Virginia Navarro
University of Missouri–St. Louis
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Mental Retardation | 1998
Scot Danforth; Virginia Navarro
A sample of speech acts in everyday discourse referring to persons or events having to do with the term mental retardation was analyzed in order to investigate the belief that language use both constructs and reflects cultural norms that define the social roles of persons reduced to object status through categorical membership. Speech acts gathered suggest four emergent themes: the discourse of category membership, the dichotomy of normal and abnormal, issues of place and space, and fear. These themes were explicated from a social constructionist perspective, displaying the way speech acts construct mental retardation and subvert individuals with the label into demeaned and ridiculed objects of cultural fear.
Education and Urban Society | 2011
Srikala Naraian; Kathleen Sullivan Brown; Virginia Navarro
There are few instances in the literature on urban school reform that have closely studied specific school buildings to describe the grant resource appropriation process. This study attempts to fill that gap by developing case studies of two middle schools with divergent profiles in resource utilization through micro-ethnographies. One school exhibited optimal engagement with opportunities made available through a large federally funded grant, whereas the second school failed to do the same through this initiative. We investigated how the unique features of these schools and key individuals within them intersected with the structure of the grant program to shape the nature of school engagement. These two case study narratives illuminate the range of factors that might be implicated in the implementation of school reform initiatives, particularly in urban settings.
Anthropology & Education Quarterly | 2001
Scot Danforth; Virginia Navarro
Studies in Educational Evaluation | 2004
Cody Ding; Virginia Navarro
Asian Women | 2012
Virginia Navarro
Teacher Education and Practice | 2011
Alina Slapac; Virginia Navarro
Teaching Educational Psychology | 2006
Virginia Navarro
Psyccritiques | 2015
Virginia Navarro
Psyccritiques | 2006
Virginia Navarro
Psyccritiques | 2006
Virginia Navarro