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Acquiring Literacy: Techne, Video Games and Composition Pedagogy

Schirmer, James Robert
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211307417

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2008, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, English/Rhetoric and Writing.
Recent work within composition studies calls for an expansion of the idea of composition itself, an increasing advocacy of approaches that allow and encourage students to greater exploration and more play. Such advocacy comes coupled with an acknowledgement of technology as an increasingly influential factor in the lives of students. But without a more thorough understanding of technology and how it is manifest in society, any technological incorporation is almost certain to fail. Therefore, it is of great importance that we not only keep up but, in fact, reflect on process and progress, much as we encourage students to do in composition courses. This document represents an exercise in such reflection, recognizing past and present understandings of the relationship between technology and society. I thus survey past perspectives on the relationship between techne, phronesis, praxis and ethos with an eye toward how such associative states might evolve. Placing these ideas within the context of video games, I seek applicable explanation of how techne functions in a current, popular technology. In essence, it is an analysis of video games as a techno-pedagogical manifestation of techne. With techne as historical foundation and video games as current literacy practice, both serve to improve approaches to teaching composition.
Kris Blair (Committee Chair)
Lynda Dixon (Committee Member)
Richard Gehbardt (Committee Member)
Gary Heba (Committee Member)
165 p.
Composition
composition; episteme; ethos; kairos; literacy; pedagogy; phronesis; video games

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  • Schirmer, J. R. (2008). Acquiring Literacy: Techne, Video Games and Composition Pedagogy [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211307417

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Schirmer, James. Acquiring Literacy: Techne, Video Games and Composition Pedagogy. 2008. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211307417.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Schirmer, James. "Acquiring Literacy: Techne, Video Games and Composition Pedagogy." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211307417

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