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The monsters under their beds and inside their heads
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The monsters under their beds and inside their heads
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adolescents' aesthetic transactions with Gothic texts in the reading classroom
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Del Nero
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Jennifer Renner
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1981-
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Morrow
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Thea Abu
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Jennifer
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Jennifer Rowsell
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2015
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This qualitative study employed case study methodology and design research to examine what aesthetic transactions adolescent students constructed in response to popular culture and traditional texts in a Gothic studies reading unit created by the researcher. Secondary inquiries included descriptions of the aesthetic transactions that participants constructed during the unit, as well as tensions that arose in the development of aesthetic transactions. This study also explored what participant Discourse(s) evolved, as well as which one(s) remained unchanged at the conclusion of the unit. The study was conducted in a seventh grade reading classroom in a Central New Jersey suburban middle school. Eight students (four male and four female) comprised the study’s participants. A combination of thematic and discourse analyses was used during and after data collection. The data was triangulated across interviews, participant conversations, classroom observations, and unit artifacts. The findings revealed that participants constructed myriad aesthetic transactions of meaningful connection and imaginative contrast with the Gothic unit texts. Participants enhanced these initial aesthetic transactions and formed new ones individually and collectively as a result of pedagogical practices that also nurtured their construction of aesthetic transactions. As a result of these unit dynamics, in which aesthetic transactions were prioritized in the text and related context, the students were positioned as active apprentices within the unit experience. Participants gleaned literary, self, and world knowledge as a result of these aesthetic transactions. These understandings aided in the development of their various Discourses, which held positive implications for them academically and personally. The findings suggest that prioritizing adolescents’ construction of aesthetic transactions in both the text choices and related context is critical in order for academic reading to be a gratifying and meaningful experience that educates the whole person.
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Education
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Gothic literature
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Literature--Study and teaching
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Education, Secondary--New Jersey
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1 online resource (xi, 446 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Jennifer Renner Del Nero
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ETD doctoral
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Jennifer
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Renner
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Jennifer Del Nero
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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