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Islamist Biographies: Religious Experiences of South African Muslim Activists
This thesis explores the biographies of Muslim activists who were involved in the South African Islamist movement from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s - tracking their trajectories up till the present. These Islamist biographies can be likened to journeys which include moments of fulfilment, doubt, …
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BIOGRAPHIES OF PEOPLE AND PLACE: THE HAREWOOD ESTATE, 1698-1813
… had a variable impact at the local scale. The ‘biographies of people and place’ have been used to introduce multivocality, or new ‘voices’, into the interpretation. By articulating several perspectives of the same landscape and recognising how people play a significant part in its formation - …
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Digital life stories: Semi-automatic (auto)biographies within lifelog collections
Our life stories enable us to reflect upon and share our personal histories. Through emerging digital technologies the possibility of collecting life experiences digitally is increasingly feasible; consequently so is the potential to create a digital counterpart to our personal narratives. In this …
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Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity
How can singers in an art form imported from Europe become stars in a culture like America where so-called “high art” in general and opera in particular are not natural candidates for popular stardom? This dissertation argues that magazines, as mainstream media, have played an important role over …
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Biographies about Abraham Lincoln for children (1865-1969): Portrayals of his parents
Publications related to Abraham Lincoln have been abundant, and such writings have been analyzed in numerous historiographical essays. One area of Lincoln literature that has received little attention from scholars, however, is that portion intended for children. Yet these writings must be …
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Exploring the Process of Lifelong Learning: The Biographies of Five Canadian Women Coaches
… perceive their social situations, change their biographies, and become who they are over the course of their lives. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the biographies of five Canadian women coaches to understand how the multitude of experiences throughout their lives have contributed …
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An Annotated Bibliography of Black Women Biographies and Autobiographies for Secondary School Students
Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Caring biographies : qualitative explorations of South African informal sector workers' gendered subjectivities of care
This study examines how gender identities shape the experiences of informal sector workers, particularly street traders, as they balance work and caregiving responsibilities. Focusing on 20 street traders (10 women and 10 men) in rural Venda, South Africa, the research aims to understand the …
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The Performance of Gender: Five Comparative Biographies of Women Performers in Musica Popular Chilena
"Each of the five women currently performs and records music in Santiago, and all of them have toured internationally. They originate from different generations, class backgrounds, and political orientations. Margot Loyola moved to the capital during a decade of high urbanization, the 1940s. Since …
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(Re)constructions of the Self and the Nation in Selected Auto/biographies of South African and Zimbabwean Women
This thesis examines and interrogates auto/biographies of six African women in the ways in which their selves and the nation are constructed. The selected autobiographies and biographies are largely by and about African women with some measure of political power and or relatively successful career. …
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The mathematical biographies of primary school teachers and how this may affect their teaching; a grounded theory study.
Improving numeracy skills in the UK population has been the aim of many different government education strategies over many decades. This piece of research uses grounded theory to explore the conscious psychological processes of primary school teachers when they are teaching maths to the children …
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“Learning Discourse”: Learning Biographies, Embedded Speech And Discoursal Identity In Students' Talk : The Learning Discourses Of German Business Studies Undergraduates
… provides evidence of the production of learning biographies in interview talk. Evidence is also produced in this study of the 'biographization' of students' talk. <br></br><br></br> The coherence of students' discourse practices in relation to their experience of learning is underlined and the …
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Exploring the biographies of high-achieving students: how to social environments and classroom experiences enable them to identify as 'good at maths'?
School students are more likely to enjoy and succeed in the compulsory, high-stakes subject of mathematics if they are able to identify as ‘good at maths’. This study investigated the manner in which students’ social and classroom experiences regulated how easily they could adopt this learner …
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To wear and to see: object biographies and the history of mobility in the late nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century Western Indian Ocean
My dissertation aims to determine how the biographies of objects contribute to the history of mobility in the region of the Western Indian Ocean in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century through four case studies of material culture from East Africa that are institutions in the United …
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Orkney's first farmers. Reconstructing biographies from osteological analysis to gain insights into life and society in a Neolithic community on the edge of Atlantic Europe
There has been historical failure to exploit skeletal data in archaeological syntheses of the Neolithic, compounded by poor or cursory osteological reports. This project aimed to discover what Neolithic Orcadian life was like, arguing from skeletal evidence. Orkney¿s exceptional site preservation …
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Contemporary Egyptian art music for the viola through the ethnographic biographies and compositions of Yusif Gris, Gamal ‘Abd al-Rahim, ‘Atiyya Sharara, and Sherif Mohi al-Din for Western programs
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Women on Kazantzakis: biography and fiction
… the advantage and honour of having a number of biographies written about him, despite the fact that biography has not been particularly developed as a genre in Greece. Four of these biographies were written by women writers who were more or less intimately related to him: Galateia Kazantzaki, …
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30 Women Turning 30
Biographies.
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