ERIC Number: ED643799
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 201
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Painful Conversions: Reading and Writing Education Reform in Louisiana
Thomas George Sowders
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
In January 2013, the superintendent of a rural Louisiana school system initiated a plan to increase school choice in his district through the implementation of a new virtual magnet school and the conversion of an existing elementary school into a magnet school. Both plans were set into action in April 2013. This study uses performative writing to document the better part of a year spent engaged in this project as a contracted educational consultant. Melding William Blake's theories of apocalypse and social metonymy with experimental modes of scholarly production as praxis, I theorize education reform as an interactive performance. By exploring themes of documentation, collaboration, and dialogic education, this project identifies the documentation of personal experience in school reform as a temporal mode of generating meaning and offers this mode as a pedagogical model for future scholarship. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Educational Change, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Rural Schools, School Choice, Magnet Schools, Documentation, Educational Theories
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Louisiana
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