Kinga Varga-Dobai
Biographic Data
| ID | 102763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kinga Varga-Dobai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kinga |
| FAMILY NAME | Varga-Dobai |
| SIGNATURE | VARGA-DOBAI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Gwinnett College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Writing through grief: Lessons on loss and love from my teacher mother
Remixing Selfies: Arts-based Explorations of Funds of Knowledge, Meaning-Making, and Intercultural Learning in Literacy
This article describes an arts-based writing project, the Cultural Selfie, used in a pre-service teacher education classroom to explore the concept of funds of knowledge and to develop intercultural awareness. The Cultural Selfie as a visual interpretation provided a space for pre-service teachers to reflect critically on their everyday cultural and literacy practices and their teacher Self. In doing so, they used literacy as a form of meaning-ma…
The Relationship of Researcher and Participant in Qualitative Inquiry: From “Self and Other” Binaries to the Poststructural Feminist Perspective of Subjectivity
Whether approached from a positivist perspective or a more comprehensive postpositivist theoretical and philosophical grounding, the relationship between researcher and participant entails the strong binary opposition of the I-Thou (Buber, 1971) or Self and Other (Bhabha, 2004) within which I or Self is associated with the researcher and Thou or Other represents the research subject. The goal of this paper is to offer an overview of the various t…
Gender Issues in Multicultural Children's Literature—Black and Third-World Feminist Critiques of Appropriation, Essentialism, and Us/Other Binary Oppositions
In light of the concepts of appropriation and essentialism, othering, and binary oppositions, the author will examine the interrelation between various feminist theories and gender representation in multicultural children and young-adult literature. Additionally, the author will address the practical implications of those theories and concepts for the classroom
Critical Performative Pedagogy: Emergent Bilingual Learners Challenge Local Immigration Issues
Recent anti-immigration policies and practices in the Southeast of the United States have presented difficult challenges for newly arrived bilingual learners and their families. To validate student voices within this socio-political context, our school/university collaboration implemented an arts-based participatory approach to English Language Arts. Informed by critical discourse analysis, this paper investigates how, in the context of anti-immi…
From Folk Tales to Popular Culture: Poaching and Relevance in the Process of History
In this paper the author examines the concept of relevance and its relationship with poaching, a popular culture activity and a practice detectable in the transition of oral folk tales to literary fairytales, and in the further modification of the genre of fairytales by feminist writers. The author illustrates the practice of poaching with the different versions and variants of the Little Red Riding Hood story, written in different historical era…
The Relationship of Researcher and Participant in Qualitative Inquiry: From “Self and Other” Binaries to the Poststructural Feminist Perspective of Subjectivity
Whether approached from a positivist perspective or a more comprehensive postpositivist theoretical and philosophical grounding, the relationship between researcher and participant entails the strong binary opposition of the I-Thou (Buber, 1971) or Self and Other (Bhabha, 2004) within which I or Self is associated with the researcher and Thou or Other represents the research subject. The goal of this paper is to offer an overview of the various t…
Remixing Selfies: Arts-based Explorations of Funds of Knowledge, Meaning-Making, and Intercultural Learning in Literacy
This article describes an arts-based writing project, the Cultural Selfie, used in a pre-service teacher education classroom to explore the concept of funds of knowledge and to develop intercultural awareness. The Cultural Selfie as a visual interpretation provided a space for pre-service teachers to reflect critically on their everyday cultural and literacy practices and their teacher Self. In doing so, they used literacy as a form of meaning-ma…
Critical Performative Pedagogy: Emergent Bilingual Learners Challenge Local Immigration Issues
Recent anti-immigration policies and practices in the Southeast of the United States have presented difficult challenges for newly arrived bilingual learners and their families. To validate student voices within this socio-political context, our school/university collaboration implemented an arts-based participatory approach to English Language Arts. Informed by critical discourse analysis, this paper investigates how, in the context of anti-immi…
From Folk Tales to Popular Culture: Poaching and Relevance in the Process of History
In this paper the author examines the concept of relevance and its relationship with poaching, a popular culture activity and a practice detectable in the transition of oral folk tales to literary fairytales, and in the further modification of the genre of fairytales by feminist writers. The author illustrates the practice of poaching with the different versions and variants of the Little Red Riding Hood story, written in different historical era…
Critical Performative Pedagogy: Emergent Bilingual Learners Challenge Local Immigration Issues
Recent anti-immigration policies and practices in the Southeast of the United States have presented difficult challenges for newly arrived bilingual learners and their families. To validate student voices within this socio-political context, our school/university collaboration implemented an arts-based participatory approach to English Language Arts. Informed by critical discourse analysis, this paper investigates how, in the context of anti-immi…
Gender Issues in Multicultural Children's Literature—Black and Third-World Feminist Critiques of Appropriation, Essentialism, and Us/Other Binary Oppositions
In light of the concepts of appropriation and essentialism, othering, and binary oppositions, the author will examine the interrelation between various feminist theories and gender representation in multicultural children and young-adult literature. Additionally, the author will address the practical implications of those theories and concepts for the classroom
The Relationship of Researcher and Participant in Qualitative Inquiry: From “Self and Other” Binaries to the Poststructural Feminist Perspective of Subjectivity
Whether approached from a positivist perspective or a more comprehensive postpositivist theoretical and philosophical grounding, the relationship between researcher and participant entails the strong binary opposition of the I-Thou (Buber, 1971) or Self and Other (Bhabha, 2004) within which I or Self is associated with the researcher and Thou or Other represents the research subject. The goal of this paper is to offer an overview of the various t…
Remixing Selfies: Arts-based Explorations of Funds of Knowledge, Meaning-Making, and Intercultural Learning in Literacy
This article describes an arts-based writing project, the Cultural Selfie, used in a pre-service teacher education classroom to explore the concept of funds of knowledge and to develop intercultural awareness. The Cultural Selfie as a visual interpretation provided a space for pre-service teachers to reflect critically on their everyday cultural and literacy practices and their teacher Self. In doing so, they used literacy as a form of meaning-ma…
Writing through grief: Lessons on loss and love from my teacher mother
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Binary opposition (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (2 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works)