This paper presents protests from academically successful students who privately conveyed to the researchers their feelings of personal discontent with schools. The criterion to select this "sample" was that these students, dissatisfied with school but having good marks, would reveal what others, academically less successful, could not…

Although most of the writing in high school English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms is about literature and although there have been incessant calls for changing the practices of teaching and learning literature, only meager amounts of research have been conducted in these interrelated domains of the field. Accordingly, this dissertation seeks to…

This exploratory case study investigates pedagogical strategies meant to encourage secondary level students to think critically about their perceptions and use of the Internet. This process included guiding them in analyzing works of Internet art and introducing them to web authoring in order to create works of art that could be viewed on a web…