ethical obligation through critical self-reflection
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English Composition instructors have an ethical obligation to teach their classes to the best of their ability. One way to work toward fulfilling this ethical obligation is for a composition instructor to practice critical self-reflection upon his or her personal ethical values, teaching situation, and place within that situation. To assist the composition instructor through this process, this dissertation offers instructors an understanding of ethical theory as it applies to teaching composi...
Craig R Hulst.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude Mark Committee members: Michael Pemberton; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Placing percy: pathologist of postsouthern culture
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This dissertation investigates how Walker Percy's protagonists in The Moviegoer, Lancelot, and The Second Coming negotiate "postsouthern" culture. In both his fiction and nonfiction, Percy, who was medically trained as a pathologist, sought to diagnose and treat what he termed the modern malaise. The emotionally anesthetic characteristic of this disorder, I argue, is peculiar not only to a particular historical time but also to the specific place and culture in which he positioned his charac...
Leigh Ann Rhea.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kuipers, Christopher M. Committee members: James Cahalan; Veronica Watson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Playful texts: play theory and the adaptation and reception of fantasy genres
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This dissertation examines fantasy and its two subgenres horror and science fiction through the theoretical lens of Play Theory to illustrate the role of play rubrics in the plot and social settings in these works as well as explain the reception and adaptation of various franchises by fan communities. Using close readings of key texts from each identified genre, the study illustrates how the genres follow the basic trajectory of play rubrics outlined in Roger Caillois' Man, Play, and Gam...
Joshua Grant Begley.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kuipers, Christopher Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Mike Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Power and parody: flann o'brien's satire of repressive irish identity, 1937-1966
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Humor and cultural critique have long been staples in the Irish literary tradition. Employing an Althusserian framework of Marxist thought, scholarship on the Irish comic tradition, and ideas centered on the Bakhtinian carnivalesque, I analyze the works of Flann O'Brien, the most consistently funny Irish writer since the sometimes-serious satirist Swift. Born Brian O'Nolan, coming of age in the tumult of the 1922 Irish Free State, and professionally active following the 1937 Constitution's ...
Wesley J Hellman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Cahalan, James M. Committee members: David Downing; Christopher Orchard.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Profiling writing-knowledge: exploring peer review feedback beyond revising and editing
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In an attempt to forward writing-knowledge research, I explored peer review feedback to profile writing-knowledge. The idea of profiling writing-knowledge is not new to teaching, researching, or assessing writing. As a method to cull writing-knowledge given its absence among established research methodology to profile writing-knowledge, peer review is new. Grounding this exploration in mixed-methods research, I borrowed microethnographic and descriptive research practices to profile writin...
Christopher Balajadia Garcia.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Nancy Hayward; Gian Pagnucci; Mary Spencer.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- A qualitative case study of five mothers' experiences with early intervention services and preschool choices for their children with disabilities
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This qualitative research study examines the preschool choices made by five mothers of children with disabilities who had interacted with early intervention professionals in the year prior to their children's transition to preschool. The purpose of this study was to examine the understanding parents created of their children's disability through their interactions with early intervention professionals and how those understandings aligned with the preschool settings the parents chose for thei...
Brenda L Cole.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Laverick, DeAnna M. Committee members: Mary Jalongo; JoAnn Migyanka.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English