Karen Brennan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5414130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Brennan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Brennan |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4199-5767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Years of the Infanticide Act
This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world. It is 100 years since an Infanticide Act was first passed in England and Wales. The statute, re-enacted in 1938, allows for leniency to be given to women who kill their infants within the first year of life. This legislation is unique and controversial: it creates a specific offence and defence that is …
How kids manage self-directed programming projects
Background: A variety of self-directed opportunities to learn how to program are available to kids. But how do kids manage the motivational and cognitive challenges of creating projects?Methods: I examined this question in the context of kids working at home with the Scratch programming environment, based on thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 30 young creators discussing their project development processes.Findings: Ten strategi…
Stepping back and stepping in
Four principles for assessing student-directed projects
Student-directed projects are a promising approach to supporting powerful learning, yet uncertainty about how to assess these projects presents a barrier to widespread incorporation in K-12 classrooms. Drawing on interviews with computer science teachers and an interdisciplinary literature review, Karen Brennan, Sarah Blum-Smith, and Paulina Haduong offer four principles to guide assessment of student-directed projects: recognizing the individual…
Expanding outcomes
Women and the Criminal Justice System
The Grafted Tongue
A Fine Mixture of Pity and Justice
MH, a domestic cook who was 26 years of age, was charged with murdering her newborn infant in September 1931. MH had been “seeing a boy” who, she stated, “took advantage” of her on one occasion, procuring her consent to sexual intercourse by a promise of marriage. She claimed that she only realized she was pregnant during the later months of her pregnancy, but did not inform the father of her child. Her employer, suspecting that MH was pregnant, …
Scratch
"Digital fluency" should mean designing, creating, and remixing, not just browsing, chatting, and interacting.
The contemporary long poem
As we have seen in the preceding essays, contemporary women poets working in expansive forms have both claimed and challenged the cultural authority of the long poem. They have done so using diverse aesthetic modes, ranging from historically focused collage poems to formally intricate lyric sequences to massive works of epic breadth and comprehensiveness. Despite these different aesthetic choices, feminist poets writing in extended forms, have em…
The Geography of Enunciation
In [the postmodern] situation, parody finds itself without a vocation; it has lived and that strange new thing pastiche slowly comes to take its place. Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a particular mask, speech in a dead language: but it is the neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody's ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongside the abnormal tongue you have …
Expanding outcomes
A Fine Mixture of Pity and Justice
MH, a domestic cook who was 26 years of age, was charged with murdering her newborn infant in September 1931. MH had been “seeing a boy” who, she stated, “took advantage” of her on one occasion, procuring her consent to sexual intercourse by a promise of marriage. She claimed that she only realized she was pregnant during the later months of her pregnancy, but did not inform the father of her child. Her employer, suspecting that MH was pregnant, …
The Geography of Enunciation
In [the postmodern] situation, parody finds itself without a vocation; it has lived and that strange new thing pastiche slowly comes to take its place. Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a particular mask, speech in a dead language: but it is the neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody's ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongside the abnormal tongue you have …
The Geography of Enunciation
In [the postmodern] situation, parody finds itself without a vocation; it has lived and that strange new thing pastiche slowly comes to take its place. Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a particular mask, speech in a dead language: but it is the neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody's ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongside the abnormal tongue you have …
The contemporary long poem
As we have seen in the preceding essays, contemporary women poets working in expansive forms have both claimed and challenged the cultural authority of the long poem. They have done so using diverse aesthetic modes, ranging from historically focused collage poems to formally intricate lyric sequences to massive works of epic breadth and comprehensiveness. Despite these different aesthetic choices, feminist poets writing in extended forms, have em…
Scratch
"Digital fluency" should mean designing, creating, and remixing, not just browsing, chatting, and interacting.
A Fine Mixture of Pity and Justice
MH, a domestic cook who was 26 years of age, was charged with murdering her newborn infant in September 1931. MH had been “seeing a boy” who, she stated, “took advantage” of her on one occasion, procuring her consent to sexual intercourse by a promise of marriage. She claimed that she only realized she was pregnant during the later months of her pregnancy, but did not inform the father of her child. Her employer, suspecting that MH was pregnant, …
Women and the Criminal Justice System
The Grafted Tongue
Expanding outcomes
How kids manage self-directed programming projects
Background: A variety of self-directed opportunities to learn how to program are available to kids. But how do kids manage the motivational and cognitive challenges of creating projects?Methods: I examined this question in the context of kids working at home with the Scratch programming environment, based on thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 30 young creators discussing their project development processes.Findings: Ten strategi…
Stepping back and stepping in
Four principles for assessing student-directed projects
Student-directed projects are a promising approach to supporting powerful learning, yet uncertainty about how to assess these projects presents a barrier to widespread incorporation in K-12 classrooms. Drawing on interviews with computer science teachers and an interdisciplinary literature review, Karen Brennan, Sarah Blum-Smith, and Paulina Haduong offer four principles to guide assessment of student-directed projects: recognizing the individual…
Years of the Infanticide Act
This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world. It is 100 years since an Infanticide Act was first passed in England and Wales. The statute, re-enacted in 1938, allows for leniency to be given to women who kill their infants within the first year of life. This legislation is unique and controversial: it creates a specific offence and defence that is …
Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · History (3 works) · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (3 works)