Alysha Meloche
Biographic Data
| ID | 100473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alysha Meloche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alysha |
| FAMILY NAME | Meloche |
| SIGNATURE | MELOCHE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4427-9632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A sandwich effect: Gentrification and Black residential displacement in the university-adjacent West Philadelphia Promise Zone
This study examines the landscape of gentrification and Black residential displacement within the West Philadelphia Promise Zone (WPPZ). Our intergenerational community-driven participatory action research team conducted a comparative longitudinal spatial analysis between Census data from 2008 to 2012 and 2013 to 2017 investigating variables of both gentrification and displacement including changes in population, racial demographics, per capita i…
Don’t lose your moustache: Community and cultural identity on the Uyghur internet in China
This article reports on data collected from the online community forums of four Uyghur language websites between 2014–2016. These posts are representative of a moment in time in which the Uyghur cultural identity was being threatened by increasingly restrictive Chinese government policies. Concept coding was applied to online discussion posts and comments, through which we identified common ideas and ‘concepts’ from the emergent themes. Findings …
Chapter 10: Teaching to Empower: Social Justice Action Projects as Imperatives for Educational Justice
Background/Context Teaching to empower requires a critical focus on the unique challenges and opportunities of teaching in socially unjust educational environments. Effective teaching happens in an environment that engages students and teachers in critical investigation of content, knowledge, and activities. Critical learning environments simultaneously nurture the development of multiple perspectives and challenge the status quo. Establishing a …
“Be Creative in Whatever We Do”: Minority Culture Creativity on the Uyghur Internet
Creativity is often explored from a Western‐dominant perspective. This means that cultures that do not follow dominant culture or Western principles, such as non‐Western or minority ethnic cultures, are often misjudged in creativity research and assessment. Additionally, scholarship that does address Asian creativity does so in a way that presents Asian culture as monolithic. This article presents an example of how creativity is defined, recogniz…
Critical Literacy as a Lens for Students’ Evaluation of Sources in an AP World History Class
Critical literacy is an appropriate learning outcome for social studies courses because it has the potential to teach students how to critically evaluate sources of information relevant to historical texts and current news media. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to examine the process through which students learned to apply critical literacy strategies while completing an end-of-unit research project in tenth grade AP world history. …
Examining academic, non-academic, and college readiness outcomes of urban immigrant and refugee youth (IRY) in full-service community schools
My Thoughts on Gun Violence”: An Urban Adolescent's Display of Agency and Multimodal Literacies
The authors analyzed the multimodal presentation of one student in a seventh‐grade social studies class situated in an urban charter school in the Northeastern United States. The student researched a specific problem that existed in his community and located solutions using web‐based sources. The authors analyzed the student's classwork, focus group interview, and final project using Gee's critical discourse analysis approach to examine the use o…
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My Thoughts on Gun Violence”: An Urban Adolescent's Display of Agency and Multimodal Literacies
The authors analyzed the multimodal presentation of one student in a seventh‐grade social studies class situated in an urban charter school in the Northeastern United States. The student researched a specific problem that existed in his community and located solutions using web‐based sources. The authors analyzed the student's classwork, focus group interview, and final project using Gee's critical discourse analysis approach to examine the use o…
Critical Literacy as a Lens for Students’ Evaluation of Sources in an AP World History Class
Critical literacy is an appropriate learning outcome for social studies courses because it has the potential to teach students how to critically evaluate sources of information relevant to historical texts and current news media. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to examine the process through which students learned to apply critical literacy strategies while completing an end-of-unit research project in tenth grade AP world history. …
Examining academic, non-academic, and college readiness outcomes of urban immigrant and refugee youth (IRY) in full-service community schools
Chapter 10: Teaching to Empower: Social Justice Action Projects as Imperatives for Educational Justice
Background/Context Teaching to empower requires a critical focus on the unique challenges and opportunities of teaching in socially unjust educational environments. Effective teaching happens in an environment that engages students and teachers in critical investigation of content, knowledge, and activities. Critical learning environments simultaneously nurture the development of multiple perspectives and challenge the status quo. Establishing a …
“Be Creative in Whatever We Do”: Minority Culture Creativity on the Uyghur Internet
Creativity is often explored from a Western‐dominant perspective. This means that cultures that do not follow dominant culture or Western principles, such as non‐Western or minority ethnic cultures, are often misjudged in creativity research and assessment. Additionally, scholarship that does address Asian creativity does so in a way that presents Asian culture as monolithic. This article presents an example of how creativity is defined, recogniz…
Don’t lose your moustache: Community and cultural identity on the Uyghur internet in China
This article reports on data collected from the online community forums of four Uyghur language websites between 2014–2016. These posts are representative of a moment in time in which the Uyghur cultural identity was being threatened by increasingly restrictive Chinese government policies. Concept coding was applied to online discussion posts and comments, through which we identified common ideas and ‘concepts’ from the emergent themes. Findings …
A sandwich effect: Gentrification and Black residential displacement in the university-adjacent West Philadelphia Promise Zone
This study examines the landscape of gentrification and Black residential displacement within the West Philadelphia Promise Zone (WPPZ). Our intergenerational community-driven participatory action research team conducted a comparative longitudinal spatial analysis between Census data from 2008 to 2012 and 2013 to 2017 investigating variables of both gentrification and displacement including changes in population, racial demographics, per capita i…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works)