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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Critical approaches"”.
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Critical approaches to Soweto poetry : dilemmas in an emergent literature
… of contemporary South African and European critical approaches 'to "Soweto poetry" is undertaken to evaluate their efficacy in addressing the diverse and complex dynamics evident in the poetry. A wide selection of poetry from the 1970's and early 1980's is used to argue that none of the …
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Tradition is Dead, Long Live Tradition: Critical Approaches to Postvernacular Yiddish Culture
… and that this context necessitates that critical thinking be integrated into the pedagogy and transmission of cultural practice. The study also hypothesizes that code-switching and the juxtaposition of fragments is a central strategy in contemporary creative practice and Jewish identity …
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A Qualitative Exploration of Critical Approaches to Social Justice in Student Affairs
In this study, I explored critical approaches to social justice in student affairs. I sought to understand how student affairs administrators understand and communicate about social justice. Furthermore, I studied how a critical paradigm informs the work of student affairs practitioners in their …
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A Study of the Critical Approaches to the Religion and Symbolism of William Blake
… by the critics, Blake received a mass of critical attention that was especially intense and prolific during and after the 1920’s. Yet it was no more than he deserved after so much neglect. So, too, the depth of meaning of his work and the difficulty of finding clear expression of what he …
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Critical Approaches to Digital Video Composition and Media Literacy in Preservice Teacher and High School Contexts: Understanding Students’ Perspectives
… preservice teachers’ responses to a critical digital video project in the context of a Disciplinary Literacies course. This study was particularly interested in the preservice teachers’ obstacles and collaborations they experienced while completing the project, as well as future …
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The management of people at work: strategy, HRM, discourse
This thesis critically examines the concept of strategic human resource management (HRM). Existing 'critical' approaches identify prescriptive HRNI literature as 'rhetoric' that does not match 'reality'. Such an approach understands management initiatives as separate, individual, discrete, and ad …
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"""You just gotta know how to wear it"": A study of high school students' style practices"
Drawing on sociocultural and critical approaches to language and literacy and taking aesthetic experiences to be characterized by the simultaneous stimulation of one’s senses and emotions, this project identifies style practices as a kind of literacy that is particularly illustrative of the …
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Scripting their stories: parents' experiences with their adolescents and video games
… adolescent children who are gamers. Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis the data revealed themes of power, fear, and judgment. The analysis is best represented by ethnodramatic scripts. These scripts depict parents’ concerns of video games, perceptions of their adolescent children, their …
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The Paradox of the Christian Poet: George Herbert's Problematics
… intratextual connections. Chapter One reviews critical approaches to Herbert's poetry and outlines the study. Chapter Two examines Herbert's life and the expression of his struggles in poetry. Chapter Three discusses Herbert's poetry itself and comments on the deceptively simplistic style. …
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Fitzgerald Revisited: A Feminist Reexamination of <em>Tender is the Night</em>
… text and the author's personal life, the novel's critical heritage and the strengths and weaknesses of the dominant critical paradigm, and the need for a new reading which operates outside of that paradigm. The author seeks to approach the text from a new feminist perspective under the general …
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Mythos and metaphor in the Apocalypse Northrop Frye's literary criticism applied to the Book of Revelation
… who represent different literary- and historical-critical approaches.
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Mother what art thou? : a study of the depiction of mother figures in recent Australian and New Zealand fiction for teenagers
… discourses. Utilising a variety of critical approaches this thesis examines the socio-cultural issues present in the novels in conjunction with western models of maternity. This study argues the category of mother is interdependent upon the category of child. As children's literature …
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You: A study of second-person narrative in two postmodern novels
… both corresponds with and subverts a number of critical approaches. In the process, this study asserts that the second person, as used in postmodern fiction, participates in the larger postmodern program of destabilizing traditional ontological boundaries, especially that separating the fictive …
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What counts and who is accountable? An institutional ethnographic account of OSCEs
… using Institutional Ethnography (IE). My critical approach explores what counts and who is accountable in OSCEs, at a time where assessment is subject to increasing regulation. <br/><br/>I start in the everyday world of a medical student, who described drawing on her childhood drama …
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The Imagery of Sylvia Plath
… chapters. Chapter I, the Introduction, examines critical approaches that have been made towards the poetry of Sylvia Plath and tries to show their limitations & Chapter II discusses the essentially allusive nature of the poetry and proposes a different method -- extensive analysis of the imagery …
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The True and Only Technic: Technological Ubiquity and its Critics, Heretics, and Zealots
… with a brief advancement of the need for critical approaches to technological tools such as those discussed herein, as well as an explanation of the importance of convivial and conjunctive spaces through which new relationships to and applications of technology might be devised.</p>
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Asymmetries of power and competence and implications for AAC: interaction between adults with severe learning disabilities and their care staff.
… interaction between participants. Aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis were applied to the data within the themes of turn taking, topic control, exclusion from conversation, activity exchanges, test questions and politeness; the theme of AAC was also critically scrutinized. Findings …
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Voices Count: Employing A Critical Narrative Research Bricolage For Insights Into Dyscalculia
… the synthesis of narrative, auto-ethnographic, critical, feminist, neuroscientific, and psychometric perspectives, to explicate the constitution and experience of dyscalculia. This study also explores epistemological privilege within the discipline of educational psychology, and draws on the …
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Affective Triggers in Defoe's Moll Flanders
… of her identity. An examination of critical approaches and how they relate to affect theory provides a foundation for understanding how affects shape Moll's identity. An explanation of the fundamental concepts of affect theory and affect's relationship to trauma theory provides the …
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