Ce mémoire de maîtrise sous forme d’essai de pratique accompagne l’installation immersive Mnémoscope, stationnée au Centre de production en art actuel Touttout en décembre 2020. Il propose une réflexion sur le territoire de l’installation immersive à travers ma pratique, ma déma…
The purpose of this case study explores the impact of an immersion experience to a least developed country on the vocation of lay teacher leaders in American Jesuit High Schools. Nine lay teacher leaders engaged in a four stage process of immersion from November 2009 to August 2…
In this study, I examine how resistance is shaped by participants in an Arabic immersion program. Using ethnomethodology, I defined resistance by how contributions by students aligned or disaligned with the local social organization, and by extension, the work of the classroom, …
The Black/White Achievement gap has been a persistent problem in education. Previous research attributed this gap to students' culture (Jenks & Phillips, 1998; Ogbu, 1995a.b) or teachers' expectancy (Rist, 1970). Post-colonial literature suggests that this research itself is opp…
This study isolates a set of ideas from the large corpus of information on possession and unmāda in Indian literature and culture. I trace the history of the concept of unmāda from the Āyurvedic texts (ca. 3rd–7th centuries C.E.), where it is an undesirable condition, to the lat…
Research shows that the language Immersion Method, where children are taught entirely in the target language, is among the best ways to learn a second language (Curtain and Haas, 1995). The five year time frame between ages 3-8 is the crucial time to teach young children a secon…
Theater, historically, has served as a site for intense debates about ontology, specifically as concerns distinctions between what is real, in Plato's sense, and what is "merely" mimetic. Similar ontological debates have attended the development of new media technologies, which …
Wizard rock is a community of musicians that creates and performs music based on the narrative, characters, and tropes found in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. In this dissertation, I explore several key questions regarding wizard rock practice: how does heroism inform the w…
Repossessing Spectatorship in Immersive Theatre and Virtual Reality proposes that material constructions borne by the ambitions of “immersion” do not fulfill their intended purpose: total passage to the reality of the performance. These materially constructed doorframes are not …