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Weaving Web 2.0 and the Writing Process with Feminist Pedagogy

Zhao, Ruijie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276676479

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2010, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, English (Rhetoric and Writing).
This dissertation, as a theoretical study, focused on how Web 2.0 technology potentially helps students gain power, knowledge, and agency in the networked learning environment and how feminist pedagogy conceivably facilitates the implementation of Web 2.0 technology to produce an opportune learning environment. Primarily, this study used feminist pedagogy as the theoretical framework to examine the extent to which Web 2.0 tools decenters authority and enhances collaboration, helping composition instructors to create a collaborative, democratic, and interactive learning space for students to achieve positive learning outcomes in first-year and intermediate college writing classes. Such a study benefits writing programs and teachers that use the writing process and recognize the significance of multimodal composition. To achieve the above goals, I presented the origins and objectives of feminist pedagogy to lay the theoretical foundation to manifest how it correlates with Web 2.0 technology and the writing process and to illustrate how Web 2.0 technology has potentially provided feminist educators in the composition field new tools to innovate teaching methodology. I used YouTube, Google Docs, and blogs to exemplify the benefits and constraints of Web 2.0 tools and showcase how they can be integrated in the writing class based on feminist pedagogy principles to create networked classrooms at different stages of the writing process. In addition, this study addressed the acceptance, resistance, and complexities of employing Web 2.0 in the teaching of writing from theoretical perspectives and my actual experience as a writing instructor. The dissertation concluded with the importance of professional development so that instructors have sufficient knowledge to use these free, open source tools in their classrooms and understand the advantages of creating and maintaining a feminist classroom. This discussion helps both writing instructors and writing program administrators understand the value of embracing Web 2.0 technology, and promote the application of new technology and feminist pedagogy in college writing classes.
Kristine Blair (Committee Chair)
Lee Nickoson (Committee Member)
Richard Gebhardt (Committee Member)
Lena Ballone Duran (Committee Member)
188 p.
Rhetoric
feminist pedagogy; the writing process; Web 2.0; collaborative learning; democrative learning

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  • Zhao, R. (2010). Weaving Web 2.0 and the Writing Process with Feminist Pedagogy [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276676479

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zhao, Ruijie. Weaving Web 2.0 and the Writing Process with Feminist Pedagogy. 2010. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276676479.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zhao, Ruijie. "Weaving Web 2.0 and the Writing Process with Feminist Pedagogy." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276676479

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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