Papers by Nirmal H Trivedi
From the Ground Up: Shaping Community, Collaboration, and Multiliteracies at Georgia Tech
This chapter discusses three dynamic spaces of the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia I... more This chapter discusses three dynamic spaces of the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech): the Laptop Classroom in the Skiles Classroom Building, the Communication Center in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, and the Stephen C. Hall Building. The authors recount how these spaces were deliberately designed by and for them. They describe how they worked with designers, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and information technology experts in the planning and design stages to match the physical spaces with the Writing and Communication Program’s philosophy, pedagogy, and research practices. This chapter focuses on physical and digital affordances that contribute to the Writing and Communication Program’s core philosophies of rhetoric, process, and multimodality. It also offers implications and conclusions flexible enough for readers at a range of other institutional contexts to consider and apply
Promoting Self-regulated Learning in the First-year Seminar: Evidence and Future Directions
Presented at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning International... more Presented at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning International Conference Link to Program:https://issotl18.w.uib.no/friday/friday-psi/ At many institutions, the first-year seminar serves as an introduction to the learning culture of higher education. As such, first-year seminars have an important role to play in helping students understand college expectations and demands. To be successful in college, students must go beyond surface-level learning, taking ownership of learning by choosing and using the best resources and strategies for the task, as well as reflecting upon and monitoring their progress toward learning goals (Kitsantas, 2002), skills often grouped under the umbrella term “self-regulated learning” (e.g., Zimmerman, 2008). The research discussed in this panel is grounded in the literature on self-regulation strategies and college success, and seeks to answer the question of whether metacognitive and self-regulation skills can be taught effectively through an assignment which requires deliberate practice of the strategies in an authentic context – another course in which the student is currently enrolled. In the Strategy Project assignment, students learn time management, communication, and study strategies in the process of preparing for an actual test, then demonstrate that learning by submitting their test preparation activities as part of a graded project in a first-year seminar course. By encouraging and providing feedback on reflective thinking and goal-directed interaction with faculty and peers, instructors model the process of self-regulation. In this paper, we will report briefly on four completed studies of the efficacy of the strategy project. Results from the first three studies indicate that at specific institutions, the strategy project was successful in improving students’ metacognition and self-regulation, management of time and study environment, and peer learning over the course of a semester. In study 4, which involved the use of the project at another institution, no significant changes in motivation, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, or resource management strategies were observed. However, it appears that regardless of institution, students who completed the strategy project increased their use of deeper level learning strategies, including concept maps, practice problems, and self-quizzing, as well as some surface level strategies such as making flashcards, and working with a group. Given this information, students in a first-year seminar tend to use more effective learning strategies as a result of the project, but further work is needed in varied learning environments. Participants who attend this session may generate ways they can modify the strategy project for their own use in order to create a lasting impact on how their students approach learning
“Something Ancient in modern times”
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan, 2010
Numerous critics have complained since its recent release that Lady in the Water (2006) is a prof... more Numerous critics have complained since its recent release that Lady in the Water (2006) is a profoundly frustrating text. Culminating in a Razzie for worst director and worst supporting actor for M. Night Shyamalan in February 2007, critique of the film has been vehement to the point of being vicious. Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune complains that “just when the story begs for some clean lines and a sense of direction, we get dithering and misdirection and another confused-tenants sequence.” Peter Travers’s Rolling Stone review argues that “the movie is a muddle, burdened with too many characters and a sorry lack of thrills, flair and coherence.” The film “doesn’t make a drop of sense” (Westhoff). Its producer has “lost his creative marbles” (Dargis). Details like the result of a Google search on the name of the film’s monsters are cited by Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice as another critique of the film: “What scrunt musters up when Googled is proof as well that Shyamalan don’t surf.” Even the depiction of the men living in one of the apartments reveals for one critic that “Shyamalan has obviously never, ever been stoned.” Both larger and smaller publications seem to share in this kind of inflammatory judgment, sometimes of the text but more often of its director, using the film as a launching pad for wide-ranging and largely tangential commentary.
Biopolitical Convergences: Narmada Bachao Andolan and Homo Sacer
Borderlands
Taking the anti-dam movement in India ("Save the Narmada Movement" or Narmada Bachao An... more Taking the anti-dam movement in India ("Save the Narmada Movement" or Narmada Bachao Andolan) as a case study, this paper aims to mark the present as one of ethical indeterminacy for the social activist towards the life that the activist claims to protect through an activation ...
Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
This paper describes the impact of a learning strategies intervention conducted in first-year sem... more This paper describes the impact of a learning strategies intervention conducted in first-year seminar courses that, 1) disaggregated components of academic skills into meaningful components for first-year students, 2) taught students academic skills within an authentic context, and 3) scaled-up the intervention for implementation at a programmatic level. This work is grounded in research on metacognition, self-regulation, and motivation, as well as literature on the academic transition to college. Results reinforced earlier findings indicating significant improved use of metacognitive learning strategies, even when the intervention was expanded to include multiple instructors in multiple course sections. Further research is needed to determine the precise factors precipitating improvement when the project was brought to scale.
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a concentration in Applied Cognition and De... more She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a concentration in Applied Cognition and Development from the University of Georgia in 2003, where a portion of her dissertation research was named "Paper of the Year" by Gifted Child Quarterly. A recipient of the American Psychological Association's national Teaching Excellence Award, she teaches first-year seminars and introductory psychology in a variety of learning communities. Her current research and professional interests include metacognition and self-regulation, faculty development, and the use of targeted learning communities to ensure STEM students thrive in their first year of college.
terms "contact zones"-areas of cross-cultural exchange and contest-I show in this interdisciplina... more terms "contact zones"-areas of cross-cultural exchange and contest-I show in this interdisciplinary work how the figure emerged through confronting U.S. state power with "on the spot" visual and textual witness accounts of the violence entailed by that power in a period of territorial expansion across the hemisphere, mass media development, and renewed aesthetic challenges to representing war. Revising critical appraisals of U.S. empire, including those of Amy Kaplan, that argue that the war correspondent is simply an apologist for U.S. imperialism through a facile use of romance, realism, spectacle, and sensationalism, I argue that the figure carves out a unique vision via such familiar conventions to unveil the contradictions of U.S. imperialism-particularly, its reliance on a narrative of liberation and protection through conquest. The dissertation thus unveils the correspondent as ambivalent towards this narrative as his witnessed accounts reveal subjects less protected, than abandoned by the state. I argue that through exposing the violence of this abandonment, the correspondent develops a new literary convention that exposes the consequences of modern war.
Witnessing empire: U.S. imperialism and the emergence of the war correspondent
Witnessing Empire is a cultural history of the American war correspondent. I trace the figure thr... more Witnessing Empire is a cultural history of the American war correspondent. I trace the figure through various points of crisis in the making of US sovereignty including the US-Mexico War, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. Locating correspondents like Herman Melville, ...
Nirmal Trivedi - Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms (review) - Journal of Asian American Studies 10:1
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2011
Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms (review)
Journal of Asian American Studies, 2007
In Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms, Inderpal Grewal further develops ... more In Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms, Inderpal Grewal further develops the "transnational feminist cultural studies" inaugurated in her co-edited volume Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. 11 She does so by ...
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