Browsing by Author "Hyatt, Susan"

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    Beyond Deficit: Reconstructing Perceptions of Justice-Involved Writers in the Field of Writing and Rhetoric
    (2024-08) Hawkins, Kelsey; Brooks-Gillies, Marilee; Fox, Steve; Hyatt, Susan
    This project analyzes and deconstructs deficit thinking in the perceptions of justice-involved writers within both carceral and post-carceral contexts. Current scholarship within the field of writing and rhetoric often discursively constructs incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers’ literacies, epistemologies, and rhetorical practices through a deficit lens. By critically analyzing the discourses surrounding justice-involved writers, I identify the ways in which deficit thinking manifests in the field’s scholarship and instead emphasize anti-deficit understandings of carceral knowledge, rhetoric, and experience. The analysis reveals alternative approaches to researching, conceptualizing, and constructing justice-involved writers through antideficit lenses as well as pedagogical possibilities for teaching incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students.
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    Civic engagement in the age of devolution: how anthropological approaches can help navigate grassroots conflicts
    (2017) Harvey, Heather Marie; Hyatt, Susan; Dickerson-Putman, Jeanette; Siddiki, Saba
    Communities are currently being shaped and influenced by larger neoliberal social policies, which has resulted in decreased funding from public sources, which therefore creates greater competition among neighborhood organizations for limited resources. In this thesis, I analyze how larger neoliberal currents have created conflict within the local policy subsystem of rezoning in the Crooked Creek neighborhood in Indianapolis. My analysis spotlights the consequences of devolution one of which is the shift from government to neighborhood governance; I examine these issues by mapping out the causes and consequences of three separate rezoning cases. I compare the conflicting perspectives among local influential organizations, including the Community Development Corporation (CDC) and a number of state registered neighborhood groups. I frame this conflict through the Advocacy Coalition Framework (Sabatier 2007) in order to map out the connections between neoliberal social policies and local level conflict.
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    Paul Mullins and Susan Hyatt Project Introduction
    (Center for Translating Research Into Practice, IU Indianapolis, 2021-03-08) Mullins, Paul; Hyatt, Susan
    2020 Bantz Community Dialogue.
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    People’s Environmental Stewardship Elements Framed Through Sense of Place
    (2021-04) Rollings, Amber Jane; Filippelli, Gabriel; Hyatt, Susan; Sorge, Brandon; Jacinthe, Pierre-André; Wang, Lixin
    Indianapolis, Indiana is a sprawling city making it an exceptional locale to pursue environmental learning and stewardship research, particularly in the urban context. To achieve improved understanding of people’s attitudes and behaviors towards their natural environment and resources, research was conducted on different local populations of Indianapolis and surrounding metropolitan area. The research’s overall aim was to provide greater insight through sense of place on environmental perceptions and actions. The studied subpopulations included families, community members, and young adults and utilized mixed methods to frame inquiry. The qualitative and quantitative data approaches, such as survey instruments and semi-structured interviews, provided multiple avenues of results that could be corroborated to strengthen and confirm outcomes. Each project investigated how people perceive their responsibilities and participate in aspects that are important to environmental sustainability while also identifying potential driving mechanisms for their current and potential behaviors. Extant literature proposes that sense of place can affect a number of dimensions including people’s environmental intentions and behaviors. The context of each project considered how sense of place theory intertwined within the outcomes of environmental stewardship. Environmental stewardship is an important means for providing remediation and mitigation, as well as cultivating an ecologically responsible society. Families showed critical overlap in greater environmental awareness and action when topics were near respective residences and immediate surroundings, while informal interaction and formal intervention outlined how consequential messaging and experiential aspects can be when connecting people to resources or areas that are not considered home or familiar. The research suggests conclusive evidence on how to inform and guide on effective modes for producing environmental awareness, knowledge, and stewardship in order to build a more sustainable future.
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    Service Learning Courses IU Indianapolis High-Impact Practice Taxonomy
    (Indiana University, 2024-08-09) Bishop, Charity; Brown, Lorrie; Daday, Jerry; Garrity, Karen; Hahn, Thomas; Hyatt, Susan; Lienemann, Charli; Price Mahoney, Jennifer; Shukla, Anubhuti; Zoeller, Aimee
    Service learning is identified as a high-impact practice: that is, a teaching and learning practice that shows “evidence of significant educational benefits for students who participate in them—including and especially those from demographic groups historically underserved by higher education” (AAC&U, 2023). The purpose of the IU Indianapolis Taxonomy for Service Learning Courses is to: 1. Support instructors by providing clear criteria for teaching high impact service learning courses. 2. Identify service learning course attributes, explore the relationship between the attributes and student outcomes, and provide assessment guidelines for the attributes. 3. Inform and advance a research agenda for service learning by identifying course attributes that may affect student outcomes, (e.g., civic learning, academic learning, personal growth), as well as outcomes for other stakeholders (e.g., faculty development, community impact, community partner collaboration and satisfaction). 4. Provide a tool to document evidence to support instructors’ promotion, tenure, and professional advancement. 5. Support institutional and multi-campus research on service learning courses with a common taxonomy. 6. Provide a framework and approach for other institutions to either adopt or adapt the taxonomy, depending upon how service learning is conceptualized within each institution’s mission and context.
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    Sue and the City: Adventures in Translational Research in Indianapolis
    (Center for Translating Research Into Practice, IU Indianapolis, 2023-10-13) Hyatt, Susan
    Dr. Hyatt talks about some of the most memorable collaborative projects that she has engaged in over the past 19 years in Indianapolis, and shares what each project has contributed to the mission of supporting translational research at IUPUI. Colleagues of Dr. Hyatt share what she and her research means to them, IUPUI, and the Indianapolis and international communities.