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Contemporary constructions of English texts: a departmental case study of secondary English domains

Brauer, Lydia K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1151259726

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2006, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Theory and Practice.
The content and purpose/s of secondary English curriculum in the United States continue to be difficult to generalize. Over the past twenty years, two collective attempts–the English Coalition Conference in 1987, and the IRA/NCTE Standards project in 1996–failed to articulate a cohesive domain. This research project explores, in the form of a departmental case study, how teachers in one secondary English department conceptualize, negotiate, and construct their subject—particularly the role of literature—over the course of an academic semester. Methodologically, this project draws from ethnographic methods in folklore and anthropology including observation, interviews, and archival research, employing grounded theory in order to understand how English texts are conceived and constructed by secondary English teachers in one high school department, and to explore the purposes, domains, and curricular tensions secondary English teachers ascribe to their text practices. The study reveals shifting text positions based on teacher modality assumptions, and department coherence based on both curriculum content and foundational paradigms of knowledge and power. This research contributes to research gaps in English education, media education, and department studies, where only a small body of scholarship addresses how teachers conceptualize English in curriculum and practice, or how a variety texts are positioned and circulate (or do not) in and across English classrooms and within departments.
Caroline Clark (Advisor)
222 p.
English Education; Media Education; Secondary English Curriculum

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  • Brauer, L. K. (2006). Contemporary constructions of English texts: a departmental case study of secondary English domains [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1151259726

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brauer, Lydia. Contemporary constructions of English texts: a departmental case study of secondary English domains. 2006. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1151259726.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brauer, Lydia. "Contemporary constructions of English texts: a departmental case study of secondary English domains." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1151259726

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