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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Attitudes and assumptions"”.
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Attitudes and assumptions of children's ministry experts concerning cultural relevancy
… determining the direction of their evangelism and discipleship with children. Chapter 1 describes the purpose of this research which was to investigate the attitudes and assumptions of significant contributors to children's ministry towards cultural relevancy as a determining factor for …
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Cultural coverture: an examination of the impact of early American marriage laws on contemporary American women
… woman's civil identity was covered by her husband's civil identity and she was viewed to be civilly dead. The system of coverture originated in Europe and was part of the English Common Law system. When settlers first colonized what would eventually become the United States, they adopted …
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Storytelling in the transformative process of cultural self-awareness
… have in enhancing cultural self-awareness and achieving perspective transformation in terms of values, attitudes, and assumptions about the world? The study group comprised people who participated between 1995 and 2009 in a year-long Colorado Vincentian Volunteer (CVV) program for young …
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The political values present in the Presbyterian church in Canada's response to social problems, 1925-1975
… ideology in Canadian society (i.e., liberalism) and has therefore provided a powerful religious legitimation for liberal values. The Church's responses to social problems (and particularly to socio-economic problems) are analyzed because they embody certain attitudes and assumptions about how …
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Sense and Sensing: A critical enquiry into relations between hearing-impaired children, vision and photography
This thesis explores and critiques attitudes and assumptions related to hearing-impaired, school-level students and their engagement with the educational discipline of photography. It is not uncommon to find that hearing-impaired children are described as visual learners. This thesis argues that …
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Analyzing information flow in social networks for knowledge discovery
… of a lone user surfing the web relevant anymore and with social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. online users can now actively interact with other users. It is now quite common for web businesses to offer support for friends lists, forums, private message systems, community maintenance tools …
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Attitudes to nuclear defence. An investigation of processes of change in elite and non-elite belief systems.
… nuclear weapons in Europe mark a watershed in attitudes towards nuclear deterrence and security. On the one side lie all the old beliefs and assumptions about nuclear defence and security that have been common parlance for the last forty years and more. On the other side lies a unique …