Photomontage and Surrational Imagery: One Teacher’s Encounter with Scott Mutter

  • Jeff Spanke Purdue University

Περίληψη

The crafted photomontages of Scott Mutter and and the obvious manipulations of "Choose your own adventure" provide the stimuli that enable a group of students to begin creating new schema for viewing, and thus become agents of their own meaning making.

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Jeff Spanke is a doctoral student in English Education at Purdue University. After earning a Master's in American Studies, Jeff taught high school English in Crawfordsville, Indiana for several years. Currently he serves as a composition instructor at Purdue and is a research assistant in Purdue's Gifted Education Resource Institute. His personal research interests include adolescent critical literacy development, public pedagogy, and service-learning's intersections with the Language Arts classroom. His wife and he live in West Lafayette, Indiana along with their two year-old son and a bountiful squirrel population.
Τεύχος
Τόμ. 17 Αρ. 2 (2014)
Ενότητα
The Tortoise's Tale
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