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Download full textLanigan, Richard L. – 1992
The advent of mass media in the twentieth century creates certain "ruptures," as Michel Foucault would say, in the perceptual world of human beings as they go about the everyday business of coping with a technological culture grounded in human perception as the rule for expression. Foucault proposes that people watch two…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Communities, Higher Education, Mass Media Effects
Byrd, Marquita L. – 1995
One of the main problems with higher education is that curriculums, both past and present, objectify and marginalize the experiences of people of color and thus reduce diversity in the graduate and professional school populations. African American, Asians, Hispanics, and other minorities are studied in many college-level classes only as an…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Asian Americans, Black Culture, Black Students
Pasma, Kristen – 1992
An examination of the ritual of "sharing time" in a first-grade classroom in the United States shows how it reaffirms the ideal model of a "Good Communicator," develops a concept of personhood as "Self-as-Autonomous-Person," and establishes respect for "Authority." Through the development of these three "sacred objects," sharing time functions as…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Communication Research, Cultural Context
