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Showing 1 to 20 of 37726 for “"Critical"”.
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Critical rationalism: a critical essay
The aim of this essay is to establish that critical rationalism currently exists in an incoherent state. This is demonstrated through an analysis of the discourse's key fields (its metaphysics, metascience and politics), their constituents and conditions of co-existence. Looking at each field, the …
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Critical breaking
Utilizing critical and feminist science and technology studies methods, this thesis offers a new framework, called critical breaking, to allow for reflective and critical examination and analysis of instances of error, breakdown, and failure in digital systems. This framework has three key analytic …
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Critical constants
Thesis (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1951.
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Praxis, Critical Pedagogy and Critical Adult and Community Education
… praxis, the cycle of action and reflection, and critical pedagogy in adult and community education might work towards social transformation. Critical pedagogy, the dynamic interaction between ‘really useful knowledge’, the educators and the learners, in the learning environment, lacked an …
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Max Scheler's Critical Theory: The Idea of Critical Phenomenology
… way core elements of phenomenology map on to the critical theory program in order to demonstrate phenomenology's relevance for ideology critique. "Critical phenomenology" means putting the findings of phenomenology to work for the sake of social critique. I argue that phenomenology gains a …
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A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies
… dissertation in six chapters is grounded in critical research and theory for the purpose of engaged public service. This project is grounded in three formal disciplines: education, criminology, and peace and conflict studies. Within those three disciplines, this project interweaves newly …
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Critical Moments: Exploring Critical Pedagogy in an Adult ESL Classroom
… the challenges and potentials of implementing critical pedagogical approaches in a community-based adult English as a Second Language (ESL) program with a focus on language learners with low proficiency in English. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the limitations and …
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A critical evaluation of Kantian themes in Habermas’s critical theory
This dissertation provides a critical evaluation of Kantian themes in the work of Jurgen Habermas. This is done by drawing largely on the thought of Hegel and Adorno. The basis for the critique is the conviction that Kant does not provide the best model for critical theory and that Kant’s thought …
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Contextualising critical design: towards a taxonomy of critical practice in product design
This study focuses on critical design practice. The research challenges the colloquial understanding of ‘critical design.’ It problamatises, defines and reassesses the concept of ‘critical design’ situating it among other forms of critical design practice.
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Critical Symmetry: William Blake's Influence on the Critical Theories of Northrop Frye
… Blake's poetry, criticism, and thought on Frye's critical theories as expounded in Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) and subsequent works. Two generations of scholars have read Blake through Frye in an effort to understand Blakes's prophetic poetry. This thesis concludes that scholars who …
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Constructing Critical Change: Learning from Elementary Teachers' Engagement with Inclusive Critical Education
… engagement with gender-focused inclusive critical education (Page, 2017). Specifically, I sought to learn from seven elementary educators’ reflections upon their work the ways in which they engaged with gender-focused inclusive critical education within their school sites, especially …
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Contextualising Critical Design: Towards a Taxonomy of Critical Practice in Product Design
This study focuses on critical design practice. The research challenges the colloquial understanding of ‘critical design.’ It problematises, defines and reassesses the concept of ‘critical design’ situating it among other forms of critical design practice. The research reviews the field of activity …
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Journaling for Critical Thinking
… testing and the effect it was having on critical thinking. He hypothesized improved journaling techniques would facilitate the connection between class participation and student art projects.A review of the solution strategy revealed a need to adjust the number of pages required, provide …
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Critical Dialogues and Reflections
… Patients are objectified and dehumanized. “Critical dialogue and reflections” is an attempt to call out the inadequacies of our current framework of thinking about medicine and medical education, written by someone who is a patient, a doctor, an educator, and a researcher. This is a …
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Ultraconnected and Critical Graphs
… graphs, and provide further connections between critical and ultraconnected graphs in the positive definite partial matrix completion problem. We completely characterize when the join of graphs is ultraconnected, and prove that ultraconnectivity is preserved by Cartesian products. We completely …
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Critical play : alien contact
… on spectacle. Simultaneously, I investigate "critical play" as my central tactic in reconnecting social neurons among atomized citizens to re-energize human creativity, a core agent in progressing social development. Lastly, I demonstrate one of my research projects performed over the last two …
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