The Loss of Narrative Innocence

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lulu C.H. Sun

This interdisciplinary study examines the loss of narrative innocence in adolescents' narratives. The study analyzes the development of narrative consciousness and narrative writing abilities by comparing and contrasting the narratives of children (ages eight to eleven) with those of adolescents (ages fifteen to eighteen) from public schools in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The methodology used is literary analysis.

Author(s):  
Zanaida Seguin Pedraill

AbstractThe infl uence of the oral tradition and culture in contemporary Anglo-Caribbean literature accounts, to a notable extent, for a strategy of sociocultural self-articulation of these peoples against cultural domination deployed in literature. As the literary analysis proposed in this article shows, the popular trickster fi gure of Anglo-Caribbean folktales recreated in Olive Senior’s short story “Ascot” offers a thematic vehicle for the celebration of an attitude of resistance that is mirrored in the formal context of this text with an oral narrative exercise that defi es the conventional literary cannons of fi ctional writing. This modern, scribilised trickster tale ratifi es, then, a narrative praxis of cultural resistance.Key words: Postcolonial Anglo-Caribbean Literature, Jamaican Literature, short fi ction, Jamaican oral tradition and culture, storytelling, trickster motif, narrative/writing of resistance, sociocultural self-articulation.ResumenEn la literatura contemporánea del Caribe anglófono, el rescate y la celebración de la tradición oral, históricamente denigrada, se convierte a menudo en estrategia para contrarrestar el legado colonial de dominación cultural europea y hacer frente al imperialismo cultural americano en la era postcolonial. La narrativa de la escritora jamaicana Olive Senior corrobora la connotación política y sociocultural que reviste la infl uencia de la cultura oral en esta literatura. El emblemático héroe cómico oral del trickster recreado en su relato “Ascot” funciona como motivo temático para criticar la realidad jamaicana a la manera de los cuentos orales, y para la creación de un discurso narrativo transgresivo que socava el anglocentrismo de esta literatura. En este sentido, ésta se convierte en una narrativa de resistencia cultural.Palabras clave: Literatura Postcolonial Anglo-caribeña, Literatura jamaicana, relato corto, tradición y cultura oral, tradición de contar cuentos, trickster: motivo temático y formal, narrativa de resistencia cultural, expresión de identidad sociocultural.


2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Owen Hatherley

The Weimar-Republic, and the modernist architecture and planning that was born there, is still a contested place, from whence liberals, reactionaries and Marxists can all trace their lineage. Sabine Hake’s Topographies of Class attempts to clarify this contestation, through an interdisciplinary study of the modernist geography of the interwar-capital, Berlin. The book offers many new insights into the Weimar-era city, countering a tendency on the Left to reject the twentieth-century city in favour of the romanticised ‘capitals of the nineteenth century’, with their insurgent proletariat and their lushly ornamented boulevards. Topographies of Class is a reminder that, irrespective of the era’s rejection of ornament and romanticism, it was a site of class-struggle as intense as that of the Paris of the 1870s. However, Hake’s study is dominated by a conception of class as an ‘identity’, akin to the identity-politics of race or gender, leading to an argument centred on the suppression or expression of ‘class-difference’ rather than class-struggle. In the process, her reading of the city’s modernism becomes overly one-sided, as a period of tension between labour and capital is read, under the influence of Manfredo Tafuri and Italian post-Marxist architectural theory, as being governed almost solely by the logic of Fordist capital.


2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (8) ◽  
pp. 48-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine H. Reischl ◽  
Debi Khasnabis ◽  
Kevin Karr

The Mitchell Scarlett Teaching and Learning Collaborative (MSTLC) is a vigorous, six-year-old partnership between two Title I schools — Mitchell Elementary School and Scarlett Middle School in Ann Arbor, Mich. — and the teacher education program at the University of Michigan. MSTLC was formed between educators who had related but quite different problems to solve: As the schools began to collaborate in 2010, the Ann Arbor Public Schools needed to address the achievement gap in its two lowest SES and lowest-achieving schools relative to other district schools, and the University of Michigan needed a school site where teaching interns could learn to teach diverse students and where it could implement and refine its newly reformed, practice-based elementary teacher education curriculum.


2019 ◽  
pp. 153660061989306
Author(s):  
Jared R. Rawlings

Music teachers are central to the effective implementation of the school curriculum; however, researchers know little about their careers in music education. In order to understand the work of music teachers, researchers must document experiences of those educators who may appear ordinary but who led extraordinary lives and careers. The purpose of this study was to create a biographical primary source on E. Daniel Long, one of the esteemed educators in American string music education during the second half of the twentieth century. Long’s memories of his life and teaching position with Ann Arbor Public Schools, alongside additional sources, were used to explore aspects of his career in music education. This article includes additional biographical information not previously documented in past interviews as well as his philosophical beliefs about teaching youth.


2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Nichols ◽  
Justin Lynn ◽  
Benjamin Grant Purzycki

What is a genre? What distinguishes a genre like science fiction from other genres? We convert texts to data and answer these questions by demonstrating a new method of quantitative literary analysis. We state and test directional hypotheses about contents of texts across the science fiction, mystery, and fantasy genres using psychometrically validated word categories from the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. We also recruit the work of traditional genre theorists in order to test humanists’ interpretations of genre. Since Darko Suvin’s theory is among the few testable definitions of science fiction given by literary scholars, we operationalize and test it. Our project works toward developing a model of science fiction, and introduces a new method for the interdisciplinary study of literature in which interpretations of literary scholars can be put to the test.


Author(s):  
VASSILEIA BOURA

Electroacoustic music, as the contemporary art of sounds originating from the human environment, is selected to play a unifying role of interdisciplinary study areas in school, but also be the vehicle for the school community to form links with the wider society for enhancing students' learning, emotional skills and carrier orientation. Electroacoustic music learning methods are empiricaly proved to play an important role in students' education and in future citizens' attitude and ethics. This paper is based on empirical practices and statistically analysed results. Previous studies, worldwide, have shown a positive relationship between music and academic achievement. This study explores the possible reasons why electroacoustic music positively affects interpersonal relationships in school environment. Educators and curriculum developers may want to include electroacoustic music in their instructional units, on an international level. Bioscientists and psychologists may extend this empirical research to scientific. Since 2012 different empirical educational programmes in Greek European and public schools under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, have aimed to enhance learning and intra-school interpersonal relationships in Secondary Education. The programmes reffered to in this paper discribe the results of electroacoustic music effect on interpersonal relationships in the school environment.


Author(s):  
Karla Raphaella Costa PEREIRA ◽  
Frederico Jorge Ferreira COSTA ◽  
Ana Paula Sancho DIOGO

This article results from the analysis of the novel Eredegalda’s sad story from the book While sleep does not come, by José Mauro Brant. In 2017, this book was forbidden in the Brazilian public schools for focusing on incest. The controversy gave rise to moral, aesthetic and pedagogical debates. The study is a literary analysis, it was carried out based on the aesthetics of György Lukács and aimed to overcome the duality of moralism-artistic freedom within this debate, pointing out an earlier need: to reflect on the possible pedagogical role of “Eredegalda’s sad story”. This concrete situation made it possible to move forward in examining the educational character of works of art and the use of literature as a pedagogical instrument. It presents the general situation, then explains the fundamentals on which the investigation was based and, finally, reveals the author’s point of view on the work in question.


1980 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Pietras ◽  
Norman E. Jarrard ◽  
Walt Wolfram ◽  
Jerrie Cobb Scott ◽  
James Sledd ◽  
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