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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">My name is Cameron Becker, and I am a doctoral candidate in English Rhetoric and Composition at Ball State University. I am currently conducting
a study for my dissertation, entitled <b><u class="ContentPasted0">Critical Embodiment Pedagogy in Online Writing Instruction</u></b>, and I would like to invite you to participate. You are also welcome and encouraged to distribute this message or the accompanying
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">My dissertation is a qualitative study of how and why instructors adopt embodied pedagogies in online writing courses. I would like to understand
more about the scholarly inspiration, motivation, and experiences of professors, lecturers, instructors, graduate teaching assistants, and other instructors of record who incorporate embodied pedagogies in their undergraduate online (asynchronous, synchronous,
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">For the purpose of this study, I am defining “embodied pedagogies” as pedagogies that incorporate somatic, kinesthetic, spatial, or experiential
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">I hope that you can help me understand more about how you incorporate theories and principles of embodiment in your online writing course. I
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;" class="ContentPasted0">Student Co-Investigator:
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