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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Commonplaces"”.
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A Case Study of Selected Preservice Teachers Regarding the Origins of Their Perspectives on the Commonplaces of Education and the Impact of Foundations Studies on Those Perspectives
… and Schwab’s (1978) concept of the four "commonplaces" of education (teacher, student, curriculum, and context) was used to categorize questions about the meaning and purpose of education. Nine interviewees were selected from among students in two teacher education programs in the …
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Commedia: Rhetoric And Technology In The Media Commons
… using the Aristotelian rhetorical concept of the commonplaces as well as political, critical, and legal theory. Based on these analyses, this dissertation also provides pedagogical recommendations for the teaching of writing with technology in both online and physical classrooms.</p>
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Curriculum Deliberation by Experienced EFL Teachers (A Case Study in the Indonesian College EFL Context)
… how they addressed the elements of curriculum commonplaces, and how they expressed and used their knowledge in dealing with those problems. The data for the study were collected through the teachers’ participation in six sessions of curriculum deliberation, their six reflective journals, and …
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Heavenly choirs in early medieval England: A study of topoi in their contexts
… 1116). It does so by tracing changes in topoi, commonplaces that form part of the fabric of visions, hagiographical narratives and ascetic guidance literature. Unlike previous studies that have examined topoi, the thesis both thoroughly scrutinises developments in commonplaces and situates them …
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Curricular Agency: Contemplating Curriculum as a Process to Empower Teachers
… 1991) and an interview structure based on the commonplaces (Schwab, 1969), this study involved working with four exemplary teacher educators to externalize their internal process of curricular decision-making. Contemplating their own curricula as a dynamic process rather than a finished …
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A Narrative Inquiry Into Curriculum-Making Experiences With Games and Puzzles in a Mathematics Class
… to learn something about each of Schwab’s (1973) commonplaces: teacher, learner, milieu, and subject matter. I came to understand curriculum as more than subject matter, but instead that curriculum involves all of Schwab’s commonplaces and the interactions between them. This insight into …
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MOVEMENT WITHOUT MOTION: THE RHETORIC OF CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-CLAIMS TO GLOBAL WARMING THEORY
… unifying speech codes – such as ideographs and commonplaces – that provide the conservative movement’s appeal. The conclusion is that conservative counter-claims to global warming theory are an application of longstanding principles in a new and transformative way; and that the conservative …
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TOWARD A VISUAL PAIDEIA: VISUAL RHETORIC IN UNDERGRADUATE WRITING PROGRAMS
… development of a collection of visual topoi or commonplaces that can be used as a powerful tool of invention in the creation of visual-dominant texts as I demonstrate through several examples of student work.
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Realism, sentimentalism, and popular fiction
… fiction that productively turns these critical commonplaces upside-down and moves beyond their limitations. Freeman's work needs to be understood as an investigation of sentimentalism and a deployment of its strategies for literary purposes.
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Flowers for the Book-binder's Wife: An Investigation of Florilegia and Early Modern Women's Writing
… included the subcategory of sententiae, or commonplaces, which were considered sources of wisdom and advice. By their chronic recycling of such maxims, Renaissance writers reinforced the prominence of literary imitation rather than encouraging originality. Thus, when early modern authors …
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Burning Out: A Narrative Exploration of the Adaptive Challenge and Scaffolds Built Toward Sustenance Among Immigrant Rights Activists in San Diego County
… of resonant threads. Clandinin and Connelly’s commonplaces of temporality, sociality, and place were used as a first interpretive lens. Two emergent lenses were used as appropriate to the data: adaptive leadership theory and hope theory. Four resonant themes emerged. First, participants …
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Narratives of Experience in Education: Living and Working Through Poverty in a Rural Community
… An examination of these themes through commonplaces of place, sociality and time (Connelly and Clandinin, 2006) provide a context for other educators and researchers to consider or reconsider teaching practices in school communities affected by poverty.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini and the work of subjectivity
… challenges more direct and superficial critical commonplaces, such as the dichotomy between 'passione e ideologia' suggested by Pasolini himself and followed by many since.
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OMNIA VINCIT AMOR: parody and tone in Ovid's Amores 3.11a&b
… odi et amo idea. Because in this poem elegiac commonplaces abound, and because of Ovid's verbal dexterity and allusiveness, the poem has often been deemed simply a playful parody of or variation on the Catullan theme: that is, insincere and not at all serious. Few have considered the …
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Our father in heaven: The dimensions of divine paternity in Deuteronomy
… chapter is to establish a system of associated commonplaces concerning the word "father" in the ANE, which, in turn, helps modern readers understand the phrase, "God is a father." This study investigates the literary and theological context of Deuteronomy 32, 1, 8, and 14 (in that order) where …
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Nomadic intertextuality and postmillennial children's gothic fiction
… children’s fiction also challenges critical commonplaces in Gothic Studies. The nomadic project of children’s Gothic runs counter to the melancholic figuration of subjectivity offered by a deconstructive psychoanalytic discourse that informs some analysis of Gothic literature. Unlike the …
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Intertwined Cultural Journeys: An Autoethnography of Learning, Teaching, and Affirming Diversity through Multicultural Music
… education while Schwab's (1978) four commonplaces (i.e., subject matter, teacher, learner, and milieu) are used to organize the key events discussed in this work. Freire's concept of conscientization (1987) is used to chronicle key cultural events in my life that demonstrate the …
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Narrative and gender in the novels of Christina Stead
… female characters and subvert the metaphorical commonplaces of the dominant tradition. Other metaphors reveal transcendent impulses, seemingly at odds with the narratives' usual deterministic ethos. In the plots and their endings Christina Stead also negotiates with the norms of the dominant …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry into Healthcare Professionals Who Are Experts in Cannabinoid Therapy and the Endocannabinoid System (ECS)
… a conceptual framework, Joseph Schwab’s Five Commonplaces of Curriculum: teachers, learners, subject matter, milieus (contexts), and curriculum making (Schwab, 1964). The commonplace of these stakeholders allows for a greater capacity in designing curriculum that fits the need for practical …
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