Designing on the page: Composing picturebooks in a Kevin Henkes author study

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879842199552
Author(s):  
Ted Kesler ◽  
Karen Darrell ◽  
Yvonne Moss ◽  
Jessica Pasternak ◽  
Angela Valco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
General Education ◽  
Writing Workshop ◽  
Primary Grade ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Large Urban Area ◽  
Author Study ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Writing Communities

A team of four general education second grade teachers, who work in a neighbourhood state elementary school in a large urban area in the northeast United States, and their staff developer, redesigned their Kevin Henkes Author Study to equally value pictures and design, along with writing. They asked, what narrative understandings do children express by designing on the page? Using a framework of multiliteracies, they showed how they transformed writing workshop into composing workshop to support their emergent bi- and multilingual population. Through content analysis of 80 students’ completed picturebooks and constant comparison of 13 selected students’ retrospective accounts, findings show how students developed a metalanguage of composing for both writing and design craft moves that facilitated and supported their narrative understandings. Their narrative understandings were supported within the sociocultural contexts of our writing communities. Findings show the value of author studies and transforming writing workshop into composing workshop for primary grade writers. Findings have implications for classroom-based research and teaching of composing workshop, particularly for emergent bi- and multilingual populations.

Capturing the Art of Public Service: The Government’s Perspective

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Tony Carrizales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Art Forms

Public Service, in popular culture, can be viewed through many artistic lenses. Although there has been a consistent negative portrayal of government through art forms such as film and television, this research looks to review how government institutions in the United States have used art to provide a positive portrayal of public service. Eight forms of public service art are outlined through a content analysis of the holdings at the Virtual Museum of Public Service. The findings show that government and public entities have historically and continually engaged in promoting public service through art. Many of these public art examples are accessible year round, without limitations, such as buildings, statues, and public structures.

scholarly journals Evaluating Teacher Language Within General and Special Education Classrooms Serving Elementary Students with Autism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Sparapani ◽  
Vanessa P. Reinhardt ◽  
Jessica L. Hooker ◽  
Lindee Morgan ◽  
Christopher Schatschneider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Receptive Vocabulary ◽  
Social Impairment ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Teacher Language ◽  
Autism Symptoms ◽  
Social Abilities ◽  
Students With Autism

AbstractThis study examined how teachers and paraprofessionals in 126 kindergarten-second grade general and special education classrooms talked with their 194 students with autism, and further, how individual student characteristics in language, autism symptoms, and social abilities influenced this talk. Using systematic observational methods and factor analysis, we identified a unidimensional model of teacher language for general and special education classrooms yet observed differences between the settings, with more language observed in special education classrooms—much of which included directives and close-ended questions. Students’ receptive vocabulary explained a significant amount of variance in teacher language beyond its shared covariance with social impairment and problem behavior in general education classrooms but was non-significant within special education classrooms. Research implications are discussed.

Sex Roles in Advertising: A Comparison of Television Advertisements in Australia, Mexico, and the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Gilly
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Television Advertisements

In the past, research has found that the portrayal of sex roles in advertising has not reflected equality or reality. Further, studies typically have examined only U.S. advertising, leaving open the question of cultural influence on advertising's sex role portrayals. The author offers a new analysis of sex roles in advertising and compares content analysis findings for U.S., Australian, and Mexican television advertisements. Results reveal differences in the portrayal of the sexes in U.S. advertisements. Australian advertisements show somewhat fewer sex role differences and Mexican advertisements show slightly more sex role differences than U.S. advertisements. Stereotypes are found in the advertising of all three countries, but are manifested in different ways.

Savvy Surrogates and Rock Star Parents: Compensation Provisions, Contracting Practices, and the Value of Womb Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-431
Author(s):  
Hillary L. Berk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Medical Risks ◽  
Exchange Relations

Abstract:What is the value of surrogate labor and risks, and how is it negotiated by participants as they contract within an unsettled baby market? This article presents novel data on compensation, fee, and bodily autonomy provisions formalized in surrogacy contracts, and the experiences of actors embedded in exchange relations, as they emerge in a contested reproductive market. It combines content analysis of a sample of thirty surrogacy contracts with 115 semi-structured interviews conducted in twenty states across the United States of parties to these agreements, attorneys who draft them, counselors, and agencies that coordinate matches between intended parents and surrogates. It analyzes the value of services and medical risks, such as loss of a uterus, selective abortion, and “carrier incapacity,” as they are encoded into agreements within an ambiguous field. Surrogacy is presented as an interactive social process involving law, markets, medicine, and a variety of cultural norms surrounding gender, motherhood, and work. Contracts have actual and symbolic power, legitimating transactions despite moral anxieties. Compensation transforms pregnancy into a job while helping participants make sense of the market and their “womb work” given normative flux. Contracts are deployed by professionals without informed policies that could enhance power and reduce potential inequalities.

Role of Haitian Newspapers in the United States

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leara Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
The United States

This study used a content analysis of four Haitian newspapers to determine how they define their roles in American communities and in Haiti. The results of the study suggest that the newspapers are not ethnic presses encouraging assimilation but are alternative presses with political agendas.

On Understanding Everything: General Education, Liberal Education, and the Study of Religion

PMLA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 460-466
Author(s):  
Amy Hollywood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Education ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Reason And Faith

In October 2006, the Harvard University task force on general education issued a preliminary report describing and justifying a new program of general education for Harvard College. Contending that “[g]eneral education is the public face of liberal education,” the task force enumerated what a person liberally educated in the twenty-first-century United States should know—or, perhaps better, know how to think about in reasoned and nuanced ways (Preliminary Report 3). The report called for seven semester-long courses in “five broad areas of inquiry and experience”: Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change, The Ethical Life, The United States and the World, Reason and Faith, and Science and Technology. In addition, the task force suggested that students be required to take three semester-long courses that “develop critical skills”: writing and oral communication, foreign language, and analytic reasoning (6). Not surprisingly, “Reason and Faith” generated some of the most heated discussion—and it was the first suggested requirement dropped by the task force, replaced in December 2006 by a new category, “What It Means to Be a Human Being.” By the time of the final report, this too was gone, replaced by “Culture and Belief,” an area of inquiry that may include the study of religion but is broader in scope than what was initially proposed (Report of the Task Force 11–12).

THE BRANDCASTING ON THE EXAMPLE OF ADVERTORIALS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneta Duda
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Brand Positioning ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Organized Interests ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Media ◽  
Degree Of Similarity

"This article discusses the concept of brandcasting in the particular case of a controversial advertorial (ADL) - paid messages in the media sponsored by organized interests to create and sustain a favorable environment to pursue their respective goals. An advertorial is an advertisement masquerading as a journalistic article, blurring the dividing line between editorial content and advertorials. Based on the content analysis technique of 284 advertorials of Newsweek, Polityka and Time, the most widely circulated and read weekly newsmagazine in Poland and the United States of America, the author documents the placement of ADL: proportions of commercial and non-commercial content, detailed typologies, brand positioning, sponsor disclosures, the degree of similarity with journalistic texts and corporate and non-corporate interests. The newspaper advertorial borrows, or just steals editorial credibility from the newspaper and pollutes reliable information. There, of course, might be a place for such kind of advertisements, but they should be more thoroughly distinguished form editorial content than is currently the case. As shown in the article, media do not place sponsor disclosures prominently."

Analyzing the content of the economics textbook for the second grade commercial according to the habits of the mind

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Habits Of Mind ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Habits Of The Mind

The current research aims to analyze the content of the economics book for the second grade commercial according to the habits of the mind, the researcher adopted the descriptive approach as an approach to his research, and to achieve the goal of the research, the researcher prepared a questionnaire for the habits of the mind consisting of sixteen main habits and (49) indicators, presented to a group of referees to clarify Their opinions and observations about the tool, honesty and consistency were extracted for it, and appropriate statistical means were used, and after applying the tool, the following results were reached: 1- The content of the economics book includes habits of the mind. 2- The imbalance of percentages of the habits of the mind in the content of the book, economics, which was analyzed Key words: (Content analysis, economics textbook, Habits of Mind).

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