This article considers the impact of new technologies on the adolescent experience of live, literary theatre. Drawing together the work of theorists in literacies, new technologies and audience studies, together with brain research, and the results of a focus group of four secondary students who have seen four plays at Canada’s National Arts Centre, it examines the consequences of young people’s immersion in digital culture and the new mindset that often results. The expectation of instant access to data, inter-connectivity, stimulation and control can make it difficult for adolescents to decode the metaphorical aspects of a theatrical performance. The article concludes that language arts and dramatic arts educators have a key role in teaching students how to decode—and therefore enjoy and appreciate— a play.

Internet Memes transverse and sometimes transcend cyberspace on the back of impossibly cute LOLcats speaking mangled English and the snarky remarks of Image Macro characters always on the lookout for someone to undermine. No longer the abstract notion of a cultural gene that Dawkins (2006) introduced in the late 1970s, memes have now become synonymous with a particular brand of vernacular language that internet users engage by posting, sharing and remixing digital content as they communicate jokes, emotions and opinions. For the purpose of this research the language of Internet Memes is understood as visual, succinct and capable of inviting active engagement by users who encounter digital content online that exhibits said characteristics. Internet Memes were explored through an Arts-Based Educational Research framework by first identifying the conventions that shape them and then interrogating these conventions during two distinct research phases. In the first phase the researcher, as a doctoral student in art and visual culture education, engaged class readings and assignments by generating digital content that not only responded to the academic topics at hand but did so through forms associated with Internet Memes like Image Macros and Animated GIFs. In the second phase the researcher became a meme literacy facilitator as learners in three different age-groups were led in the reading, writing and remixing of memes during a month-long summer art camp where they were also exposed to other art-making processes such as illustration, acting and sculpture. Each group of learners engaged age-appropriate meme types: 1) the youngest group, 6 and 7 year-olds, wrote Emoji Stories and Separated at Birth memes; 2) the middle group, 8-10 year-olds, worked with Image Macros and Perception memes, 3) while the oldest group, 11-13 year-olds, generated Image Macros and Animated GIFs. The digital content emerging from both research phases was collected as data and analyzed through a hybrid of Memetics, Actor-Network Theory, Object Oriented Ontology, Remix Theory and Glitch Studies as the researcher shifted shapes yet again and became a Research Jockey sampling freely from each field of study. A case is made for Internet Memes to be understood as an actor-network where meme collectives, individual cybernauts, software and source material are all actants interrelating and making each other enact collective agencies through shared authorships. Additionally specific educational contexts are identified where the language of Internet Memes can serve to incorporate technology, storytelling, visual thinking and remix practices into art and visual culture education. Finally, the document reporting on the research expands on the hermeneutics of Internet Memes and the phenomenological experiences they elicit that are otherwise absent from traditional scholarly prose. Chapter by chapter the dissertation was crafted as a journey from the academic to the whimsical, from the lecture hall to the image board (where Internet Memes were born), from the written word to the remixed image as a visual language that is equal parts form and content that emerges and culminates in a concluding chapter composed almost entirely of popular Internet Meme types. An online component can be found at http://memeducation.org/

This thesis explores the issues of immigration and identity that inform the experiences of adult English language learners and which can be addressed within a classroom context. Using practitioner research and an explicitly critical approach to literacy and learning, I conducted a six week workshop at a community English language school in New York City, working with eleven adult learners to discuss their lives in their native countries, decisions to move to the United States, and experiences living in a new country and learning English in an attempt to understand how those factors shape their learning and could be incorporated into the curriculum. This workshop used poetry as a means for students’ self-expression and demonstrated the importance of inviting adult immigrant students into collaborative, co-constructive learning environments where their lived experiences are at the core of their language learning process in order to allow for an inclusive negotiation of identity.

This thesis explores the issues of immigration and identity that inform the experiences of adult English language learners and which can be addressed within a classroom context. Using practitioner research and an explicitly critical approach to literacy and learning, I conducted a six week workshop at a community English language school in New York City, working with eleven adult learners to discuss their lives in their native countries, decisions to move to the United States, and experiences living in a new country and learning English in an attempt to understand how those factors shape their learning and could be incorporated into the curriculum. This workshop used poetry as a means for students’ self-expression and demonstrated the importance of inviting adult immigrant students into collaborative, co-constructive learning environments where their lived experiences are at the core of their language learning process in order to allow for an inclusive negotiation of identity.

This article considers the impact of new technologies on the adolescent experience of live, literary theatre. Drawing together the work of theorists in literacies, new technologies and audience studies, together with brain research, and the results of a focus group of four secondary students who have seen four plays at Canada’s National Arts Centre, it examines the consequences of young people’s immersion in digital culture and the new mindset that often results. The expectation of instant access to data, inter-connectivity, stimulation and control can make it difficult for adolescents to decode the metaphorical aspects of a theatrical performance. The article concludes that language arts and dramatic arts educators have a key role in teaching students how to decode—and therefore enjoy and appreciate— a play.

This thesis explores how the inclusion of students’ out-of-school literacies in a secondary English classroom affects students’ engagement, motivation, and sense of community. A mixed case study and action research approach was used in which the researcher taught a semester long multi-grade senior English class which used hip hop as its core content. Data was collected using audio field notes, focus group, one-on-one interviews, and written communication. Findings revealed that students felt the inclusion of hip hop made this English class more relevant and meaningful to the students and helped to foster a strong sense of community among the class members. This study also found that student-directed curriculum, teacher vulnerability, and the inclusion of community members as mentors were very important to the students’ sense of community. This sense of community, however, did not extend beyond the classroom. / Graduate

This phenomenological study researches Pakistani immigrant parents’ perspectives and attitudes on how their children use new media technologies. Parental attitudes are directly linked to student achievement (Hampton, Mumford & Bond, 1998) and parents are the gatekeepers of technology use in the home, where, during unstructured time, children can experiment and develop skills in using new technologies (Ito et al, 2010). Therefore, this study looks at how parents, through their actions and attitudes, encourage or discourage their children from developing competencies in using new media technologies By examining the pedagogical histories of parents and their concerns and rules about technology use, this study adds to the literature on parental attitudes towards the use of technology as a pedagogical tool. Further, this study examines the issue from an immigrant perspective, focusing on 10 Pakistani immigrant parents who live in the Greater Toronto Area and whose children attend pubic school.

This phenomenological study researches Pakistani immigrant parents’ perspectives and attitudes on how their children use new media technologies. Parental attitudes are directly linked to student achievement (Hampton, Mumford & Bond, 1998) and parents are the gatekeepers of technology use in the home, where, during unstructured time, children can experiment and develop skills in using new technologies (Ito et al, 2010). Therefore, this study looks at how parents, through their actions and attitudes, encourage or discourage their children from developing competencies in using new media technologies By examining the pedagogical histories of parents and their concerns and rules about technology use, this study adds to the literature on parental attitudes towards the use of technology as a pedagogical tool. Further, this study examines the issue from an immigrant perspective, focusing on 10 Pakistani immigrant parents who live in the Greater Toronto Area and whose children attend pubic school.

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Nesse período, foram implementadas ações de desenvolvimento da disciplina, como a sua inclusão no Programa Nacional do Livro Didático. O investimento e a responsabilidade para atender mais de quatro milhões de jovens em nível médio demandam atenção da pesquisa universitária. Neste âmbito, este trabalho analisa os documentos oficiais relacionados a esse ensino (PCNEM, PCN+, OCEM, PNLD, etc.), bem como, o volume 1 do livro Cercanía Joven, aprovado pelos PNLD 2015 e 2018. A análise fundamenta-se teoricamente nos três eixos que perpassam os discursos sobre ensino de línguas, a saber, os estudos dos gêneros textuais, dos letramentos e dos domínios discursivos. A metodologia, de caráter exploratório e interpretativista, baseia-se em estudos do discurso e, utilizou da revisão teórica e da análise documental para a elaboração de uma planilha, com critérios capazes de nortear nosso olhar para os textos da obra. Os resultados apontam para limitações das propostas do livro didático quanto aos três eixos abordados por esta pesquisa, como também, no estabelecimento de relações críticas entre gêneros e domínios discursivos, em seu lugar há atividades de reprodução de gêneros textuais, que é uma forma superficial de trabalhar compreensão e produção discursiva. Por outro lado, entretanto, foram notadas potencialidades de atravessamento do domínio instrucional por meio de trabalhos propostos nas seções intituladas Proyectos. / The teaching of Spanish in Brazilian schools has been bolstering and ensured by the law nº 11.161, between 2005 to 2016. It development actions of this course emerged, how his inclusion in the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático. The investment and the responsibility to serve over four million of the high school students demand attention of the academic research. In this regard, the work analyzes the official documents related to the teaching of Spanish, and the volume 1 of the textbook Cercanía Joven approved in the PNLD 2015 and 2018. The analysis is based theoretically in the three axes that span the discourses about language teaching, that is to say, the studies of the genres, of the literacies and of the domínios discursivos. The methodology has exploratory and interpretative character, it’s based in discursive studies and it used the bibliographic and documental review. The results indicate limitations of the proposals of the textbook about the three axes of this work as well as to establish critical relations between genres and between domínios discursivos. These gaps are filled by activities of reproducibility of the genres, it’s a superficial way of working the discursive reading and production. However, has been noted crossing potentials of the instructional area through the proposed work in the section headed Proyectos. / La enseñanza de lengua española en las escuelas brasileñas estuvo, de 2005 a 2016, amparada y garantizada por la ley nº 11.161. En este período, se implementaron acciones de desarrollo de la asignatura, como su inclusión en el Programa Nacional do Livro Didático. La inversión y la responsabilidad para atender más que cuatro millones de jóvenes en nivel medio demandan atención de la investigación universitaria. Así, en esta investigación se analiza los documentos oficiales relacionados a esa enseñanza (PCNEM, PCN+, PNLD, etc.) así como, el volumen 1 del libro Cercanía Joven, aprobado por los PNLD 2015 y 2018. El análisis se fundamenta teóricamente en tres ejes que pasan los discursos acerca de la enseñanza de lenguas, que son los estudios de los géneros textuales, da la literacidad y de los domínios discursivos. La metodología, de carácter exploratorio y de interpretación, se basa en estudios del discurso y, utilizó de la revisión teórica y del análisis documental para la elaboración de una planilla con criterios, con la finalidad de guiar nuestra mirada a los textos de la obra. Los resultados apuntan limitaciones de las propuestas del libro didáctico cuanto a los tres ejes abordados por esta investigación, así como, en el establecimiento de relaciones críticas entre géneros y dominios discursivos, en su lugar hay actividades de reproducción de géneros textuales, que es una manera superficial de trabajar comprensión y producción discursiva. De otro lado, sin embargo, se notaron potencialidades de paso del dominio instruccional por medio de trabajos propuestos en las secciones tituladas Proyectos. / 16/04431-4

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