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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Critical awareness"”.
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Challenging Deficit-Thinking Views About English Language Learners Utilizing Asset-Based Instruction
… conceptual framework for this study, including critical awareness, authentic cariño (caring), and community responsiveness.The study consisted of in-classroom observations, semi-structured interviews, and a collection of classroom artifacts and lesson resources. Five teachers selected through …
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Things made strange : de︠st︡abilizing habitual perception
… processes of perception as to re-e︠st︡ablish a critical awareness of perception and perceptual processes. In this thesis, I explore the creative strategy of defamiliarization in my own pra︠ct︡ice and regard the works that I have produced at MIT as experimental and experiential frameworks that …
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Critical reflection and the savior role in service learning
… can achieve greater content learning, cultural awareness, and civic engagement. However, a reoccurring and problematic outcome in service-learning projects is learners' development of a perceived "savior role," where students perceive themselves as fulfilling a missionary-like savior role as the …
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Wupperthal : strategy for action : a case-study in co-operative rural development
… raise levels of responsibility, initiative and critical awareness. The study documents the difficulties experienced and analyses the causes of, and reasons for, the successes achieved, and the failures encountered. It also discusses some of the dangers of First World intervention in a Third …
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Vozes em Cena: O Teatro do Oprimido como caminho para a socialização
… but also strengthens social bonds by provoking critical awareness of their realities. For many, authors like Augusto Boal (1974-1998-2008), Paulo Freire (2018), and David Kolb (1984) support this study. Preliminary results indicate that students are becoming more sociable and confident, …
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An investigation of adolescent girls’ critical media health literacy in a body-positive program
… body image, self-esteem, physical activity, and critical awareness. Research questions explore girls’ understandings and potential responses to critical health media discussions. The participants deconstructed and reconstructed digital media. Data include interviews about creating the digital …
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Five houses
… These concerns are subjective and based on a critical awareness of site, history and form. The houses are drawn in plan, section and elevation. The drawings are an attempt to convey the quality of the space. The drawings exist somewhere between the idea drawing and the construction drawing, …
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Understanding First-Generation Latinx Students' Experiences in a Predominantly White Private Institution: A Grounded Theory Study
… and transformed through personal growth, critical awareness, and resistance. The transformation and growth that occurred in their academic journey informed the participant's practice that leads to service for other first-generation Latinx students at the institution.</p>
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Vocal schizophrenia or conscious flexibility? : owning the voice in the South African context
… context; and the third concern is a need for critical awareness in training and performance, evidenced by the preceding concerns. Despite accent-based speech adaptation paradoxically demonstrating the voice's flexibility, when accent-based speech adaptation happens unconsciously and habitually …
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Investigating the Influence of Race on the Teaching Philosophies and Practices of Effective Teachers of Diverse Students
… interviews provided the data for this study. Critical race theory was used as a framework for exploring the factors influencing the teachers' educational philosophies and pedagogical practices. The data for this study were analyzed according to emerging themes, depicting each teacher's …
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Integrating natural coping and survival strategies of African American women into social work practice: lessons learned from the works of Nannie Helen Burruoghs
… in reform efforts; developing and exploring critical awareness/critical consciousness; promoting collective resistance through faith and demonstrating group problem solving through community art and dialogue. Recommendations from this study include the need for social work profession to …
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A cultural history of The Great Book of Ireland – Leabhar Mór na hÉireann
This thesis critically examines The Great Book of Ireland /Leabhar Mór na hÉireann (GBOI), a late-twentieth-century single-volume vellum manuscript created in Dublin between 1989 and 1993. Addressing a gap in both public and critical awareness of this modern manuscript, the thesis situates the GBOI …
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ON THERMICITY.TECHNOCULTURES, SUBJECTIVITIES, AND ELEMENTAL AESTHETICS
… understanding of thermal phenomena. Through a critical engagement with the history of thermometry, this research introduces the concept of thermicity as a theoretical framework that acknowledges the co-existence of aesthetic, experiential, medial, and cultural dimensions of heat. By analyzing …
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Listening in code : process and politics in interactive musical works
… they advance a notion of platforms as objects of critical awareness and propose listening as a model for mindful participation in algorithmic environments. Illuminating the distinct claims that sound and software hold on one another as creative domains, open mediational music invites listeners to …
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"Somewhere and not Anywhere": A Place-Conscious Study of Literature Set in the City of New Orleans
… activities geared towards facilitating students' critical awareness of the role of New Orleans in both the appearance and outcomes of the three texts as well as in the shaping of their own identities as residents of the city.
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Associations Among Internalization of Western Media Appearance Ideals, Acculturative Stress, and Body Image Problems in Asian American Men
… targeting acculturative stress and promoting critical awareness of media body ideals. Future studies are needed to better understand the underlying causes of these associations, as well as to tailor intervention targeting this particular cultural group.
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Landscape painting as a critical cross-cultural art practice : exploring how the theories and methodologies in ancient Chinese painting can be fused into contemporary landscape art practice to expand existing artistic formats
… contemporary Western art, with a focus on how to critically understand and use Chinese aesthetic traditions to make a contribution to contemporary landscape painting practice. This study argues that ancient Chinese art theory can provide unique insights and ways of thought, as a different …
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"""Painting the lily"": An examination of 5th grade students' learning experiences in an arts-infused curriculum"
… The curriculum was re-envisioned to include more critical theoretical approaches to instruction. Particularly, I looked for ways in which social studies and art could be integrated in a more holistic and thematic curriculum. Since the inclusion of NCLB, instruction in social studies education and …
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Feeling their way towards justice: The embodied emotional journeys of critically conscious bilingual teachers
… daily teaching, novice teachers must develop a critical awareness of power and its manifestation in classroom environments. Recent research has suggested that this awareness, or critical consciousness should be a central aspect of teaching and learning in all bilingual programs (Palmer et al., …
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Esta es Nuestra Historia: An Intergenerational Study with Three Latin@ Educators
This study explores the concept of critical ontology and how it informs the being, work, and advocacy of three Latin@ educators in the San Marcos community who span three generations. Two Latin@ educators and myself, are the primary unit of analysis although, secondary and tertiary units of …
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