Search Results for superpowers

... and composition. In addition, it discusses the value of using superpowers as a context for the study of disability in a first-year seminar, arguing that superpowers provide a unique access point for engaging disability while also encouraging students to more carefully examine a wide variety of cultural texts. ©...

... | Limited Visibility, or, Confessions of a Satellite 493 Rohrbach, Augusta | Journal Space 2.0: Teaching through Editing 71 594  Pedagogy Ross,  Jacqueline | see Chan, Clarence Row-­Heyveld, Lindsey | Reading Batman, Writing X-Men­ : Superpowers and Disabilities in the First-­Year Seminar...

... . Row-Heyveld Lindsey . 2015 . “ Reading Batman, Writing X-Men: Superpowers and Disabilities in the First-Semester Seminar .” Pedagogy 15 . 3 : 519 – 26 . Selznick Hillary . 2015 . “ Investigating Students’ Reception and Production of Normalizing Discourses in a Disability-Themed...

...    An Introduction  417 ence with broad disciplinary interests, the articles vary considerably in field, content, and approach. Lindsey Row-­Heyveld discusses introducing first-­ year students to college-­level research and writing through a course focusing on superpowers and disabilities, while Ann M. Fox...

... they encourage in student writing (and, by extension, in course design). James Heiman (2014) discusses critical thinking in his sci- ence and technology theme course as important for the course s success, and Lindsey Row- Heyveld (2015) writes about a superpower theme as a way to connect disability studies...

... in the United States, which meant that I was a citizen of a Western superpower, a recipient of all its riches, educationally, culturally, and materially. I was a fluent Hebrew and English speaker. I did not speak Arabic. Gender was the sole category in which power relations did not favor me. I took...

... is a powerful impulse, essential to personal and academic growth. Being lost and unknowing allows you to constantly try to figure things out. It gives you the reaching muscle that allows you to bore into a text. When harnessed it s a superpower. Changes and Collaboration Looking at these teachers, we see...