Your Department, CSU, Chico
EGSC Regional Fall Symposium--2009
Panels Have Formed!
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To download a copy of the Symposium Program, click here.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kim Jaxon
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Kim Jaxon recently completed her PhD in the Graduate School of Education at UC, Berkeley. She teaches in the English Department at CSU, Chico where her interests include the professional development of teachers, theories of learning and literacy, and the role of technology, particularly in terms of how social media can be leveraged for school contexts.In her recent address to the graduates of UC Berkeley's doctoral program she noted "It really matters to me that the words or at least categories we use when we talk about students: 'gifted,' 'basic,' 'remedial,' 'fast,' 'slow,' 'ADHD'... and so on, stand in our way, instead of describing what they [our students] can do. Let's use our words to explain, tell the story, advocate and complicate how others view our students and how we view our students."Currently Dr. Jaxon is investigating the uses of social networking sites in the Academic Writing classroom. |
Performing Arts Center at CSU, Chico
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Can't afford a hotel? Jeremy Gerrard, one of the Graduate Students at CSU, Chico has rooms available. Contact him: JGerrard@mail.csuchico.edu
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Central Campus Map: Performing Arts Center
*Note* The Performing Arts Center is across the street from the parking lot on W. 2nd Street. For directions to this parking lot, see the link above under "Get Directions."
Overview
The English Graduate Student Council and the English Department at CSU, Chico have extended an invitation to all the campuses in the CSU system, inviting graduate students from the Humanities and Fine Arts to share their scholarship and research at this year's Fall Symposium: "Re-visioning Narrative: Place, Practice and Perspective." This year's symposium investigates how the story is told. Narrative can invigorate, expose, exclude, or inform. Coming to terms with narration, in a work of literature, in our own research, or in our own writing is the primary project of all scholars. We hope the conversations generated at this year's symposium will resonate provocatively in practice throughout our community of scholarship .
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