Eleanor M Novek
Biographic Data
| ID | 6517832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor M Novek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor M |
| FAMILY NAME | Novek |
| SIGNATURE | NOVEK E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Alternatives to Violence Project's Work for Peace Behind Bars
A young man wearing a khaki prison uniform perches nervously on the edge of a plastic chair. He is one of twenty inmates who will spend the weekend learning how to overcome hostility in the Alterna
Mass Culture and the American Taste for Prisons
Over the last 30 years, popular culture in the United States has demonstrated an extraordinary obsession with prisons. The stories Americans tell about themselves have involved outlaws and gangster
Gates of conflict
Marking symbolic boundaries is an essential act of group identity. But the imaginary borders that unite some antagonize others; real‐world tensions evolve from these metaphoric moves of inclusion and exclusion. In two case studies of conflict over metaphorical boundaries erected by members of religious faiths, this paper demonstrates how symbolic communication devices have consequences both inside and outside the boundaries they set out to establ…
Communication and community empowerment
Scholars of contemporary society say that communities empower themselves when people share common goals and act together for social change. These communities often share a vision of “civil society,” where people of all classes and races are committed to the common good. A local empowerment effort of this type began recently in a coastal community in the mid‐Atlantic United States. I joined the effort as a participant observer to study its practic…
Service-learning is a Feminist Issue
How do we “do” emancipatory feminist teaching when we have not observed it or experienced it ourselves? The author argues here that service-learning is a useful strategy for feminist communication educators to begin challenging the power relationships of traditional pedagogy. Pioneered in the 1960s and '70s, this pairing of traditional course work with community service is now used as a learning model in schools around the nation. Because service…
Observation is Only the Beginning
Feminist scholars have long been interested in emancipatory philosophies and practical advocacy research, and have pioneered new methods for enacting social change and sharing this work in the discourse of our field. This article chronicles the development of a learning method called “committed communication intervention.” By emphasizing ethics of care, dialogue, and the teaching of strategic communication practices, committed communication inter…
Read it and Weep
In the United States, as in most societies, the concept of literacy has as much to do with status and power relations as with the text-based skills of reading and writing. Because social relationships are constructed through language, the metaphors we use to talk about literacy help construct our views of it, but the conceptual shorthand they provide is problematic. This paper argues that metaphors found in public and scholarly discourse about li…
The value of your name
Service-learning is a Feminist Issue
How do we “do” emancipatory feminist teaching when we have not observed it or experienced it ourselves? The author argues here that service-learning is a useful strategy for feminist communication educators to begin challenging the power relationships of traditional pedagogy. Pioneered in the 1960s and '70s, this pairing of traditional course work with community service is now used as a learning model in schools around the nation. Because service…
The Alternatives to Violence Project's Work for Peace Behind Bars
A young man wearing a khaki prison uniform perches nervously on the edge of a plastic chair. He is one of twenty inmates who will spend the weekend learning how to overcome hostility in the Alterna
Mass Culture and the American Taste for Prisons
Over the last 30 years, popular culture in the United States has demonstrated an extraordinary obsession with prisons. The stories Americans tell about themselves have involved outlaws and gangster
Read it and Weep
In the United States, as in most societies, the concept of literacy has as much to do with status and power relations as with the text-based skills of reading and writing. Because social relationships are constructed through language, the metaphors we use to talk about literacy help construct our views of it, but the conceptual shorthand they provide is problematic. This paper argues that metaphors found in public and scholarly discourse about li…
The value of your name
Communication and community empowerment
Scholars of contemporary society say that communities empower themselves when people share common goals and act together for social change. These communities often share a vision of “civil society,” where people of all classes and races are committed to the common good. A local empowerment effort of this type began recently in a coastal community in the mid‐Atlantic United States. I joined the effort as a participant observer to study its practic…
The value of your name
Read it and Weep
In the United States, as in most societies, the concept of literacy has as much to do with status and power relations as with the text-based skills of reading and writing. Because social relationships are constructed through language, the metaphors we use to talk about literacy help construct our views of it, but the conceptual shorthand they provide is problematic. This paper argues that metaphors found in public and scholarly discourse about li…
Observation is Only the Beginning
Feminist scholars have long been interested in emancipatory philosophies and practical advocacy research, and have pioneered new methods for enacting social change and sharing this work in the discourse of our field. This article chronicles the development of a learning method called “committed communication intervention.” By emphasizing ethics of care, dialogue, and the teaching of strategic communication practices, committed communication inter…
Communication and community empowerment
Scholars of contemporary society say that communities empower themselves when people share common goals and act together for social change. These communities often share a vision of “civil society,” where people of all classes and races are committed to the common good. A local empowerment effort of this type began recently in a coastal community in the mid‐Atlantic United States. I joined the effort as a participant observer to study its practic…
Service-learning is a Feminist Issue
How do we “do” emancipatory feminist teaching when we have not observed it or experienced it ourselves? The author argues here that service-learning is a useful strategy for feminist communication educators to begin challenging the power relationships of traditional pedagogy. Pioneered in the 1960s and '70s, this pairing of traditional course work with community service is now used as a learning model in schools around the nation. Because service…
Gates of conflict
Marking symbolic boundaries is an essential act of group identity. But the imaginary borders that unite some antagonize others; real‐world tensions evolve from these metaphoric moves of inclusion and exclusion. In two case studies of conflict over metaphorical boundaries erected by members of religious faiths, this paper demonstrates how symbolic communication devices have consequences both inside and outside the boundaries they set out to establ…
Mass Culture and the American Taste for Prisons
Over the last 30 years, popular culture in the United States has demonstrated an extraordinary obsession with prisons. The stories Americans tell about themselves have involved outlaws and gangster
The Alternatives to Violence Project's Work for Peace Behind Bars
A young man wearing a khaki prison uniform perches nervously on the edge of a plastic chair. He is one of twenty inmates who will spend the weekend learning how to overcome hostility in the Alterna
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)