Decolonizing Education : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Post-Secondary Humanities Textbooks

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dc.contributor.advisorLillian, Donna L.en_US
dc.contributor.advisorHenze, Brent R.
dc.contributor.authorHarper, Kimberly C.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish: Technical and Professional Discourseen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-15T12:40:42Z
dc.date.available2013-07-31T11:50:44Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines nine post-secondary humanities textbooks published between 2001 and 2011 using an approach that includes both qualitative and quantitative methodology to analyze the written and visual content of humanities textbooks. This dissertation engages in current debates that address bias in humanities textbooks and contributes to these debates by using a multi-disciplinary approach that combines methods from the field of technical writing and from recent work in postcolonial critical theory, functional analysis and discourse analysis. The goal of the research is to determine whether post-secondary humanities textbooks marginalize African cultures. The textbooks are analyzed utilizing Gloria Luzon's Primary and Secondary Genres Theory, Shahnil Saaid and Zaiha Ahmad's Communicative Purpose of a Preface Theory, Leo Lentz and Henk Pander Maat's Functional Analysis Theory to identify genre conventions associated with textbooks prefaces. Critical discourse analysis theory developed by Teun van Dijk and Normal Fairclough provides a framework for analyzing how the language used in textbooks presents a particular view of groups and cultures outside the Western tradition.  en_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.format.extent217 p.en_US
dc.format.mediumdissertations, academicen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10342/4071
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherEast Carolina Universityen_US
dc.subjectTechnical communicationen_US
dc.subjectRhetoricen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectCritical discourse analysisen_US
dc.subjectHistographyen_US
dc.subjectNarrativesen_US
dc.subject.lcshRacism in textbooks
dc.subject.lcshHumanities--Textbooks
dc.titleDecolonizing Education : A Critical Discourse Analysis of Post-Secondary Humanities Textbooksen_US
dc.typeDoctoral Dissertationen_US

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