Marlen Elliot Harrison, Ph.D.
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Marlen Elliot Harrison, Ph.D.
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    How Autoethnography Is Being Utilized to Support Learner Development

    Disrupting the MA English Thesis: Autoethnography in Advanced Literary Studies

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Workshop: Feminist Communitarian Ethical Frameworks

“presumes a researcher who builds a reciprocal,collaborative, trusting, and friendly relations with the persons he orshe is studying.” (Denzin, 2003,...
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How Autoethnography Is Being Utilized to Support Learner Development

This manuscript - a duoethnography - seeks to examine the rationale for the increased use of autoethnography as a tool to promote/support language learner autonomy.
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Project Coordinator & Writer, The Smithsonian

"In an on-going effort to challenge stereotyping, and correct the current nature of education concerning American Indians, the NMAI will devote the required scholarship to inform and assess these permanent visual statements."
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Book Chapter: Taking the teacher out of the test – Exploring student automomy in EFL classroom testing

Harrison, M. (2006). Taking the teacher out of the test: Exploring student automomy in EFL classroom testing. In M. Koyama & E....
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Disrupting the MA English Thesis: Autoethnography in Advanced Literary Studies

"We will explore why and how an MA thesis director introduces autoethnography as an alternative research discourse to MA English thesis students, and examine student responses. Pedagogical implications, teaching resources, and thesis examples will be presented in order to highlight the myriad creative possibilities for using autoethnography to both celebrate and interrogate literature, literacy, and language."
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Esxence 2016 – Roundtable – Judging & Criticism in Artistic Perfumery

"The panel defined artistic perfumery as a type of creative design where the perfumer is not necessarily limited by someone else's concept, brief, or vision. Art itself lies at the core of artistic perfumery and as such, the panel addressed how such art can be judged and critiqued."
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Call-EJ: Keypal friendships and their influences on ESL learner development

"The purpose of the studies was to examine aspects of keypal email exchange projects currently in development in English language classes at two Japanese universities: One purpose of these studies was to look at pedagogical aspects of the project, including implementation, and perceived and long-term benefits of such projects."
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Writing on the Edge: The Power of No – Buddhist Mindfulness and the Teaching of Composition

"Aware of the suffering created by fanaticism and intolerance, we are determined not to be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology. (Hanh 23)"
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Technicolor Third Space: Developing the AutoEthnographer Literary & Arts Magazine

"In this brief, animated autoethnography, I utilize the concept of a sociocultural third space to consider why evocative autoethnography can benefit from its own literary and arts journal."
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Book Chapter: Humanizing Pedagogy and the Personal Essay

"classroom observations showed us that there was a strong connection between not only the theory and practice of using personal essays, but also of the outcomes such practice will have on student writing, creating a more humanized classroom environment."
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PhD Research: Language & Identity

“…I ask him if he is ‘out’ and he looks at me, moves his head slightly forward and asks, ‘Pardon?’”...
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Marlen’s Dissertation Proposal

Discovering Voices, Discovering Selves: Queer sexuality in Japan and English language use Marlen Harrison Dissertation Proposal (working) Purpose A 1928...
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