Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Major
Education, Teaching-Learning Processes
Date of Defense
5-5-2010
Graduate Advisor
E. Wendy Saul, PhD.
Committee
Jane Zeni
Rebecca Rogers
Eric Turley
Benjamin Torbert
Abstract
This qualitative case study reports on a three-year writing enrichment program among second, third, and fourth graders at a public urban elementary school in a medium-sized midwestern city. Designed as teacher research, the inquiry is a phenomenological examination of the experience of the workshop for its participants, including more than one hundred African American students and a White, female teacher-researcher. Teaching methods, classroom activities and material culture, student and teacher talk, and student compositions were subjected to a variety of analytic approaches and methods, including qualitative textual analysis, critical discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, and individual case study, in order to disclose and interpret the workshop experience over time with respect to multiliteracies pedagogy. The combination and juxtaposition of these lenses offer a trustworthy representation of the workshop's lifeworld.
OCLC Number
611942496
Recommended Citation
Schaenen, Inda Lynn, "Structure and Flow: Toward an Organic Approach to Critical Multiliteracies in a Writing Workshop" (2010). Dissertations. 494.
https://irl.umsl.edu/dissertation/494