As we continue to implement plans to support community-engaged scholarship, as one of many forms of scholarship that is honored at UNCG, it is critical that we take time [...]

To better understand those students who are taught each day, it is necessary to hold conversation with them to better understand their frames of mind. This case study of [...]

Films, popular media, and even literacy scholars (see Heath, Finders, Gere, and Gee) persistently portray teachers in classrooms. My project draws attention to teachers w[...]

In the decade since the attacks of September 11th, the political climate in the United States has become increasingly intolerant of opposing viewpoints. This climate, mad[...]

In an analysis of 421 community college mission statements, I demonstrate how community colleges recontextualize a dominant discourse in which economic activity at the gl[...]

This dissertation offers a critique of liberatory practices and projects that locate "voice" as the means to and sign of liberation. This work contributes to queer and tr[...]

Forensic, dialectic, or scientific discourse cannot induce the desire to create novel beliefs, but deliberative discourse—a procedure for determining rules for future act[...]

The authors present findings from a qualitative study of an experience that supports teacher candidates to use discourse analysis and positioning theory to analyze videos[...]

This article introduces a qualitative research method called discourse tracing. Discourse tracing draws from contributions made by ethnographers, discourse critics, case [...]

My dissertation is a response to the lacuna in the literature regarding the semiotic moments of the entrepreneurial university. The scholars on the entrepreneurial univer[...]

When it comes to supporting the well-being of a person living with dementia, remaining sensitive to that person’s interests can be challenging, given the impairments that[...]

Facilitating critical conversations includes helping students unpack dominant ideologies, interrupting stereotypes, creating a context for marginalized voices, and strate[...]

At the onset of this research, approximately 24.1% of superintendents in the United States and 15.7% of superintendents in North Carolina were women. These statistics ind[...]

An interactionist theory of discourse offers an explanation of why sometimes—not because they do not understand the language, not because they are unintelligent, and not [...]

The purpose of this article is to inform emerging theoretical understanding of medicalization by challenging, updating, and affirming a previously published essay on this[...]

American institutions of higher education have served as a beacon of American idealism and identity since the foundation of the earliest universities. As the nation devel[...]

My dissertation examines how some nineteenth-century British novels offer a critique of the dominant narrative of sympathy by suggesting that the most ethical encounter w[...]

Critical discourse analysis was employed to examine the narratives collected from 40 community college administrators who were asked to recount their experience in an eve[...]

Charter schools remain hotly contested nationally and in North Carolina, where the number of charter schools has grown rapidly from 100 in 2011 to 148 in 2014. Interest s[...]

Linkage technique, or Knüpftechnik, describes a musical event where the beginning of a new phrase or formal section takes as its initial idea the conclusion of the immedi[...]

This dissertation intends by contextual analysis to examine a Southern textile community and through its literature--formal and informal, and written before, during, and [...]

Collaboration is widely promoted in school librarianship and education, yet little is known about the talk it entails. This intrinsic case study of eight planning meeting[...]

The purpose of conducting this study was to understand how neoliberal discourses manifest within the local context of a short-term, job-training program offered at a two-[...]

Because the community college is often the only viable educational option for members of marginalized communities, the structural outcomes of its mission are of great con[...]

The chief purpose of the present study was to chart various institutional discourses relating to the climate at a rural community college undergoing organizational renewa[...]