Donna King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3828042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5592-7290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Full Journal
The theme of Issue 34 of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations is Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research. The first article of this issue, "The Art of Social Justice," features the works of a slam poet, Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, an activist artist, Eduardo Valadez, and an overview of the social science literature capturing the role of art in social justice movements. The two artists featured are both active in their communities and worldwide…
Challenges in Minimizing Teacher Authority While Facilitating a Student-Owned Activism Project
Students who take critical sociology courses often report feeling discouraged about their ability to change large-scale social-structural problems. To redress this perceived lack of agency and control, we modified an upper-division sociology of popular culture course to include a studentowned activism project that would entail minimal teacher direction. In this paper we describe our efforts through two iterations of the activism project and refle…
Teaching and Learning in Context-Based Science Classes
Internationally, many secondary school students are disengaged in science, finding the content of the curriculum unrelated to their everyday lives. Despite a rapidly changing world, outdated pedagogical approaches still persist in science classrooms where the focus is on the rote learning of conceptual knowledge, the application of concepts to routine problems, the treatment of context as secondary to concepts, and the use of practical work to il…
A Community of Narratives: Developing Transracialized Selves Through a Community of Practice
The story presented here developed from a study group where we found space to explore and analyze ourselves and each other. In recounting our development from a Community of Interest to a Community of Practice (CoP), we first introduce a guiding theoretical framework building on a foundation of two concepts: CoP and transracialized selves. We then present a series of alternating methods and findings, reflecting our development through two phases.…
Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
Toward a Feminist Theory of Letting Go
During an interview on NPR’s All Things Considered David Greene asked Brian Henneman of the band The Bottle Rockets, “You’ve played with some pretty big names . . . you guys have become big. [But] you’re not as commercial . . . as big as Wilco. . . . I mean, what takes you to the next level?” Henneman laughed and replied, “It’s too late to go to the next level. We’re too comfortable where we’re at. Why would we want to move now if everything will…
Serving the Profession Beyond a Student's Graduation
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Serving the Profession Beyond a Student's Graduation
Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective
Toward a Feminist Theory of Letting Go
During an interview on NPR’s All Things Considered David Greene asked Brian Henneman of the band The Bottle Rockets, “You’ve played with some pretty big names . . . you guys have become big. [But] you’re not as commercial . . . as big as Wilco. . . . I mean, what takes you to the next level?” Henneman laughed and replied, “It’s too late to go to the next level. We’re too comfortable where we’re at. Why would we want to move now if everything will…
A Community of Narratives: Developing Transracialized Selves Through a Community of Practice
The story presented here developed from a study group where we found space to explore and analyze ourselves and each other. In recounting our development from a Community of Interest to a Community of Practice (CoP), we first introduce a guiding theoretical framework building on a foundation of two concepts: CoP and transracialized selves. We then present a series of alternating methods and findings, reflecting our development through two phases.…
Teaching and Learning in Context-Based Science Classes
Internationally, many secondary school students are disengaged in science, finding the content of the curriculum unrelated to their everyday lives. Despite a rapidly changing world, outdated pedagogical approaches still persist in science classrooms where the focus is on the rote learning of conceptual knowledge, the application of concepts to routine problems, the treatment of context as secondary to concepts, and the use of practical work to il…
Full Journal
The theme of Issue 34 of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations is Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research. The first article of this issue, "The Art of Social Justice," features the works of a slam poet, Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, an activist artist, Eduardo Valadez, and an overview of the social science literature capturing the role of art in social justice movements. The two artists featured are both active in their communities and worldwide…
Challenges in Minimizing Teacher Authority While Facilitating a Student-Owned Activism Project
Students who take critical sociology courses often report feeling discouraged about their ability to change large-scale social-structural problems. To redress this perceived lack of agency and control, we modified an upper-division sociology of popular culture course to include a studentowned activism project that would entail minimal teacher direction. In this paper we describe our efforts through two iterations of the activism project and refle…
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