Author: Catherine Coogan Ward
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This title profiles nontraditional students focusing on areas that influenced the students prior to entry into college, then examines the conflicts that arose once they were enrolled and attending, conflicts that often pushed them to the brink of emotional and physical exhaustion.
Oral Histories and Analyses of Nontraditional Women Students
Author: Catherine Coogan Ward
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This title profiles nontraditional students focusing on areas that influenced the students prior to entry into college, then examines the conflicts that arose once they were enrolled and attending, conflicts that often pushed them to the brink of emotional and physical exhaustion.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This title profiles nontraditional students focusing on areas that influenced the students prior to entry into college, then examines the conflicts that arose once they were enrolled and attending, conflicts that often pushed them to the brink of emotional and physical exhaustion.
Oral History for the Qualitative Researcher
Author: Valerie J. Janesick
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 1606235575
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Oral history is a particularly useful way to capture ordinary people's lived experiences. This innovative book introduces the full array of oral history research methods and invites students and qualitative researchers to try them out in their own work. Using choreography as an organizing metaphor, the author presents creative strategies for collecting, representing, analyzing, and interpreting oral history data. Instructive exercises and activities help readers develop specific skills, such as nonparticipant observation, interviewing, and writing, with a special section on creating found data poems from interview transcripts. Also covered are uses of journals, court transcripts, and other documents; Internet resources, such as social networking sites; and photography and video. Emphasizing a social justice perspective, the book includes excerpts of oral histories from 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, among other detailed case examples.
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 1606235575
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Oral history is a particularly useful way to capture ordinary people's lived experiences. This innovative book introduces the full array of oral history research methods and invites students and qualitative researchers to try them out in their own work. Using choreography as an organizing metaphor, the author presents creative strategies for collecting, representing, analyzing, and interpreting oral history data. Instructive exercises and activities help readers develop specific skills, such as nonparticipant observation, interviewing, and writing, with a special section on creating found data poems from interview transcripts. Also covered are uses of journals, court transcripts, and other documents; Internet resources, such as social networking sites; and photography and video. Emphasizing a social justice perspective, the book includes excerpts of oral histories from 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, among other detailed case examples.
A Study of the Place of Women in the Poetry and Prose Works of John Milton
Author: David N. Dickey
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773477308
Category : Women and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This study outlines the origins of Milton's idiosyncratic ambivalence towards woman and charts its developmental character in and out of poetry and prose. It includes an introductory survey of influential critical opinion on the subject, including feminist readings.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773477308
Category : Women and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This study outlines the origins of Milton's idiosyncratic ambivalence towards woman and charts its developmental character in and out of poetry and prose. It includes an introductory survey of influential critical opinion on the subject, including feminist readings.
Counseling Multicultural and Diverse Populations
Author: Nicholas A. Vacc
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136918167
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Professionals in helping occupations hold the key to reducing social, economic, and emotional barriers that often prevent members of America's subgroups from becoming secure citizens.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136918167
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Professionals in helping occupations hold the key to reducing social, economic, and emotional barriers that often prevent members of America's subgroups from becoming secure citizens.
Women of the Dawn
Author: Bunny McBride
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Four Wabanaki women from four centuries of tribal history recall the long, tragic history of initial European contact and subsequent disease, warfare, and displacement.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Four Wabanaki women from four centuries of tribal history recall the long, tragic history of initial European contact and subsequent disease, warfare, and displacement.
Chicanas and Latin American Women Writers Exploring the Realm of the Kitchen as a Self-empowering Site
Author: María Claudia André
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This volume studies the innovative discourse introduced by Latin American and Chicana writers who claim the kitchen space as an essential space for women's intellectual and spiritual advancement, and as a self-empowering site where gender and sexual identity may be explored and transformed.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This volume studies the innovative discourse introduced by Latin American and Chicana writers who claim the kitchen space as an essential space for women's intellectual and spiritual advancement, and as a self-empowering site where gender and sexual identity may be explored and transformed.
American Book Publishing Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1872
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Oral History
Author: Donald A. Ritchie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199996369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, medical therapists, documentary film makers, and educators at all levels. The Oxford Handbook of Oral History brings together forty authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the impact of digital technology, the most recent methodological and archival issues, and the application of oral history to both scholarly research and public presentations. The volume is addressed to seasoned practitioners as well as to newcomers, offering diverse perspectives on the current state of the field and its likely future developments. Some of its chapters survey large areas of oral history research and examine how they developed; others offer case studies that deal with specific projects, issues, and applications of oral history. From the Holocaust, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, the Falklands War in Argentina, the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe, to memories of September 11, 2001 and of Hurricane Katrina, the creative and essential efforts of oral historians worldwide are examined and explained in this multipurpose handbook.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199996369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, medical therapists, documentary film makers, and educators at all levels. The Oxford Handbook of Oral History brings together forty authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the impact of digital technology, the most recent methodological and archival issues, and the application of oral history to both scholarly research and public presentations. The volume is addressed to seasoned practitioners as well as to newcomers, offering diverse perspectives on the current state of the field and its likely future developments. Some of its chapters survey large areas of oral history research and examine how they developed; others offer case studies that deal with specific projects, issues, and applications of oral history. From the Holocaust, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, the Falklands War in Argentina, the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe, to memories of September 11, 2001 and of Hurricane Katrina, the creative and essential efforts of oral historians worldwide are examined and explained in this multipurpose handbook.
Resources in Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
A Discussion of the Ideology of the American Dream in the Culture's Female Discourses
Author: Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
By deconstructing the gendered terms of cultural representations of the American self, this project traces the many-faceted discursive possibilities of female desire in relation to community.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
By deconstructing the gendered terms of cultural representations of the American self, this project traces the many-faceted discursive possibilities of female desire in relation to community.