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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Claxton"”.
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Performing Resistance/Negotiating Sovereignty: Indigenous Women's Perofrmance Art in Canada
… Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Skeena Reece and Dana Claxton, as well as others, it argues that Indigenous performance art should be understood in terms of i) its enduring relationship to activism and resistance ii) its ongoing use as a tool for interventions in colonially entrenched spaces, and iii) …
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Revolutionary Forms: Unsettling Dance Through Site-Relational and Transformative Aesthetics
… readings of work by Indigenous artists Dana Claxton and Michael Greyeyes, I consider ways in which these artworks enact decolonial aesthetics of embodiment and land. Through practice-led research creating short screendance works House, Bed Effigy, and Garden, I shift my improvisational …
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Equipping Hispanic Leaders in the Tattnall-Evans Baptist Association in Southeast Georgia for cross-cultural evangelism
… ministry context of the Hispanic community in Claxton, Reidsville, Glennville, and Aline, Georgia. Chapter 2 presents the biblical and theological bases for doing cross-cultural evangelism, covering some Old and New Testaments characters who were involved in cross-cultural evangelism. Chapter 3 …
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“I didn’t have time to find the English words”: The Korean War’s Role in the Evolution of Bilingualism in the Canadian Armed Forces
… between the Minister of National Defence, Brooke Claxton, who wanted more bilingualism in the Canadian military, and the Chief of General Staff, General Guy G. Simonds, who resisted further concessions to francophones. Moreover, this thesis reveals the extent to which there was goodwill within the …
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Creating Divergence: Examining The Development Of Creativity Through Executive Function, Language And Mindset
… processes (Bijvoet-Van Den Berg, & Hoicka, 2014; Claxton, Pannells, & Rhoads, 2005) and motivational factors (dweck, 2006; lucas & nordgren, 2015), and is hypothesized to have significant "slumps" where the development slows, such as the "fourth-grade slump" (Torrance, 1967; 1968). The purpose …
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On the coherence of the notion of personal survival after the death of the body.
This dissertation defends the position that the coherence of the notion of some form of personal survival after the death of the body is worthy of consideration. This is not to say that personal survival after the death of the body either has or has not been established but rather that there are …
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An iconological analysis of British gold staters c.80 BC - AD 45
The thesis examines c. 280 forms and motifs derived from a reconstruction of 93 gold stater types struck within 7 geographical regions across southeastern England, c. 80 BC - AD 45. The thesis highlights the emerging presence of an iconographic repertoire across southern Britain during the late …
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No-How Generator: an artistic investigation of the event of choreographic performance as a site of embodied knowledge-generation
… on the cognitive science perspective of Guy Claxton and others, this thesis emphasises the embodied basis of knowing and argues that this grounds an understanding of knowledge-generation as intrinsic within the embodied context of choreography. This understanding foregrounds the integral …
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A qualitative investigation of formative assessment in second-level education in Ireland
… as the nurturing of a “mind to learn” (Wells and Claxton, 2002, p. 2).
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The measurement of oxygen uptake kinetics in children
Traditional approaches to exercise testing in children may not provide the most appropriate measures of a child's physiological responses to exercise, partly because they do not reflect children's normal intermittent activity patterns. The measurement of the rate and magnitude of change of oxygen …
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The development of a course of orientation in the Sacramento High School, Sacramento, California, and the major problems of its administration
<p>The orientation course in the Sacramento Senior High School has developed withint the school. In making a study of this orientation course, it seems important to make a study of some representative schools in the west and middle west sections of our country. In order to determine that schools …