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Creative Matter: Exploring the Co-Creative Nature of Things

Description: This dissertation is about new materialism as it relates to art education. It is a speculative inquiry that seeks to illuminate the interconnectivity of things by considering the ways in which things participate in generative practices of perceiving and making. To do so, the dissertation pioneers an arts-based methodology that allows for broad considerations about who and what can be considered an agent in the process of art making. In this inquiry, the researcher is an artist-participant wi… more
Date: December 2018
Creator: Hood, Emily Jean
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Portraits of Young Artists: Artworlds, In/Equity, and Dis/Identification in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Description: Using portraiture methodology and social practice theory, this study examined the identity work of young people engaged in a teen arts internship program at a contemporary arts center in post-Katrina New Orleans. This research asked four interrelated questions. Through the lens of a teen arts internship at a contemporary arts center in post-Katrina New Orleans, 1) How do contextual figured worlds influence artist identity work? 2) How does artist identity work manifest through personal narrat… more
Date: May 2018
Creator: Travis, Sarah Teresa
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Dis/Appearance, In/Visibility and the Transitioning Body on Social Media: A Post-Qualitative and Multimodal Inquiry

Description: Text component of a doctoral dissertation, which references the full dissertation content in a multi-media web-based format. It includes a background statement, acknowledgements section, printed navigation guide and site map for the website, and a full list of references.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Jenkins, Kevin
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Perceiving Indeterminacy: A Theoretical Framework of the Perceptual Rite of Passage for Preadolescents

Description: It is the fundamental insight of phenomenology that meaning is first and foremost - not something which we intellectually reflect on. It is not a product of the mind reworking raw, perceptual experiences. Rather meaning, and our connection to the world, are perceptual phenomena. Thus, to understand the ways in which children find meaning demands a turn toward perceptual experiences - how children see and feel. In this theoretical dissertation, I explore questions of perceptual experiences throu… more
Date: August 2018
Creator: Herman, David
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