The purpose of this project is to understand how humor works in expert-novice identity construction in podcasts. I employ a Community of Practice (Lave and Wenger, 1989) framework to examine the social hierarchy among the participants of a regular podcast. I am particularly concerned with uncovering how novice members construct themselves and are constructed by expert members through humor, as well as how expert members socialize novice members to participate in the kinds of humor practices that index membership in the Community of Practice (CoP). Rooster Teeth is an internet-based entertainment production company. They produce a weekly podcast which they make available for free on the internet. The podcast participants represent a small CoP with expert/novice differentiation. Combining a corpus linguistic approach with an ethnographic approach, I collected, transcribed, and studied several podcasts that were recorded over a two-year period, beginning with the first few podcasts where founding members established the practices and their roles as experts. Then, I examine the performances of three novices over time. Two of them follow a periphery to core trajectory and become regular members of the podcast while one remained on the periphery. I discovered that teasing and modeling are the primary tools that the experts use to socialize novices and that within Rooster Teeth, novices have the power to negotiate practice from the periphery of the community. This study demonstrates the power that novices may wield within CoPs, and reveals how powerful a socializing tool humor can be.

This descriptive study focuses on expressions of politeness in the Japanese language and their relevance to social structure and intercultural communication. The study is designed to help students of the Japanese language learn rules of politeness which fall outside the domain of grammatical rules.

This is an investigation into language ideologies, and the significance of same, among activists working to revitalize the Ojibwe language. Better inclusion of indigenous community members is necessary to spread the Ojibwe language. Improved competence in using--and strategically chging--language ideologies is necessary by language activists. Matters of orthography, storytelling, Elder status, state institutionalization, indigenous leadership, and decolonization reveal underlying ideologies of language, any of which can help or hinder efforts to reverse language shift. This is shown through participant observation in and around an Ojibwe language immersion school in Wisconsin.

I worked as a school administrator in 'disadvantaged schools' for many years. In this study I asked colleagues from sixteen schools in the northern and western suburbs of Adelaide to co - theorise about changes in their neighbourhood, school populations and programs, now that their schools are no longer recognised by policy as 'disadvantaged1. I explore the use of narrative method and arts based approaches by constructing a 'literary' research text that uses conventional sociological forms together with images, poetry and personal stories. I use anthropological and geographical theoretical constructs to look at the changing material, economic, cultural and social landscapes and the mosaic of inequalities in the city of Adelaide. I suggest that this is not a simple binary polarisation, although large numbers of people are similarly positioned by de-industrialisation and the diminishing social wage. After examining the literature on poverty in Australia, I am eventually prepared to call this space class, understanding that this is a sociological metaphor. Through a theorisation of each school as a 'place' within a specific neighbourhood, I look at the similarities and differences across sites. I suggest that 'disadvantaged schools' are similarly positioned as sites for the mediation of social inequalities, and that this can be readily seen in the time consuming 'housework' of discipline and welfare. I indicate how each school is differently able to 'do more with less', because of their unique neighbourhood and its narratives, knowledges, histories, teleologies and people. I show that the common coercive regimes of market devolution, new public management and the 'distributive curriculum' frame the work of teachers, students and administrators in ways that are not conducive to 'doing justice', despite the policy rhetoric of equity and community. I provide evidence that the neoliberal imaginary of context free schooling enshrined in effective schools literatures is Utopian and irrational. I argue that the capacity of the school to 'generate context' is always paradoxically dependent on 'context derived'. I discuss the notion of 'doing justice' and the benefits of 'disadvantaged schools' having a local set of principles that guide their decisions and actions and provide evidence that the school administrator's understandings of 'doing justice' are important. I also suggest that, despite being increasingly isolated and hindered by policy directions, the majority of the sixteen schools continue to work for and with principles of justice and equity, drawing on a range of emotional and intellectual resources and deep, longstanding commitments. I conclude by speculating on the kinds of policy and research agendas that might take account of both the commonalities and differences amongst 'disadvantaged schools', and what might be included in a comprehensive and systematic approach to 'doing justice'.

Thesis--University of Michigan. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 378-395). Bibliography addenda : leaf 396.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Supervisors: Brian M. Stross and Nikolai K Grube. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Darbo autorė: Lietuvos edukologijos universiteto Istorijos fakulteto Krikščioniškosios antropologinės pedagogikos studentė Eglė Jankauskaitė. Darbo vadovė lect. dr. Giedrė Rugevičiūtė. Darbo pavadinimas Antropologiniai aspektai neįgaliųjų katechezėje ir jų raiška Lietuvos „Tikėjimas ir Šviesa“ bendruomenės veikloje. Darbo tikslas: Apibrėžti antropologinius aspektus neįgaliųjų katechezėje ir nustatyti jų raišką „Tikėjimas ir Šviesa“ bendruomenės veikloje. Darbo problema: Negalią turinčių asmenų nuvertinimas, pasyvumas ir menkas indėlis į jų katechizaciją, nesuprantant tikrosios prasmės bei pasąmoningai kuriant kliūtis jų dvasiniai patirčiai. Darbo temos ištirtumas: Darbų rašytų apie neįgalių asmenų tam tikrus poreikius mene, muzikoje, veiklų integracijoje yra Šiaulių universitete bei Vytauto Didžiojo universitete, tačiau darbų konkrečiai orientuotų į katechezę ir jos raišką Lietuvos „Tikėjimo ir Šviesos“ bendruomenės veikloje nėra Darbo uždaviniai: 1. Atskleisti Bažnyčios ir „Tikėjimo ir Šviesos“ bendruomenės požiūrį į asmens sampratą. 2. Išskirti neįgaliųjų katechezės paskirtį, pricipus ir formas evangelizacinėje šviesoje. 3. Atskleisti Jean Vanier „Tikėjimas ir šviesa“ bendruomenės sielovadinę dvasią. 4. Nustatyti neįgaliųjų „Tikėjimas ir šviesa“ bendruomenės katechezės raišką. Darbo metodai: Bažnyčios dokumentų analizė, lyginamoji analizė, interviu, aprašomoji analizė, sisteminimas ir interpretacija. Darbo struktūra: Darbą sudaro įvadas, trys darbo dalys su jose... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The author of this master paper is EglėJankauskaitė, the student of Lithuanian University of Education, the Departament of Catholic Religion Education. The supervisor of this work is lect. dr. GiedrėRugevičiūtė. The title of the work is The Anthropological Aspects of the Disabled Catechesis and Their Expression in "TikėjimasirŠviesa“ Community Activities. .The aim of this master paper is to define the anthropological aspects of the disabled catechesis and determine their expression in community "TikėjimasirŠviesa" activities. .The problem of the master paper is devaluation of the disabled, inactivity and poor contribution to the disabled catechesis, not understanding the true meaning of catechesis and unconsciously creating obstacles to their spirit experience. The analysis of the work: Works written about people with disabilities and some of their needs in the art, music and activities' integration we can find in Siauliai University and Vytautas Magnus University, but works specifically oriented to catechesis and its expression are missing in Lithuanian community. The objectives are 1. Disclose the approach of Church and „TikėjimoirŠviesos” community to the concept of a person. 2. Distinguish the disabled catechetical purposes, principles and forms of evangelization in the light. 3. Reveal Jean Vanier „Tikėjimasiršviesa“ community pastoral spirit. 4. Identify the disabled catechesis expression in „Tikėjimasiršviesa“ community. Methods of the work are analysisof Church... [to full text]

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Adelaide, 1988. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-251).

Inaug.-Diss.--Barcelona, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1993. / Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Jo Anne Kleifgen. Dissertation Committee: Clifford Hill. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-122).